Pikachu v2.1.2

I've always wanted to play as Pikachu in a Sonic game, but this addon solved that problem, and I really like it as well as its classic Pikachu moves. I hope you continue to release updates or characters, and I wish you the best of luck.

v2 singlehandedly made me check it out - and I'm glad I did; the little thunderball feels AMAZING to play! The controls are really fluid, chaining together Volt Tackles and Iron Tail is fun, and mixing in a Thunder or two to descend is just the icing on the cake.
Double Team is mainly useful for bosses, but it's tough to time, and very punishable if done incorrectly, so I chose to stick to a playstyle without it for now :P
I'm taking off a star because you can cheese Egg Colosseum by just Thundering through his cage. Have it repel Pikachu's moves or something, at least, to encourage using the buttons -.-"

Also... I think you left in a failsafe testing feature where Pikachu's lives increment by 1 every time he dies (essentially giving him infinite lives). Other than that, cool lil' guy ^.^

Great character all things considered, all of the sound effects and music is really cool, the fainting animation is really cool but the character itself is REALLY fun. Volt Tackle (while I feel isn't very fitting to volt tackle, especially since it was originally called wild charge I think? Don't remember where I learnt this at all so might be completely wrong) is extremely useful and surprisingly powerful when you use it correctly. Not sure how it works but the faster you're going upwards already the faster volt tackle will go upwards so you have a level of control over how strong it'll be! Iron Tail looks really nice and is pretty useful as a nice burst of speed forwards, not much to it but it is really nice and fun to use. However, double team, while usually used for the parry and (I think) I-frames, but it actually ends up having an alternative use as it allows to use iron tail again after using it, meaning that (assuming you have enough height) you can do multiple iron tails. I'm not sure if it's intentional or a bug, but either way, PLEASE keep it, it doesn't make Pikachu broken powerful to be honest, but it does make him a lot more fun to use. Thunder is there, I guess, it's kind of useful if you need to get down fast and it is a good tool to help control Pikachu with their fast moves, but I think it'd work a LOT better if you could use wild charge during the little hop for a nice burst of speed in the middle of it though!

(Also, if anyone is looking at the reviews, I really recommend taking them to mindscape if you have silverhorn. Really forces you to make full use of their moveset with a nice challenge that forces you to think. And yes, it is possible without taking the shortcut that skips a huge portion, and it's fun when you know how to pull it off!)

Who's that Pokemon? (IT'S PIKACHU!)

It's PIKACHU! (YAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Outstanding mod considering the mentality you went in with when deciding to make him and the resources at hand. My only gripe is Volt Tackle's synergy with the rest of his abilities. Sure, it's useful for stopping on a dime, but maybe it should carry momentum if the player is holding forward (akin to SA2 Sonic's Bounce) then it would be much more intuitive to use imo

honestly i am entirely surprise by this mod, i kinda went in with a "lol its just a dumb pikachu mod" and came out with a fun character extremely well done mobility, my own suggestion is make it to when he uses thunder bolt or volt tackle his electricity can attract rings, i think it makes sense and falls in line with srb2's own electricity mechanics

as for the prerendered sprite... first i wasn't a fan but playing as him, it's extremely charming and as alot of charm to the mod overall, tbh i don't think it should ever be changed, it's silly and fun, even if it sticks out of srb2, overall, amazing and fun mod and i think this should be something you look into more and tweak, it has alot of amazing potential here

it's a pretty decent mod tho i think the super form and the other sprites can be better, i'd more prefer the srb2 art style with outlines and simple shading kinda like in the life icon or the character select screen, and for the super form it is kinda cool wotj it being rainbow but i was expecting richu or maybe his gigantamax form, tho i'm not super knolegdable over pokemon like my brother so there probably are alot more than that and maybe rainbow pikachu could be based off the pokemon cards but again idk much. also not super related but i really hope to see at least a few more of the smash 64 character roster like fox, captain falcon, ness, and probably the one that would be most simple is jiggly puff which is also a pokemon like pikachu of course, tho i'm not asking you specifically i just think it be cool to have those characters exist someday. overall uh i'd say this is a 6/10, i like pikachu and the moveset feels pretty pikachu like and i especially think his custom 1 move could bring in some cool speedruns, but i think the sprites could be changed but they aren't bad at all really and i'd respect it more if the sprites aren't supposed to be in the srb2 style (tho again life icon and character select are in the style so idk about that), but uh yeah that's kinda it for the mod ig lol, i didn't say much tbh but...ye

Pretty cool mod! The prerendered sprites, while they look great, they don't blend in with SRB2's artstyle as well as, say, E-102 Gamma does. I think it's because there's just so much shading. Not a dealbreaker, persay, but something to keep in mind. I'm curious why, despite the fact that the sprites are prerendered, you didn't utilize the full rotation slots? That's kinda the usual with these types of mods.

His moveset is great, although I wish his stomp could either be on a separate button(Fire, perhaps?), or give us the ability to swap the stomp and tail swipe via a console variable. I often find myself accidentally stomping instead of tail swiping. Another small thing, but he doesn't have any super form benefits. A simple infinite flight would suffice!

Other than that, perfect quality mod, I'd say! No real negatives to point out. 9/ 10.

Better download this mod before nintendo does her thing

Now being serious, this is a very cool and good mod, his ability to parry / phase through attacks / damagable things is incredible, it makes him a very good character to play with, i hope to see some future updates for him, not saying that he needs but...i'm looking foward to see what will be fixed and added to this unit