Bloodstained...recently released: check / spiritual successor to Castlevania: check.

And the depicted character is apparently called Nyabon.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48101867246_f84f09be9b_b.jpg

https://bloodstained.fandom.com/wiki/Nyabon

Indeed. Your turn:)

Ok...something old for a change:

New hint: that's how the character depicted in hint #1 looked 20 years later...on a mobile console.

Third hint: we're not looking for a real name here...more a "description"...of which the first half, is also the first half of the name of the game in which the gentleman appears.

I dunno, but maybe it's a hero from some of the 'pitfall' games ?

picture

Guess what game these two are from.

Fourth hint: after his initial appearance in the game that shares half of its name with him, the searched character starred in three more games during the mid 80s.

First game is an action-adventure game presented in "Legend of Zelda-esque" top down view.
Second game is an action-adventure platform game.
Third and fourth games are both action-adventure games done in isometric graphics.

All games have the flip-screen technique in common.

Nope, sorry...the guy has nothing to do with the Pitfall! games.

Erm...dude...two friendly annotations:

1 - how about delivering the solution to the question still unanswered, before you post a new question?
and
2 - in this game we don't search for the game's name, but for the character's name.

The game you want to post your question in, is here: https://www.gog.com/forum/general/what_is_this_game
But the same rules apply to that game: first you have to solve the current riddle, before you post a new one. ;o)

That's Sabreman from Sabre Wulf.

That's correct! :)

Your turn.

Shiver from Myth?

Indeed. Your turn.

All right, who is this Sonny Jim?

Some fellow named Precursor James.