How about taking the stairs, while said stairs are on fire:
And now in HD:
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Yes, but the character run cycle in Zelda for example is still animated by hand and IK tweaks it on the fly. If I understand it right, the whole animation in SoTC is procedural/code so the whole animation can react to the environment.
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The first staircase I thought of – but on thinking about it not even the best staircase from SF2
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Shining Force 2 stairs may feel the most like going up in a diagonal fashion in any game tbh.
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omg a quarter of a century later and this is the first i’m hearing of this
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Can the stairs themselves be doing the action? decino made a video recently about how the stairs in Doom work.
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Rolling Thunder’s Albatross already has gaming’s best-feeling vertical motion, vaulting over rails both upwards and down, but they threw in a little staircase action as well.
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Speaking of Silent Hill 2, the Historical Society staircase is also a solid one.
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Really had a “I hope no one saw that” moment there.
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