Sonic: The Lost Worlds

The music doesn't need to be aligned, don't worry. The Z80 is cool like that.

 

Also I always wondered why you didn't change the art for the pointy piston block arrows in Winter Zone into icicles.

 

I am wondering why you didn't make the fire unix in rock zone into rock unix or mud unix.

 

In Genesis Plus for mac, 1.2.6, version 3 crashed when I hit one f the badnicks in Rock Zone.

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That happens on all versions of Sonic 2.

 

It's a bug with Sonic 2 involving the Rexon.

This bug is random in the amount of times it takes to hit the Rexon to occur (since they reappear when they go off-screen and you go back). I'm guessing you only hit it once, so you just got lucky to get the bug on 1 try.

 

I've never encountered that bug before nor even knew about it until I read that in the wiki.

 

Well, haven't seen anything show-stopping yet on real hardware... although Tails did get stuck on a spring in Dust Hills Act 1. It was odd, he was stuck to the side of the spring flashing between two sprites. After I left him far enough behind, he eventually came flying back onto the screen.

 

is it just me or are there no invincibility frames after you get hit?

otherwise pretty good. The art could be more visually interesting on some zones, but hey you did this for free. Sega's level designers got a fat check to make the zones that were included.

 

You can go through the wall.

Also, have you ever thought about making the Wood Zone paths through the trees act like the tubes in Metropolis Zone? It would be great if that was done.

 

yeah I guess you do get invincibility frames... still, overall I would say there's too much technical platforming and not enough 'durr the holding right and it going fast' moments

I'm not kidding when I say I've played Mario games that were faster paced.

 

Dude, the bottomless pits still have to go. That is just not something that belongs in a Sonic game.

 

They are fine. Last time I checked 50% of the bottomless pits were gone from when the hack was first released to the latest one.

Also, what? Bottomless pits and Sonic go hand in hand. Sure they are cheap but they HAVE been in the classic Sonic games. Even Green Hill Zone and Emerald Hill Zone had bottomless pits.

 

There were only one or two in the entirety of green hill zone. Same thing for Emerald Hill.There are very few, and when they are there, it's obvious that it's somewhere you shouldn't go. If you hide them and make them sneaky, it just gets frustrating.

 

But isn't it the whole point?, to give the player a bit of a challange now and again with in the game?.

 

Alright, I gave it a whirl. Not so bad, but it's far from what I'd call a finished game, and the level design could definitely use a bit of work. I really like some of the (more original) concepts and would love to see them expanded upon. The bottomless pits are kind of annoying in Dust Zone because they pop up so unexpectedly during what are supposed to be speed sections instead of giving the player some time to slow down. It's like you're just running along and all of a sudden there's a giant hole in the ground.

There was one point in Rock Zone with a diagonal yellow spring and a ledge, but I couldn't reach the ledge with the spring because Sonic kept bouncing off the ceiling and I got stuck so I ended up having to reset. There doesn't really seem to be much of a sense of speed anywhere in this hack, which disappoints me - any linear areas that would be perfect for zipping through are riddled with badniks and pits. I really think it would be more fun if things were a little more balanced. I think Rock Zone was my favorite regarding being able to go fast.

Also, you don't seriously plan on keeping that same old Wood Zone and that same old Hidden Palace Zone, do you? I think it would be awesome if you took those stages and brought them to life - remake the art, give them brand new layouts, etcetera.

Oh, and while I was skeptical of Cyber City from just looking at the screens, it actually looks (and plays) pretty awesome in-game.

 

Yes, but frustration =/= challenge. Falling into a random bottomless pit before you can even see it and having to start over from the beginning after getting really far is frustrating. Challenge is meant to enhance the fun. Frustration is not fun.

I'm all for something challenging, so long as the difficulty is able to be learned from without walking everywhere at a crawl.

 

Hey I would like to try the latest version but the downlink closes when I open it.