Titanic Monarch Glowballs...

[Popponic]

TO THE PEOPLE WHO THINK I AM HATING THIS STAGE:
I am actually making this to show my distaste in how people are calling TM garbage over this gimmick. I find TM's gimmicks easy to use

I can understand the fustration, due to it being a FINAL level. However I'm going to address the point I have seen across multiple posts; if you have another problem with TM, I'll happily reply with my thoughts. (Some things about TM annoy me aswell, but not so much that I hate it.)

S&K Glowballs

Ok, I never had a problem with these; playing S&K for the first time as a kid, I easily mastered the Glowball; making those bonus stages my personal favorite. So TM putting them in, made me smile, since they brought a rare gimmick only found in a bonus stage into a MAIN stage. Admittedly, that hallway where you have to have PRECISE aiming otherwise you will be hit back into the glowball by the spikes; that one was pretty poor design, thankfully you can skip it. Otherwise, I found the glowballs quite fun, TM Act 2 was only annoying due to me being incompetent and trying to spam A (both XBO and PC) and forgetting the physics.

Titanic Monarch is a great final level, it greatly challenges Death Egg from S&K. I feel Death Egg has more consistent difficulty and level design through both acts. However, Titanic Monarch has more unique use of past gimicks, and isn't the DEATH EGG.

As I said, I am not saying people are wrong; just sharing why I feel that the glowballs don't damage the level as much as people say they do.

[Zeikar]

It's a wonderful stage, kids who never played S3&K like to cry is all!

[Popponic]

Originally posted by Zeikar:

It's a wonderful stage, kids who never played S3&K like to cry is all!

I agree it's a wonderful stage. I wouldn't say that they cry about it; just it seems people who hate Titanic Monarch SOMETIMES say "I never played S3&K/S&K". It's understandable, since they are obviously not used to Glowballs at all.

[Zeikar]

They are also based on a neat science toy back in the 80s and 90s. At least the Mania versions are.

[NeutroDevice]

I remember that the S&K Glowballs minigame was broken af, i could get 80 to 150 rings and like 3 lives minimun.

[Zeikar]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_globe

[Megabyte]

I'm not sure what's your point. You can influence the direction of the sphere by pressing your D-pad. Then, wait a little until Sonic turns to that direction. That should fix your problems. :)

[Zeikar]

Originally posted by Megabyte:

I'm not sure what's your point. You can influence the direction of the sphere by pressing your D-pad. Then, wait a little until Sonic turns to that direction. That should fix your problems. :)

Did you mention that in the orignal thread on this issue?
http://steamcommunity.com/app/584400/discussions/0/1474221865202456191/

[Popponic]

Originally posted by Megabyte:

I'm not sure what's your point. You can influence the direction of the sphere by pressing your D-pad. Then, wait a little until Sonic turns to that direction. That should fix your problems. :)

I just said, I don't have a problem with it. Still a good solution others seem to ignore.

[(Edgy) Asriel Dreemurr]

Seems that the gimmicks in Titanic Monarch are based on inventions by Nikola Tesla. You can find both plasma globes and tesla coils throughout the stage.

[Zeikar]

Originally posted by (Edgy) Asriel Dreemurr:

Seems that the gimmicks in Titanic Monarch are based on inventions by Nikola Tesla. You can find both plasma globes and tesla coils throughout the stage.

They blinded us with science

[Megabyte]

Originally posted by Zeikar:

Originally posted by Megabyte:

I'm not sure what's your point. You can influence the direction of the sphere by pressing your D-pad. Then, wait a little until Sonic turns to that direction. That should fix your problems. :)

Did you mention that in the orignal thread on this issue?
http://steamcommunity.com/app/584400/discussions/0/1474221865202456191/

No, not really. I mentioned this based on my experience with Sonic 2 for Master System and Sonic 3 & Knuckles' special stages.

[Naoya]

Even if someone is unfamiliar with the gravity balls, there's plenty of safe environments in the stage to experiment with them. I don't see the problem.

[Cheeky little sausage]

I just did this stage for the first time ever. (Never played S3&Knuckles) The first stage really screwed me up and ended up taking almost nearly 20 mins to do. By the time I got to the second stage I pretty much had the spheres down at that point. Then the boss?? wtf? Was probably the easiest boss in the game.