I love this game. I played the Dreamcast version as a kid so many times and recently replaced the PC version.
I learned that you can unlock metal sonic after 100% completing the game, but he is just a cosmetic for sonic and thats it.
My problem with this is that once the game is 100% complete, do I want to still play just to see a different cosmetic?
Maybe if there was some variety to make the levels a bit different or if he was able to be used after getting all the B rank emblems so there is still some challenge to complete.
I did find a mod for a new character that actually changes gameplay https://forums.untamedheart.us/?topic=2638.0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evEW-ZDdD04&ab_channel=Sora
https://gamebanana.com/mods/418545
here’s a list of “Gameplay Overhaul” modes https://gamebanana.com/mods/cats/4229?_sSort=Generic_MostLiked
Thanks, for the list. I never really considered modding, but some of them look pretty cool.
You should look into the Dreamcast conversion mod and the Lantern Engine (lighting engine tweaks) at the very least. Pretty much everything that comes with the “Better SADX” modloader is great.
In short, when they updated the Dreamcaast original to DX, they changed the textures entirely along with most of the player models and broke the lighting engine. Every time the game was ported after that, the textures have gotten more compressed and lower quality, and more bugs have been introduced.
For example, you know the spot in Emerald Coast where Sonic can clip through the wall really easily and drown? Never happens in the Dreamcast original, fixed by the conversion.
So mods that restore stuff tend to bring the quality up considerably and fix bugs. Personally I prefer the DX player models (the Dreamcast ones look barely better than PS1), but you can adjust the DC conversion mod to switch off whatever changes you don’t like.
Oh, and for replayability, the time trial ghosts mod is great. It displays a see through playback of all your movements from your fastest playthrough of the level, like racing games do. So you can race yourself.
Also, with the modloader you get real widescreen. No more inane borders on the side squishing things to 4:3.
Patient gamers do not face a lot of disadvantages, but they do include (artificial) scarcity, waning official support and facing old-ass design choices that might not look very favourable anymore.
My problem with this is that once the game is 100% complete, do I want to still play just to see a different cosmetic?
I don’t really see this as an issue, but as a choice. Back in the day, games lasted a lot longer. Hell yes we wanted to play as Metal Sonic. The next best thing we had was replaying the game as just Sonic.
Super Princess Peach does exactly the same thing.
The best reward for being good at a game should always be more game to play.I found Pikmin 4 problematic in a way too. You get the best toys at the very end so you end up not using them very much
Unrelated to Adventures, but thanks to this post I rediscovered the Sonic Generations Unleashed Project mod (alongside some cool looking add-on mods). I saw a single video on the base mod years ago and completely forgot about it until today, so thank you for this, I guess, and also thank you to the person who posted the link to the mod site.
