Tails, you're gonna crash! AHH!
Even when the game was new, I always the acting and animations were so poorly executed. But at the same time I forgave it because I was all "OMG SONIC TALKS IN A GAME! KNUCKLES IS TALKING TOO!" as a kid.
I have an account there, but I almost never use it. Still, I've gotten around - Sonic HQ, SRB2, The GHZ, Sonic Retro...
I've been watching an LP of all the main Sonic games recently and when they got to Tails' story they came up with the great idea that Tails has a mental disorder and his story is how he sees the world. Although Tails always follows Sonic around, Tails believes that he is the hero and does all the important stuff.
SA1 was always buggier due to its swift development speed and having to work with code ported from freakin' Sonic Jam (re: the Sky Chase mini-game's usage of Saturn-era polygonal models for Sonic and Tails, lol). Sonic Team definitely had it easier working on SA2, with more development time on its hands in addition to experience with the Katana dev kits. Nevertheless, a good deal of the level design was more imaginative in SA1 (Windy Valley and Red Mountain come to mind), and the variety of challenges was just as great. Levels like Metal Harbor weren't that interesting, even with streamlined controls for light-dashing etc.
They were. Egg Viper always had risky elements to it that made the player take a good amount of precaution, and the Chaos battles were well-developed and varied in a lot of ways. ZERO had interesting moves as well, and fighting Chaos 6 as Big was hilarious.
Aw, you don't like a lot of the ones I like. :/
You listed my favourites already.
those are just the 5 that really stand out in my mind. seaside hill is definitely one of my favorite songs in the series, and i think i prefer that version of sky sanctuary to the original... we'll see. plus the 3d sonic blast song is all kinds of awesome!
I'm less fond of SA2's myself, and you do seem to be in the minority. SA1 just has more variety in style and is less constricted by contextual obligations, without all of that faux-Middle Eastern music mixed in with generic rock and techno backings. It's got more of that Jun Senoue influence, something I've come to feel pretty iffy about it, and Tomoya Ohtani's wonderful jazz-hope got mitigated by Hunnid-P's heinous rapping that felt out of place, as brave as it was (but it does work for Unknown From M.E.). Still a great soundtrackbut SA1 really raised the standards of what Wave Master could put out, and they've continued to evolve and strengthen as a sound team without Jun Senoue. We can thank guys like Naofumi Hataya and Tomoya for pulling the Sonic sound contributors together time and time again (and both of those composers happen to be the best rhythm game music composers in the scene right now, after listening to their work on Space Channel 5 extensively).
All good choices. Also really liked "Mt. Red - a Symbol of Thrill" (great piano lead), "Pleasure Castle", "Windy Hill" (really love the synths in this one - definitely makes me think Saturn), "Snowy Mountain" (that reverb, man), "Windy and Ripply" (great reverb and synths), "Theme of Dr. Eggman" (this needs to get used more often) and "Militant Missionary" (I think being stuck on Egg Viper for a good hour the first time I fought him helped ingrain this into my memory)...
Being the community thread and about sonic I thought that I would show something I have been working on today.
I ported the old fan game Sonic SV to iOS, old fangame platform movement included
It's like seeing your first born learn to ride a bike without stabilizers :sniff:
Obviously I can't sell it and I know that it will cause shit on the app store for free, must be a way to share it to others.
Check out my LTTP thread to see why: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=430876.
I totally agree with you on that. Hataya and Ohtani (and Tokoi) are a few of my favourite modern composers at the moment. Their stuff is great. And yeah-- I find talking about VGM a lot easier than talking about the games. Just take a look at the Soundtrack of the Year voting thread from 2011! Gosh. :lol
Yeah. I think I mostly go to SA2 because I play the guitar (and sometimes bass), so I find the music easier to relate to and tab out myself. Fly in the Freedom's pretty good, imo.
Hey. Take solace in the fact that it looks better than Sonic 4.EDIT: That reminds me, I've recently found my old shitty Sonic fangame (known as Sonic 2k4).
Jesus... the graphics were so awful. lol The awful gradients in the HUD. The pointless "AIR" hud and really awful looking tiles.
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The ska was a welcome addition to the series. Really enjoyed it.
Well, that seemed to have come through in the character writing, which is really great. The characters, even Shadow, became likable all of a sudden. Amy seemed to have been written to be worse, but overall, the characterization is probably the best part of the game.
Just pimpin' in de alley.
Voila!. Tomoya's beats have been part of what's redefined Sonic music lately, and it all started in the SA2 Knuckles levels. If all of the beats were instrumentals, untainted by bothersome bad lyrics (excepting Pumpkin Hill, because it's so bad), then I could rate the soundtrack more closely to SA1's. Listen to those acoustic colors amidst the synth and electric guitars!
For the most part, yes. I'm sure the jingles are serviceable and there'll be a few stinkers in there if I went back to check, but it's effectively 16-bit Sonic music brought into an era of Cd-quality sound (disregarding Sonic CD, which was more of a realization of the Japanese Sonic pop aesthetic promulgated by Dreams Come True and SEGA's advertising).