So I took some time to decide what rating I'm gonna give it and... It's improved since 1.3 but would I give it 4 stars? Uh... No. The combat is still half-baked like a tater tot and scarf and fairon don't exactly have a lot in differences. There's no factors that make me say "Hey I'm going to pick fairon over scarf or I think this level will be better with scarf!" Doesn't help that they seemingly have identical moves so that thought almost never crosses my mind. The sprite work is really good though. Overall this is a mod with lots of room of improvement .
Scarf The Wolf
There’s a reason for that. My collaborator likes my ideas, so he’s asking me to incorporate some of my character’s abilities into his own character...
I don’t like this mod. I’ll admit the concept isn’t bad, but Sharf failed to execute it well (at least for now). Why even include combat in this game when the maps in SRB2 are so open? Besides, it just boils down to spamming a single button, which is far from engaging. Many of Scarf's abilities are completely useless, and as for Fairon... he’s incredibly buggy. WHY DOES PHARAOH EVEN EXIST WHEN SHARF IS BETTER THAN HIM IN EVERY WAY??? Oh, right - most of the code was written by ChatGPT. To sum it up, the only good things about this mod are the concept and, to some extent, the graphics. The combat is uninteresting, the characters themselves are dull, and some of the abilities are entirely pointless.
Honestly, the sprites and the overall graphics are great, but the main issue is the gameplay. I can't call it good, or even just decent. The whole experience is ruined by the half-baked combat system, which doesn't even feel like real combat (it's just spam one button, which is especially glaring on bosses). Having to slow down just to break badniks is pure nonsense. There are a lot of abilities that just completely clash with the gameplay. I'm not saying you can't play the mod without the combat, but then what was the point of even making it?
I get that you might lack experience in making beat-'em-ups (or "slashers" as you call them), but over the course of development, you could've looked into how they're actually implemented and figured out how they're supposed to play. There's also a lot of overlap with XSonic. The cutscenes where you get items from bosses (honestly, I forget what they're actually called) are literally identical to the ones in XSonic.
Generally, there's the issue with the character Fairon: he has a bunch of abilities that just artificially slow him down, not to mention his special moves, which are pretty much useless in most situations. The mod HAS POTENTIAL IF IT'S DEVELOPED IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION, but sadly, you just need to gain more experience. If you had actually listened to our feedback about the combat from the start, maybe things would be more or less fine by the time of release. But alas, you made that call yourself.
Even though I helped create this mod, I’m going to evaluate it honestly: it’s a demo with room for improvement, so my impressions of it are, as they say, mixed.
I'm giving it a high score because many people gave it what I think was a low score. On the plus side, I'll note the tremendous work done on the sprites and scripts. However, I'm not a fan of the overall concept and character mechanics.
The mod isn't even 50/50 honestly, I also saw SO MANY things taken from Xsonic, the mod has too many mechanics that are unnecessary, the "combat" or whatever you call it is just terrible, it's not a combat, it's a simulator of spamming one button, many abilities are simply unnecessary, apparently they didn't try to balance it at all, I won't even mention the character Fairon, the same problem, many abilities are just terribly strangely implemented, you really need to work on these bugs, that's all from me
This guy treats you like an unwanted customer who doesn’t want to buy anything and only asks, “What is this?” And he treats those who created this mod like enemies, judging by my experience interacting with this person. 🥀
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