Sonic.exe : The Doomsday

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back again. if you die to the spikes, you get stuck on them. also idk if its just in knuckles' first stage but if you get to 0 lives, the whole game restarts, idk if that was intentional

i don't like how hard the knuckles boss fight or maybe that's just my skill issue

After playing the best ending... Can't say I want to go for any solos or duos. Listen, this game in not bad. However, it commits a very similar sin to Sonic.exe the Destiny. That being that... It's just boring. It's all way too easy, there's barely any challenge. If you are able to get the best ending on your first attempt with no difficulty, I don't think you succeeded in making a challenging game.

Reader, if Sonic.exe the Destiny is your cup of tea, I think you might enjoy this game.

I don't mean that in a derogatory manner. Games like the Destiny and this one in particular have a target audience. If you are someone that wants to get into the "other side" of the exe games but stuff like Spirits of Hell and the Nightmare Universe games seem sysiphian to you... Well, I'd actually advise you play the Destiny first but hey, this game is not a horrible choice in that regard still!

Besides even that I have many complaints about this game.

Level design at certain points... Man... The stages later into the game are great, I will admit. Like, Tails' Marble Garden chase and everything after is where the level design actually gets good I'll say. But oh my god did the stages before that leave a sour taste in my mouth. Sonic's intro level would be amazing if not for the 2 damn pits of spikes that you can't see coming. Metal's intro stage is just... weird. It's not bad, I like certain things about it, but, man, it's just awkward in a few ways. One random spike that can kill you since you can't possibly see it coming... Just being really gimmicky... Backtracking... Minus the first thing, this isn't actually even bad, it's just... weird.

Also. Grammar. Just, like, it's not good. There are several both gramatical and spelling mistakes that I spotted throughout my playthrough.

Let's talk about bossfights. Listen. Every single bossfight that anyone makes in a Sonic game has the same exact problem at the start that you must find a way to mitigate: the fact that you can ignore the pattern and just damage boost through everything. If you want a great example of how to design a boss, look no further than Tower of Millenium. Many bosses have ways of preventing damage boosting. Most do it through just plain instakills, which is fine! Add instakills to keep the player on their toes, it won't hurt your game as long as the instakill isn't attrociously difficult to dodge! Some fights in Tower of Millenium are more creative about it. Knuckles.exe in his first fight can steal your rings, for example. Tails.exe can magnetize them with his thunder shield (you might notice you had a really good opportunity to implement that in one fight). The fights you do as Metal are the best ones, since you have health that you need to manage. Finally, an encouragement to dodge! So, what do the fights as Tails, Knuckles and Sonic do? Nothing. Just, nothing. You can damage boost through them with no consequences. You didn't solve the main problem you had to solve with these fights. But whatever. While playing I noticed that the fight on Knuckles' route doesn't take away your lives after dying (and about that, I'll briefly mention that most of these continue screens are kinda lame. Neither the music nor visuals make you feel any intensity, you don't feel like your character is on the verge of death). So, I decided that I should try my hand at doing a no damage run of this fight. I mean, damage boosting is boring so may as well set an arbitrary restriction to make the game fun, right? (as a note, a game forcing you to create your own fun like this is usually not good). And so I noticed that... my god, the orb attack. I have no idea how you no damage it. Dodging is simple enough, you just climb up a wall, jump over a spike, drop down, spindash. However, this is the ONE attack in this fight where you HAVE to do damage to Chaosfang. When you deal damage to him, you are knocked back. This knockback is extremely weak and since the spikes are so fast it's just impossible to dodge at many times. So, was this fight actually made with damage boosting in mind? I think if a fight can't be done no damage it's a poorly designed fight. Not too many other bosses suffer from this issue thankfully. For most of them I felt that their patterns were dodgable at the very least.

To be continued in the replies.

What's the problem with the archivement for the Eggman and Metal Sonic solo ending? I've done it more than once and it still hasn't unlocked. Great game BTW, I just feel like this bug should be fixed so to have the 100% of the game Trophies.