Sonic Loco 2

I would rather drink a pitcher of piss than play this again. The gameplay and level design are balls, and after hearing that music my ears wanted to take a shit!

 

For what you have done right, like I said before, the springs in the tunnels was a neat idea. If you try and copy the basic feel of Sonic 2 levels (multiple interchanging routes) while putting in your own unique twists in them, you would have a grasp of new level design. My advice? Don't try to do everything at once. Do one aspect at a time - music, layouts, artwork, do that well, and then move to a different part. Look at the games. What do they do well? Why do they work? Study them and then begin anew. Putting things into the game for the sake of putting them in is a bad move - it may help you learn, but without a vision of what you are aiming for, it will turn out shit. Use this hack as your test bed if you will, but I strongly suggest thinking of something basic and do-able with your own abilities before making a large scale hack. Good luck

 

Here you go, it's only the first act:

 

You've got a rounding error on your pi. You can't just chop off digits; the next digit is 5, so your 6 at the end should be rounded up to 7.

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I'm a little silly when it comes to this shit, so please don't laugh at this ridiculous question; Did you produce this music yourself? And if so, what did you use to do it? If it's not too difficult, for the love of GOD, I'd be glad to produce the music for you. .

 

Well, I don't mind the difficulty... it's pretty intense... there is this one part that bothers me though... I don't like seeing ground and then falling through it as though it doesn't exist. Blows my mind too intensely for me to do anything about it.

The music isn't that bad, but its far from good. And you should definitely, definitely consider restoring the original Sega sound, because what you have there is pointless and it hurts. Literally.

Overall, I like the potential for this becoming a difficult Sonic 2 hack.

Also, when I play as Sonic alone, there's this part of the level that will have Tails fly onto the stage to join me... lolwtf how did you do that.

edit: I lied, shit is that bad. And this music has got to be troll in the form of sound waves; you pause and still hear this shit? Naaaaah, that ain't fair.

 

Yeah, but not if you are a programmer.

 

I love this hack! It is hilarious! Please don't stop working on it.
I am loving the surrealism of Aquatic Ruin Zone.
I nearly died laughing when I reached Hill Top Zone.

I never would have guessed it would happen, but we finally have a rom hacking community equivalent to Springtime For Hitler.

 

Don't really like what I'm seeing so far. The palette is really bad, please improve, make sure that everything fits(does the fg palette fit with bg palette, does it look harsh/easy on the eyes?). I don't like lots of pits, though theres not always pits so thats good. I don't mind difficulty, but I don't like when people do harsh things in a sonic hack, like instant death, going to fast only for the spring to take you to a spike etc, but thats my opinion.

On a positive note, I like the direction your going with the monitors, and special jump reminds of a moon jump. Sonic's so high, even tails can't compete lol. I think now I want to see you design a icon for these new monitors, you know and have a description saying 'this does whatever'.

Sorry about your work, hopefully you'll come back with something much better after taking what people have said into consideration. I'm sure with a nice sense of direction, it could be a contender amongst over difficult sonic hacks =P.

 

MegaGwolf has got a few things to say:

 

I'm a lazy bastard and didn't read pretty much any of this topic yet, so please excuse if this is already answered somewhere: Is this hack intentionally bad? I mean, it's more than obvious that you didn't "try" to make it decent. And if you did, I'm not sure if you can rate between random cluttered colours and eye-friendly ones; same goes for music.

 

I played it for about 2 minutes. From what I saw, it seems like the entire game is other "hold right to win" or "do nothing to die."

 

I got stuck and couldn't move, was this intentional? The layout is looking better though, didn't die once in ehz!.

 

Haha damn dude. I guess you weren't just trolling everybody the first time.

v 0.1 is so epically bad I was pretty certain it was a hoax. This watered down version is just a run-of-the-mill bad hack.

 

I got stuck in EHZ2 in the area with the floating platforms. :v: And the music is still ear rape dude, but I like the new layouts. You're still on the right track, but not quite there yet. Perhaps you could ask someone to help with composing music? There's plenty of talented composers here, and I'm sure they'd help if you asked. (That is if you wanted help. I sound like an ass now. :v But anyway, good luck with your hack! ^_^

 

If you get promoted to a member then send Cinoccu a PM - he's very good at porting/composing music for use in hacks.