2012-01-21, 03:41 PM
Bought Sonic Generations since it's on sale on Steam this weekend. Sonic Team has been trying to take Sonic back to its roots in recent years, but I think that this is the first game that they've really succeeded with, and not just because they've reintroduced the Sonic from Sonic 2 as a playable character. They've really brought back the excellent stage design and fast-paced core gameplay, without all the filler crap that they introduced in the more recent games.
The thing I love the most about the old Sonic games is the stage design. It's difficult if you want to go as fast as you can, but very forgiving. Each level is full of shortcuts and boosts that pop out at you suddenly and require good timing and precision to hit, but if you miss, you'll often just fall into an alternate path that's slower and more difficult to get out of. When you do everything perfectly, you'll move along at dizzying speeds, and it feels awesome.
Surprisingly, I actually enjoy most of the modern Sonic stages more than the classic counterparts. Modern Sonic is even faster than classic Sonic, and has tighter controls, and somewhat more forgiving platforming to make up for the smaller reaction time windows and the greater difficulty of moving in 3d. Playing this game has changed my opinion on the Sonic games of recent years. The 3d stage design has gotten better since Sonic Adventure, with more alternate paths and less rail movement, and the core gameplay is still awesome. They just need to ditch a lot of the annoying minor characters or at least keep them in the background like they do in this game.
The thing I love the most about the old Sonic games is the stage design. It's difficult if you want to go as fast as you can, but very forgiving. Each level is full of shortcuts and boosts that pop out at you suddenly and require good timing and precision to hit, but if you miss, you'll often just fall into an alternate path that's slower and more difficult to get out of. When you do everything perfectly, you'll move along at dizzying speeds, and it feels awesome.
Surprisingly, I actually enjoy most of the modern Sonic stages more than the classic counterparts. Modern Sonic is even faster than classic Sonic, and has tighter controls, and somewhat more forgiving platforming to make up for the smaller reaction time windows and the greater difficulty of moving in 3d. Playing this game has changed my opinion on the Sonic games of recent years. The 3d stage design has gotten better since Sonic Adventure, with more alternate paths and less rail movement, and the core gameplay is still awesome. They just need to ditch a lot of the annoying minor characters or at least keep them in the background like they do in this game.