This will mostly be a review of the Sonic World portion of Sonic Jam, if it was a review for the compilation part I'd just give it a 10/10.
But yeah, Sonic World.
When you compare it visually and controls wise to a lot of n64 era platformers, it's aged pretty amazingly! The aesthetic style of it fits right in with current day "PSX" style games.
The pixels are wonderfully chunky and everything is bright and beautiful, I genuinely adore how the game looks!
I also really enjoy how Sonic controls in it. While he doesn't feel as fast in the adventure games, he still feels plenty fast enough and super responsive.
His moveset is extremely simple but it works for what it is, it makes me wish we could finally see the Sonic Adventure Saturn prototype one day, I'd love a sonic game with these physics and style one day!
The biggest issue with it by far is length, you can finish all the missions and see all gallery content within 1 hour, it's a really short experience and I wish there was more! But still, I'm very happy I gave it a playthrough!
But yeah, Sonic World.
When you compare it visually and controls wise to a lot of n64 era platformers, it's aged pretty amazingly! The aesthetic style of it fits right in with current day "PSX" style games.
The pixels are wonderfully chunky and everything is bright and beautiful, I genuinely adore how the game looks!
I also really enjoy how Sonic controls in it. While he doesn't feel as fast in the adventure games, he still feels plenty fast enough and super responsive.
His moveset is extremely simple but it works for what it is, it makes me wish we could finally see the Sonic Adventure Saturn prototype one day, I'd love a sonic game with these physics and style one day!
The biggest issue with it by far is length, you can finish all the missions and see all gallery content within 1 hour, it's a really short experience and I wish there was more! But still, I'm very happy I gave it a playthrough!