[SUGOI 2] Sonic Uncovers Banning And Realizes Anime Spoilers Hurt Intricate Ideas

The main thing that I noticed is that your rooms are very small, a good example being near the beginning with the enemies ambushing from behind the crates. Not a bad idea, but not really compelling since the crates are too small for them to actually hide behind; additionally, there's not much room to maneuver, so combat inside the room is clumsy and stiff. I would personally redo this room by sizing it up and turning it into a maze that uses spaced-out walls and columns which conceal enemies but still allow the player to run around freely. I would also scale up the electric floor room for similar reasons, mainly so that the platforming is more comfortable with the way that Sonic carries momentum.

Elevator fights are some of my favorite segments in beatemups and platformers, so it's nice to see one in SRB2. However, the 3D nature of the game means that a lot of enemies hit you from the back without you expecting it. Some sort of visual or audio cue might help here. As far as difficulty goes, I would cut down the spawns in half so that the enemies don't pile up and overwhelm the player (this is kind of necessary since you use two hit enemies AND invincible chasers back to back before introducing even more enemies to the arena.) Lastly, this is something I probably disagree with Ice on, but I think this section might feel a little more graceful if you amped up the gravity to counteract the falling speed of the characters.

With all that out of the way, I would say that the core structure is there but the visuals are a bit lacking. The skybox is pretty cool, but the architecture itself is pretty bare. It feels like you're creating a room with all of the necessary sectors to create gameplay and suggest a visual theme, but you don't go that extra mile to create structures and points of interest to help suggest that it's more than just an empty corridor in a videogame. The long and short of it is that you should decorate your rooms (especially the walls) using sector geometry and custom scenery sprites in order to make the most out of your visuals. This sort of polish is something you probably won't get exactly right the first time, but it's worth the effort and it'll help immerse the player if done well.

As for the difficulty scaling, the creator of any game or level will kind of have a bias since they know how to beat what they've designed before their player does. You'll want to ease the player into the challenges starting off and then go full force as the level continues -- in this case it would mean reducing enemy counts and loosening up some of the platforming in the earlier segments, so that as the level continues the player understands the challenges and is fully engaged as challenges are reintroduced or revved up a couple notches.

The wad is a parody of the game Suguri.