WHERE am i even meant to go in this level? the platforming is cancer without a flying character and the hive elementals are always miles across the map from the player. the challenge stages are all horrible except for haunted heights and i’m never playing them again after i get 100%
Today I have been trying to get a good run of this level as Junio Sonic, and it has been horrible.
When played normally, this stage is one of the best in the mod. The music is really good and it feels really cool to run through all the buildings.
However, when speedran, it is an ABHORRENT stage to get through quickly.
The most obvious problem is all the windows you have to fly through quickly. If you end up overshooting the windows, you smash into the wall and lose all your speed unless your character retains their momentum, like OVA Sonic for example. Undershoot the window and you either die or have to waste time climbing back up.
Another problem is the annoying ass green and blue building. It has a fuck ton of walls to crash
into and very limited ways of gaining speed, meaning you have to fluke a quick escape from the room or have godly reaction time.
My next problem is with the stupid golf club machine things. Some of them are necessary for a clean run with some characters like the ones in the green and blue room, but there are a lot of them that just send you flying in a direction you don’t want to go in or directly into a wall.
One wall in this stage punishes you even worse for using these gimmicky pieces of crap with a row of springs that you have to weave perfectly in between to fall into the window.
Speedrunning any level in Sol Sestancia 1 or 2 is not for the faint hearted, I swear to god.