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Gah, stop moving my character!
Aug. 31st, 2017 05:50 amSo I've been longing to play the earliest Sonic games, as I sometimes long to do, and I remembered seeing that at least the first one seems to be available as a free legal download. I went looking for it and found the mobile version, which I promptly downloaded onto my tablet and started playing. I loved playing the first stage and finally getting to play the iconic first battle between Sonic and Eggman!
Second stage, second act is proving far more aggravating. There don't seem to be signposts to mark my progress, so every time I die I have to start from the beginning of the act. Worst of all, Sonic often moves on his own, usually causing all kinds of trouble when he does. I've kept my fingers off the controllers and watched and the game is definitely moving him without my permission. 99% of the time, it causes trouble. I tried to find a way to shut it off under Settings, but there doesn't seem to be a way. If I can't make it stop, I may have to give up and uninstall the game. I don't appreciate it not letting me make my own decisions about when and how to move Sonic at critical points.
Aside from that extreme aggravation, it's an interesting game. But I definitely like Sonic 3 and Knuckles the best, and not just because of Knuckles being introduced. Those games seemed a lot more detailed in the levels than these. And maybe I feel a little lonely when Sonic is by himself without Tails. But I want to keep playing and see all the levels.
Finally got that Turtles fic done and moved on to the next one. It's coming out far easier, so I wonder if my problem with the previous one was what I wondered to begin with and I shouldn't have combined the two plot points I did with it. To me they didn't mesh so well and I think that's at least partially why I was having such extreme trouble with the content of the subplot. Originally the subplot was supposed to be the main plot and what became the main plot hadn't even been conceived of yet. I think the finished product looks good, thankfully, but the subplot definitely doesn't have as much content as originally planned because I just couldn't make it fit. The current fic seems to work better with that subplot, so at least I am getting to do more with that in an environment that works for it.
Second stage, second act is proving far more aggravating. There don't seem to be signposts to mark my progress, so every time I die I have to start from the beginning of the act. Worst of all, Sonic often moves on his own, usually causing all kinds of trouble when he does. I've kept my fingers off the controllers and watched and the game is definitely moving him without my permission. 99% of the time, it causes trouble. I tried to find a way to shut it off under Settings, but there doesn't seem to be a way. If I can't make it stop, I may have to give up and uninstall the game. I don't appreciate it not letting me make my own decisions about when and how to move Sonic at critical points.
Aside from that extreme aggravation, it's an interesting game. But I definitely like Sonic 3 and Knuckles the best, and not just because of Knuckles being introduced. Those games seemed a lot more detailed in the levels than these. And maybe I feel a little lonely when Sonic is by himself without Tails. But I want to keep playing and see all the levels.
Finally got that Turtles fic done and moved on to the next one. It's coming out far easier, so I wonder if my problem with the previous one was what I wondered to begin with and I shouldn't have combined the two plot points I did with it. To me they didn't mesh so well and I think that's at least partially why I was having such extreme trouble with the content of the subplot. Originally the subplot was supposed to be the main plot and what became the main plot hadn't even been conceived of yet. I think the finished product looks good, thankfully, but the subplot definitely doesn't have as much content as originally planned because I just couldn't make it fit. The current fic seems to work better with that subplot, so at least I am getting to do more with that in an environment that works for it.
