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Sonic the Hedgehog Moon


1 year ago

Merry Christmas to everyone! Demo 4.0 is finally public on Windows!

Quick playthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPw_EUiEexI


Sonic Moon Demo 4.0 Released! Playthough with Modern Sonic
Finally! Anyone who is interested can play the new demo of my Sonic x Sailor Moon fan game! I decided for this quick playthrough to do it with Modern Sonic. ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPw_EUiEexI

This demo includes:

  • Five playable zones, including a secret sneak-peak at zone six.

  • Seven playable characters.

  • Six summonable Sailor Senshi to help the player on their journey.

  • Seven Special Stages and seven Super Stages.

    • Every act of every zone features one hidden teleporter to the Special/Super Stages.

  • Super and Hyper forms.

  • Several options, including a rough key configurator, adjustable speed (60Hz, 50Hz speeds), screen sizes as well as toggleable screen shader and sprite flicker.

  • A leaderboard.

  • Save data so you don’t have to complete the demo in one run.

  • English and (work-in-progress) Brazilian Portuguese languages.

There are still a lot of things in this game I need to complete. Game development is time-consuming, challenging and tedious after all. Please let me know of any glitches, crashes or just general issues. I'm very certain they'll crop up and hopefully I can fix them when I'm not busy. It is Christmas after all.

The downloadable zip file conatains a PDF document that I recommend you read. It has a list of controls as well as some notes about possible issues I intend on fixing when I'm able to.

For now, I hope everyone can get an nice taste of what's to come, especially since it has been over a year since the last release. Where does time go?

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