Call-Back: Quite a few areas are designed to resemble stages in previous Sonic games.Good luck managing to do this without getting hit in Time Attack. The less life he has, the more he spends in this state. Bullfight Boss: Metal Sonic takes this to an extreme in his boss battle - in his last phase, he'll charge up and charge directly at the player's position, and then bounce continuously on walls until he hurts himself, giving the player a chance to attack.The special stages have Black Hole Zone, which can only be unlocked by A ranking the other 7 special stages, a feat in itself.The stage theme is also a Darker and Edgier counterpart to the Deep Sea Zone theme. Features gargoyles that shoot green fire, and bug enemies inside bubbles that can make you fall into a Bottomless Pit if you grab their bubbles. Azure Temple Zone, a very difficult fully underwater level unlocked by completing Aerial Garden Zone.Version 2.2 also changes the enemies to a beehive badnik that spawns swarms of bees that follow the player all over the place. That is, all three acts from that and the bonus Starlight Palace Zone put together into one massive stage of platform hell. Aerial Garden Zone, which is ported from the Mystic Realm mod.Haunted Heights Zone, a long Halloween-themed level with a complicated mix of hazards from previous zones and Cacodemon-style bots that can be difficult to hit.It even includes a few disappearing platform puzzles! Egg Rock Zone plays more like a Mega Man level than a Sonic level.They start appearing at Castle Eggman Zone and don't stop afterwards.Boss Remix: Inverted the music for Castle Eggman Zone is a (very heavy) remix of the boss theme.note The only exception is Black Core, where the first act is a race against Metal Sonic that serves as the closest thing to a normal level in the zone, and the other two acts are both boss battles. Boss-Only Level: As with Sonic 3D: Flickies' Island, the third act of every Zone is an arena where Eggman is faced in one of his machines.Newer versions are basically fanmade levels from NiGHTS into Dreams , played as Super Sonic. Bonus Stage: Older versions of the game had players traverse around an open area, tasking them with collecting a set number of rings within a time limit.Bonus Level of Heaven: Aerial Garden Zone, the second Challenge Stage.It also represents a big Difficulty Spike thanks to being filled with many stage hazards and pits. Bleak Level: Pre-2.2 Castle Eggman, on behalf of it being the first of Eggman's personal headquarters with dull colors and constant rain and thunderstorms running throughout.Big Fancy Castle: Castle Eggman Zone, thanks to both acts being ripe with Marathon Level.Played straight with the special stage Black Hole Zone, though this one gets handwaved by Sonic being in Super Mode. With space, the countdown timer begins immediately. Going into any areas in Egg Rock Zone that are in open space will begin a countdown much like in the underwater levels that appear seconds before the player drowns. Batman Can Breathe in Space: Somehow averted.
#METAL SONIC SPRITES SONIC ADVANCE MOD#
By 2.1, Knuckles got his sprites entirely reworked, looking more like something in line with the game sprites from the main series or Sonic Advance Trilogy, and Sonic and Tails received the same treatment come 2.2 (though even before that, the downloadable FSonic character mod served as a preview of Sonic's updated sprites, combined with abilities he lacks in 2.2). Art Evolution: As the game evolved, the characters eventually took on a hand-drawn and digitized sort of look.Further updates to 2.2 eventually made continues infinite in save files, relegating limited continues to a no-save game and as an option for mods, and made it so the game autosaves every act instead of at the start of a zone, rendering lives nearly meaningless except for the fact that continuing or loading a save puts you at the beginning of the act.The more game overs, the more lives earned at once and they're very welcome. Anti-Frustration Features: In version 2.2, the player gets extra starting lives for each spent continue, even after running out of continues.
#METAL SONIC SPRITES SONIC ADVANCE UPDATE#
The 2.2 update eventually added him to the opening cutscene, but with no explanation he and Tails are just suddenly there.