Alexa Corriea from DualShockers.com reviews the latest Sonic game from SEGA. How does it stack up?
Sonic X Shadow Generations is a remaster of Sonic Generations released in 2011. The real question is, does the remaster live up to the hype of the original?
Sonic the Hedgehog has a long and turbulent history in videogames, but which are the best games featuring the blue bur?
Generations over Mania? Please… Generations doesnt have any new ideas in the levels/bosses.
Also a top 7 of Sonic games shouldn’t have any 3D crap and contain at least one of the 8-bit titles.
Sonic CD getting snubbed is weird. Number 1 is definitely interchangable between Sonic 2 and Sonic 3 & Knuckles.
Nothing wrong with putting Generations over Mania. Generations had a lot more to it. Mania was just a bit too short, despite how amazing it was. They're both top-tier Sonic games though.
I don't think mania was to short given 1,2,3, knuckles were between 1 and 3 hours long.
Mania was 5 hours roughly
However i say the originals feel more repayable because they are so short
The 8 bit games were pretty bad overall do you mean the 16 bit ones
Nope. Sonic 1 & 2 on the master system were great. Dont confuse these with the game gear versions either.
Top 7 for me
7 cd
6 mania
5 Frontiers
4 sonic 3
3 sonic 1
2 sonic and knuckles
1 sonic 2
Sometimes I feel like the Sonic Advanced games just didn’t exist with how much it’s always forgotten 😭
Even as a Sonic fan, I didn't really care for those games, and getting the Chaos Emeralds were freakin' horrible. Even with an emulator and save states, I didn't have the desire to try. I also didn't like most of the levels or bosses either. Unfortunately, DiMPs aren't good at making Sonic games.
The divide between both iterations of Sonic is now reaching spin-off territory, and the way Sega is handling it is both a blessing and a curse.
I totally disagree with this review. Calling people that like the game "people hanging on to Sonic's past glory" is insulting. Not only to the players, but to the developers as well, especially considering how polished the levels were. The only thing I wanted out of the game was more. Isn't that what we all want, fun games?
This game is a lot of fun and deserves better recognition.
While I definitely do not agree with the score they gave the game, i will say that the reviewer did bring up some points. Sonic generations doesn't offer anything new at all to the franchise in terms of gameplay, but rather plays on the nostalgia from past games. The re-imagining of favorite zones like chemical plant and city escape are excellent, and it's great that they play similarly to the original levels, but the physics engine of both 2d and 3d stages need a lot of work.
But the game is fun, very fun at that, and is easily the best sonic game since SA2. It's just that, what is the sonic team going to do next year when they actually have to think of something new for sonic? And that's been the problem with the series since it's Dreamcast's outings, is that they can't pick a single direction to take sonic.
from what i played its a 7.5