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Downloading it now to give it a clean playthrough! edit: download broke'd

I'm getting a James Pond 3 and Sonic element shields vibe from it. Good work!

The new Green Hill tiles remind me of 90s/early 2000s 3D renders for levels. That's not a good thing.

I dunno, I think you're in the minority Shinbaloonba. The excessive amount of skin seems odd to me. The cast seems better as all non-human.

And to add, that means all the other characters would have to be humanized, and for some of his characters (particularly that snake guy), the results would be very odd.

and Sonic is just a Mickey Mouse/Felix :V

Interesting, looks kind of hard to reach the ring.

..Toon shading is just another name for Cel shading. There's no technical difference.

Beware of what can kill you, at SAGE 2012.

He does look significantly different than Lilac when you put him into the FP style! Would make an interesting Easter Egg.

Thanks for the help!

I've heard somewhere there's a tutorial or a lib (or something) that has a Launch Base Act 2 style parallax (both above and below water). I searched around though and can't seem to find it. Does anyone still have it?

..I think this thread has run its course.

Is that a good thing? o_O

I concur! Only downside is the high quality and art style of the foreground clashes with the sky and clouds.

Only thing I would do is clean up the pixels on the sky and the background buildings, some parts look like they were resized in MS paint.

The ground actually reminds me of James Pond, dunno why.

And with that, happy birthday!

Now that's pretty snazzy, could it work mid-game for a level?

He can't hear us over the women. Happy birthday man!

Chocolate coconuts and gummi trees. :V

Well you are improving on the "multi-layer" aspect of level tiles. Maybe change the ice levels tiles since your speed level already is using glass blocks?

Yeah I would tone down on the shines a bit, looks like a clutter.

Liking the progress, the badnik reminds me of the rock badnik from LRZ in a way. Does the pole Sonic is hanging on swing left and right? Looks like it does. Hez, your levels are definitely showing your skills evolving and improving from Classic 1!

I like the original as well, it looks the least scrunched.