Scripting?

[Kamaeru]

I've never been any good at scripting, so I have this blunt question to ask. Would it be possible or feasible to create a custom movement system that would be for use in a vertical top-scrolling shooter? The type that are most famous from the SNES and Sega Saturn days..

I would actually like to make a simplistic Zelda-type game where the primary and quickest method of transportation is also a vertical shooter, because that would be way more than a solution for the transit problem. Funner and less boring than the boat in Wind Waker and way less lame than warping.