Thursday 26 August, 2004

The fact that I can't save my game is starting to get a bit annoying. I'm currently on Zone 6, which I guess is the last one, and I don't have enough time to clear it on my daily commute. Well, I MIGHT if I was really good and didn't lose lives along the way. :-)

This Zone is annoying in other ways too. Usually you have 9 minutes or so to finish a level (I think the idea of a time limit on levels that encourage exploring is stupid...but that's another issue). In this Zone, that situation is turned around since you have 4 minutes to finish each "segment" (or checkpoint). It took me a while to figure out that this was happening since there is no indication of it except that the clock runs backwards instead of forwards..and since I never look at the clock anyways!

On the other hand, this level has an AWESOME segment where gravity is inverted! I don't think that it is entirely an original idea, but I can't think of a single game where I've seen this. Anyone out there? Hello?

Well, the inverse gravity was really interesting because I had to mentally remap what I was doing. I briefly thought about turning by GBA upside down (something you couldn't do with a normal console and TV set..), but then I would have to think about the buttons! (which would be upside down...) In any case, that little segment was too short, but very enjoyable!

"On the other hand, this level has an AWESOME segment where gravity is inverted! I don't think that it is entirely an original idea, but I can't think of a single game where I've seen this. Anyone out there? Hello?"

They do it in Sonic & Knuckles. I strongly recommend you get ahold of Sonic 3 & Knuckles, it's imo the best Sonic game.

I think I've actually played that...but a long, long, time ago.... :-)
(getting older, and my memory isn't what it used to be like)