What in the goddamn fuck dude.
Do people like this zone? I'm almost done with the game but I can't bring myself to finish it. I've really enjoyed basically the entire game up to this point, save for Stardust Speedway.
It's a god-damn mess that the rest of the game doesn't really prime you for in anyway. It would be a highly mediocre zone if it weren't for the 10 minute limit and limited lives system, but as is, it's straight garbage.
I'm all for huge sprawling levels with alternative paths, but TMZ is a garbled mess of a maze, with every 2 seconds having me go "How was I supposed to know that hazard was there?".
Some of the appeal to 2D Sonic for me is memorizing the levels and running through them as efficient as possible, but trying to remember the layout of TMZ is such a chore when each playthrough of the first act alone takes about 10 minutes each time. And those fucking purple balls! Not impossible or terrible to control, but they're placed in frustrating manner and account for like 6/10ths of the time playing the stage, and they just aren't fun.
I got to this point last summer before dropping it in interest of other games, and coming back to it now, I'm just dropping it out of how terrible it feels to play. I get it's the penultimate zone, but the music, while good, isn't even energizing or motivating enough to push me through.
If the stage was "just difficult" I could get over it and keep playing, but I feel like the whole first act is just designed to waste my time.
I guess I'm just venting, but as a bonus topic: Have you ever dropped a game you've otherwise been enjoying over a single stage/mission?
Do people like this zone? I'm almost done with the game but I can't bring myself to finish it. I've really enjoyed basically the entire game up to this point, save for Stardust Speedway.
It's a god-damn mess that the rest of the game doesn't really prime you for in anyway. It would be a highly mediocre zone if it weren't for the 10 minute limit and limited lives system, but as is, it's straight garbage.
I'm all for huge sprawling levels with alternative paths, but TMZ is a garbled mess of a maze, with every 2 seconds having me go "How was I supposed to know that hazard was there?".
Some of the appeal to 2D Sonic for me is memorizing the levels and running through them as efficient as possible, but trying to remember the layout of TMZ is such a chore when each playthrough of the first act alone takes about 10 minutes each time. And those fucking purple balls! Not impossible or terrible to control, but they're placed in frustrating manner and account for like 6/10ths of the time playing the stage, and they just aren't fun.
I got to this point last summer before dropping it in interest of other games, and coming back to it now, I'm just dropping it out of how terrible it feels to play. I get it's the penultimate zone, but the music, while good, isn't even energizing or motivating enough to push me through.
If the stage was "just difficult" I could get over it and keep playing, but I feel like the whole first act is just designed to waste my time.
I guess I'm just venting, but as a bonus topic: Have you ever dropped a game you've otherwise been enjoying over a single stage/mission?