Well, I for one am not too bothered by Snowy taking more than one hit to beat; I actually expected that in the first place -- I mean, look at him! Tell me that thing looks like it could be felled in one hit.
But really, Dimps? Speed boosters? Could you really not build a level without them?? This makes me rather skeptic about the level design. At the same time, most of what I saw felt rather linear. Not to mention the pointless diagonal spring walls that are a trademark of Dimps level design. Sure, Carnival Night and Metropolis did it, too, but that was one of their level gimmicks; it wasn't in the whole game. And those springs had better not be scripted; you either learn to build a level using springs with a consistent propulsion value, or you stop designing Sonic levels altogether. So, that's strike one.
Maybe I just shouldn't have said anything about the lack of crosshairs, because Derps must have taken that to mean "Oh shit, we forgot to add those!" Let me make this perfectly clear: I didn't need a graphical indicator to tell me when to use the Double Spin in Sonic 3. It's something I had to figure out for myself in order to master it. And you know what?
That's okay. So, I don't need any sort of prompt to tell me when to use an attack in Sonic 4 -- a 2D game, no less. In fact, if you
need these sort of prompts in the first place, in a
platform game, your game probably has more design flaws than you realize. The goal is to make those hints subtle or to have enough clues that the player can easily figure out what to do without flat-out
telling them. There are so many games that do this well; this game needs to be one of them.
Honestly, I'm not seeing the point of the Dual Spin Dash yet. While it looks cool, it's just a slightly bigger Spin Dash. Does it do more damage as opposed to separate spin attacks? Would that explain the multi-hit Badniks? Will we be
seeing more than one kind of multi-hit Badnik? (I for one would hate it if Snowy was reused in non-ice levels) I did, however, like how the shields melded together when in Dual Spin Dash mode. Would be neat if there was more than one kind of shield in this game; shield combos in DSD mode would be rather neat.
Also, I too noticed that the physics haven't improved. There's no gain in momentum. Plain and simple:
just ditch the damned speed cap! This isn't Sonic Advance -- this game is made entirely of 3D models; you've got nothing to worry about by allowing the player to outrun the screen. Strike two.
We haven't heard any music from the game yet, but if it has the same cheap MIDI quality as Episode I, that's strike three. Plain and simple:
no more imitation Genesis music (it wasn't even close, anyway). Just make the same quality music that was made for Generations or Colors and it'll be fine.
This post has been edited by Blue Emerald: 23 February 2012 - 10:10 PM
