Equinox

Equinox 1.0.1

Aw yeah.
I missed your new level in the last OLDC, so lucky me, here it is, plus a whole bunch more in a full episode.

Great stuff, love all the real world legends and lore used as a basis and go completely nuts with it. Nice mix between realistic and abstract madness.
Just a darn shame the mod crashes so often, but the levels are huge and you do crazy stuff with them, so it's understandable.
So many new tricks and gimmicks I've never seen before in SRB2 and didn't know were possible. Very educational for me too.
Intense atmosphere too.

But yeah, one word of warning for other folk playing this mod (At least in this early original release), there's a glitch where if you play a hockey minigame in one level, the final boss' shield can't be broken. So if you played the Hockey minigame, best quit the game after finishing the level and restart, then the final boss should work properly again.
That guy is hard enough to beat without that glitch.
Fraid the boss is the main reason why the rating loses a star, not too fond of him, especially when the game crashes on top of everything.

Still, major props for designing and programming an entire new boss with unique gimmick, lot of work. At least there's a fun silly reward for when you finally take him down.

But yeah, mostly great stuff, love it.
Heh, that horses running gag is great.
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Levels themselves are decently fun, what makes me truly love this is the batshit insane story. The motherfucking KARL MARX DETONS caught me so off guard that I just had to pause the game for a minute to just laugh at the sheer insanity of it all. Only issue I had was that the final boss fight kept crashing for some reason, and I got so fed up with it that I just made a little infinite rings lua and cheated it with xmom hyper sonic lmao.
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Despite not fully finishing this pack, I must say. This entire pack is phenomenal!

The texturing is quite reminiscent of older pc games and the enemies fit the environment perfectly, and is thoroughly compliments by the lay out. all the levels to some degree are obviously made with love and passion behind them as this absurdist story is being conveyed through the most 90's prerenders I've seen in a while.

The soundtrack is really groovy! most tracks fit the surrounding happenings pretty well, and the locations chosen are pretty crazy for a sonic experience.

Though it was definitely jarring as a narrative, I highly recommend this if you're looking for a fun and all around well done level pack.
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At first, the name lead me to believe this had something to do with vintage Doom megawad Equinox. I then looked at it and played it, and... that certainly wasn't it. Can't say I was expecting any of this! A very strange but interesting experience!
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