Rev Up Those Sonic Cycles

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I hope what he said will get fixed. Floaty and weird controls ruled (and sort of ruined) Sonic Colors' 2D platforming. But Sonic Colors had a second jump to aid that, and jumping from platform to platform was only a fifth of what the main gameplay offered. On Classic Sonic's gameplay, tight and smooth controls are a must, so that players can keep their speed and bumping into obstacles will be the player's fault, not the game's.

And I hope that pressing X won't be the only way to Spin-Dash (that means being able to just crouch and press A). It also bugs me how you can Spin-Dash RIGHT out of running (instead of stopping and then charging), and how much speed it gives you - that's not balanced at all. Like DavidCaruso said last page, Sonic is about keeping your speed - if you give Sonic another button just so that the player can boost with little to no stop, and if by doing that you'll get more way more speed than someone who keeps running non-stop, avoiding obstacles and doing well-timed jumps... Then you just change the way Classic Sonic is meant to be played, you screw up with the whole design of it again. Jeez, being able to play with just one button was the main constant with Classic Sonic, even Sakurai admired that.

SoA listens (or does a good job into foiling us to believe that) to feedback, let's hope that feedback goes to SoJ's ears. If that happens, then I'm sure that Classic Sonic's gameplay will be mostly fixed - SEGA is inviting all the Sonic Retro nerds to give Sonic Generations a hands-on, anyway.


Meanwhile, gameplay of City Escape is released:

http://www.tssznews.com/2011/06/08/city-...reenshots/

I gotta say, the level design looks amazing, and I love how there are deathpit signs - on a platformer which level design consists of multi-paths, it's pretty unclear whether, by falling down, you'll actually die or actually just get thrown to a path below, so that's a sign of thoughtful design right there.