Sonic the Hedgehog Redemption

You fuck, what about me?

 

Looking good UtopiaUK, all those stuff looks excellent, just make a bit easier levels and it will be perfect.

 

Whoa, relax DalekSam! Sheesh! No need to act like an asshole...
I help with music too and you don't see me being fucked up...

Also, sorry if that was off-topic...

UtopiaUK... Sonic 1 Redemption is looking great! Question though... Are there going to be any new characters planned on Sonic Redemption?

 

Wow! I hope you have some more layouts done to have me to test them. <3
Really impressive!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOb5NtKjSAs&#t=2m22s

This guy looks almost unavoidable. And not to be mean, but this level looks to be too focused on going fast.

 

So was the original Star Light Zone.

 

And I realized that the lamps are flashing, what's not supposed, I think.

 

Yeah its a good idea to make more warning when your about to clash with an enemy especially on fast parts of the stages, but im glad that you stuck to the idea of going fast on stages like this. I've noticed that with some hacks that because of how hard they have made the game it loses the focus of going fast on certain zones.


its looking good so far


keep it up

 

I'm sorry, I just lost interest. There's a challenging boss that takes a while to complete, and then there's just upping the hit points to feign creativity. Guess which one this sounds like?

 

The zones look really nice. But hell 32 hits for your final boss? Not only it doesn't bring play value, it's also completely ridiculous.

 

16 hits? Dude, your first boss already had a split-second window of opportunity to hit it, and now you're requiring 16 of those? That's no good.

See, there's difficulty that keeps the game from being boring, and there's difficulty that makes the game so tedious and frustrating that people will put the game down altogether and play something more fun. Sure, maybe you can beat this game, Utopia, but you made the game, so that's to be expected. If you're planning on sending this out for the rest of the world to play, you need to make the game so that other people can have fun playing it too, not just you. You can make a game with the best-looking graphics out there, but if your gameplay turns people off, they won't keep playing for long.

So, there's my two cents.

 

Before anyone else jumps the gun.

 

In Palmtree Hill Zone, I stopped between two loops and went back, but at the end of the loop Sonic began pushing something. Other then that, Good Work, UtopiaUK. I'm enjoying this hack.

 

I was going to give an in-depth critique, but fuck it. The same basic message can be said in one phrase:

COULD THIS HACK BE ANY MORE GENERIC?

Seriously, it's almost like a Sonic Megamix cover version in places.

 

I have to admit it. This did not feel like a hack.

IT FELT LIKE ITS OWN GAME.

To me, to achieve that level, a hack must be very different.

It had new moves, new layouts (for all except Scrap Brain), new art, new music, and even the bosses were made harder!

The special stages are also harder, and require you to actually think.

Also, I beat the hack the whole way through. That is hard for me to do with some hacks. I did need to use level select to get past the PTZ and the AMZ bosses...cause they were just too hard, and I didn't have the patience to beat them. But other than that, I did it completely.

Congrats. You have made me eager for your next release.

 

All right, having played through the first few levels, I have things to say.

Here are some things I like:

• The first level is prettier than that of Megamix.
• Having a per-act palette system works. I've seen it before but it works nicely here.
• The wrecking ball is actually a fairly cool item
• Not forcing 100 different moves in this game means I can actually enjoy the first stage, and it's not over before I've had time to take it all in.
• The special stage music is both new to me and pretty nice.
• I like the way the lightning shield attracts rings here, a bit wilder than the Sonic 3 version.

Things I don't like:

• Obviously the second level isn't yet complete.
• The third level is kinda iffy and has poor object placement. There are too many enemies all put in one place. A couple spike pits are in low ceiling areas and thus hard to get over, but this isn't so bad.
• The first boss doesn't gain much from having the extra balls there. It doesn't change the timing so much as make him just hard to hit, in a way that's more frustrating than exciting.
• There are far too many tubes (and they're too long) in that first level. There's nothing to do while Sonic's in a tube.
• While having a lot of music is cool, there's not a lot of cohesiveness among the songs in the game.
• Similarly, there were only a few songs I've never heard before that I actually liked much. GHZ3's music was inappropriate, for example.
• There were too many monochrome enemies in the third stage. The caterkillers and yadrins were both completely gold. A case can be made for it, I suppose, but it doesn't mean I'm going to like it.
• The special stages that you changed are now really cheap. A lot of traps are not easy to identify until you've fallen into them (I'm not fond of learning traps just by rote memorization).
• I don't think elemental shields add much to Sonic 1. There's only one water level and two levels with fire hazards.
• The corollary to that statement is that I feel there are perhaps too many traces of Sonic 1 in here.
• And related to that, the layout to GHZ really isn't that different from Megamix's, only there were a couple bits where things didn't seem to work, like where a couple tubes exited upwards -- it didn't look very good. Perhaps the similarity is a curse of the pre-existing tiles, much like how I have never played an edit of Emerald Hill from Sonic 2 that I really enjoyed because things never fit together well.

That's all I can think of right now, from what I've touched so far.