Hello, thanks for playing! Hope you enjoyed the ride, and the challenge!
- I have no plans to change the special stages. They have been made to be a bit challenging, but they're not as difficult as they seem. You earn the super form and with that you pretty much break every single boss in the game. It must be earned.
check other comments down below where i provide some suggestions on how to tackle them.
- The different sound of the ring item box was one of the stock sounds available withing sonic worlds. I enjoyed it as it sounded like "you got a bunch of rings at the same time!" so I kept it.
- A rom hack named "Sonic 2D Blast: Westside Island" already exists, I wanted to keep it different, and Sonic 3D in 2D , while weird still conveys the objective of the game, Sonic 3D with the 2D style of its predecessors.
- A think that a lot of people loathed in the original game was the flicky mechanic. I did one brief attempt at keeping it and I felt it doesn't work well in 2D. You have to slow the game down, limit enemy placement and make a lot of compromises with level design to not make it an infuriating experience.
An average stage would have 15 enemes in total sprawled through a map forcibly separated into 3 locked sections with 5 enemies. I felt it didn't work at all.
Keep playing! See if you can unlock all the extra characters!