History VideoGame / SonicRoboBlast2

* LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading: Not present in the main game, but in full effect in multiplayer. When attempting to join a netgame that has WADs in effect the player does not have downloaded, the game will begin attempting to add each individual file to a "DOWNLOAD" folder located in the same directory as the main game. However, the download speed can be painfully slow, and if the size of one file exceeds over a few hundred kilos, the download either painfully slows down or under most cases, '''stops completely''' on one number. Sometimes, it won't even begin downloading the necessary file(s)!

* MarathonLevel: Egg Rock Zone Act 2 is an incredibly long and daunting gauntlet. Best stockpile lives in advance. (To make matters worse, Act 1 has possibly the largest collection of instant-death hazards in the game.)

* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: Somehow ''averted''.
* BestBossEver / ThatOneBoss: The final boss is [[spoiler:Black Eggman, from SonicTheHedgehogTheMovie.]]

* FridgeHorror: When a Deton crashes into a wall, the animal is released. But... If it hits the player or another Deton, there is no sign of the animal inside.

* AscendedFanboy: [=SRB2=]'s current producer, Mystic, wasn't one of the original developers, but was among the first to be modding the game in its early years and eventually worked his way onto the staff. This is also, more or less, how a large portion of the current devs joined the project.

* GeniusProgramming: Mystic has often commented on how so many aspects of [=SRB2=] are "one giant hack" just to get them to work. For instance, this snippet from the IRC channel:
---> <Mystic> Stuff doesn't move horizontally in {{Doom}}. At all
---> <Mystic> The entire game is built with the assumption that linedefs don't move
---> <Mystic> any situation in [=SRB2=] where you see walls move horizontally is either a terrifying hack or a polyobject
** Averted by the game's netcode, which is... less than stellar. Input lag and temporary freezes in the middle of netgames (when people join or when their connection craps out) have always been persistent issues, although consistency failures seem to be much rarer these days than they used to be. This is justifiable, considering the dev team has been lacking in programmers skilled with Doom Legacy's netcode, and they've been afraid to even touch it for fear of breaking it... [[SelfFulfillingProphecy which is precisely what has happened to hold up the release of version 2.1]].

* NotSoHarmless: In the main series, Eggman is an inept and comical villain. In this game, he starts things off by destroying a city and killing everyone in it.

* DevelopmentHell: Started out in 1998 as a TGF game, switched to Doom Legacy shortly after, and '''14''' years later, development still marches on. Well, albeit with long stretches of inactivity - the jump from 1.09.4 to 2.0 took four years, and 2.0 to 2.1 is closing in on three.

* GameMod: The game itself is an open-source mod of the ''Doom Legacy'' engine, and the community promotes user-created levels and characters with a section for releases on the official forums and a bimonthly contest for level designers that anyone can take part in.

* EasterEgg: Examples include [[spoiler:a weird cyborg echidna dressed as the Pope that sends you to Neo Aerial Garden Zone]]; the Ultimate Cheat, which [[spoiler:closes the game when activated]]; and literal easter eggs which only appear in old versions of the game.
** Lest we forget the [[spoiler:[[EverythingsFunkierWithDisco Disco Room]] in Egg Rock Zone!]]

* EmbeddedPrecursor: An incomplete remake of [=SRB1=] (with no bosses yet) can be unlocked in the game. It serves as something of an amusing reminder of the [[ZeeRust more primitive days]] of Sonic fangaming.

* KillEmAll: Eggman wastes no time reducing the citizens of Greenflower City in the intro to charred skeletons. Chew on that, [[SonicTheHedgehog2 Genocide City Zone]].

* SuperDrowningSkills: And this time, the [[SonicTheHedgehog2 Chemical Plant purple water]] actually harms you on contact.

* WastedSong: That 4 and a half-minute long intro sequence sure is epic and haunting, eh? [[ExcusePlot Unfortunately]], ingame there is about as much narrative going on as ''[[SonicTheHedgehog2 Sonic 2]]'', [[AllThereInTheManual if that]].

** A few of the devs are ''{{Touhou}}'' junkies, and the two ice-themed multiplayer stages both have subtle references to Cirno.

* NintendoHard: Egg Rock Zone will probably eat up most of your lives the first time you play it.

** WeakButSkilled: Tails is slow and not as effective as the others in a melee, but being able to fly around to nearly everywhere on a map is a plus and he makes a good sniper with Rail Ring (or a good ''target'' for the Rail). This is an inversion of his Single Player prowess, where Tails is pretty much easy mode.

* UnderwaterRuins: Deep Sea Zone and Tidal Palace Zone.

In 2005, the inaccurately titled "Final Demo" Version 1.09.4 was released, and development was considered to have stalled for 4 years. In 2009, [[AndTheFandomRejoiced Version 2.0 was released]] and was the biggest update to the game, containing 7 new single-player levels, an overhauled Match system, and a lot of new options for level-developers. The current version is 2.0.6, and the next version, 2.1, will be released once the currently broken netcode is fixed.

* TheWikiRule: [[http://wiki.srb2.org/wiki/Main_Page Here.]]
* WakeUpCallBoss / GoddamnedBoss: Techno Hill Zone's boss - It's like Chemical Plant's boss, but worse. He flies around in circles, splattering around a lot of harmful goo that takes a very long time to disappear. If you don't defeat him quickly, you're going to have a hard time stepping around the gunk. It's also difficult to hit him because he may just dodge as you jump. And if you're not careful, you might even fling yourself off the speeding rail cart the battle takes place on and die.

---> <Mystic> any situation in [=SRB2=] where you see walls move horizontally is either [[BeyondTheImpossible a terrifying hack]] or a polyobject

* GeniusProgramming: Mystic has often commented on how so many aspects of [=SRB2=] are "one giant hack" just to get them to work. It is, after all, based on a game engine (Doom Legacy) that was last updated in 2004.

** ReviveKillsZombie: [[spoiler:...Unless you find out you can beat him by standing in one place and jumping.]]

* GeniusProgramming: Mystic has often commented on how so many aspects of SRB2 are "one giant hack" just to get them to work. It is, after all, based on a game engine (Doom Legacy) that was last updated in 2004.

* BestBossEver/ThatOneBoss: The final boss is [[spoiler:Black Eggman, from SonicTheHedgehogTheMovie.]]

* WakeUpCallBoss/GoddamnedBoss/ThatOneBoss: Techno Hill Zone's boss - It's like Chemical Plant's boss, but worse. He flies around in circles, splattering around a lot of harmful goo that takes a very long time to disappear. If you don't defeat him quickly, you're going to have a hard time stepping around the gunk. It's also difficult to hit him because he may just dodge as you jump. And if you're not careful, you might even fling yourself off the speeding rail cart the battle takes place on and die.

* {{Best Boss Ever}}/{{That One Boss}}: The final boss is [[spoiler:Black Eggman, from SonicTheHedgehogTheMovie.]]

** Additionally, there are several beta rooms inside Egg Rock Zone Act 2 accessible only with the NOCLIP command.

* NonIndicativeName: Deep Sea Zone is set inside a cave. In the earliest version of the game, however, it ''is'' set in the sea.

** In version 2.1, even that small cushion will be taken away, and so Ultimate mode will turn the game into an ''IWannaBeTheGuy''-like suicidal DeathCourse where one ''scratch'' from anything, anywhere, is a ticket back to square one.

** Most of the levels in the [=SRB1=] remake have tricky platforming. It starts in [[IcePalace Ice Palace Zone]] and gets sadistic once you get to [[ScrappyLevel Sky Lab Zone]], which fortunately is a Knuckles-only level.

* SuperDrowningSkills: And this time, the [[SonicTheHedgehog2 Chemical Plant purple water]] actually harms you on contact.

* {{Wake Up Call Boss}}/{{Goddamned Boss}}/{{That One Boss}}: Techno Hill Zone's boss - It's like Chemical Plant's boss, but worse. He flies around in circles, splattering around a lot of harmful goo that takes a very long time to disappear. If you don't defeat him quickly, you're going to have a hard time stepping around the gunk. It's also difficult to hit him because he may just dodge as you jump. And if you're not careful, you might even fling yourself off the speeding rail cart the battle takes place on and die.

''[[http://www.srb2.org/ Sonic Robo Blast 2]]'' is a 3D freeware fangame based on the SonicTheHedgehog games and created on the ''Doom Legacy'' engine. It was started in 1998, and has been in development ever since.

* AllThereInTheManual: Knuckles' purpose for helping Sonic is only stated on the game's website. (In a somewhat shoehorned fashion, too.)

** There exists DummiedOut cutscene data that was meant to be used after GFZ3 to insert Knuckles into the story.

* AllThereInTheManual: Knuckles' purpose for helping Sonic is only stated in the game's website.

* HolidayMode: There was a Christmas Mode, present from at least Demo 4 to Final Demo 1.09.4, which activated during the twelve days of Christmas (or any day of the year, when the program was launched with -xmas). Most of the game's more natural textures changed to have a more wintry feel (eg: dirt took on a frosty blue shade and grass turned into snow, while metal retained its texture), as well as changing some of the decorations in the game (flowers turning into poles and Christmas trees). Demo 4 even had a map exclusive to this mode, where you would search for Chaos Emeralds amongst Santa's workshop; this map was retained in later versions as "Emerald Hunt", available any day of the year. Christmas Mode was eventually removed in 2.0.