oil ocean is overhated af

[dżentelmen]

this stage did not deserve the hate it received. the sandopolis gimmick is well implemented, music is banger and level design is really good. plus the fire schield gimmick is exellent idea

[Kairi5431]

The problem isn't the implementation of the sandopolis gimmick, it's that most people dislike the gimmick and they brought it back knowing this. The level isn't bad but the gimmick makes many people dislike going through it, and when it's a gimmick that's been known to be disliked by the community for around 20 years it doesn't really get a grace period at that point.

[dżentelmen]

Kairi5431 I didn't look at that this way. But still imo even in sandopolis this gimmick wasn't that bad.

[Kairi5431]

I dislike the gimmick but I agree it isn't that bad, but people like complaining so here we are with how people view it

[NBOX21]

Playing Sonic Superstars actually made me appreciate this zone's gimmick in Act 2 even more as Press Factory Act 2 featured a similar gimmick where if you don't press the buttons it'll start a countdown to your eventual doom. In that game, it was an instant death no matter how many rings you had, but here, you only start losing rings if you're too slow so the tension is still there without being too frustrating or annoying.

[dżentelmen]

NBOX21 I don't like Superstars a lot but press factory act2 gimmick was not bad. imo it was really nice

[Noodlesocks]

Everything I disliked about Oil Ocean in Sonic 2 was fixed in Mania. The act 2 gimmick never bothered me with how generous they were with switches.

[Unseen]

Oil ocean is a fine level, every level in sonic 2 is a fine level, who are these people who hate it?

Metropolis zone should of been in this, if anything drudge like hydrocity or whatever the hell the annoying water level was called sucks, so does the fortress zone in knuckles, its just a more annoying rip off of sonic 2's last levels.

Sonic 2 is masterful and oil ocean is a fine level. Great music too. Shoulda had more sonic 2 levels.

Originally posted by Kairi5431:

I dislike the gimmick but I agree it isn't that bad, but people like complaining so here we are with how people view it :EdenShrug:

It was never a bad level, no one I played sonic 2 with in the 90s said it was a bad level.

[Kairi5431]

Originally posted by Unseen:

It was never a bad level, no one I played sonic 2 with in the 90s said it was a bad level.

So I just watched footage of both act 1 and 2 of the Genesis version of Sonic 2 and the smog gimmick was nowhere to be seen, as such I'm going to assume you either A) didn't understand what I was saying or B) quoted the wrong person. If A then I'm talking about the sandopolis 2 gimmick (from s3&k, not sonic 2) which was heavily complained about and they shoved it into oil ocean 2 in mania where it was then also complained about. I think only one person in this entire thread ever mentioned disliking things from sonic 2's oil ocean.

[SHADOW]

TRUE