What do you think theyāll add? Spinball? No way theyāll add 32X games, right??
my guess is some of the 8-bit games
I just hope they fix the issues the original release had, like they did with Sonic Manica Plus
that goes in the other sonic thread! this one is for serious game talk!
i tried but i think that thread is dead now!
Thanks to a Steam review for Sonic Origins, Iāve been messing around with Sonic Forever, Sonic 2 Absolute, Sonic 3 A.I.R, and the Sonic 2 HD demo.
It took a full hour for me to stop holding down one of the buttons because of Mario brain, but I got there.
Heck yeah.
Sonic 1 as Tails feels like a twist on Kirby. Itās the Funky Mode of Sonic games. You can even fox paddle through the underwater bits.
wasnāt ready for Sonicās voice in this
I want an alternate universe where this chad superhero voice was Sonicās canon English voice. āGOT TO SPEED, MY KIDS! HAHAHAā
Oh actually now that I think about it, he sounds like Joe Chin from Parappa lol
But why???
Took me like 20 tries, then a YouTube video, then 10 more tries for Knuckles vs. Death Egg Robot in Sonic 2. I never cared that he couldnāt jump as high as Sonic until this very night.
Yeah I abandoned a Knuckles in S2 run pretty early on and then also a Knucks Mania run because playing as Knuckles sucks!
Now that Iāve played a ton of 2D Sonic Iāve got an opinion:
Absolute > Forever > AIR
I have the most nostalgia for 2 and it has the best early zones. Theyāre arcade-y. Iād spend quarters to keep playing them if I had to. Iāll echo @felix who said it has the best aesthetic (1 is rough and 3 is too busy). Unlike a lot of people, I donāt mind the halfpipe special stages, especially with the smoother scrolling of the remaster. Theyāre easy to get to and finish so theyāre not breaking my flow.
I only played the Game Gear version of Sonic 1 growing up, so Foreverās like this hidden gem for me. It mostly doesnāt utilize Sonicās speed, but itās a decent little platformer thatās super manageable to get through. Iāve run through it with every character (Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, and Amy) and I went back to grab all the emeralds on each file after bumping the requirement from 6 to 7.
In contrast, I find 3 & Knuckles tiring: the levels are long and I donāt like the bonus stages or the special stages. Iāve finished it twice so far (Sonic and Tails separately) with only one or two emeralds each time. Even though a few of the zones are really great, I took a break between almost all of them.
Donāt know where Iād put CD and Mania yet, but Iād probably stick them with 3: very good games that just arenāt quite what Iām looking for. I enjoyed Triple Trouble for the same reasons I enjoyed Forever, but donāt know that Iāll revisit it. I will probably go back for the emeralds in Mania at some point.
I had a friend on messenger just tell me his ranking is 1 > 3&k > 2 and I like this whole conversation. Shame they stopped making Sonic games, I guess.
Iām the only person in the world it seems who considers Sonic 3 a separate game on its own, and better than S3&K which is too long and has some of my least favourite zones.
Ice Cap and Launch Base are probably 2 of the best levels out of the whole S3&K project but whenever I start having this conversation I keep circling back around to āthey were all incredibly incredibly uneven until maniaā
the best part of S3&K is like, Ice Cap through Flying Battery