Sonic Escape V0.88

wow this is really good i mean really really good please keep up the good work 10/10 i cant wait till its finished 

when the next update?

this game is AWESOME, I LOVE the soundtrack, it's so good! and the movement flows well! I can't wait to see the full game, what you have already is really fun and I love it!

also please fix fleetway, like most of the time when he dies, he just floats there...

Would love to see sage as the next playable character after silver and shadow. Give my girl some love!

GIVE METAL SONIC AS MANY MOVES AS SONIC, CUZ METAL ISNT AS FUN TO PLAY AS SONIC 

pretty cool

Yo, really love this game, but, could someone do something abt the kolo and fleetway boss fight, killing fleetway just leaves him there floating

...I'm sorry why is rewrite here.

super cool game but the controls are kinda butt. I could just be bad though, playing on keyboard was kinda frustrating. Which is why I switched to the mobile version, which was much better, but kind of unresponsive at times, makes the boss fights difficult.

will you ever make Super Sonic sprites to use? 

will metal have any more abilities? Im like the biggest metal fan ever and your game looks absolutely AMAZING!!!! I just wanna know if I can get any faster with metal!

if you told me thragg, caine, the fun gang, kollosos and Fleetway were in this game I would not believe you

so  after I (maybe?) killed fleetway he kinda just floated around for a bit before I reloaded the round, little did I know I would be greeted by two viltrumites

any clue how to play as silver&shadow? or are they just not done ye

i got JUMPSCARE by kris, why is he there

999 SFX! I spotted you! (you should put any copyrighted assets you used in the Credits btw, even if you intend to replace them with original ones in the final release - so we know what is original and what is borrowed, and can also expect them to change by the time of release - also I like the level BGM so I’m curious where it comes from)

Gameplay and game feel

The game feel is pretty good, I see “modern” style movement as we’d find in games like Freedom Planet with high acceleration, easy wall slide/jump and simplified fly input (hold with gauge).

At the beginning when I saw the team selection I thought there’d be Sonic Advance 3 / Sonic Heroes style team moves, but not yet apparently, it’s mostly to swap characters. It makes showing all the characters on the level less important (we could just show one character and swap it when needed) except for Amy who’s… carrying… Miku.

The animated pixel art is nice although not too visible in-game due to camera being quite zoomed out (to enhance exploration). Considering your background in digital illustration explained on the video, it makes sense that you’re more comfortable with bigger character sprites displaying more their facial expressions.

The video was a bit long by the way, it’s nice to have a making-of but for the main video on itch I would expect from trailer / gameplay excerpt. With all the explanations and various memes in the middle I had to advance farther in the video to see what the game would look like, and it was apparently just the beginning of dev. In the end, playing the game was still the best way to do it.

Good job on integrating mobile virtual input! Although they do look a bit high on the screen, I haven’t tested them yet.

I also need to do it on my own Godot fan game (Super Sonic Heroes). I was interested in how you’d place buttons to swap characters since I also use Heroes team swap mechanic, but I don’t see such a button on the mobile interface. Are other characters supposed to be located near the top-left avatar, but it’s just not implemented yet?

999 SFX! I spotted you! (you should put any copyrighted assets you used in the Credits btw, even if you intend to replace them with original ones in the final release - so we know what is original and what is borrowed, and can also expect them to change by the time of release - also I like the level BGM so I’m curious where it comes from)

The game feel is pretty good, I see “modern” style movement as we’d find in games like Freedom Planet with high acceleration, easy wall slide/jump and simplified fly input (hold with gauge).

It’s fun to be able to bounce on the flying enemy twice as it has enough HP to survive a bit. I can imagine places where you exploit this to reach higher places (but the point of that trick would be defeated if Tails is in the team).

At the beginning when I saw the team selection I thought there’d be Sonic Advance 3 / Sonic Heroes style team moves, but not yet apparently, it’s mostly to swap characters. It makes showing all the characters on the level less important (we could just show one character and swap it when needed) except for Amy who’s… carrying… Miku.

Generally speaking, I feel like things are a bit wild in-game, you can do many things but also get past many things (esp. by flying with Tails, although the fly gauge has been tuned so he doesn’t go that far) and I’m not sure where it’s heading, but I suppose that’s to expect for a prototype: featuring many mechanics and level gimmicks and sorting out what works well. I’ll be waiting for the proper opening intro and 1st level to get a “cleaner”, more focused experience where I can indeed exploit all my moves to progress in an efficient way and find a good balance between rushing and exploring (like wall jump to reach high places, find collectibles or lore secrets… The opening was very short so I can’t tell how much the story will be important in this game).

Art

The animated pixel art is nice although not too visible in-game due to camera being quite zoomed out (to enhance exploration). Considering your background in digital illustration explained on the video, it makes sense that you’re more comfortable with bigger character sprites displaying more their facial expressions.

Promotion

The video was a bit long by the way, it’s nice to have a making-of but for the main video on itch I would expect from trailer / gameplay excerpt. With all the explanations and various memes in the middle I had to advance farther in the video to see what the game would look like, and it was apparently just the beginning of dev. In the end, playing the game was still the best way to do it.

Mobile support

Good job on integrating mobile virtual input! Although they do look a bit high on the screen, I haven’t tested them yet.

I also need to do it on my own Godot fan game (Super Sonic Heroes). I was interested in how you’d place buttons to swap characters since I also use Heroes team swap mechanic, but I don’t see such a button on the mobile interface. Are other characters supposed to be located near the top-left avatar, but it’s just not implemented yet?

P.S.: hm, it looks more on the dark/horror side looking at the intro but also the “monster” animated sprite lower in the list of screenshots on the sidebar. I remember I never played Sonic Unleashed because I didn’t like the werehog transformation, so let’s hope that doesn’t get in my way of playing it. Although I have no problem with having a darker mood in general (I like dark, but like stylish, I suppose - more like Shadow Generations’ dark powers?)

Hey this is pretty good! Only this is a few bugs like the tutorial not working and the black square for a boss. Otherwise still pretty fun to play with.

Very nice artwork!

Hey man, i love this peak ass Sonic fangame, but there are bugs... the boss is just a black box, the tutorial button wont work, (unless its wip, i understand.) and can you add where we can position our mobile buttons? Please and thank you, you are doing a BADASS job at this, keep it up 👍

I'm glad to see you're still working on this!

I do have a couple feelings on how some of the new things are executed. For instance why are their so many random insta-deaths in boss battles?! I nab a low amount of rings and just go belly up the moment the boss so much as breaths on me! It devalues the players effort of re-collecting rings amidst the boss battle chaos.

With the amazing fluid movement of these characters, it's a shame once you get skilled you can fly, jump and evade over the entire level. The original sonic games made it more easy to fall the higher you are. Maybe some floating walls/hazards and quick shooting enemies as obstacles could help make the skies have any challenge at all, while staying the fastest path to feel rewarding.

Not sure if this is just a web player problem or a me problem, but I don't hear any sound. The Youtube video bellow the game makes sound but not the game. I've reloaded my computer serval times to no avail.

day 1 of asking if u could add shadow (hes my new fav)

¿Seria posible jugar este juego en multijugador online? Siento que seria muy divertido aunque sea corto''

For the ones who wanted this: Soap Shoes Sonic

Finally metal is here

now make a eggman boss fight

THANK U I CAN NOW BE FREE

day 9 and 10 of asking if u could add metal sonic

day 7 and 8 of asking if u could add metal sonic (i forgot a day sry)

day 6  of asking if u could add metal sonic