Winter Zone (Please help)

[Paraemon]

Dude, I'm going to be up-front. Please read what I'm pointing out - actually analyse the Sonic 2 graphics and look how they work and how the shading affects shape. It's all well and good taking a look at what's said but it feels like my words are more often going over your head than into it, and you rush to make some slight changes in attempt to make it better.

It's not better. It's just more polygons on the background.

At least you got the water palette right.

The animated aurora and the one on the background itself don't match, and it's still looking as if the background aurora has been haphazardly cut up. The animated version doesn't look as though it animates as intended.

Does the stage rely on a few flats and hills? Or is there more intended, like loops, or corkscrews, or ground chunks that have different levels?

For Tom Payne's credit: "Built from the development-stage Badniks provided by Tom Payne".

I advise you to spend more than 12 hours (excluding the obvious sleep period) working on it before the next post, instead of coming back an hour or two later and showing off something that's nearly the same as last time. Elsehow, I still have criticism to the sheet unanswered in earlier replies.