Shadow the Hedgehog 1.3

perfect but how do i use the chaos abilities?

This mod is kinda good i will give it unilimited/10 (also don't download the shadovv mod)

Having snap and homing attack on the same button completely ruins the mod.

Perfect. Most fun I've had playing a character so far. Easter eggs both had me laughing my ass off.

BRUH YOU SCARED ME WITH YOUR "SHADOVV" CHARACTER AF, I THINKED MY HEART WILL EXPLODE, WHAT THE HECK IS THAT? =( also i will not do a bad rating because of that, but i seriously thinked i will die now because of "heart attack"

Tried this character out for the first time today; after completing an all-emeralds run, I feel confident in saying that this is one of the most fun custom characters I've tried.

The sprites and animation are excellent and fit right in with the vanilla art style. I played with music turned off today, so I really appreciated the skating sounds. No complaints in terms of visuals and sound design.

Having played through the standard vanilla 2.2 campaign, I can safely say that Shadow's moveset is both fun and well-balanced for the game. There are some pretty wild shortcuts you can take, but they require some mastery of the chaos snap, and in standard gameplay, the chaos snap feels neither overpowered nor underpowered.

I'd say the chaos snap feels like a more controllable (and cooler-looking) thok, particularly since you can snap backwards or upwards to recover if you overshot your destination. (And I'm saying this as someone who's actually become decently skilled with Sonic's thok.)

The ability to aim your snap upwards when not holding a direction is a good way to squeeze multiple actions out of the limited button set. It reminds me of how the spindash and peelout work in the Genesis games.

There is one issue, though, and it's the reason why I can't give this a perfect rating. The chaos snap would often end up bonking me into a wall/ledge with an inaccessible monitor nearby, due to its homing ability. I don't know how feasible it would be to implement (I've noticed that Modern Sonic has similar issues), but stopping the snap from homing into objects you can't actually reach would help a lot here.

I commend the choice to limit the character to vanilla-style controls (only jump and spin buttons being used), and in general, I think it succeeds at that with flying colors. The unwanted homing bonks are just a little too frequent for my taste.

(Yes, I am aware of Shadow Plus, but I am rating this add-on as its own thing.)

Overall, this is an excellent mod, and if I were to compile a list of must-install add-ons, you can bet that Shadow would be included.

POSSIBLE SPOILER FOLLOWS:

I'm really glad I didn't read the reviews beforehand; the easter egg caught me by surprise, and I must admit: I laughed. I'd have to disable that before letting kids play with the character, though; I wouldn't want them to start quoting it!

one of the most popular and vanilla like characters of all time. it does warn that he is difficult to master which prevents me from giving a 4

This version of Shadow I had a lot of fun with. Animations are in character, and its abilities are fun to use!

POSITIVES
+ Fun abilities that allow Shadow to fly through levels
+ Super Shadow! (I have yet to test him out, however.)

NOTICES
/ Not very beginner friendly, but Shadow tends to be a more experienced level character anyways.

The easter egg I found also got a good chuckle out of me. I wont say what it is here (But people will most likely find it themselves), but I love small gags like these!

I think the homing attack should be set to spin (like surge), as it clashes with his chaos snap.

Excellent Spritework, innovative ability, and attention to detail make for an great character.

This creation is Ultimate. It makes me so happy and turns this fan game (which mind you... is the s**t) into literally one of the best sonic games ever made. I cannot thank you enough! Certainly a dream made true considering Sega likes to keep my favorite Ultimate Lifeform from most of their titles. I have always wanted to play Shadow where his Chaos Control abilities (chaos snap) is readily used. If you like Shadow; I can guarantee you will be at Awh!
If only I can find even 1 damn chaos Emerald in this game... But, being new and learning the stages still- I find myself saying "Where is that damn spilt ring" more often

He says "Damn", 10/10 but for real, this character is really good and neat

This should be a character in 2.9 or Srb3

love it fun character

First, I love it.
Second, how the heck does the motorcycle work? This thing sucks to control.

Three stars as character
Two star as laugh by
Damn chaos emerald bike and shadovv

BEHOLD THE ULTIMATE LIFE FORM

fun mod
-thimas

Almost perfect, only one issue: Please make a Homing attack on Spin! sometimes it gets really frustrating when I try to Teleport with Chaos Control, but spin into tnt XD. Creators of Surge did it, and it feels great, so please!

The homing attack is a game breaker for me, i think it doesn't make sense for a character which ability revolves around mobility just for this mobility to be completely against you when there's an enemy or a monitor, especially when they are under you (since the HA range is huge below Shadow) it's super annoying when you wanna snap but you HA on something that you can't even see or that is under a bridge, it limits the character potential and it's also super annoying when you die because of something completely out of your control (ie you wanna do a skip but a spring below you completly ruins it, it happened to me and it's annoying).
I think it's better to either put the HA on a different button or just removing it, in fact i have more fun in general with disabling Shadow's HA true SLADE (i did not host it online don't worry about it) than with the current version, i think the HA worked for old shadow because he didn't have as much mobility as he does now.
Anyway the sprite work is great and the easter eggs are fun, pretty good mod