Aaron Webber joined the folks over at SEGA Addicts for a podcast and a Sonic 4 discussion started amongst conversation about SEGA’s other upcoming titles, like Valkyria Chronicles. He fielded a lot of e-mail questions regarding the game and took on two of them that many people are wanting to hear more about: difficulty and the homing attack.
When asked about difficulty, Webber responded that Sonic 4‘s difficulty will be on par with the three games that came before it. Like in any of those games, your tropical/green zone will be the easiest and ramp up from there. On the bosses, Webber commented, “Some of the boss battles near the end gave me a real challenge and I died quite a few times.” Depending on how easy or hard you thought the original trilogy to be, that could go either way.
When the homing attack was brought into the discussion, Aaron responded to the move’s critics, whom have labeled it an “instant win button.” As one of those critics, after noticing how piss-easy boss battles and gameplay were due to the move, I was happy to hear Webber discuss detractors from spamming it. Webber details that “when you do a homing attack and hit a target, there is a quick momentafterward when you have no control. It’s during that instance when couldget hit.” He provided an example from the first Eggman boss battle in Splash Hill, where using the homing attack to hit Eggman’s ship will leave you momentarily exposed to the wrecking ball.
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