The First Levels of Sonic Games
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Channel: Super Bunnyhop
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Length: 39min 36sec (2376 seconds)
Published: Fri Mar 11 2016
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Well, that was both interesting and depressing.
Nothing, though, nothing can emulate the feeling we got when we discovered the first Sonic for the first time. You have to understand, nothing remotely like that had been done before. Sonic cemented his status as a video game icon alongside Mario and Pacman on the strength that first game alone, and kickstarted an entire new genre of hectic platforming games. It was that much of an upset.
A nice feeling to have while it lasted. Sonic 2 was nice but a wee bit lazy, and Sonic 3 & Knuckles might be among the best 2D platformers ever made, but neither can reproduce the initial shock of that first game, and from then on the series never produced a really good game again.
If you want to play a decent Sonic game today, look into Freedom Planet.
Sonic Heroes could have used more variations on level design for each team. It still remains as one if my favorites along side generations.
This was great to watch but only left me with one question. Who in indieland is doing what sonic should have been doing or can be?
For some reason one of my favorite ( and most frustration inducing) Sonic games was Sonic Spinball for genesis.
He always has some of the most detailed discussions in his videos, man
Sega just doesn't care anymore and it is a shame. Such a good franchise with so much potential gets squandered.
Not much else to say but wow. Very interesting view on the core idea of Sonic and why the franchise has faltered so hard. Really depressing to see talented people like Yuji Naka get run into the ground by a studio so hell-bent on printing money instead of creating quality content.
In all honesty, as "great" as the first few games were, even... remember the later levels. The slow, puzzle filled, "replay value" bullshit levels they added completely drained them. Even the best games grew worse instead of better, and yet they're all remembered fondly. I, and many others, grew up with Sonic and experienced the downfalls, yet remember the games so fondly we have trouble seeing through the nostalgia fog. Hell, I explicitly remember SA2 being my favorite game for years as a kid, and that game is terrible.
Sonic was never made to be good, and that realization is definitely dark.
I would like to see him do the same for the Mario Franchise as Mario is the whole reason Sonic was made in the first place. It would be an interesting experience to see how Mario changed and developed alongside this Sonic video.
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