The only real downside for me is the lack of scripting editor, I prefer to script when possible as I find it easier than clicking here, there, left, right & center like some madman possessed. There's a lot of other nice stuff in construct 2 such as additional platform support, multiple control input support & a physics engine (what ever could we do with a physics engine in a 2D adventure game you ask? I'm not sure yet but I'm sure I'll be able to think of something.)

Both of the things I mentioned are things that I would like to see. It has a nice enough gui & it has a lot of features we are currently missing such as advanced audio control & effect modules & I believe it also allows the developer to add various effects to assets which I believe Simon is looking into for VS also. I downloaded construct to have a little look over it & it seems very nice. I believe he can achieve the same sort of style & gameplay as seen in his game with construct2, albeit we don't have as many effects as construct2 yet but Simon has steadily been increasing the effects we do have & improving on some of them too. I liked the character styles because I found them fun but wasn't so keen on all the background/scene object graphics (personal pref). Was pretty messed up with a strange graphic style. I played the game he made with construct 2 last night. (CMS) & (CMS) - alignment scripts I was talking about.

By the way you can now achieve various lighting effects with Visionaire Studio 4.1 such as spotlights & flashlight, saturation & much more since Simon added openGL 2.0 shader support. Was pretty funny in a morbid sort of way. feckin' rubber button came off & now it's hard to turn on/off. Also quick note: positioning of animations, objects & images is done with the top-left pixel in Visionaire Studio but character position is based on the animation/character center you add to each of the character animations. Question: will the character scale up & down or will the scale be fixed? The reason I'm asking is because if the character scales then it will require additional math to determine the position the head should be. By the way, your game looks pretty whacky. You would need 2 objects for the face facing one way & another for the other direction, or 1 object & 2 animations.

Since VS 4.1 you can now rotate & scale objects & I already wrote a script that can get the angle between 2 points which you could use to control the rotation. Hmm not sure it could be done exactly as you have it in that game but you could check add the head as a scene object & use a bit of math to position & scale it.

Epic face cursor for cursor changer