RushChars - Blaze and Marine 1.3

Calling it: the next "Adventure Sonic", "Mario", "Modern Sonic", etc. Blaze and Marine are the new "it" characters for SRB2. I'll be playing as these two for a long time!

I had two worries when seeing this;
1: Boost on Blaze
2: Marine's very existence

And I'm glad to say, those two have been entirely squashed!

My one worry with Blaze was needing some garbage like Custom 1 to boost or otherwise her being very combersome to play, but the result provided here honestly just feels like a much better Metal Sonic. You get to choose *when* you want to go fast instead of needing to slow down because of how uncontrollable the boost mode gets. Double Jump helps a lot with mobility but her hover not only loses height, but is limited which prevents her from completely trivializing the game the same way Metal Sonic does.
Her visuals are insane and very much like that of her source material and Blaze overall holds a very soft spot for me seeing as Sonic Rush was the first Sonic game I played.
One bug to note that you probably have noticed already is that her jump/spin doesn't like reverse gravity too much, but this is minor and doesn't impact anything I'm saying.

As for Marine... well, the character itself I can't say I was ever a fan of, she always felt like some unecessary part of Sonic Rush Adventure, and yet here I'm sold on her kit alone.
Much like Racoon Mario to Cape Mario, Marine feels like a more balanced version of Tails that needs to earn her flight which makes it very satisfying. She also gets around the common problems of no-spin characters with her Bubble Dash which is very simple to execute and allows her to both damage enemies without needing timing but especially allows her to clear slopes without it feeling like utter garbage like poor Amy and Fang over there. It pairs very nicely with her flight too which allows it to gain some momentum and abilities that synergize with one another is always a plus.
Fine, I guess... I like the weird fusion of Sniper TF2 and Racoon Mario a bit more now....

Overall, this nails visuals and gameplay in one swift hammer hit, no questions asked, I'm probably gonna be using these two a lot in the future.

FINALLY, IF I COMBINE THIS WITH BUDDYEX AND THE SILVER MOD, TEAM DIMENSION CAN RIDE AGAIN! (in all honestly, THANK YOU SO MUCH)

Ever since I heard in mid 2021 that this pack was coming out, I've been excited for it; like many, I really wished I had a release date to look forward to. Well, just recently, that day finally arrived, and I am not disappointed. Blaze especially is really fun to play, and all the sprites look professionally made. I also love how you can change the color of Blaze's fire effects—I'm pretty sure this is something I was hoping would be possible but didn't think it very likely. Thanks for a great mod!

Outstanding sprite work, extremely fluid and satisfying gameplay, and an amazing amount of overall quality and polish all around.

A huge round of applause to everyone that worked on this!

holy fuck this is niceeeeeeeee

also wait why is biaze so fun
i love it

with a fixed up 'boost' this character could become the best character on the mb no joke-

Both characters are full of visual charm and are notably fun to play, ALL Emeralds gotten as the Cat and the Raccoon. Go play them right now, they're fantastic.

Yeah.
Bottom text.

Both Blaze and Marine are very fun to play as! Not perfect, by all means, but the main problem I have is a more personal gripe rather than a problem with the mod itself.

POSITIVES
+ Both Blaze and Marine have abilities that can be used by both beginners and experts. Both characters are really good at speedrunning nonetheless!

NOTICES
/ It's rather easy to softlock yourself out of getting a Sol Emerald. Pressing "Retry" doesn't seem to reset it... I would've preferred replacing the regular Chaos Emeralds with Sol Emeralds, but I am not sure how feasible that is.
/ During a run with Marine, after dying a few times I beat the Egg Coliseum without getting hit, at the game hard crashed trying to give me a Sol Emerald... Keep this in mind when playing as them.
/ The Sol Emeralds only seem to unlock Burning Blaze (And maybe Super Marine?), they are NOT required to get the best ending, only the Chaos Emeralds are!
/ Although I obviously haven't collected all 7 Sol Emeralds, it seems that since you get a specific color per boss, by the time you get all of them you would be fighting the final boss, meaning you wouldn't be able to use them all the same... But I cannot prove this, hence why its in "Notices" not "Negatives

Bottom line, both characters are very fun to play as, I just have a few nitpick with them.

Download mod because Blaze is in it but Marine still is cool tho

this mod is absolutely great. marine is an absolute scrunkly. send review.

Great characters.
Blaze being great is pretty self evident, she has good sprite work, her slow fall from Rush, a mild double jump thing to sort of cover her tricks (and also it's good), and even a well integrated boost mode.

But what's less obvious, at least for someone like me who only downloaded for Blaze, one of the coolest Sonic characters, is that Marine is pretty great too. She's basically Racoon Mario, with all the fun that implies, plus her spritework is up to the same high level as Blaze.

I still haven't gotten the Sol emeralds, but I don't really like super forms that much anyway. (It would be nice if there was an option to disable the special music for the Chaos Emerald secret, though.)

Epic mod 9000/10

Imagine what I said with Adventure Sonic, but here. This goes up in the definitive character mods category of my mind. The fact that both movesets are speed-focused, while still helping with platforming is so good.

I think I main blaze now. The sheer sense of speed through the main game alone motivated me to actually get through dry canyon without dying for the first time. Amazing mod, I solidly recommend that everyone try this one.

Two amazing characters with some neat extras. Both have really nice graphics and full Battle mod support.

Blaze is pretty flexible and her handling during Burst Dash is really nice. She is well balanced despite all her moves and seems to fit right in with the main characters. If I have one complaint it's that her Burst Dash goes under spin ball gaps, unlike Espio's similair spin. Given how flexible and unique she is overall, it's a little odd that she can ball up in that one circumstance instead of sticking to her top spin.

Marine is a ton of fun. She's got the more straightfoward moveset but her flight takes some practice to fully take advantage of. While she's nearly identical to a certain plumber in a certain suit, she doesn't overlap with the other flight styles in the Sonic setting.

SONIC HAS A SOL EMERALD POWER TOO
btw this mod is cool

Me:Wtf is this bl.....Marine:Did you mean Marine am i right?

i played this mod on my other laptop so it was laggy but the gameplay was great i even used it in a randomizer its not the best mod but its at least a good mod

Love it, their controls are great. This'll absolutely end the pain in RVZ for sure. Liked the idea of having to defeat bosses without being hit. Really fun to play with!