my game Starballx is a platform game, and it now has enemies and i need more gameplay..but I now think that having a ball as a character in a platform game is not so very fun, what can you do? a ball has no legs,arms or nothing so it can only jump...when it comes to handling enemies and adding action I cant seem to think of much...do you have any suggestions?

The starball is a ball with a painted star on

i was thinking i could add some kind of shooting effect where the ball throws stars around that hits the enemies..or something..something that can add action and a bit of eyecandy fun..lots of sprite animations
or I could give the ball some arms in some magical way so it can throw the stars?

so if you can come up with an idea please tell me..anything goes