To everyone who said this was the best 2D Sonic: you're absolutely right.

To everyone who said this was the best 2D Sonic: you're absolutely right. It absolutely mogs the shit out of 1 and 2. I have not played 3. The only other Sonic game I have played is SA2B.

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It has good music
    Metal Sonic is cool
    This version of Amy is cool
    The FMV cutscenes are cool
    Palmtree Panic is a good level

    Now with that out of the way time traveling is a terrible executed mechanic and the level design beyond the first level is terrible
    Also not a fan of those weird special stages
    Sonic 1 has very similar problems so I think of it as a sidegrade vs the full blown upgrade that is Sonic 2
    3 builds on what 2 did as opposed to CD so don't go into it expecting more of that

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Time traveling gives me a reason to learn the level design and Sonic's physics, much more than 1 or 2 did for me.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >time traveling is a terrible executed mechanic
        It asks you to learn the level layout and then use some critical thinking skills to search for the machine.
        >and the level design beyond the first level is terrible
        Collision Chaos, Tidal Tempest, Quartz Quadrant, Stardust Speedway and Metallic Madness are all great.
        >Also not a fan of those weird special stages

        Learning the layout doesn't make the level design not shit.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >The level design is bad because...BECAUSE I SAID SO!
          Sorry you can't hold right.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Time traveling gives me a reason to learn the level design
        yeah but i can just get the time stones instead

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >time traveling is a terrible executed mechanic
      It asks you to learn the level layout and then use some critical thinking skills to search for the machine.
      >and the level design beyond the first level is terrible
      Collision Chaos, Tidal Tempest, Quartz Quadrant, Stardust Speedway and Metallic Madness are all great.
      >Also not a fan of those weird special stages

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Those cutscenes coupled with the Sonic OVA anime that came put later are forever ingrained in my mind as the best image for Sonic. I could handle the cheesy cringe from Adventure, up until about Generations. Something about how they animate and characterize Sonic looks like something pulled out of a children's TV show. I hate it. The whole series needs a hard reboot, and I DO NOT mean like BOOM.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Starting with Colors they made Sonic's animations very rigid and stiff for some reason, when he's supposed to be agile and fluid.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        They changed the japanese writers for western israelites after Black Knight which is why Sonic stopped being himself.
        Now they changed those into the gay comic writer that's trying to shoehorn lesbians into the game's canon.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Christ, is that quote real? I already knew Black Knight was the last time the series had decent writing until some bits of Frontiers but I didn't realize it was down to one new guy being this bad at his job. I'll take Flynn any day because he at least comes off as a fan.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >until some bits of Frontiers
            Like what?

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              A decent amount of 1 on 1 character interaction that felt genuine. A little too much name dropping and a couple scenes kill the mood with a joke (mostly Island 3, the worst overall by far), but it's a huge step up from any post-Black Knight story. I also generally liked Sage.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >A decent amount of 1 on 1 character interaction that felt genuine.
                Really? The Amy stuff sounded tryhard and Tails was the same as ever + DOOD METACOMMENTARY. Knuckles was okay.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                I liked the Amy stuff. Felt like she finally got something that followed up on her Adventure 1 "I need to be more dependent" instead of spinning her wheels for decades. She believably grew up more than Tails did (again Island 3 was mostly mistakes across the board).

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                If the dialogue was better I'd probably agree. It was really melodramatic, though. Felt weird.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >decent
                GE MS

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            I don't have the original interview and it doesn't have any references to easily look it up. But for how bad the writing was it may as well be real.
            Ian is an improvement but still a far cry from how Sonic should be. Too reliant on references and everyone speaks like a marvel character now. Plus Shadow is still screwed over, Ian blames the mandates but Shadow still acts like himself in japanese scripts so I don't trust that to be accurate.

            • 1 year ago
              Imeak

              >real
              meal

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >Ian is an improvement
              I wish someone killed that moronic homosexual

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Change your diapers.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              A lot of the "Sorry guys, mandates, hands are tied" stuff is about Ian wanting to do something, Sega's standards not gelling with it, and giving up entirely instead of reconsidering things based on those guidelines. Shadow's just the best example. People say Sega "wants Shadow to be Vegeta," but that's more a consequence of Ian trying to accommodate Sega's requests without rethinking how he approaches the character.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            To be fair, the guy was just localizing the scripts and, by Lost World, giving some input on cutscenes. He didn't have enough sway to actually direct anything.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Ask me how I know you're a disgusting diapergay.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            What?

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              You will never get your Freedom Fighters back, Richmunk.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >Freedom Fighters
                Only Sonic show I ever watched was Sonic X, I don't care about those characters Ian is just a mediocre writer, if that.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Nice falseflagging, Sallybro.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          These "lesbians" are still game canon characters, Archiegay. Maybe it's time for you to move on.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Maekawa lost. He's gone. Cope and move on.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            moron. It's a Archietard. Archietards hate Adventure games.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Shitventure, Boost2Win, and Craptiers are all shit. Comics need not apply, it's all shit by default since the very beginning.

              Only the classics matter. Gameplay wise it peaked then and 3D shitnik still hasn't bested it yet.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                have a nice day, Archiegay.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                You reek of diaperhomosexualry.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Except Tangle and Whisper are game canon characters.

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >I have not played 3.
    It's the greatest sidescroller of all time. Play it.
    NOW

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    3&Knuckles is the best 2D Sonic, you'll see soon. That said, I think the Advance and Rush games are overall better than the non-3K Genesis games. Your opinion on Mania really might depend on how much you just want more of Genesis games.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >I think the Advance and Rush games are overall better than the non-3K Genesis games.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Every Dimps Sonic is better than Sonic 1, and still about half are better yeah 2&CD.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Man, I like the Dimps games, but that's moronic. Nothing in Sonic 1 is as bad as Mirage Road or Huge Crisis.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Sonic 4 is better than Sonic 1

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            I legitimately forgot Dimps made 4, I thought it was some nobody studio. I rescind the statement. I still prefer Advance and Rush games to 1 though.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Every Dimps Sonic is better than Sonic 1, and still about half are better yeah 2&CD.

        sorry, but no, that horrible level design on advance and rush, sonic rush was full of pits just for the sake of it, jumping to a platform was a leap of faith, and advance, thanks to the platforms being out of frame, was pretty much the same design mess.
        Don't get me started on how awful the music sounded on the advance games, i don't know if it was the console soundchip, but was horrible, i would like to hear demo versions of those tracks. Also i love Hideki Naganuma's work, but it was too jarring for a sonic game, so rush music is ok, but still out of place

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Based. Once you unlock the part of your mind that sees what they were going for with CD you've reached an ascended gamer state and unlock the other 50% of your brain that allows for maximum vidya enjoyment unironically.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I listen to cosmic eternity before I go to bed every night. It’s like my lullaby. And I love it.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      That's weird, man.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Maybe. But I have trouble sleeping because I have mental issues. I listen to it before bed so I can hear it when I’m trying to sleep and it soothes the voices in my head 🙂

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Hey, if it works.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Exactly

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      You are fricking gay and a rookie.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        This is far from the first game I ever played but for some reason it's ost was what makes me feel the most nostalgic

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    CD is absolutely the Gankereddit contrarian game.
    3K > 1 > 2 > CD

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >CD is absolutely the Gankereddit contrarian game.
      No, you've got it backwards. Hipsters coomed over CD for decades, and as a result, Ganker went full contrarian on CD claiming it's fricking garbage when in reality it's just a "decent at worst" Classic Sonic with an interesting gimmick and great music and they're just shitting on it because it's a little overrated. Standard stuff, really.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        It's not a bad game, but compared to 2,3&K and maniait's bad and it's the worst of the first 3.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It has a mix of speed and exploration. Want to run fast? Do it. Want to explore each stage? Do it.
      Literally THE perfect Sonic game.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      2 > CD > 1 > 3&K

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >this was the best 2D Sonic
      >I have not played 3.
      yuo lucky bastard, you will play it

      shut up reddit Black person

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    3K>M+>CD>2>1

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Sonic CD is fricking garbage and the only people who pretend its good are LARPing hipster shitters because it was a rare game.
    The level design alone makes it a 1/10.

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I'll agree that the Taxman/Stealth remaster is a great game. The original CD release though is not so great (unlike the other classic games where the MD version is also good)

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      That's fair. Widescreen helps a lot.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        For me it's widescreen, 60fps (I'm a PAL cuck), the better spindash, and the bugfixes

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Honestly, there's no reason to play anything but the decomps and AIR these days.

          Shame the guy behind the CD decomp port is so autistic and makes setting shit up such a pain.

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I prefer to unga bunga hold right and get to the finish line as fast as possible in my 2d sonic games.
    2>3&K>CD>1

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Original CD was pretty bad because the colision was terrible.
    The remaster is great though. I don't play it as much as 2 or 3K since you need to put way more work into playing it properly, but it pays off whenever I do replay it.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Considering over 2M people downloaded it on Android alone, I'm gonna say most players have never touched the Sega CD version.

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    US > JP

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    2>3&K>CD>1

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Gems collection and the OVA were my childhood

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Bring him back

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous
      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Literally just use a reference generator AI if you're going to let Ian write anything

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Ian didn't write that story + it's the only dialogue reference in the arc + most people won't catch it.

          I only know it's a thing because Ganker keeps saying it is.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            > most people won't catch it.
            >I only know it's a thing because Ganker keeps saying it is.
            The reuploaded SMBZ series has like 9 million views

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Don't reply to the Fartchie tard.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              I always forget that SMBZ is a big deal to a lot more people than I think. Glad it is though, as fricked up as Alvin is he has a sense of pacing, weight, and direct throughlines in his action scenes that damn near nobody has replicated.

              Don't reply to the Fartchie tard.

              That post was defending an IDW comic though.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Falseflag.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              What the frick?
              That's crazy.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            > most people won't catch it.
            The only people reading the conic are Sonic autists and they all know about SMBZ

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              I mean, I didn't.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Fricking zoomer. Know your flash kino.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              I spent my time playing games like The Dead Case instead.

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    1, 2, CD and 3K are all good games. Chaotix is the only bad one.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Chaotix didn't have Yasuhara, Naka or Oshima involved like the others.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Speaking of Naka and Oshima, why the frick does Naka seethe over Oshima so much?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Yasuhara, Naka and Oshima had nothing to do with those 8-bit games.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >why the frick does Naka seethe over Oshima so much?
          Oshima sided with everyone else on Balan Wonderworld, agreeing to oust Naka from the project and just finish the game. Naka felt betrayed because they launched the Balan project together.

          I don't blame Oshima, given Naka abused Oshima's staff flagrantly. He probably assumed Naka had grown as a person over the last 20 years.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Naka got fired from his own project for being comically awful at his job. Listed grievances include

          >Demanding ridiculous constraints on the game (one button controls, dynamic 3D environments, over 30 playable characters).
          >Threatening the careers of employees when they gave feedback.
          >Telling employees to break labor laws and work seven days a week.
          >Trying to convince Square staff to let him con an outsourcing studio (bring them on the project without a contract and then not actually pay them).

          He was also doing a bunch of insider trading at the time, which led to his arrest last month. Guy thought Square operates like Sega.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Doesn't matter, Naka's in jail where he belongs. NEXT!

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      What of the 8bit games?

      Speaking of Naka and Oshima, why the frick does Naka seethe over Oshima so much?

      I think Naka takes the "Father of Sonic" thing kind of seriously, unlike Inafune who knows he's not the Father of Mega Man but used it to gain influence anyway.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >What of the 8bit games?
        Triple Trouble is great, really would’ve benefited more as a 16bit title. Can’t say the same for the others.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          It just got that fan remake that everybody was praising for a couple weeks.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Chaotix is such a poor game. Only thing it has going for it are the soundtrack and the visuals (Kazuyuki Hoshino, Takumi Miyake, Jina Ishiwatari and the other artists did a good job like always)

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        You could make it into a good game, but it's not worth the effort.

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Wacky Workbench USA is definitely the better track.

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >CD is released in september 1993
    >Nights begins production in early 1995
    What was Oshima doing in 1994? He isn't credited in anything inbetween both games. My only guess is that he worked on Chaotix (yet went uncredited) or that he helped out with the OVA inspired by the CD cutscenes (he's credited in the OVA)

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Is Ian the sole writer? I feel like it should be a collaboration with him and Maekawa, with Ian just patching up any holes and tweaking the dialog. Or just hire someone that can make a solid story in general.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      IIRC SEGA feeds Ian plot beats and key moments and then he handles the script and connecting tissue.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Of what?

      >Comics
      No. Other people write issues. He just wrote the most so far and everyone plays nice with his plans.

      >Games
      No, he just writes the dialogue and gets a bit of say on what happens in minor cutscenes.

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I did not care for Sonic CD

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Naka, Oshima and Yasuhara make Sonic 1 at some japanese city from 1989-1991
    >Naka and Yasuhara make Sonic 2 and then Sonic 3 & Knuckles at the Sega Technical Institute in america, from 1991-1994
    >Oshima stays in japan and makes Sonic CD with his own team, from 1992-1993
    >Knuckles' Chaotix is quickly developed by a few CD members in 1994
    >Sonic Team is founded in early 1995, and they only focus on 3D gaming from there onwards (with hit or miss results)
    More or less how it went

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