Remoir Wrote:idk in the other games i feel like he moves too fast for me to do precision platforming..
Nearly said he should have an endless runner game but then i realise i have Sonic Dash on my phone lol :3

Lozmaster Wrote:You don't do precision platforming in the gotta go fast games for that very reason.

Remoir Wrote:but those red rings mang!!

Lozmaster Wrote:The first two levels of world 4 are difficult and bullpomegranate for all the wrong reasons. (So probably "Why did I buy this game, this is a total let down"). I won't write it off just yet, as the last few worlds might be better, but I hear bad things about Silent forest too, so I'm not hopeful anymore.

4-1, you have to follow a specific route otherwise you get stuck looping around infinitely. This wouldn't be so bad but it's full of long sections where you can't interact with sonic at all. Some of them are 15+seconds long, and there are multiple repeats of them very close together. I watched my recording and at one point you literally have 10 seconds of control of sonic for a compulsory 50 second long section to get through the level. There is another 30 second long section of this that you will probably have to do more than once because you have to do a ridiculous bit of parkour that requires you jumping around a corner and then back on to the wall from the side you just came from. (I think you may be able to do it with a laser wisp as there is a laser wisp crystal right there, but I hit it multiple times and it ended up in forcing me back to an earlier section multiple times).

Whoever thought those non interactive sections was a good idea shouldn't be allowed to be involved in sonic game developement ever again.

And not only that, it's the first ice world, so sonic now controls like pomegranate, with any semblance of control of your jumps removed when you try jumping while on ice (Rather than a normal spin jump, he twirls like he thinks he's a ballerina, which seems to prevent you from using your double jump or homing attacks).

4-2 sticks sonic inside a giant snowball, kinda like super monkey ball but you have two options: Too slow, but some semblance of control(at some points, this actually gets you killed because you can't jump far enough to get across a gap), or too fast and if you're going in even the slightly wrong direction, that's it, instant death, because you can't stop or steer in any significant way.
Oh, also if you even touch an enemy you're probably dead.
I haven't actually cleared this stage yet because I was fed up with the game after trying to do 4-1 and 4-2 in a row.

I just cannot fathom what they were thinking. They've lost any goodwill they had from me now from the good, not great, first 3 worlds anyway.

Now, don't get me wrong, I love difficult platformers, Super Meat Boy is my second most played game on steam, and the perfect run on Mario Galaxy 2 was amazing, but the difference between those two and this is they played perfectly. Lost world feels like the game is pineappleing me over for no fault of my own.

I now really hope the 3rd game in the Nintendo exclusive trilogy of sonic games is going to be Sonic Generations 2 or Colours 2 rather than like lost world.

Remoir Wrote:i think the only level i actually enjoyed was the one in world 3 where you auto run through beehives.

The boss battle at the end spoiled it but it was incredibly funny to me having sonic faceplant into a wall and die LOL

Polantaris Wrote:So, apparently Super Mario 3D World is out.

Was wondering if anyone has played it. I've been reading some good things about it but I don't know...

Polantaris Wrote:So, apparently Super Mario 3D World is out.

Was wondering if anyone has played it. I've been reading some good things about it but I don't know...

Declaimed Wrote:By now I've come to a point where I'm convinced that Mario can do no wrong. I haven't played 3D World yet, but if 3D Land is anything to go by, I'm sure World is well-deserving of all the 9.5's and 10's its been getting.

As for Sonic and his "Lost World"... Eh. I've been what some would consider a "hardcore" Sonic fan for years up until around a year or two ago: I've owned (and still own) almost every (prominent, non game-gear) title he's ever featured in, including the abysmal '06, and I was all over the franchise in my teenage years. That being said, he's in a ridiculous rut right now in my opinion, one that Lost World didn't do anything to help him out of. The primary antagonists look boring and cliched, and the voice work + writing is cringe-worthy ("I cant wait to pound your sorry blue butt!!". No, really). Colors was okay, but somehow seemed a bit obnoxious to me.

FlameChocobo Wrote:Two words: FREAKING LEGENDARY!

Super Mario 3D World is awesome. Fun as hell to play. Amazing storyline (FINALLY Bowser did something different!) Overall, it's a master piece.

FlameChocobo Wrote:Amazing storyline (FINALLY Bowser did something different!) Overall, it's a master piece.

Lozmaster Wrote:Amazing storyline? in a mario platformer?

Talk about setting the bar low.

Polantaris Wrote:Hoping for a harder difficulty once you beat it or something, though, because so far it's been pretty easy and the levels are a tad too short to not have some replayability right now.

PantyNeko Wrote:After a long time waiting I'm finally getting a Wii U. Is there any other difference between basic/deluxe aside hdd/color/nintendo land?

Arrol Wrote:Deluxe is the best way to go. Basic has a much smaller memory size compared to the Deluxe and lacks a few extra things. Also, the basic model is being discontinued and the deluxe's price should now have dropped to the basic. (Used to cost like 350$) so all the more reason to go for the black.

PantyNeko Wrote:But can't I fix it with an external hdd? Also I know it's being discontinued but tge price drop over here is abismal.

What extra things?