A mod for Sonic CD
Sonic the Hedgehog Megamix (commonly shortened to Sonic Megamix) is a work-in-progress multiperson disassembly modification of the original Sonic the Hedgehog videogame for the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis, developed by Team Megamix and more recently moved to the Sega Mega-CD. The game features the ability to play as one of five different characters: Sonic the Hedgehog, Mighty the Armadillo, Shadow the Hedgehog, Miles "Tails" Prower, and Knuckles the Echidna. It is an extensive reworking of the original game, featuring new art, music, abilities, layouts, and other things.
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Cool little ROM hack, I think the level design can be a bit much at times but the content you get makes this one an interesting one to go through at least once. It also comes with a Sega CD port of the first game in the options if you just wanna play Sonic 1 with Tails, Knuckles, Mighty or Shadow which is a plus.
Most ROM hacks aren't very good, but this one was fun enough to do multiple playthroughs of after exhausting the legitimate classic Sonic games.
I highly, highly recommend that you keep the Megamix abilities on (they are by default). The levels were clearly designed around being able to zip around lines of rings via the light dash, and that was especially apparent in the rather excellent opening zones.
Where Megamix falls flat is the level design of the later zones. This game's take on the water trope is absolutely atrocious and a big reason to make sure you get all the emeralds before slogging through it. There is also a metric fuck ton of slow down here, and I don't know if that was intentional (for "water level bad/too slow" meme) or because this is actually unfinished/vaporware but it sure does make you wonder where the blast processing went. Fortunately, the take on Starlight following redeems things a bit and almost feels like a reward for dealing with the last zone with how fast you can go without too much effort.
Although you can beat the game in its current state, it is (like many sonic projects) unfinished and does have bugs. *I highly advise save stating at the start of Not-Starlight as this is where I encountered the most crashes. There is also one special stage where it is incredibly easy to get softlocked.
I highly, highly recommend that you keep the Megamix abilities on (they are by default). The levels were clearly designed around being able to zip around lines of rings via the light dash, and that was especially apparent in the rather excellent opening zones.
Where Megamix falls flat is the level design of the later zones. This game's take on the water trope is absolutely atrocious and a big reason to make sure you get all the emeralds before slogging through it. There is also a metric fuck ton of slow down here, and I don't know if that was intentional (for "water level bad/too slow" meme) or because this is actually unfinished/vaporware but it sure does make you wonder where the blast processing went. Fortunately, the take on Starlight following redeems things a bit and almost feels like a reward for dealing with the last zone with how fast you can go without too much effort.
Although you can beat the game in its current state, it is (like many sonic projects) unfinished and does have bugs. *I highly advise save stating at the start of Not-Starlight as this is where I encountered the most crashes. There is also one special stage where it is incredibly easy to get softlocked.
The new abilities are fun to mess around with, though the new level design might make you feel even more miserable than base Sonic 1
Mighty has a much more methodical playthrough than Sonic does. He has the Sonic 3 moveset with the insta-shield and elemental shields. Although Mighty has an extra layer to that where he can store and switch shields at the cost of rings.
This results in an interesting juggling act where you switch to the best shield ability for the situation you are in, keeping you on your toes if you want to beat the levels as fast as possible.
This results in an interesting juggling act where you switch to the best shield ability for the situation you are in, keeping you on your toes if you want to beat the levels as fast as possible.
This is a great choice for Classic Sonic fans (in particular Sonic 1 fans) who want an extra challenge. This game remixes the content of Sonic 1 to give the player something that is faster but also more challenging, whilst feeling familiar.
Sonic's moveset in this is interested, he has what you would expect, the spin jump and spin dash. But there are also two unexpected additions, those being the homing attack and light speed dash.
First up the homing attack in this game isn't something to be used wildly, if you do you will likely slam into spikes and projectiles, on top of that there are certain Badniks that are difficult to use it against due to their defenses (those being Catakiller, Yardin and Orbinaut) and there are also inonveniently placed Eggman monitors to make you think about what you are using it on.
Then there is the light speed dash, for the most part this is used to gain speed as the momentum gained from using it is retained as you exit the trail of rings. There are also some shortcuts designed to make use of it.
I would definitely recommend playing the Mega Drive version on this game (v3) over the Mega CD (v4) as this is the more polished version.
Sonic's moveset in this is interested, he has what you would expect, the spin jump and spin dash. But there are also two unexpected additions, those being the homing attack and light speed dash.
First up the homing attack in this game isn't something to be used wildly, if you do you will likely slam into spikes and projectiles, on top of that there are certain Badniks that are difficult to use it against due to their defenses (those being Catakiller, Yardin and Orbinaut) and there are also inonveniently placed Eggman monitors to make you think about what you are using it on.
Then there is the light speed dash, for the most part this is used to gain speed as the momentum gained from using it is retained as you exit the trail of rings. There are also some shortcuts designed to make use of it.
I would definitely recommend playing the Mega Drive version on this game (v3) over the Mega CD (v4) as this is the more polished version.
this game has shadow the hedgehog.