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followers of mine: what's your favourite game that you got hopelessly addicted to the first few levels of and therefore ended up deeply in love with, but which you never actually finished
mine's Sonic Forces. i think i hit the max level on my character before i played stage 5
“Nowhere to Run (Prison Hall)” is a banger so far as i'm concerned but that may be because i've listened to it a thousand times or something
modern sonic games are a weird thing, they are Incredibly enjoyable when you can hit that kind of kinetic flow state but they also keep making game design decisions that break you out of it. Sonic Forces is a tragic example, the entire game control scheme changes every 2nd level
i don't know if this is “good” gameplay but it may explain to you why i really like that song https://youtu.be/S5N4r2RdrN4
@hikari The problem is that keeping you in the flow state requires a really startling amount of content for you to constantly run past, so I feel like they have to alternate "expensive" fast sections with slowing you down so the devs can catch up. Sonic Wildfire / Sonic and the Secret Rings dealt with this by making the stages loops and telling you to just do a certain number of laps. Procgen would have been another solution but they've never tried it afaik
@mcc the vast majority of my Sonic Forces playtime is just playing the same stages over and over and over trying to optimise my route, so honestly if they just forced you to loop that'd sit very very well with me
@hikari “hopelessly addicted” might be a little strong, but this is pretty close to my experience of Finals Fantasy 6, 7, and 9. (1 is the only other one I’ve played; that one I completed, admittedly making use of frameskip in the emulator I was playing it on)
@hikari xenogears
(the ending kept crashing)
@hikari (don't worry, i've grown out of it now)
meanwhile:
did you know that due to the high speed of sound in hydrogen, propeller-driven aircraft can fly over 500m/s in the atmosphere of Jool?