/vr/ - Retro Games

>>10388003

2/2

Overall lack of polish: The game localization has lines constantly cutting into one another, lip sync is terrible, and its text uses Comic Sans font. These aren't dealbreakers, but they are amateurish things that makes the whole game feel cheaper.

Story tone is all over the place and makes no sense.
Knuckles punches the emerald and the shattered pieces of it somehow end up inside a closed pyramid and the far side of the moon?
Team Dark is constantly zipping back and forth between the moon and earth when the whole point of the heroes is finding a rocket to get there?
Tails randomly making a fucking FAKE CHAOS EMERALD that still allows Sonic to Chaos Control (??????) so what the hell is even the difference to the real one at this point
(On that note, how does time stopping allow Sonic to escape a closed room? Heroes shows Chaos Control to be time stopping)
Eggman is now a bloodthirsty maniac who takes hostages and threatens to shoot them, and then ten minutes later has a heart-to-heart with Tails as they look at the starry sky together and he reminisces about his grandfather while evidently everyone forgives him for everything he's done during the game, including blowing up the moon (I'd almost put this in the good category since its so hilariously tone deaf)
That one bit where Eggman tells Rouge she has 5 minutes to escape the base and she goes "Lmao I'll do it in 3" and the level timer actually ends up being 3 mins - Implying Eggman actually changed the bomb timer based off that one boast

SA1 is superior in every way and I don't even think that highly of it to begin with. To this day I'm convinced Adventure 2 is fondly remembered only by people who played it as impressionable ten-year olds and the anime bullshit plot combined with the edge and autism-friendly characters completely spellbound them to the point they didn't realize just how half baked the game was

Posting in a cursed thread

Sonic 1 is good
Sonic CD is good
Spinball is actually a decent and refreshing take on Pinball.
Chaotix is really bad and clunky but looks beautiful.
3 and K is better than 2. Mania is better than two.
All of the classic games belong in wide screen.
Adventure and Adventure 2 are both really compelling games and worth more than the sun of their parts, and the Chao garden really adds to the experience.
Play the 8 bit ones on Master System and not the Game Gear.
People love to try to act like big brain revisionists when it comes to Sonic, but no contemporary platformer at the time or for many years afterwards leaned so heavily on the use of momentum, the rolling mechanic is fucking brilliant.
Sonic had one of the best E3 Season presentations this year and it's time to get hyped for the android wide screen releases coming to other platforms.
Tails Gets Trolled is the greatest Shonen manga ever
The album is also fucking fantastic
https://youtu.be/RePSdwjOz5c