Sonic Lost World (Wii U, 3DS, PC) Megathread

No. It doesn't have exclusive fullscreen and defaults to upscaled 720p, but it will render at whatever resolution you put it at... just scaled to your desktop resolution in borderless window, whether that be up or down.

 

It isn't just you. Platforming and killing enemies feels so awkward. There literally is no flow to this game (as I've stated before).

 

Lost World had needlessly cumbersome and unintuitive controls for a platformer, that are also poorly explained by the game itself. It's a recipe for a real mess. Then you factor in the the three types of homing attack (standard, kick and charged) that all only work on specific enemies and it only makes matters worse. The level design also doesn't flow a lot of the time due to the overuse of springs, invisible springs and dash panels undermining the tiered running speeds and parkour.

Once you know the game very well and have memorised it to a tee, it's brilliantly good fun to play some of the levels (WH1, DR1...). You'll know how to swerve slightly to avoid the automatic elements and use the parkour to really get great speed and flow. Plus the spin dash is an absolute beast in some areas. It's essentially a more engaging version of the boost. But to get to that level you have to know the game like the back of your hand and still avoid the crappy design choices.

Basically there's something of real value in the game, a real sweet spot that SEGA just failed to hit.

 

I dunno what's up on my end but Generations runs fine at a very stable framerate but SLW lags to all hell and back. There's probably a good reason for that, but I'm not sure what it is.

 

Yeah and it can run Gens at 30 IIRC (never remember any significant lag, might want to look into it again and make sure I remember right) so SLW running so slowly is definitely.. something.

I mean it runs fine at times but just chugs and chugs at others. IDK.

Also this game is only getting worse with every extra playthrough I do of it, lol. Last night it felt like a total trainwreck, though then again I was also playing on a keyboard.

 

If someone would be willing to donate a copy of the game, I can test a few things out in the game on my PC. :v:

Don't actually do this, I'll feel awful about it.

 

Running as administrator has absolutely nothing to do with the games' (or any, for that matter) frame rate.

 

Yes, it does because it's needless. Running a game as an administrator has nothing to do with it's frame rate. Your sentence is structured in a manner to make it seam as if it does have an effect. So yes, there was a reason for me focusing on only half of your sentence.

 

I just have to say this about people having issues with Optimus graphics. I don't have SLW so I can't confirm or deny this being a fix for it, but as far as the best fix for Generations goes, I haven't seen it mentioned here.

The best fix is to use the nVidia Control Panel to set up a profile for the game and config tool executables. From there you can set a desired GPU and this usually force-feeds that GPU to the programs. I know 100% that this works for Generations and I'm assuming it would work for SLW as well.

 

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New (???) glitch in SLW's PC version. I can confirm it because it happened to me at three different times last night, and I don't remember ever running into this problem on the Wii U version.

Also yes this port is messy from what I can tell. The menus look miserable.

 

I wish the HUD wasn't so low res when I raise my resolution.

And how is it that I downsampled from 3200x1800 but there's still jaggies galore?

 

That's also doable on the Wii U version. I've had it happen quite a few times.

 

They probably removed frame skipping to achieve this:

So remember: It's not a bug, it's a feature! :v:

 

I've had no issues with this port whatsoever and playing it on a control without any touch requirements has been good. I personally feel it's a good port, and it runs perfectly fine, so it's unfortunate that some have had issues.

 

Played the first two worlds on the PC port so far; the game seems really optimized. My GTX 745 isn't even sweating despite its small cooler.

As for the game itself, boy there's a bunch of things to knack on. You can't sidestep, which this game practically NEEDS it; Desert Ruins Zone 2 comes to mind. Zone 4 was also terrible, which I lost a lot of lives on because I was outrunning the screen. The parkour moves are also wonky, so I feel. The boss fights seriously kill any flow the levels had, though...

Visually the game looks good, themes and such, but yet it seems it's always one step forward and three steps back for the Sonic games.