Amateur moments playing Sonic games

When I wrote that comment, I hadn't played Colors in a while, and didn't remember it exactly. What I meant was, I didn't know you could hit the button multiple times. It didn't make sense to do something like that, I just hit it once and fell to my death.

But now that I've beaten Colors, I can add another one to the list. It took me about 6 minutes to beat the final boss. Why? Because I never boosted. I never boosted throughout the entire game. I could have cut my time down significantly.

 

Boosting all the tine is solid in Colours as it's not topped up ask the time like in Generations, add a result I rarely boosted myself.

 

The boss in labyrinth always kills me pretty good. It takes crazy amounts of skill to get up there without fucking it up.

 

The first time I played S&K I thought in the special stages that you had to collect blue spheres as Sonic and red Spheres as Knuckles..

 

Ah... let me think.

I believe my amateur moment was Sonic the Hedgehog 1, Labyrinth Zone... Act 3. There's nothing like riding a giant water slide that is endless for the first time. I recall playing this level, sliding downwards for like maybe an entire minute or more, seemed like forever, wondering just how long the slide was... before realizing after I jump off it onto a platform... "Hey, wait a minute... I been here before..."

http://www.soniczone0.com/games/sonic1/labyrinth/ - Click on Act 3 Map to see at the beginning for LOOP.

Of course, it's not the first time I found myself going in circles because of endless loops... (Sonic 2 - Metropolis Zone - Act 1 - Near the end...)

 

While the platforming itself offers me little problem these days, (mostly because I've spent hours playing Sonic 1 on my iPod for a lack of anything else/better to do), I do often wonder how the hell I managed to land eight hits on Eggman during that boss as a kid.

Haha! That takes me back! I remember being really confused when the level ended after less than two seconds.

 

I haven't played Sonic and Knuckles in a while, but doesn't the beginning of the special stages say "Collect Blue Spheres"?

 

What kids read and what a kids brain tells them are two totally different things.

 

I played through Sonic 1 for the first time in a few years the other day and man, I kept running into enemies in levels 3 and beyond. Like right into them. One after another. It was terrible, good thing for power rings

 

Don't worry, awhile ago me and a friend had a race on S3&K and I got game over on the Ice cap 1 boss.

 

it was a race AND MY FRIEND WAS WINNING (I think).

plus I think we was both Knuckles for some odd reason.

 

Now when ever I get 32 seconds on the first level of Sonic 1, I feel like im going for a sunday drive.

Smartass comments aside, the Blue sphere minigame was a pain for me earlier in my life. But when my uncle taught me that trick with forming squares.....

 

I'm playing Sonic and the Black Knight again, and the second fight against King Arthur took me too long to get right.

First off, you have to attack the red spheres he throws. I just dodged them for 2 minutes before Caliburn told me I could attack them. And on all the retries, he tells me nearly immediately. Thanks.
Second, a glitch or something in the game messed me up. You're supposed to use Soul Surge to Homing Attack King Arthur, but I didn't realize that. I didn't because at one point, the game went into the quicktime attack just through running. So I thought that was what you needed to do. Plus, the first time I tried Soul Surge, it didn't work right. So I thought you couldn't use it.
Third, the second quicktime attack is a little too hard to get right. You have to perfectly memorize when to attack because there are a few areas where you need to attack again immediately, and the shake lags a little.

The worst part? This isn't even my first time playing the game. Granted, it's been a few years since I played it, but I did beat it before.

 

Every mistake I've ever made on Sonic games has been amateur; my successes too. Because, you know, I don't get paid to play it.

 

That's hilarious. As you should be haha.

 

One mistake I always make on Sonic 2 is that on Chemical Plant Act 2 I would be running very fast but then I would always fall into the water on one of the points with floating platforms above the water, as I would always forget it is there :/. A similar thing would happen before the boss fight where the floor would switch as I would be running fast and fall in because I forgot about it. I guess these are amateur moments because I have been making them since I first played the game and probably should try and remember not to fall in.