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  SakuraSweets > 12-14-2020, 11:13 AM

  Sonic Games are mostly known for cool level designs, but there are some that are terrible to get through for variety of reasons. I am curious to know which Sonic levels do you think are terrible by design. It can be from any game and it can be for any reasons.
  
  I'll start things off and entirety of Lost World levels are such a chore to get through. First we have a tubular design in 3d which makes things packed in, and because of it Sonic has a run button to speed up, and even then,he is too slow. The prkour system makes the gameplay flimsy and inconsistent . The 2d sections arent any better, it still slows down the gameplay, i just dislike this game so much.

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  Infinite > 12-14-2020, 12:21 PM

  One of the franchise's greatest weaknesses in many games is that of death pits. These are prominent in 2D games like the Advance games like Rush, and 3D games like Heroes. Death pits are just a cheap way to make the player lose a life and they are easy to fall into. As someone who is going through Sonic Heroes, death pits are extremely infuriating since they are everywhere in the levels. For example, in the canyon levels, my characters will occasionally glitch out of the rails which end up leading to my demise.

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  SmugSpeed > 12-30-2020, 02:14 AM

  I'd have to go with 3D Blast and Labyrinth for having some pretty bad level design, even though I kinda like 3D Blast a little. As the depth perception in those games is pretty awful.

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  NeoMetallix > 01-25-2021, 09:16 PM

  (12-14-2020, 12:21 PM)Infinite Wrote: One of the franchise's greatest weaknesses in many games is that of death pits. These are prominent in 2D games like the Advance games like Rush, and 3D games like Heroes. Death pits are just a cheap way to make the player lose a life and they are easy to fall into. As someone who is going through Sonic Heroes, death pits are extremely infuriating since they are everywhere in the levels. For example, in the canyon levels, my characters will occasionally glitch out of the rails which end up leading to my demise.

  
  Yeah this is definitely what came to mind for me! Some of the later Sonic Advance 2 levels have death pits that you don't even see coming if you're going really fast and it really makes you have to slow down and kinda ruins the levels. Later on they rectified this in Generations(not sure which game started this though, could be colors) where death pits have death symbols over them so you know when you are approaching somewhere you need to be more careful.

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  SakuraSweets > 01-27-2021, 08:50 AM

  I have another bout of bad level design that is exclusive to the Boost level design, the 2d section in the 3d games. I greatly dislike them as I feel that it grinds gameplay to a complete halt, it is mostly hit or miss in the post Unleashed games. The worst of it belongs to Lost world and Forces.

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  Infinite > 01-27-2021, 11:27 AM

  2D sections in 3D levels felt redundant in Sonic Generations. Why have Modern Sonic get 2D sections when we already have Classic Sonic who is all 2D?

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  SakuraSweets > 01-27-2021, 11:42 AM

  (01-27-2021, 11:27 AM)Infinite Wrote: 2D sections in 3D levels felt redundant in Sonic Generations. Why have Modern Sonic get 2D sections when we already have Classic Sonic who is all 2D?

  
  I see what you mean lol I found that confusing and it makes a return in Forces. Why on Earth couldn't we have Mod!Sonic completely in 3d, Classic!Sonic completely in 2d while Original the Character is a combination of the two? I'm pretty much done with the Boost mechanics at this point.

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  Infinite > 01-27-2021, 12:05 PM

  I would probably keep the boost in 2D games like Sonic Rush. But in 3D games, it really hasn't worked well besides Unleashed.
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