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.
Although he can be quite hard to control and slippery at times, he is really good! I really like some of the details like the custom life HUD and... Jonki?!? (i was NOT expecting a secret character, and hey, hes a really good secret character too! i actually kinda like him more then Sonki which is saying a lot since Sonki's the main character of this addon) Overall, this is a very great addon! The only issues I have with it is the one I talked about at the start of the review and the fact that for some reason it wont let me change Sonki to a different color other then RealJonki.
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. 🥀
The moveset may be a bit difficult to get used to it, specially since you bounce around harder the faster you move, and thought im a more "vertical" character type guy, i do appreciate the mix of both here.
Its still not perfect as it sometimes feels TOO fast and difficult to control, but its far from horrible.
Maybe give the Double Jump a bit more of power? sometimes if you wanna save yourself from a poor jump because the Mach made you overshoot, you wont have enough vertical momentum.
The recurl is something i find a bit uncomfortable, i dont quite understand well how it works, as it sometimes triggers, and sometimes it doesnt.
Tythestickman
thank you for the review :D the Taunt Jump has a time based thing where if you activate it early in a jump you'll gain quite a bit of height, meanwhile being late wont give much at all, for the recurl its based on your speed, the faster you are = the faster you get to recurl, this system was made to patch a thing where you could just climb walls with the Blasters Thok (Newborn Sbag dosent have the recurl system so he just recurls instantly, meaning you can perform the wall climbing thing)
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