How do I have no clue about player input? All of the footage shows the same air control physics, but I deliberately chose the example that I did because we can see the player's hands. There can be no doubt as to what buttons the player is pressing because we can see them very clearly. We know he held left because we can very clearly see he's holding left. We know he did not release Y because yoshi extends his tongue every time you press Y and he runs after the jump without Yoshi extending his tongue.
That's not clear. Clear would be using no uncertain terms.
)Here's what we need for DLC (or to be announced in the coming months for launch):
1. Slopes
2. Different Yoshi colors (shit, maybe even add like, Purple, White, Black, Orange, Brown, Pink, and Light Blue as well, each with its own power?
3. As many bosses as conceivable from the games (so we'd have Bowser, Bowser Jr., Boom Boom, Sumo Brother, Petey Piranha, the Koopalings, etc.)
4. More enemy variety (examples suggested include Banzai Bill and Fishin' Boo)
5. Turnips
6. World maps (based on SMW2, SMB3, SMW, and the various New SMB games - maybe even one based on SM3DW?)
7. Music maker
8. All the power-ups
9. Auto-scrolling levels (are there any?)
10. More themes
11. Playable Mario, Luigi, Peach, Rosalina, Wario, Toad, Blue Toad, Yellow Toad, Nabbit, and Toadette
12. Sprites from SMW2 and SPM
13. Enemies from SMB2
14. Vertical levels
It was way more obvious once footage and play demos came out for Sonic 4 it just hastily reused Sonic Rush's engine with the trick/boost system removed though. Rush is great but in a 'classic' Sonic setting those weird sticky-floor, momentum-less physics are abysmal and the overpowered homing attack was probably only in to try and mask that flaw. Episode 2 is better in that respect, but too little too late.
Here are both SMB and SMW jumps in Mario maker lined up for when they started the jump:
They are identical. He jumped slightly later in the SMW style and held left so he wouldn't die on the second red koopa as result, slightly altering the course of the jump after the first koopa.
Of course the grid isn't lined up. The player jumped at different points on the grid. Lining things up based on the grid would be meaningless. If you want to compare the jumps you line them up based on where the jump started. They match up identically. The person I was replying to thought the jumps looked different but they are not.
To put it in visual terms:
Yep. The Classic physics were truly something special, and Sonic 4 pretended to be a part of that lineage. It wasn't, and shit all over the accomplishment of Sonic 1-3
You can't offer players a level which can't technically be beaten. It would completely break the game, it'd be a gigantic design flaw and ruin the experience. No way Nintendo would ever allow that, and the huge majority of editors neither.
I also think people underestimate the implication of slopes. This game has a LOT going on. I'd love to have them in, though.
A lot has changed since, though.
Finished levels are locked when playing.
You're remembering it wrong. That jump is doable in SMB.
This is a screenshot from E32014. Mario jumped right but was able to change direction midair and almost return to the jump spot.
To put it in visual terms:
Imagine the ice block is the rock and Mario is the tractor. You may have felt like Mario was being as agile as he was in SMW at the time you were playing but then when you measure what happened you find that you didn't pass the ice block.
I busted out SMB before making the post. You have a very small amount of air control and can make a similar jump from a standing position but you lose most control going into a run like that.