J'avais grave aimé tah l'éééééééééépoque mais après c'est clairement le genre de petit platformer que je re-jouerai pas, j'aime pas me prendre les murs (lowest iq player)
Falls off after Green Hill Zone. For the character whose main schtick is running fast theres far too many stages that make him grind to a halt, and makes the fun halt along with it.
Honestly wasn't as bad as I was expecting. There's a lot of charm and fun movement in this game, but the biggest thing holding it back is level design that doesn't allow you to freely run around and enjoy that movement. Wonky hitboxes, cheap one-hit kills and obstacles that are unreactable makes the majority of levels in this game frustrating, but it's built on top of a foundation that's really fun and I'm excited to see how this progresses as the series goes on. Overall, a decent enough first entry - even if Mario's was better... 6 years earlier... on substantially weaker hardware......
it was pretty fun playing this and screaming every time sonic was about to die of oxygen loss
beaten but I mean to revisit it.
(Through Sonic Origins)
As someone used for Mario games, this game flet like a good wind. Musics, level desgins, zones... I enjoyed the game very much. I'm really bad when the levels became lil bit of a labyrinth tho but that a skill issue so it won't affect the rating I'm giving to it. In the end, a game that everyone can enjoy :)
it exists and that's it really. Since it's the first game it's bound to be very basic and at times, very different from what most of the games are about (speed)
Wish the levels were good
yoyoyo sanic
A solid start to the series but it doesn't get that impressive until Sonic 2 and CD roll around with their respective innovations to the series' mechanics and themes.
sonic is just cooler than mario, sorry
GooeyScale: 65/100
GooeyScale: 65/100
sonk
traps that spring on you before you can react, even when going very slow, as well as some annoying bugs (sonic can get crushed in a widening space...) and just generally unpleasant level design, yeah i'm not a sonic fan
You can tell it was the first. Level design is often dissonant from how you play Sonic. But even with that issue, it is a really decent first attempt.
A proof of concept so brilliant that it briefly dethroned Mario as the king of the industry. I grew up with it included in the 'Genesis 6-pak' yet I never played it because it's completely overshadowed and outclassed by all the innovations the sequels brought to the table.
Loved this game as a kid. And nowadays I'm starting to thing I'm the only person who still has a really strong appreciation for it.
One of the most important games oat
Spring Yard Zone and the rest of the game can gargle my whole gonarch.
I don't like sonic all that much
Love to play this game when I was a child, especially love the casino part where there are lots of gold rings. Hate the oil part most.
Don't like this kind of platformer. Fucking sue me. Jesus.
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nearly half of the zone are horribly unfun and the rest of them are just bland and boring,same thing could be said to the music btw and sonic's movement in this SUCKS.
nearly half of the zone are horribly unfun and the rest of them are just bland and boring,same thing could be said to the music btw and sonic's movement in this SUCKS.
played this on my neighbor's sega genesis, too young to remember specifics but all i rmb is getting frustrated alot.
Sonic the Hedgehog is a classic, although flawed. Being the first game in the series, they hadn't really figured out how to really perfect the formula. While many of the levels are fun, none of them are exactly fast. Not nearly as replayable as the future games in the series, however still fun to go back to.
Sonic is now a classic video game character. This first game has many memorable aspects that went on to influence the series. It is missing the spin dash and the level design isn't the best but this is still an interesting piece of gaming history and worth playing to see the origins of the franchise.
It's impossible to think about this game without comparisons to Mario since it exists because of Mario. Sega did a lot of things right with the first Sonic game by taking the lessons Nintendo had to figure out over the course of multiple games and incorporating all of them into Sonic's first outing.
Little quality of life things like rings saving you from dying and checkpoints in the stages reduced a lot of potential frustration with the gameplay. Visually, the game was able to establish its own identity with heavy shading creating a sort of pseudo 3D effect that definitely differed from Super Mario World's very cartoonish graphics, though I do prefer the latter over Sonic's personally. The soundtrack wasn't full of bangers, but it did have some tunes that would go on to become classics and the sound design in general was equally well done.
I think the one thing that Sonic struggled with that makes it an inferior game to Super Mario World is having a cohesive design concept around Sonic's movement. While Mario has always been a little floaty and assisted by items that change how he interacts with the environment, Sonic starts off by teaching you that the game is supposedly all about fast traversal. The problem is that Green Hill Zone ends up being pretty much the fastest you'll go as Sonic before later levels introduce a lot more vertical platforming that slows the game down and makes you feel constrained, almost as if being forced to walk in a Superman game. The gameplay is still good, but the level design seemed to struggle with what Sonic was supposed to be about. An obvious example of this is that the spin dash move would not even be introduced until the second game when that sense of speed was more integrated into the level design. Similarly, the special stages felt like a weird throwaway idea from a test build that they decided to keep as filler.
Overall, it was easily one of the best playing and best looking platformers when it came out, but it just hadn't fully found its identity.
Little quality of life things like rings saving you from dying and checkpoints in the stages reduced a lot of potential frustration with the gameplay. Visually, the game was able to establish its own identity with heavy shading creating a sort of pseudo 3D effect that definitely differed from Super Mario World's very cartoonish graphics, though I do prefer the latter over Sonic's personally. The soundtrack wasn't full of bangers, but it did have some tunes that would go on to become classics and the sound design in general was equally well done.
I think the one thing that Sonic struggled with that makes it an inferior game to Super Mario World is having a cohesive design concept around Sonic's movement. While Mario has always been a little floaty and assisted by items that change how he interacts with the environment, Sonic starts off by teaching you that the game is supposedly all about fast traversal. The problem is that Green Hill Zone ends up being pretty much the fastest you'll go as Sonic before later levels introduce a lot more vertical platforming that slows the game down and makes you feel constrained, almost as if being forced to walk in a Superman game. The gameplay is still good, but the level design seemed to struggle with what Sonic was supposed to be about. An obvious example of this is that the spin dash move would not even be introduced until the second game when that sense of speed was more integrated into the level design. Similarly, the special stages felt like a weird throwaway idea from a test build that they decided to keep as filler.
Overall, it was easily one of the best playing and best looking platformers when it came out, but it just hadn't fully found its identity.
Playing the decompiled Retro Engine version significantly enhances the experience.
Good for a first attempt. Pales in comparison to 2 and 3.
this game is really good and charming. only bad levels are labyrinth and marble but honestly labyrinth isnt that bad. this might be better than sonic 2 tbh