SAGE 2023 - Demo Cory in the Ded 3.5 (SAGE '23 Demo)

I'd read my comment for more information, as I used that thinking it was the review button-
Utter perfection and a meme game done right, the unlockable characters are fun to unlock, the levels are fun and unique, and LANCER! I love this game, can't wait for the full one to come out.

Really fun fangame, I enjoy this more than I do Sonic Mania nowadays, seriously. Go play it!

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That being said, some technical problems I've noticed:

Probably fixable: The music for Invincibilty, Speed Up, 1-up, Drowning, Classic Sonic's introduction cutscene, Vs. Classic Sonic, the Plane Flying Cutscene and the Fang boss fight still play even if the BGM volume is set to 0%. They're probably all assigned as sound effects instead (by mistake?).

Likely fixable: Cream's sprites should probably be layered over the player sprites when she grabs the player in a cutscene.

Probably not fixable: My monitor doesn't like playing it in fullscreen, it tears the image everywhere. It doesn't seemingly record that on Windows/Nvidia Geforce Experience itself, so it's probably just a monitor issue.

Hi, I beta tested this game, and also appear in it as a playable character!

Something I think is great about this game is how it completely subverts your expectations; you go into it expecting a crappy meme game, but it's actually an extremely well made and thought out fangame! TAS has been working on this for 5 years total by now, and it shows with it's well thought out level design, an insane amount of completely unique playable characters, including MULTIPLE unlockables, all things you'd never expect from something entitled "Cory in the Ded 3.5"

also you can change the rings to look like toy story aliens and play "ooooooh" sound effects in the settings its a perfect 10/10

Amazing, this game keeps getting better and better. Buzz in Toys r Us was amazing lmao, as were the new graphics and stage layout in general. Kinda kept wishing there would be super forms tho, even debug ones or something, found the emeralds pretty quick and kept wishing the Pikachu character could turn super. Or into a Raichu, lol. Kinda wish bosses also showed the current track playing.

The best thing in this demo: Fuchsia Fields and Violet Outskirts, not sure if either was there originally? Were they or not those two zones are veeery pretty.

The worst thing in this demo: After getting a time over the timer doesn't reset. We got to the Knuckles boss in Azure Lake Zone with 9:17 in the clock and yeeeah, had to really go fast to beat Knux, kept getting time overs. Yeeaah we might've been exploring and playing "too slow", but yeeeah, the timer should deeefinitely reset after getting a time over.