This is a mod for Shadow the Hedgehog, often considered one of the worst entries in the Sonic franchise, that attempts to turn it into a much better game. If you ever want to play Shadow the Hedgehog for yourself I highly recommend getting this mod for it. Reloaded features various quality of life changes that make for an overall better experience. This includes adjusting the game's physics to make it far more bearable to play, needing to beat the game only three times instead of 10, completely abolishing the secret door system and instead incorporating their contents as hidden paths within the levels, increasing the health of the Presidents blimp in Air Fleet, various music tracks being subbed in over others including apparent cut track Broken being re-implemented, and a whole lot more.
I ended up playing this mod since I still wanted to play Last Story for myself despite getting bored of the original game after four endings. At first I simply tried plugging in an "Unlock Last Story" cheat, but this didn't work. The Last Way was beatable but reaching the end would trigger a "LAST STORY Unlocked!" popup that would not go away no matter how much you mashed the button and heard the stock gunshot sound, preventing me from fighting the final boss. I couldn't figure out why it was triggering; there was a bug report on it but the fix didn't seem to work, I found out the popup would also trigger in other areas such as beating Westopolis and exiting the options menu, watching the final boss on YouTube wasn't going to be enough for me, and I sure wasn't going back to kill 50 enemies on Black Comet having a bad experience trying it on The Doom behind me and dozens of overdue games rotting in the backlog. I eventually stumbled upon this mod while looking for solutions, kinda wished I found out about it sooner but then noticed it slashed the amount of endings needed for Last Story from 10 all the way down to 3. I mentioned this game would’ve probably been more bearable if it only had 5 endings, but three was nothing, so I decided I could do a few more runs using this mod to get the true ending. It actually only took one ending for Last Story to unlock, since my save data transferred over and I didn’t even notice.
The game with this mod is probably still a 3.5 for me, but I'll bump it up to 4 stars because the mod makes tons of positive changes to improve the game and I want my score on its page to reflect that.
I ended up playing this mod since I still wanted to play Last Story for myself despite getting bored of the original game after four endings. At first I simply tried plugging in an "Unlock Last Story" cheat, but this didn't work. The Last Way was beatable but reaching the end would trigger a "LAST STORY Unlocked!" popup that would not go away no matter how much you mashed the button and heard the stock gunshot sound, preventing me from fighting the final boss. I couldn't figure out why it was triggering; there was a bug report on it but the fix didn't seem to work, I found out the popup would also trigger in other areas such as beating Westopolis and exiting the options menu, watching the final boss on YouTube wasn't going to be enough for me, and I sure wasn't going back to kill 50 enemies on Black Comet having a bad experience trying it on The Doom behind me and dozens of overdue games rotting in the backlog. I eventually stumbled upon this mod while looking for solutions, kinda wished I found out about it sooner but then noticed it slashed the amount of endings needed for Last Story from 10 all the way down to 3. I mentioned this game would’ve probably been more bearable if it only had 5 endings, but three was nothing, so I decided I could do a few more runs using this mod to get the true ending. It actually only took one ending for Last Story to unlock, since my save data transferred over and I didn’t even notice.
The game with this mod is probably still a 3.5 for me, but I'll bump it up to 4 stars because the mod makes tons of positive changes to improve the game and I want my score on its page to reflect that.