[Open Assets] SRB2: Chaotic Edition 5.0

This is a chaos mod, enabled by the "Chaotic Engine". You may have seen the likes of it from Super Mario 64: Chaos Edition, or GTA V Chaos, this mod aims to do similar things. Every 3-10 seconds, you're given a "Chaos Roulette", which will roll a new random effect to apply to you. They can range from wind pushing you around, to your player sprite turning into a giant tree, or you being able to get double the amount of rings as usual; that is to say, it's a toss-up if the effect helps you, or impedes you, or perhaps neither at all!

There is also a second component to this: the Chaos City. A small chunk of a city torn from the ground, it's a safe haven away from the chaos down below... This is a hub level that you can access at any time (use the warp at the start of every level), to customize your chaos experience! At the end of every level, all the rings you currently have in your possession are turned into "Chaos Rings"; the pure essence of chaos found in every ring. Your "Ring Multiplier" determines how much chaos you can extract out of said rings, and it can be used as currency to buy upgrades and various tweaks to the chaos experience! All of this to say: you have some power to tame the chaos... or at least make it more manageable!

There are 78 unique effects that can be applied to the player, with some of them needing to be unlocked (from either the shop, or doing certain tasks in Chaos City!). There are a further 9 Universal Effects which can be all obtained by buying the appropriate item; these are effects that don't just apply to the player, they change up the world around you!

Once you unlock Fang, you'll get the ability to purchase "Chaos Cards". If you've seen the SM64 hack "BAZR", the concept is similar; this brings a new gamemode, where your character's abilities have been replaced with a limited set of cards. Your goal is to beat the level using the deck you're given, and not run out of cards before you reach the end. "Chaos Rings" and such still carry over. Using said Chaos Rings you can buy new card suites to give you new useful abilities, you can "laminate" certain cards to boost their powers, and you can further upgrade the Chaos Cards system itself.

You can play this alongside the Chaotic System if you really want to... but I'd recommend against it, due to the sheer amount of chaos it causes. Up to you if you want an extremely difficult challenge though!

There's a total of 39 cards that you can use in this, with one of them being a hidden unlockable.

Find Metal Sonic lurking in the sewers, and chase him down the hole left behind the clock tower, and you'll get access to a new mode: "Metal's Mayhem". This will force you into a rogue-like mode, where the fate of your next level is left up to the dice! Every time you roll the dice, you have a new level get chosen for you to play, on top of an objective for said level, what "Chaos Engine" you will be made to play with, and various mutators that will affect your ability to play said level.

The shops will be reset in this mode, making it so you need to buy all the upgrades for each individual run. And in this mode, all the chaos effects and chaos cards you'd ordinarily have will be shuffled around; you will be given a select amount of each, in which it is then up to you to decide if you wish to get rid of some of them, or add more to your pile.

The goal here is to defeat all the bosses, eventually culminating in the final boss! Can you make it through all the challenges in one run?