[Blue Blood]

Vinchenz, on 23 April 2012 - 06:52 PM, said:

Hey does anyone have the Act names for each level? All five Zones plus Episode Metal.

I'm tagging the music that was ripped and I would like to put the Act names for each song.

In order SCZ > WPZ > ODZ > SFZ > DEZ > Metal:

A New Frontier
Sunken Ruins
Moonlit Realm
Duelling Eggman's New Creation

Snow-Blind Wonderland
Sonic Coaster Rails
Labyrinth at Absolute Zero
Metal Sonic Strikes

Through the Sandstorm
Beneath the Sands
A Crude Trap
A Giant Born of Scrap Metal

The Tornado Takes Off!
Infiltrating the Sky Fortress
Mile High Mayhem
Showdown in the Skies

A Duel with Metal Sonic
The Beginning of the End

Metal Sonic Returns
The Altar's Hidden Treasure
Electric Road
In Pursuit of Sonic...

[Vinchenz]

Master Emerald, on 23 April 2012 - 06:59 PM, said:

The fast way is to go on youtube for each act, ast the zone subtitle appears on the very beggining!

I was about to do that...

Blue Blood, on 23 April 2012 - 07:09 PM, said:

In order SCZ > WPZ > ODZ > SFZ > DEZ > Metal:

But then this happened. Thanks Blue Blood!

Listening over and over, I'm really liking the OST, a lot! The instruments aren't nearly as bad as Episode I's. A lot of the songs sound like intense shit is going down.

[Arique]

Spoiler

Yeah, for those wondering about that "To Be Continued" graphic that somebody allegedly found over on SSMB... Looks like I found a video proving that it exists.

Basically, I need to do more research before jumping to conclusions.

EDIT:

Spoiler

Also, I found this hack from the same user that made me laugh. Replace Metal Sonic's sprites in Episode Metal with Sonic's normal sprites and... Well... This happens:

This post has been edited by Arique: 23 April 2012 - 07:24 PM

[Skyler]

I took Jace's MIDI and had a go at 16-bit-ifying it.

Spoiler

This post has been edited by Skyler: 23 April 2012 - 07:24 PM

[synchronizer]

That still fix the track's extreme brevity, although it sounds better I think.

This post has been edited by synchronizer: 23 April 2012 - 07:41 PM

[Master Emerald]

I prefer Jun's version all along!

This time my only problem with the OST was how short some songs were.

And the Special Stage song is great just need some better arrangement, plus some little changes.

[synchronizer]

It's really the repetitiveness of the songs that irk me, and this even plagues one of the best tracks in the game: Video below.

Spoiler

http://www.youtube.c...d&v=ilDq3vvns3Y

From my comment:

"Each section of the song is literally looped twice. Case in point: 0:00 to 0:07 and 0:07 to 0:14 are identical. This occurs throughout the song. There are no note changes in each pattern, and this, I find, is repetitive. The least that could be done is changing one pitch at the end of each cycle, which would decrease the monotony. The problem is quite psychological: If nothing is growing or progressing throughout the song, then it feels as if nothing is being accomplished."

[Dark Sonic]

So I gave playing the multiplayer a try... by myself. But the point was I wanted to see how Tails alone played. Actually, it wasn't that bad. Oddly in addition to Tails's tails damaging enemies in flight, his stomach does as well, so most enemies can still be attacked. Things like boss fights though can be more difficult though. In two player the screen stretches out to a certain point. If someone falls behind or gets caught behind an object and then becomes off camera or dies, the camera will pan onto the other one. So if you lose Sonic you can play as Tails alone. It's great because Tails can fly much longer solo then with Sonic. Things like the Metal Sonic race are much more difficult, but if you use combo moves it'll be ok. I really hope they add a switch button, Ken was mentioning how they might in the future but we'll see about that.

[CrashSG32]

I can't wait for this to be released! I somehow missed the beta leak on steam :/
Definitely a Day 1 purchase on PS3, iPod and iPad

Episode Metal sounds really interesting... good thing I have Ep 1 on all those consoles as well.

I actually loved episode 1, don't hate me for it, the physics and stuff didn't bother me much. Since they improved most or all of the problems from Ep 1 (which didn't bother me), I bet I'll really love Ep 2! :D

I'm so late to the party...lol

Yay for my first post!

[Dark Sonic]

I believe according to Ken the iphone and ipad versions are now one in the same. So you'll get to save some money.

[Skyler]

Dark Sonic, on 23 April 2012 - 09:32 PM, said:

I believe according to Ken the iphone and ipad versions are now one in the same. So you'll get to save some money.

Do you have a link to him saying that? That's a relief to me if so.

[Knucklez]

I didn't think I'd even consider buying and playing Episode 2, but it looks like it's in the cards.

The handful of improvements they've made over Episode 1 seem to be decent enough.. I mean the levels look pretty swell and the music is ok.

A lot of things are noticeably different right from the get go, so it's obvious more effort was put into making this.

I'm assuming the Final Build is in a better shape than Beta 8, but we can only hope so.

[Friend of Sonic]

GeneHF, on 23 April 2012 - 05:13 AM, said:

Really, guys? You're going to complain about boosters in the Special Stages?



While not as exaggerated a boost, let's just nip that complaint in the bud right now. It's nothing new.

Off topic to the point of this post but man I do love those special stages.

Also isn't it kick ass that they did two entirely different soundtracks and both of them knocked it out of the park? (IMO anyway)

[Skyler]

I might have missed it in this thread, but were there MIDIs posted that came from the game itself?

This post has been edited by Skyler: 24 April 2012 - 01:07 AM

[Master Emerald]

S4EP2 uses only streamed music!