what is diffrence between hard and regular difficulty?

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[NBOX21]

Barely anything. Normal caps out your rings at 100 while you only drop 20 rings when you get hit, and hard mode has no ring cap but you lose all your rings when you get hit.

In short, just play on hard mode, since normal mode also disables scores and ranks and almost nothing changes between difficulty levels.

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Originally posted by NBOX21:

Barely anything. Normal caps out your rings at 100 while you only drop 20 rings when you get hit, and hard mode has no ring cap but you lose all your rings when you get hit.

In short, just play on hard mode, since normal mode also disables scores and ranks and almost nothing changes between difficulty levels.

i was played on hard all time and i wasnt aware of that O_O

[Crystal Sharrd]

There's apparently some cut content left in the game files that suggests Hard Mode was originally going to have slightly different layouts than Normal Mode.

[NBOX21]

Originally posted by sonic65101:

There's apparently some cut content left in the game files that suggests Hard Mode was originally going to have slightly different layouts than Normal Mode.

It actually makes a bit of sense if you consider the Japanese version of the game actually called them "Easy" and "Normal" modes respectively. Still doesn't explain the barely different difficulty of the game, however.

[Dark Redshift]

Originally posted by NBOX21:

Originally posted by sonic65101:

There's apparently some cut content left in the game files that suggests Hard Mode was originally going to have slightly different layouts than Normal Mode.

It actually makes a bit of sense if you consider the Japanese version of the game actually called them "Easy" and "Normal" modes respectively. Still doesn't explain the barely different difficulty of the game, however.

Does that include a time limit on Imperial Tower for the sun? Even on hard mode it feels like End of the World again: awesome level and/or concept, some hiccups in the execution.

In End of the World's case, the black holes were meant to slowly destroy the stage over time with the characters pointing out when that starts happening, but only Shadow's line remains in the game, as his opening line in the stage. TV tropes says that the black holes will kill the player if too many spawn at once, but that's a lie: waiting around causes no more to spawn and some behind you seem to despawn if you get too far away e.g in Tails' section. I tested it on Xenia.

In Imperial Tower, the fake sun looks very close to earth in the cutscenes both before and after, but in the stage itself, it's a lot higher in the sky and doesn't seem to move at all, the closest thing to raised stakes being Eggman's Stardust Speedway laser at the end. Makes for a bit of an anti climax once you realise after beating the game three times that there's not actually a time limit in the stage where one would make sense. The other problem with the stage is that it's 2D only minus the end part, but that's not the main issue.

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Originally posted by Dark Redshift:

Originally posted by NBOX21:

It actually makes a bit of sense if you consider the Japanese version of the game actually called them "Easy" and "Normal" modes respectively. Still doesn't explain the barely different difficulty of the game, however.

Does that include a time limit on Imperial Tower for the sun? Even on hard mode it feels like End of the World again: awesome level and/or concept, some hiccups in the execution.

In End of the World's case, the black holes were meant to slowly destroy the stage over time with the characters pointing out when that starts happening, but only Shadow's line remains in the game, as his opening line in the stage. TV tropes says that the black holes will kill the player if too many spawn at once, but that's a lie: waiting around causes no more to spawn and some behind you seem to despawn if you get too far away e.g in Tails' section. I tested it on Xenia.

In Imperial Tower, the fake sun looks very close to earth in the cutscenes both before and after, but in the stage itself, it's a lot higher in the sky and doesn't seem to move at all, the closest thing to raised stakes being Eggman's Stardust Speedway laser at the end. Makes for a bit of an anti climax once you realise after beating the game three times that there's not actually a time limit in the stage where one would make sense. The other problem with the stage is that it's 2D only minus the end part, but that's not the main issue.

i think it apply on how long you can fight with metal sonic and infinite on briges

[Dark Redshift]

Originally posted by Sunstar:

Originally posted by Dark Redshift:

Does that include a time limit on Imperial Tower for the sun? Even on hard mode it feels like End of the World again: awesome level and/or concept, some hiccups in the execution.

In End of the World's case, the black holes were meant to slowly destroy the stage over time with the characters pointing out when that starts happening, but only Shadow's line remains in the game, as his opening line in the stage. TV tropes says that the black holes will kill the player if too many spawn at once, but that's a lie: waiting around causes no more to spawn and some behind you seem to despawn if you get too far away e.g in Tails' section. I tested it on Xenia.

In Imperial Tower, the fake sun looks very close to earth in the cutscenes both before and after, but in the stage itself, it's a lot higher in the sky and doesn't seem to move at all, the closest thing to raised stakes being Eggman's Stardust Speedway laser at the end. Makes for a bit of an anti climax once you realise after beating the game three times that there's not actually a time limit in the stage where one would make sense. The other problem with the stage is that it's 2D only minus the end part, but that's not the main issue.

i think it apply on how long you can fight with metal sonic and infinite on briges

Maybe, though I've only played in "Hard" mode so I wouldn't be able to tell. Would be cool if the changes between Easy & Normal (to use their actual names as NBOX pointed out) were implemented in an update or something. Likely won't happen but it's worth thinking about.

[NBOX21]

Originally posted by Dark Redshift:

Maybe, though I've only played in "Hard" mode so I wouldn't be able to tell. Would be cool if the changes between Easy & Normal (to use their actual names as NBOX pointed out) were implemented in an update or something. Likely won't happen but it's worth thinking about.

I actually did play on normal mode once while trying to get through a level I was having a hard time on, but even after lowering the difficulty, nothing changed! I didn't even notice any changes to the layouts and was still struggling at the exact same parts of the level, after which I just bumped it back up to hard before getting past it eventually.

Apparently, this is also true for every level in the game from what I've heard, where aside from the ring system and disabling scores and ranks I mentioned before, no changes are made to the levels or overall gameplay, which almost feels kind of pointless if you ask me.

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Originally posted by NBOX21:

Originally posted by Dark Redshift:

Maybe, though I've only played in "Hard" mode so I wouldn't be able to tell. Would be cool if the changes between Easy & Normal (to use their actual names as NBOX pointed out) were implemented in an update or something. Likely won't happen but it's worth thinking about.

I actually did play on normal mode once while trying to get through a level I was having a hard time on, but even after lowering the difficulty, nothing changed! I didn't even notice any changes to the layouts and was still struggling at the exact same parts of the level, after which I just bumped it back up to hard before getting past it eventually.

Apparently, this is also true for every level in the game from what I've heard, where aside from the ring system and disabling scores and ranks I mentioned before, no changes are made to the levels or overall gameplay, which almost feels kind of pointless if you ask me.

let me guess it was 2d sonic stage where screen moving only one where i cant get s rank even with daily bonus

[NBOX21]

Originally posted by Sunstar:

let me guess it was 2d sonic stage where screen moving only one where i cant get s rank even with daily bonus

Sure was.

[Ikagura]

Doesn't matter because the game is still too easy overal.

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Originally posted by Ikagura:

Doesn't matter because the game is still too easy overal.

And someone who doesn't even have a game as usually want to answer on already answered thread

[Ikagura]

Originally posted by Sunstar:

Originally posted by Ikagura:

Doesn't matter because the game is still too easy overal.

And someone who doesn't even have a game as usually want to answer on already answered thread

Then make this thread answered and unsubscribe to it.

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Originally posted by Ikagura:

Originally posted by Sunstar:

And someone who doesn't even have a game as usually want to answer on already answered thread

Then make this thread answered and unsubscribe to it.

if you have nothing smart to say anyway atleast please dont teach me how to live -_-

[Ikagura]

Originally posted by Sunstar:

Originally posted by Ikagura:

Then make this thread answered and unsubscribe to it.

if you have nothing smart to say anyway atleast please dont teach me how to live -_-

And? Just play Mania instead.