Sonic: What went wrong

[Chase 390]

I'd also add:

 

Sonic Advance

Sonic Unleashed day stages

Sonic Chronicles (great game severely underrated because it's an RPG. Mario had an RPG and didn't get the same criticism!)

[T1g 1503]

I too played Sonic Chronicles, but I kind of feel like it was a bit of a disappointment. It certainly wasn't as good as I wanted it to be (which is to say, as good as Superstar Saga or Paper Mario)

 

Also yeah, I am sure some of the handheld games are fine (I do like Sonic Advance), but I was simplifying it by sticking to console games

[Chase 390]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS8tkajJ6uw

 

So far the only honest review I've seen of Sonic Boom.

[T1g 1503]

Did you not watch the one (technically 2) I posted?

[Teto 2609]

I remember enjoying Sonic Rush.

[T1g 1503]

I kind of feel like all the handheld sonics, at least for the GBA and DS eras, play roughly the same.

[pheonix561 2080]

I would also like to add sonic advance 2 to the list, if the original sonic advance made it. The only hangup I have about that game was how difficult it was trying to gather special rings to be able to get chaos emeralds and all that. Aside from that, fun game. I think my favorite part was that the boss fights took place while you were running, instead of in an arena like most sonic boss fights. And I enjoyed the soundtrack too, even if it wasn't terribly memorable or notable.

 

I also remember the fifth boss, the one you have to kill to unlock knuckles, being surprisingly difficult and having a steep difficulty curve.

[T1g 1503]

I was literally just talking about that with a friend the other day. Accept the 5th boss part. I don't remember any of that

[pheonix561 2080]

Nah, it was a pretty well known thing, if I recall. If you watch the video I posted, the player breezes through all the boss fights, but then he has some trouble at the fifth one. I remember even the strategy guide we bought for it talking about how miserable the fifth boss fight was.

In fact, I just found it online! Figures it'd be up somewhere.

[T1g 1503]

Cream is seriously just easy mode. People complain that using Tails makes Sonic 3 easy, but they haven't played a character who literally does not have to move in order to beat a boss

[pheonix561 2080]

That's such an understatement. All you do is press "b" and her chao flies over and does damage to eggman. "easy mode" would be if you like lost only five rings on damage instead of all of them or something. This is just, not even holding your hand. You're being carried through the game. Good job, you pressed the "b" button enough times to justify spending $35 on this game!

[Necropolis 763]

Ahhh, like Maria in Castlevania Rondo of Blood.

[T1g 1503]

her Chao's name is Cheese. They are Cream and Cheese

[T1g 1503]

Everyone should watch the first 7 min of this episode. I say 7 instead of 6 because something funny happens shortly after the real episode starts

[Eka 387]

t1g do you watch Game Grumps perhaps

Are you a follower of the mycaruba 

 

On topic, my housemate and I have been talkin' about Sonic a lot lately since Boom came out. I DL'd the demo for the 3DS and found it overall boring, and I'm just watching GG play Boom WiiU which looks pretty eghn. Maybe not to the level of eghn as '06 but still eghn.

My housemate had me play the ported Sonic games on the DS too which were fun. I remember having one of those Sonic games on a Game Gear - it was my brother's. I'm really inclined to dust it off and see if it still works.