I'm 42 and when I first saw Sonic on the Genesis that was the first time I thought about getting a Genesis instead of a Super Nintendo. Some day I'll try again (the Sonic Advance games by DIMPS seem like they might finally be the right blend of old-school and current Sonic for me,) but I was expecting to have that ah-ha! moment playing through Sonic CD where I was right there with Sonic fans, but it never did Sonic Dash into my heart. yes, getting 100 rings is an accomplishment, but sometimes I felt I was only grabbing rings to see how many could get tossed when I eventually smash into a spike by accident.) Not that I need a big story, but nothing felt connected or purposeful it was just X number of stages to win and rank, and I didn't feel desire to play them again because there never felt like a surprise to discover, just more rings (which you only need one of.

It's fun enough to run, it's fun to jump around, it's fun to beat a boss, it's kind of fun to explore a stage, but it never made sense why I was trying to do anything but run to the end of the stage. I don't know, I always appreciated Sonic, even though I was a SNES guy I've played Sonic here and there since the beginning, I liked its play control and visuals, ultimately never owned a Sonic or beat a Sonic but I figured some day I'd finally give this franchise some devoted time, and I was pretty excited to finally when a new device came with Sonic CD free, I'd always heard this was the pinnacle of Sonic and really liked Christian Whitehead's approach to remastering it.īut then I played about half the rounds, and still didn't connect with Sonic. When you start asking a lot of these people what aspects of the game design for the stronger entries is bad, their arguments fall apart and shows how weak their understanding on game design (or the game design language employed in Sonic games) actually is. There have been so many bad faith arguments against the IP over the years that videos like these kind of became necessary, especially considering some of those bad faith arguments were from grown Nintendo manchildren fanboys/fangirls who still have sticks up their bums over the 16-bit 'console war'.

A lot of the people hating on even those games being posers because they either never played the classic Sonic games, or never tried understanding their design language and assumed they needed to play just like a Mario game in order to be good. The problem is for a long time there were a lot of so-called 'journalists' and content creators who just hopped on the trend of shitting on Sonic because it was cool to do so, and then extended that to the classic games which were well-received in their day and among the legitimate retro scene.

Hopefully meme