Sonic Generations Megathread II

There is no super peel out. The icon we thought was super peel out is just infinite continues.

 

I wish they would have least given M. Sonic the double jump move back.

 

I'm TAKING THIS THING BACK TO GAMESTOP RIGHT NOW. FUCKING SEGA CAN'T DO ANYTHING RIGHT. BLUNDER OF THE CENTURY.

Oh well. Maybe the magic of DLC can bring it to me someday.

 

If anyone is interested, here is my video review:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4ck0Q0bChM&feature=channel_video_title

 

Wow... Just wow. What I like most is that it is fun.

 

Congrats, you just made starting a review with saying that starting a review with saying that the Sonic franchise hasn't been good in a while is overdone overdone. :specialed:

 

Spoiler

You forgot the end pannel in crisis city.

 

Yeah I also thought it was stupid being stating so obvious statements about the time travel plot, we are not stupid.
Ok, maybe it's for the children who don't know yet the concept.

*sees giant bomb quick look*

...Ok... I wasn't expecting someone be THAT dumb.... Yeah Sega did it right to be that obvious, seeing that even THIS didn't work.

 

So this just happened to me a little while ago.

..Has this happened to anyone else yet? I think it happened because I jumped over a certain building near a red ring spot with the bubble shield.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsvWECKLyow

(Sorry about mobile phone quality video.)

Also I loved the game, only need to get two more red star rings as Classic. Not started on challenges or star rings for Modern yet.

 

The biggest troll is the Splash Hill music. It ruins every stage! And Windmill Isle is laughably unfitting on Crisis City.

 

Booster statue?

 

My girlfriend and I got Generations via pre-order a day before it hit the shelves in the UK.

We both agree this is probably the best Sonic game since SA2. It's certainly my favourite since Sonic Advance, having never really got into any of the post Dreamcast era games much finding them getting a bit silly.

I've not had chance to blitz through the game yet, basically I am at Perfect Chaos (a battle I found more exciting than the Super Sonic blitz around Station Square back in the day), but the fact is this game has really done what I thought was unthinkable. Made both eras of Sonic meet and not be a total disaster.

Has anyone else, despite owning an actual Mega Drive and having ROMs and even Mega Drive Collection on the 360, been daft enough to buy the Mega Drive controller? I have :S

tl;dr: Generations should hopefully remind us all why we got into Sonic in the first place. Giving Green Hill Zone corkscrews ;D

 

I've seen this statement quite a few times now, and I'm curious: what do you feel Adventure 2 did better?

Edit: Not trying to be confronting or anything; I'm legitimately curious.

 

Plot maybe?

 

Aha, semantics! I didn't mean that SA2 is better, just that this is the first game since SA2 that I have felt to be really enjoyable. Mind you, SA1 was my preferred game of the Adventure series!

SA2 has done me a disservice as I try to dash through rings and fail miserably, mind you... force of habit in City Escape Act 2, whoops.

I think the move away from endless pits has to be thanked too - and where the pits of doom exist there's now a warning sign at least. There was nothing more infuriating than expanses of death below tiny platforms in earlier 3D Sonics.

 

I feel like every time I see line that it's like Sonic Colors didn't exist for them. Granted, the story wasn't "dark", but I liked. I don't Sonic works with dark themes anyway. SA2 was awesome, for it's time. For me it's like: Sonic Generations > Sonic Colors > Sonic Adventure 1&2.

 

Yeah, this. I remember think SA2 was amazing when I was 10, but now it feels like there's only a couple of Sonic/Shadow levels and everything in between is a chore. Maybe it's just harder to bring a 20 year old into that kind of storytelling than it is for a 10 year old.
I still love the first Sonic Adventure though, I don't give a shit if it's just through rose-tinted glasses.

 

Similar for me. Hell, I guess I might as well rank it in terms of the whole series seeing as how I haven't really posted my thoughts yet:

Sonic Generations > Sonic CD > Sonic 3 & Knuckles > Sonic Colors > Sonic 2 > Sonic 1> Sonic Rush > Sonic Adventure = Sonic Unleashed > Sonic Adventure 2 > Sonic 06 > Sonic Heroes

And a bit of copy pasta to explain why:

I've had more fun with this game than I have any other Sonic game in my first playthrough.

After playing every level and a few missions, I have to say, there isn't a single actual level I dislike. Some missions are a tad annoying, but they're so short that it becomes completely inconsequential, and the majority of them are quite fun anyway. The fact that I like all the levels is enough to bring the game to the number one spot on my list of favorite Sonic games. Sonic 1 in general felt kind of mellow to me, Sonic 2 had terrible enemy placement and I absolutely despised Metropolis Zone, I didn't like Marble Garden Zone in Sonic 3, and I hated Launch Base Zone as well. On top of that, I hate Sandopolis Zone, and I thought the levels in S3&K were a little bit longer than I would have liked. Finally, we come to my former favorite Sonic game: CD. Fuck Stardust Speedway. The level design is a mess, it's difficult to tell where you're going, and the flaws in the physics are multiplied tenfold in there. Hell, I didn't like Starlight Carnival in Colors either. The Adventure games are the same, with the Sonic/SA1 Tails/Shadow levels being the only levels I really enjoyed. Everything else doesn't get as good as the games I just listed even at their high points, so they're no competition for Generations either.

With this one, I can't say anything like that. Green Hill Zone is my least favorite level in the game, and yet I've played it for hours on end with the demo.


It's alright, Sonic Team. I forgive you.

 

Wow, do you really think Sonic 06 is better than Sonic Heroes? I respect your opinion, but for me even Sonic Labyrinth is better than Sonic 06.