These Friend Abilities can be all
kinds of things — one gives the Yo - Yo Ability an electric charge, another shoots ice through a fountain
of water to create icicle spears, and another lets you throw friends around as if they were a
pinball.
We all played the
pinball game that came on the old Windows systems, we're sure, and we all loved it (we're also sure), so meshing this
kind of gameplay with Pokémon was always going to work — especially since the ball was a PokéBall.
One thing I truly enjoy about the avatar and Modern Sonic's stages, or at least in the 3D segments, is the sheer amount
of multiple pathways there are, no matter how convoluted they may seem.There are also stages where both the avatar and Modern Sonic run along side each other, which opens up the multiple pathways even more, and instead
of switching a character out, each
of their moves is assigned to a specific button, making them act as one character, which take some getting used to due to the visual appearance
of both characters appearing on screen, but is definitely optimal.There's also some level designs with certain gimmicks: at one point you're playing
pinball in the middle
of a bright forest with classic Sonic, and in that same forest, you'll be playing
pinball with some enemies down a water slide with the avatar, were the control starts to get
kind of out
of hand, while Modern Sonic will face a boss that combines the level design from Lost World with this game's boost mechanics, which was probably the intention for the departure in the 2013 game.
Thanos the Mad Titan has a Zen
Pinball 2 table
of his own dedicated to the Infinity Gauntlet and its gems which includes all
kinds of experience - warping tricks such as an inverted playfield, time slowing to a crawl, and much more.