So this is this year's edition of SRB2 Christmas, huh?Well, not to anyone's surprise, it's really abysmal. I don't know why I'm doing this, but I'm even gonna tell you why.
You known what this pack should be? Prime 2.0 already stated it: It should be a 100% straight port of the old Christmas levels, without any kind of alterations. It should also not include any additional secrets or unlockables. Instead, it shouldn't even have a gamedata and supply all levels from the get-go. And now what this is:
Graphics replacement:
Have you ever seen snow underwater? Or snow in a canyon? Or snow in an active volcano? Of course not, and that's why this idea is stupid. I remember you brought this up several times before and several people told you why it doesn't work. For some reason, you didn't listen and made this anyway.And even if the idea wasn't trash, the execution is really half-assed. You didn't even replace all the textures, which makes certain rooms in DSZ (the worst offender on this) look almost funny. Bottom line: Worthless idea badly executed.
Megamix:
The good part: It's only three levels. The bad part: They all suck. Judging from the announcement you made along with the release of this, you still haven't understood one thing: Megamix is a bad idea. Don't even try. If the next year's version will only consists of Megamix levels, it will not be any better than the current one. The simple fact is that there is nothing you can do to improve these levels. They are consistently bad, and you can't make them good as long as you retain anything from the original map. The execution also sucks: You kept that awful original wall texture, inserted all kinds of unnecessary enemies that shouldn't be there (seriously, Crawlas? Motobugs?), you made the maps even more confusing than before in some places (the water path in the second map is harder to find than the secret in that room). But the most glaring flaw is that you kept the basic layout of those maps. It doesn't work. Don't even try.
Remix:
As always, awful. Enemy spam and other crude changes to the original SRB2 Christmas, for no real reason. Either retain it as it once was, as a "historical curiosity", as Mystic called it, or make something completely unrelated.
Bottom line: I found the worst mod of the year. Yes, it's playable, but it's also consistently awful. Please, don't update this next year, unless you do what I said in the second paragraph.