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What a deeply weird game. I get what they're going for and I can also tell the team was struggling to make it all work. I feel like the heavy momentum-based swinging mechanics could be made to work even if this game isn't quite there. The level design feels like they were flailing, and like development cut off before they actually figured out how to build levels that play well with this movement.
Killer aesthetics and secretly one of the best Sonic soundtracks.
Killer aesthetics and secretly one of the best Sonic soundtracks.
Played the new Zarry epilogue that was added since my first playthrough. Short but sweet. The only game with a dedicated "set tail on fire" button.
Genuinely shocked by how good this is. Faithful to the original in the best sense; has a really great vision of what to do with the original prerendered artstyle given newer tools. I appreciate the restraint to keep to the original fixed, isometric camera angle and to faithfully reproduce the wonky look of the orginal models in just the right way. Where it makes changes, they support the original game well; it expands on the backgrounds in places where they're no longer subject to the same technical restrictions as the original, but which still fits very much with the original feel. Likewise, the few changes to the gameplay feel like they complement the original design without turning it into something dramatically different from what it used to be. Good stuff.