While this game is great, this may have started SEGA's unsettling tendency to reuse familiar iconography for the sake of nostalgia. It makes sense here as you're quite literally traveling through the past. Less so in later entries.
I think a few things help Generations stand out even today. It was obviously the first to do the whole nostalgia thing even if it was meant to be a one off celebration, yet despite that it's still probably the most polished any of these environments have been in a 3D game, even taking stuff that came after it into account. Plus it's still the only game that actually goes beyond the Mega Drive in terms of nostalgia pandering. And the music's just worth the price of admission alone. I will admit that SEGA learned the wrong lesson from this game though, back in the day everyone was asking for a another Sonic Generations but with wholly original levels yet it seems like the games went in the complete opposite direction where they took everything from Generations BUT the core gameplay that people wanted more of.
Daki
1 year ago
It was obviously the first to do the whole nostalgia thing even if it was meant to be a one off celebration, yet despite that it's still probably the most polished any of these environments have been in a 3D game, even taking stuff that came after it into account.
Plus it's still the only game that actually goes beyond the Mega Drive in terms of nostalgia pandering.
And the music's just worth the price of admission alone.
I will admit that SEGA learned the wrong lesson from this game though, back in the day everyone was asking for a another Sonic Generations but with wholly original levels yet it seems like the games went in the complete opposite direction where they took everything from Generations BUT the core gameplay that people wanted more of.