In Frontiers a lot of the dev team's energy and money had been exhausted by the time they got to Chaos Island. Combine this with the fact that the player spends more time in Chaos Island than it takes to complete the entirety of Shadow Gens and you ended up with a small amount of budget and manpower going into a huge amount of content, leading to Chaos Island being the worst of the Islands. Shadow Gens on the other hand was made with more budget focused on a few minutes of content so they could actually focus on giving it good level design instead of churning out 2D platforming segments to populate a barren island. They also knew what people didn't like about Chaos Island in Frontiers and could avoid repeating some of the mistakes they made previously. As to why it in particular is one of the best stages in the game, I don't know. Perhaps the devs wanted to make the stage that the most of them had worked on shine over stuff that other people made decades ago.

>>34271 The main issue with Chaos Island in Frontiers is that the 2D in Frontiers has awful controls. If the controls were better, and if maybe those 2D sections had more focused challenges, I think Chaos Island would have been decent. Instead it's the worst island unfortunately. Aesthetically it was always the nicest one though

>>34271 Not even the best stage in Shadow Gens.

I don't remember the Chaos Island music tracks in Frontiers at all, but the one in Shadow Generations (act 1, haven't heard act 2 yet) is catchy. I get it sounds weird but I think it fits

>>34271 It was ruined by all those 2D sections that you'd keep getting stuck in just trying to get around the island. Otherwise, I actually liked Chaos Island in Frontiers.

Dunno, I still haven't played it since Shadow Gens hasn't been cracked yet

>>35013 Was Frontiers?

>>35014 No idea, I don't care about open world sloppa lol

>>35020 Sloppa what?

>>35013 Can't you just emulate the Switch port?

>>35020 how would you consider shadow generations open world retard?