01-05-2012, 01:18 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-05-2012, 01:22 AM by AManofClay.)
(01-04-2012, 09:06 AM)DJ Coco Wrote:(01-03-2012, 10:07 PM)Proton Wrote:(12-30-2011, 05:46 PM)DJ Coco Wrote: Enjoy! C+C please!
You ask for it,
and then shoot down all of it out of laziness.
Sort of defeats the purpose.
Well, by C+C I didn't mean everybody requesting loops...
First slopes, and loops are not the same thing. I just want to make sure that's apparent. That quote makes it sound like you tying the two together. Simple declines or, hills in the landscape would help spin dashing seem a lot more feasible. The way your levels are designed is very unfriendly to the spin dash. In fact a Sonic CD style nerf to it might be something to consider the way the game is now.
The best advice I can offer is work on making a 'middle ground'. Right now it's like you have two roads: a procession platforming high road if you're doing good, and a procession platforming low road if you failed the latter, and a mountain in between. A middle ground could help flesh out the level, and make it more friendly to the average player. Again Sonic CD comes to mind, If you blast through the middle and low roads in that game you're going to miss out on the good ending. Actually a lot of Sonic games have this high road low road mentality CD just always feels like a textbook example.
Lastly, I don't want to sound like one of those who will mistakenly claim Sonic games were and always are all about speed, and more speed! 8D... But, there is a lack of speed in you game. Slopes, or just something to keep the spin dash feeling relevant, and middle ground could help this.
Basically I'm agreeing with Herr Doctor. The levels feel like they're holding sonic back.