Horrible
I give it a one because I like the idea but other than that this game sucks. Its incredibly buggy, speed is too fast, and its so easy.
Reviews for "Sonic on Yoshi's Island"
Debugging
Debugging is the most important part of development. you can make a game about anything, but if it is difficult for reasons out of my control, then it becomes a bad game. Game should be enjoyable, not just have really cool characters or a story line. Some of the glitches in this game involve the weird thing sonic does when he collides with walls. this makes the game unplayable. I want to be challenged by the game and my own skill, not by the skill of the developer to make the game. I'm only being harsh because you released this game twice with no changes made to the glitches. The directors cut is just a re release of the same content. I have no clue what the difference is. If you added more levels then you should have debugged them too. I got stuck under one of the platforms in Giant mode. The instructions should have been included in the game. I understand you made this when you were twelve, it's better than I can do at age 20, but you have to debug your game or this could have been more than halfway decent.
saligraphy responds:
I appreciate feedback like this, I agree with many parts of this review. I am aware of the glitches, I went back and tried to tweak the game a bit, improved the collision detection and slowed down sonic a bit and game him a bit better control. This is only my first game and my first flash on the site so it has many mistakes, thanks to all the feedback I have an idea on how to fix games before uploading them.
I was inexperienced with the program when I was designing the game as a kid, instead of making 1 sonic I made 10, so every level has a different sonic and same with all the objects and attributes/properties that go along with those objects. The game is pretty much f***ed up design wise so I can only do so much. I am trying my best to fix some mistakes but I could spend forever trying to fix the game before it's time to move on with my life lol
I wasn't being lazy by adding the backspace restart, I see it as a sorry button haha
I agree with what you said, when I was young I thought just putting a cool character in a game instantly made it good, it isn't until recently that I have been focusing more on level design then just putting down a bunch of random platforms and tiled backgrounds together with a beginning and an end point. I have learned alot from putting this game up. I hope to polish more of my games before putting them up
As for the original version of the game, there's not much I can do, I see it as a piece of history for me. Something to look back on to remind me what not to do haha.
Thank you for the review and for playing the game both times I put it up
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Okay so I just finished this game, and I have to say that it's very poor. For 1 thing, there is no music and only sound effects. This game is 5 years old and I expected a lot more than this.
saligraphy responds:
The original game used MIDI music, I figured out a way to convert them to sound files but that would have increased the game file and when I uploaded it Newgrounds only allowed 20MB. Thanks for playing the game tho!
this is the worst game i ever played!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!