Splice The Hedgehog: RPG Fangame.

You should probably have a little more variety with the mini bosses. Fire Breaths are getting kind of dull. You fight four or five of them at the beginning of the game.

Yes I know. I was already browsing through the badniks and mini-bosses to find replacements for them. I just haven't had any results just yet.

Smash The Echidna wrote:

Yes I know. I was already browsing through the badniks and mini-bosses to find replacements for them. I just haven't had any results just yet.

You see, the main reason why I hadn't had any results were because most of the mini-bosses would seem somewhat out of place in this part of the story. I'd planned to use them elsewhere, if at all. Basically, Eggman's plan here is to burn the city to the ground and build on it's ruins. So logically, most of the mini-bosses here would be attributed to fire.
The problem is there's so few mini-bosses that I could make into that, and I have almost too many badniks to work with here.

But I've found a solution. I've decided to go and take some of Eggman's actual boss machines that he uses, and replaced him with Egg Robo. There are several Egg Robos out there, so having multiple isn't a problem. With a little bit of editing, I've managed to make some more mini-bosses to fit in there. This'll also help me out a lot later. I'll be posting pictures of the latest changes on the battles throughout the attack on Green Flower City, once I've finished testing them.

Alright, I've got a bit of a big update today. First, lemme go over the stuff on the current subject. The mini-bosses have been updated.

Now, I didn't change the first two, the ones where you have to help Violet and Smash respectively. But the next one after that when you team up with Violet and Speedy, That got a makeover.



Despite how tough that big thing looks, the difficulty remains relatively the same. It's still challenging, as it comes before a savepoint and you'd need to have some items handy before coming over here. Speedy starts off in a critical state, so you have to rush in and heal him. Splice and Speedy are much more prone to getting hurt now that the Fire Breaths have been replaced by things that can actually hurt them without resorting to missiles. (I'd noticed how almost every machine I had fired missiles. >=/ ) So you have to watch Splice a lot more often this time around. The thing also starts using stronger attacks when it's weak.

Tab's battle stayed the same, as it had a Poison breath instead.



Crystal's battle got a change too. That drilling robot hits hard and can attack everyone with an earthquake. But it's defense is pretty low; Even Crystal can do some damage to it. So keep attacking it!




Splice's battle also got updated. There are two of those driller guys, now. I haven't actually tested how hard this is yet, so it might change.



Frost's battle got a complete makeover. The dialog changed a bit as well, as Splice is even more shocked now than before.

Bowling spin got a slight update, but it's not really worth mentioning here.


And that's about it for that part. In other news, I've started working on extending the World Map a bit, seeing how there are a bunch more places I want to go now. At the moment, this is what it looks like.

Spoiler:

I don't wanna go too far into the details, since there are a lot of rearrangements in order. The two cities on the top part of the road are Emerald Town (left) and Central City (right). I moved them farther to the left because Emerald Town had a beach. But remembering Central City in SAB2's map, it was also right next to the ocean, with a bridge/highway crossing it from the city's right. So, I'm gonna have to move the two places to a different spot.

I also had trouble deciding where to put the Mystic Ruins. That's the area to the right of the two cities I mentioned. That'll have to move when I relocate the cities. Perhaps they can switch places?

All the way to the top is a desert. You can barely see it, but there's a town somewhere in the middle of it. That's Kartilla, and you'll have to go there sometime. I finally know where to use the "Golden Sands Zone" area that Daz made a remix for. Except that remix was really old and he made a better song for it.


And that's about it for now. There's a lot more to be done, but I'm getting there!

This time, we've got a music update. I've uploaded four songs for you guys to listen to.



Video Description

"NOTE: I haven't started on the actual area yet, so all you can see is the place located on the World Map. Sorry 'bout that.

Anyway, This song is, as you can probably already tell, a remix of Castle Eggman Zone. In fact, Ruined Stronghold IS Castle Eggman. But this takes place quite a number of years after SRB2's timeline, so it's in ruins now. (Seriously, SRB2 started somewhere in 199X. This takes place roughly 2008-2009, or so. It might not actually be that long storywise, but think about it. It makes sense that it'd be ruined and abandoned now.)

Why you have to go to an abandoned ruined castle, is not something I can just tell you right off the bat. There's spoilers there, and It's a long story.


SuperSonicRemix/DJ Daz The Hedgehog did this song, and I mixed it with the original. The results were satisfying. We also did Act 2, but I'll show that later, when I actually start the zone."




Video Description

"This is the first Original song created for this game. A Road Through The Earth was composed by KRDSonic, and had it's midi remixed by DJ Daz; also known as Supersonicremix. The song is used in small cave passageways, as the name implies. There are usually no enemies inside the cave, so when you hear this theme you'll know that the coast is clear.

I do like how this theme came out. It sounds peaceful, yet very mysterious. Like there are many secrets hidden away within the cave walls, just waiting to be discovered. It's an archeologist's dream!

Take a look at the two's channels here. All credit goes to them for making this song!

KRDsonic: https://www.youtube.com/user/KRDsonic
SuperSonicRemix: https://www.youtube.com/user/SuperSonicRemix"




Video Description

"Remember that old remix of Daz' battle theme? Well, it got updated a long time ago. I never got around to uploading it until now. Basically, I mixed this version with the newer remix and the Tales of the World version of the song. So yeah, this is how it sounds now. Much better I think. Remix done by the same as always.

Here's the link to the older one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_5mcF4xyko"




Video Description

"Surprised? For the first time ever, I've made a music video with actual gameplay. This was by far the hardest SpTH Soundtrack video I've ever made, for obvious reasons. Daz gave me such a hard time, A nerf is most likely in order. It took me until recently to realize why Splice took such heavy damage from Lightning Claw. I'd forgotten that Splice is weak against Lightning. And I already set it up for the two to duel on the last battle, and Daz is serious about winning this time now. Oh crap.

So yeah, This is the final battle against Daz until he decides to join your party. This is probably my favorite battle remix Daz has ever made. I told him to do whatever he wanted with the song, since it was technically HIS battle theme. So we can all see that he wanted to end the little feud with the power of rock. What a way to go."

Not too much to say at the moment. I've been working on adding Splice's new quillstyle to his sprites. I don't quite have enough material to show yet, but I'm mainly posting as a heads up that I will probably not have any updates for a little while. At the moment I'm trying to help Daz with a project of his own.

Quillstyle..?

That's a rather amusing word.

Indeed it is.


In other news, I'm starting to get back to working on this game, a little bit at a time. Still don't have enough to show, but I may upload some more music videos soon.

Good to know, old chap.

I should probably make a topic for Roy here sometime..

Yeah. Provide plenty of screenshots when you do, since many of your maps are quite nice.