The Importance of Silent Storytelling

The whole game is bigger, like literally the zones are taller and wider than they were before. There's also more stuff because if you run straight to the right after collecting the speed shoes at the top left, you land pretty specifically on a platform that allows you to keep going right. The intro cutscene establishes characters and it establishes a setting as well. I think that up to this point, every time you fought a boss, it had been robotic. It's quite unprecedented to have something without him in it. Not only is this not visibly robotic, but also it's not actually the mid boss. Yeah.