SONIC FRON3I$RS
to a game that often had Sonic flying across the map on a diagonal axis at more speed than should be possible given engine parameters, you added:
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a massive triple jump that can stack into both a hover and a somersault move that roughly doubles potential height
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gliding, rapidly chained between homing attacks and what feels like a literal re-implementation of the SA2 climbing physics (yes, theyāre still that slippery)
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- flight, which can chain into a fucking flying robot mech, where the character has both a hovering triple jump thatās pushed from the bottom in addition to the flying quadruple jump
shit is so jank itās fucking beautiful. they built kaizo 3D sonic but they built it into the shambling corpse of hedgehog engine 2. the combat is straight up unfair, the ālevel designā (read: the construction of colorful panels arranged into miniature sonic the hedgehog 3D platforming challenges hanging out in the skybox of a myst remaster) would be brilliant in a game with better controls and a camera that doesnāt cause motion sickness, and the voice direction could use some improvement⦠itās sonic the fuckin hedgehog baby, awoo, weāre so fucking back, sonicās good again, etc
i was in the middle of a hardcore platforming section as amy, chaining together all these fucking. triple jump somersault throw fortune cards into a bunch of blocks homing attack grind quickstep hover jump type combos.
and i just⦠fell through the environment. just clean out. i tapped the wrong wall at the exact wrong angle and i just teleported into the abyss, watching ouronos island slowly disappear above me. and i just laughed a ton and kept on going, because of course that was going to happen, itās sonic team being weird!
this is what they do! they make weird busted ass games that donāt even try to make sonic feel remotely natural. youāre just trying to steer this big blue floating cartoon wrecking ball hurtling through space only this time itās got the trappings of a dubbed shÅnen anime written by a Sonic dweeb and itās got spectacle fighter and SHMUP bits in it.
speaking of which, morio kishimoto will never apologize to fans who were Weird about the gameās original final boss, and in fact they doubled down by adding more bullet hell mechanics, this time with a certain new mini-boss in the overworld. nier automata ass sonic the hedgehog game.
itās lovably shit. jae told me thereās a word for that? sonic team makes kusoge, and when they actually embrace that is when they put out the weird good shit. have you ever actually played NiGHTs into Dreams? iāll probably get hunted down for saying this but like⦠it also controls like shit?? itās got a lot of weird problems! when you know what youāre doing and how to make the game do that, itās fantastic, but it takes effort to get it there. itās a hard game with finnicky controls that sometimes breaks. and yet, itās still one of the best games on the saturn. sonic adventure 2 is kusoge. soās this, and that makes it better than generations and forces by a mile.



