The homing attack is on the same button as the jump attack, so you always eventually end up homing in on something when you didn't want to and falling haplessly into the abyss. The controls in 3d Sonic have also always been wildly unpredictable and suicide inducing.
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Sonic still won't even sodding learn how to swim, grrr Even if you argue you need some way to limit the play area and water is the only way, well Zelda boxes you in with water, but you really have to wilfully swim out to sea before you actually risk drowning yourself. When you die, it's really on you, and because of that, the game never once feels unfair. You even have a parachute so you can potentially survive any fall. Zelda doesn't actively try and kill you for getting it wrong. In an ideal world, the perfect Sonic game would be like Zelda, where if you fall off a cliff and die, it is more than likely because you were pushing your luck too far. It was a nice feeling not having to be yanked back to the last checkpoint for making a mistake. There were several moments in the first level where I thought "Oh No", then shortly after realised I was actually safe. This game still has a few moments like that because all Sonic games do, but despite that it shows signs that the author took a deep look introspectively and though to them self "does this mechanic actually do anything for the game?" if you miss a jump on the first level, you might fall down a waterfall to a lower area, or an updraft will save you from a precarious edge, and with no lives to speak of the worst consequence is you go back to a checkpoint if you really fall way off the edge.
It starts unapologetically at the first level Emerald Coast, and only gets worse from there. If you accidentally fall off into the sea at the beach, you instantly die a horrible death. In 3d Sonic, they exist because the designers hate you and need to keep you in a box. Even Hill top zone only has a couple token ones as if to make a point that it's a long way down if you fall off the gondolas. In the 16-bit Sonic games, they always existed but were used very sparingly and tactfully, in secret or alternative challenge routes, or in later levels in order to amp up the tension or challenge, and they often existed for a logical reason, eg you are actually on a flying fortress at 20,000 ft.
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This fan game goes a long way towards mitigating that feeling, the basic mechanics of level traversal are all pretty much the same, but there is enough variety in the routes that you can even end up wondering if you are going in the right direction - which is a breath of fresh air for a series that has never managed to break free from its linear two dimensional origins.Īctually Sonic's pits of death really are a crime against gamers and have become so abused over the years that the only right thing to do now is to banish them from existence forever. You are going to run down this corridor, then jump on this spring, then bounce of these two badniks onto a rail that leads to another spring, and if you miss any of that, the game is going to kill you with a pit of death because the designer does not want you to go that way. There has never been any sense of freedom in 3d Sonic.
I have never managed to play a 3d Sonic game since completely giving up on them figuring it out after being bitterly disappointed Sonic Adventure 2, in fact the rest of this review is going to be mainly directed at SEGA and how they did everything wrong and led everyone astray for 20 years. The physics feel great, the speed actually feels well earned and controllable rather than being assigned to a particular gamepad button, even the badniks actually present genuine threats that you have to think tactically to manageĪctually the most striking moment for me in this game was so simple, I was running down a hill into a valley, feeling the way the momentum was carrying me up the other end, then realising I was being chased by a motobug nipping at my heels and only just managing to outrun it, it was a sublime few seconds where everything about the game just felt perfect. It isn't without its faults, but I have never felt closer in a game to what a 3d Sonic experience should have been until playing this demo.
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