NoctisVsStar
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It's pretty much sonic and knuckles instead of tails.
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It's pretty much sonic and knuckles instead of tails.
balladofwindfishes
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Knuckles is fun though. You can do a lot more exploring and take stages at a different pace.
Or
Knuckles & Knuckles with the ending having even another Knuckles picking em up after the final boss + a joke ending after that
Then... don't? There's nothing at all that requires it.
best ending
Nocturnowl
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You mad man, now I've got to try and match you! but I kinda need to play through them more to narrow down my thoughts.
That said I can agree with the top choice.
I guess we're gonna be stardust bros huh? So Sonic CD has aesthetics I love combined with some, shall we say, less than stellar level design. As such the original brass roads and funky tunes of SS were rather shortlived.
But now it's back, bringing the ridiculous sense of speed into a more structured level. Of course the DKC mark in me appreciates that they modified the spring doodads to be like bootleg barrel cannons (not to be confused with the auto ones from oil ocean). You know what's dope as heck? the use of CD's releasing flower seeds thing becoming a full fledged mechanic. They also brought in stuff from Marble Garden but stopped short of those spinning tops because they remembered that shit was dumb, pulleys are all ya need.
Metal Sonic gets a pretty robust encounter, and there's something about that giant Eggman statue from CD now modelled in low poly 3D that I get a kick out of.
While I'm musing over here...
Regarding
Lava Reef
it sort of hit me as I played this take on the zone that it's like "what if we did Marble Zone, and it didn't suck?", combine that with the definitive take on my favourite classic Sonic theme in Act 1 and hoo boy, this zone stepped up for part 1.
Part 2 is a fine stage as well (shout out to my boy Quartz Quadrant here) but it can't compete with the 3&Knuckles spectacle finale.
Part 2 is a fine stage as well (shout out to my boy Quartz Quadrant here) but it can't compete with the 3&Knuckles spectacle finale.
That's true. I just beat the first level with him and it wasn't as bad as I thought.
Don't I need him to unlock the things and the stuffs?
There's some stages only Knuckles can play.
Knuckles is fun different play style and still nice to play as and got some unique content in his run.
Tails is kinda easy mode but a different play style too.
Otherwise just replay as Sonic again? Stages have lots of things to learn to perfect your runs/timings etc. Game is highly replayable. And fuckin around as super sonic is fun too.
CampbellzSoup
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Ok so I played on the handheld and LRZ and PGZ both look much better it looks washed out on tv
Elfforkusu
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What do you have against Tails, you animal!?
I bet Drew Bledsoe's favorite character is Tails
Definitely don't agree with TMZ being one of the worst zones. I thought the overall concept and gimmick were a lot of fun, and loved the music/aesthetics. 🤷
Honestly there's not a single zone in the game I thought was a dud. Even
was fucking rad because of the new concepts they added to it, and I hated that level in Sonic 2. Also because Sonic 2 has some seriously bullshit enemy layouts though and I don't really like it that much compared to the others.
Honestly there's not a single zone in the game I thought was a dud. Even
OOZ
Nocturnowl
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Deep down I'm a little sad that the arsehole trio of Metropolis badniks didn't make their comeback to torment a whole new generation.
balladofwindfishes
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Nope. All unlocks are via Blue Sphere
The starfish are alive and well.
That's what pisses me off about that zone, the developers knew that the zone was long but instead of cutting out the bloat, they just kept it and have it reset the timer for the boss.
Agreed, I really hate the orbs and hence why I felt that the two time up I got were not my fault as I had to deal with the crappy orbs which are slow and frustrating to use.
The glowing spheres making a comeback is the one single thing I love about TMZ. Just... would've rather seen them thrown into a DEZ revamp where they'd fit the gravity gimmick theme.
I mean yeah, but we got Youtube for cutscenes.
I mean yeah, but we got Youtube for cutscenes.
theaffection
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TMZ 2 is pretty amazing but TMZ 1 is bad
Tizoc
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*Eyes start twitching*
That boss
as tiny sonic etc
Played CD last day and that
tiny
I saw some drawings of him on the internet and I hated his Game Gear game!
NoctisVsStar
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Stardust speedway Boss heh initially I tried to jump on the missile, instead of just rolling.
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TruSpindash
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Just finished my first run. What a great game full of so much love, was smileing at every moment. Gotta go trough again to try to get the emeralds since I only managed to find one.
Is there somewhere I can see the breakdown of what all the Pagoda West dudes worked on previously? Most I've heard is about how most (all?) of them have some history with the Sonic 2 HD Project (from Cybershell's vid), but haven't seen anything more specific than that.
that feeling when you're one sphere short of a perfect, but a miscalculation makes it so you hit the red sphere you just made appear, losing your perfect.....
...& then losing because after getting the final rings, you have to run backwards & can't judge when you'll hit a red sphere after jumping over bumpers
...& then losing because after getting the final rings, you have to run backwards & can't judge when you'll hit a red sphere after jumping over bumpers
papercan55
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Any help for someone who is colourblind?
Chemical plant boss is literally impossible for me to beat.
Sucks big time.
Chemical plant boss is literally impossible for me to beat.
Sucks big time.
I saw some drawings of him on the internet and I hated his Game Gear game!
Which one? The crappy autoscrolling flight game or the (IMO) surprisingly fun adventure game?
Match by shape instead of color.
It sucks they didn't include any options to make things easier for colorblind people.
It does! I love CD, second favorite behind 3K, was really happy to see that mechanic again.
I've seen a lot of people saying this but idk, I finished my first try (with plenty of fuck ups) at like 8 and a half minutes and I'm hardly good at the game. The stages I timed out on were
Flying Battery and Hydrocity
Wow that indeed sucks, have you tried putting
those beans sideways and slowly build to the top that way by filling all spaces slowly, eggman is pretty bad at it so you might win that way.
Still there should have been a colourblind option in the game for cases like this.
Tails Adventure. Someone gave it to me as a gift and I was pretty disappointed.
papercan55
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Thanks for the tips but I've tried for ages, seems impossible for me.
Did a google search and i'm not alone but not many results.
Guess there aren't many colourblind people playing the game.
It's absolutely killed the game for me. I might ask nintendo for a refund, is this possible?
What if I told you there was once a time where Talis was the most broken character in the franchise?
I'm still mad that
Super Tails was nerfed.
Yeah that is one bug i hope gets fixed soon, when multiple sound effects happen the music bugs out sometimes.
Awkward silence while playing after
That's why Sonic 2 Game Gear is a top five!
Wow, that sucks. The shapes are different though
backflip10019
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balladofwindfishes
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Now that I've beaten this game, I really feel like this game is in the running for my favorite Sonic game of all time.
It was really, really fun. Like more fun than I've had with a video game in awhile. Maybe Zelda BotW came close to the same feeling, but this game hits me right in the nostalgia more than Zelda did, so it's a different feeling.
I hope these guys make more 2D Sonic games in the near future. They're very good at replicating the same level design and stuff that made the originals great.
I needed my YEEEHHAAWWW to really seal the deal though.
It was really, really fun. Like more fun than I've had with a video game in awhile. Maybe Zelda BotW came close to the same feeling, but this game hits me right in the nostalgia more than Zelda did, so it's a different feeling.
I hope these guys make more 2D Sonic games in the near future. They're very good at replicating the same level design and stuff that made the originals great.
I needed my YEEEHHAAWWW to really seal the deal though.
Combichristoffersen
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At the final level. An overall great game, but I still find Sonic 1 and 2 to be better. But Mania stands fine alongside 3 & Knuckles as one of the best games in the series.
Just too bad the final level in Mania has Sonic CD levels of awful level design.
Just too bad the final level in Mania has Sonic CD levels of awful level design.
Elfforkusu
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Anyone nearby you can enlist for help, maybe?
(Seems like something they could find a way to patch, too...)
Triforce141
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Do you know how livid I'd be if SEGA let the Mania team go full on Sonic 3 & Knuckles Remake in the vein of DotEmu's Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap?
Sonic 3 & Knuckles with Tyson Hesse art style and Tee Lopes music covers?
And also playable Amy
The Sum of Zero
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Maybe if you get good it wouldn't be so awful!
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