Good concept, bad presentation
I really liked the concept of a flash version of one of my favorite games, but it was a little buggy, and hard to control the characters. I strongly urge you to try this again, but try to work out the bugs a bit. Dont give up, it was an excellent try.
I want Sonic in Brawl!
Now that that's out of the way:
This game was good at first, but it's hard not to notice some of its glaring problems. Also, all the characters move WAY too fast.
-Physics: This kills me a lot. When you're in the air, you can't try to move in the opposite direction; you just won't stop.
-Damage %: Almost every attack can do 150+% damage. WTF? Also, your "smash attacks" do no good when the opponent's % is high, but a nice up attack will send them flying. Always.
-Difficulty: My main problem is the difficulty on the supposed Fighting Wire Frames. 1: Use them intstead of random characters. 2: They take too much damage to kill these things, so a 100-Man Melee is almost impossible.
-Characters: Mr. Incredible? Come on.
-Lags and Glitches: On the Angel Island and Race to the Finish, there is way too much lag in those levels to get by smoothly. This is a cause for falling through solid platforms and such.
Okay, I'm done.
Crap as a fighter, crap as a port.
I might as well start with the positives. The sound is good, SSBM theme and all.
The good stuff stops there.
As a port it fails because you have Sonic overload. I've never been much of a Sonic fan, but even for those who are, they don't need Sonic, Tails, Knuckles AND Super Sonic. SSB and SSB:M never gave any game 4 characters. And the Sonic clones are just stupidity incarnate. Sonic clones are moronic, and definitely shouldn't be in this game.
Now, for SSF as a fighting game. There are so many things wrong with this game in terms of balance I don't know where to begin...
Well, first off, what the hell were you thinking making some characters have JUMPS which are actually ATTACKS?! It's fucking stupid. Blade/Samus/Sonic/Knuckles/Sup er Sonic especially/Mario/etc can just jump and spam left-right-left-right, doing ridiculous damage to everything. You are NOT supposed to be able to beat the two Master Hands without taking any damage, damnit! Even the fastest attacks have recovery times, but your jumping attacks hit at every point during the jump! As if Super Sonic weren't overpowered enough.
Onwards with the balance issues. Some characters are more powerful than others. That's to be expected in any fighter, but not to this degree. Super Sonic owns all while Mr. Incredible is pathetically weak. Pikachu can never be blasted offstage to the left or right because his smash attack cancels out his previous momentum instantly; the same goes for Kirby, to a lesser extent. Knuckles' downward smash attack....no. Just, no. Stupidly broken.
All in all, as a fighter this is about as unbalanced as XvSF, except Cyclops is replaced by Knuckles, Juggernaut becomes Super Sonic and Gambit is Pikachu. Hell, you even made some people have ridiculously easy target tests while other melee-only characters have to chase down targets which are zipping about the room too fast to track. Quite annoying.
So, yeah. Get rid of all the stupid Sonic shit to make it a better port. Then...I dunno, revamp the entire fricking engine to make it a half-decent fighter. But if all you want is for it to be a nostalgia-trigger, harkening back to the good ol' days of SSB, then at least get rid of the Sonic overload!
It's okay......
This game is too lagy for comfort.
I suggest you listen to even the harsher reviews so you can get better at making games in the future.
-lag. I kept sliding off the platforms and dying.
-the teammate in one of the levels suicides after Mario jumps off the cliff.
-is it just my computer, or is all of the characters in the multi-man melee are gray and blank?
-the enemies kill you in one hit.
-there should be checkpoints. it's annoying how i got so high up in floating island and then fall down and have to start over.
-shadow's voice is absolutely QUEER. some other voices too.
-gravity. lol
I guess it's the lag that bothered people the most, rest of them are easy errors... although it's still a pretty okay game that still deserves to be played. Nice first game!
Obviously by today's standards it's pretty subpar (and even by the standards of the time that it was made in), but man, did this keep 11 or so year old Abby busy back in the day !!
It has its charm though, its so broken and nonsensical that it becomes hilarious.
It's amazing how far McLeodGaming has come!