I play this game like once a month
Better than mario 3
Better than mario 3
Now this, this is what Sonic 1 should've been. This is a pretty good high speed platformer, with fun new ideas and mechanics.
I'd say they took everything that worked from the first game and brought it back for this one, but even better. Levels are more like Green Hill Zone and less like Marble Zone, there is a better sense of progression in difficulty, collecting Chaos Emeralds is not that much of a pain in the ass anymore, the music is really really good and Sonic finally has the spindash.
I also played the Sonic Origins version, so I don't know how different it is, other than the fact that they fixed the half pipe bonus minigame.
This game still has issues tho, case in point, some of the last few levels are still Sonic 1 levels of bad. Metropolis Zone is slow, tedious and annoying, full of cheap enemies and traps that will slow you down all the goddamn time, and Sky Chase Zone is just fucking awful.
The final boss is also pretty annoying because you have to fight it with 0 rings, which....I get it, but, there had to be a better workaround than letting him insta kill me by just touching me once.
Overall, this is a really good Sonic game, not perfect, but certainly miles better than both Sonic 1 and CD. Honestly, you can probably skip those two and just start with Sonic 2, you are not missing much.
I'd say they took everything that worked from the first game and brought it back for this one, but even better. Levels are more like Green Hill Zone and less like Marble Zone, there is a better sense of progression in difficulty, collecting Chaos Emeralds is not that much of a pain in the ass anymore, the music is really really good and Sonic finally has the spindash.
I also played the Sonic Origins version, so I don't know how different it is, other than the fact that they fixed the half pipe bonus minigame.
This game still has issues tho, case in point, some of the last few levels are still Sonic 1 levels of bad. Metropolis Zone is slow, tedious and annoying, full of cheap enemies and traps that will slow you down all the goddamn time, and Sky Chase Zone is just fucking awful.
The final boss is also pretty annoying because you have to fight it with 0 rings, which....I get it, but, there had to be a better workaround than letting him insta kill me by just touching me once.
Overall, this is a really good Sonic game, not perfect, but certainly miles better than both Sonic 1 and CD. Honestly, you can probably skip those two and just start with Sonic 2, you are not missing much.