Yeah and he had that thing instead of the spindash, and he didn't have any battle attacks.
What I meant to say was that he played similar to sonic.
It's true that Metal Sonic has had all the capabilities and potential to match Sonic's to a tee, but I always figured that he has even more hidden "potential" to more than just rival Sonic, but be, in some way, "greater," and thus have some form of difference between the two of them. I like the jump boost mechanic for this WAD because Metal doesn't absolutely need a thok in order to reach the speeds that vanilla Sonic has, and in turn, could reach places that Sonic barely can't get to on his own.
i like this wad but you know (Spikes are no match for Metal Sonic!)
This is SRB2, and here, Metal doesn't use a Thok. I'm pretty sure that no-one likes clones, and that we aren't trying to mirror the games. However, if you do want something to resemble the games, try Metal Anyone [whom I think Sonic Heroes and Battle inspired].
I'm saying I like it because the gameplay is different from Sonic for once. Some games in the series had Metal play literally the same as Sonic, while a few, if I recall correctly, had Metal play differently in some aspects, which I prefer, since both of them aren't strictly "the same." That same ideology went here - different gameplay styles between SRB2 Sonic and this Metal Sonic WAD.
If WADs literally just played like the vanilla characters, we shouldn't even call them custom characters, but skins or costumes. Thus, we make them different to be unique. For example, I found a Metal Knuckles WAD awhile back, but he played just like Knuckles, so I deleted it.
When I play as Metal Sonic in Aerial Garden Zone, the fps drops to 8 or 9!
Quick update released! Fixes a small bug that popped up in 2.1.17.