Sonic Recharged - [SAGE 2018 DEMO]

First thing off when booting the game is inconsistent key mapping in the menus, and then in the pause button, which is not the biggest of deals...
There are some "downgraded" mania sprites, which I absolutely love, and secondary running sprites you can select, which are also a neat feature, if this were my game I'd consider making them default for their uniqueness to the game.
It has other neat features like the cutscenes, stage visuals, music, badniks and all, as much as some of them weren't made by the team, the justaposition and use of them is what makes it unique. But it needs some reworking. I really liked the ACME Canyon boss.
The level design, is many times unfair, with badly placed enemies and spikes. A good tip is having the player slowdown and have time to react to enemies and not place them where the player can just run free. It also reuses the example boss from SWDelta.

The engine and the physics is the mayor problem, this have potential, lucky on the next sage.

Yeah I'm sorry to say but this wasn't very enjoyable. The levels that have obstacles have them in very unfair places. Such as spikes facing you, or an enemy you can't see right after a boost pad.

The bosses are just... honestly they're just awful. In the first boss for Acme Canyon, if you let it go off screen, it doesn't come back and you soft lock. Plus it takes a ridiculously long time to beat since you can only beat it once... (or maybe twice if you're super fast) when it's vulnerable.

The Robotnik one was even worse. He never stops shooting bombs. There's no pattern to learn or anything like that, he just spams them. Just because you're constantly being hit by a boss, doesn't mean it's a good difficult boss. There was no other way but to damage boost through that one. Then at one point, I died as Knuckles and the game froze.


The one good thing I liked was the levels looked quite nice. I just couldn't get over the glitches, bosses and unfair layouts.