We all know the story, so many passion projects are taken down by companies and most commonly not even for reasons that make much sense.
Most recently I saw, portal 64 taken down by valve, you have to own portal, made for a dead old console.
Thats just one of many examples, which leads me to the actual question, why be under the very common threat of an uncaring ruthless company like this instead of creating something new? Or a company that doesn’t openly kick people in their butt? ( Nintendo being so prone that valve didnt even wanna bother)
I think Sonic 1 can feel like that without the spindash, and the level design isn’t great for like half the stages.
It’s all about being able to keep the momentum going, and they get better at designing levels around it with every game. If you’ve only played Sonic 1 but want to try again, skip it and hop into Sonic 2 and 3/Knuckles.
Sonic does play differently to Mario, but if you can give it the time to get that momentum going, you might enjoy it!
ill consider it in the future, thank you