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the only reason i like this is, because this game finally have a DLC i like, and is not a trash cosmetic reskin.
positives the music is awesome for the stage, and this is the closest we will get to a westopolis stage, the only issue i have with the music is due to how this game time stop works, where time stop will be constantly spammed, where people will only hear a few seconds of the music track.
best animation loading screen, in the game, when i first saw it i thought that was the best part of the stage.
cool alternative pathways. where this is the only good thing i will say about time stop, is time stop really rewards you depending on the timing on, when you use it, to get towards the alternative pathways.
and bypassing the automatic sections, as much as possible, is the most fun thing to do in the stage.
there is 1 automatic section, in the game that give you a ton of height, where you can chaos spear skip the springs until you reach the last spring, where it activates the cut scene trigger where shadow uses rockets to destroy the helicopter. and the helicopter can be in the way, doing this trick which i found cool.
and no wings, so that's a huge W, because wings ruin the game for me.
we got 2 good shadow voices in the game which is very cool.
and this is the only good thing normal challenges offer. the challenges are the reason, why everywhere on shadow generation stages, have some area to stand on, or have collision, best example of this is kingdom valley, you can get on top of the roofs of the tower on that stage, thanks to the challenges existence, if challenges did not exist in shadow generations, then kingdom valley would of not been that good of a stage, and not have collision everywhere.
and i'm gonna go on negatives about this DLC.
rails seriously need a balancing system. because sonic adventure 2 have a balancing system, that can be improved on, why did we ditch it. anything would be better than just holding boost, and quick step. which is nearly just holding 1 button to win.
quick step sections are super boring, because the ending of the stage is just a rail quick step section, and they are way to overdone, can we have challenge please with rail quick step sections. add a balancing system, or do what crash Bandicoot 4 its about time did with rails, by pressing more buttons than just holding the boost button, and going left or right. also the final part of the stage your speed is scripted, because i noticed i gone slower.
no hard difficulty challenges, which sucks because the best challenges in the game were when you turn the bosses to the hard difficulty versions, and make hard challenges exist in hard mode, because the problem with every normal challenge in the game is there not challenges they are flat out filer or waste the player time since there is no challenge pressing a few buttons since the 2 challenges this stage offers is just spam using the homing attack on balloons and a remixed part of the stage where you need to collect a ton of rings. and doing S ranks on them are way to easy and require no skill at all.
i understand the animations look cool, and the Nintendo switch is very weak hardware. but can you please let the more overpowered console systems, or PC, skip these loading screen cut scenes, when they beat the stage once. because its awesome at first, but you will start to get sick and tired of it, playing the stage over and over again. because when i play a sonic generations level, such as city escape i don't have a cut scene taking away control from the player. half way through the level, or 25% of the level, but with shadow generations, around 25% of the time, it takes control away from the player, or force you to do a automatic section. example of this is space colony ark act 2 they only play the wing cut scene once and never play that cut scene ever again. which is why i prefer space colony act 2, than act 1
and no act 2, which is a 2D stage of it, because 2 of the 2D stages in shadow generations, i thought were very good and don't have cut scene loading screens in the way, which i thought would of been a better idea to give this DLC 2 acts instead of wasting development resources, on trash challenges that give no challenge at all.
would give this DLC a 7/10 you get 1 good stage, 2 trash challenges. a cool remix music, very cool animations. 2 shadow voice actors that are good, and the price is 100% worth it for PC, due to mods existing where mods can flat out change the entire level stage for you. since majority of the issues i have in this DLC, can be easily improved with mods if it effects me to much.