Reviewing Sonic Pocket Adventure

Decided to bump this due to the Sonic 4 discussions recently. Hope it's ok with the mods.


It's become obvious that Sonic 4 is becomming more of a major rehash of Sonic 1 with other elements from S2 (and 3K?). This reminds me a lot of how Sonic Pocket Adventure was made; a recycle of Sonic 1, 2, and 3K. While it's obvious Sonic 4s engine and physics won't be the same as the Genesis, I guess it's safe to compare Sonic 4 and Pocket Adventure so far.

It also gives me the odd idea of what if Pocket Adventure had rehashed graphics, like in 4. It's kinda hard to describe what I mean without visual representation, but I'll try my best. If Neo South Island had a rehashed GHZ look similar to how Splash Hill is coming along, would people of liked Pocket Adventure more or less? I'm not too sure what to make, but I'm actually curious on what people think of this theory/concept. Could Pocket Adventure be an 8 Bit (I forget the true bits on the NGPC, pardon) representation of Sonic 4?

A bit straying away from the comparision, I'm surprised when people say Sonic Pocket Adventure is "just Sonic 2." To me, it recycled a lot of elements from Sonic 1 and 2, but DIMPS developed on the layouts enough to consider some "Act 3" and "Act 4"s of their inspired zones, or have enough modifications to be something more (Neo South Islands 2nd half shows this more, while the first half resembles EHZ 2. Gigantic Angel is also a good example of having large modifications).

Opinions on this?

 

Neo South Island to me was just GHZ exact, but with extended tiles, and lower definition graphics. Splash Hill is more of a rehash/new zone "inspired" by GHZ.


edit: splash island? lol whoops :v: