Intentional or not, I feel like his bloop reel at the beginning of Fortune Night is a meme about Shadow (down+special during dialogue). You could even argue that the 'edginess' attempted by Shadow was delivered better by someone like Spade. Super shameful for such a high profile gaming icon. Speed sections, platform sections, even brawling sections, all attempted by Sega, all failed spectacularly for one reason or another- well, maybe not all, but it seems like 'most.' They too often range from 'near miss' to 'total dumpster fire,' all the way down to having not 1 but 2 games considered among the worst triple-A releases in the history of video games. Sonic uses regenerative heath with it's Ring system and Freedom Planet uses a non-regenerative heath system with Flower Petals.īut it's not just that, everything this game does right are things that Sonic can only dream of. I found this incredible video that easily explains the way that Sonic and Freedom Planet handle their heath differently: FP2 even expands this by giving you a dedicated dodge button to increase your defensive abilities! You don't have all the potent abilities that Freedom Planet gives you. Sonic games rely too much on memorization and punsh the player unfairly. Combat is also more fluent with a dedicated attack button without having to jump on everything like Mario 'Jumpman' Mario.Īn important thing to give the player when designing a video game is to fulfill a 'power fantasy', while still making a truly competent difficulty system. Everyone even has greater aerials momentum with easy jumps that either have hitboxes or you can act out of them with an attack/ability. This is why enjoy playing as Carol the most as she has the ability to wall jump as much as she wants, or just drive on walls/ ceillings with her motorcycle. I really enjoy being able to move around so fluently without much loss of speed. Burst movement is readly at your command with every character (Jump Dash/Accelerate, Dragon Boost, Super Shield Bash). the smallest amount of momentum will allow you to get up walls and even cellings with ease.

Sonic Rush + Sonic Rush Adventure solved some of this with the ability to boost and use aerial tricks at some points, but we haven't seen another Sonic Rush game in over a decade.įreedom Planet deals with all of this and more some with it's physics engine and character abilities.

Aerial presence is also rather limited without a shield power-up on Sonic or one of the relativly slow (and vulnerable) flight abilities of another character. If you don't have enough momentum to get up a slope than you're going BACK DOWN THAT F*****. It takes a while to build your speed up, and they ways you can get your speed up quickly (Drop Dash, Spin Dash, Peel Out) aren't really all that useful and require you to slow down for a moment to use them. One of the most obnoxious things in the Classic Sonic games is just the way the momentum system works.

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