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Reply to comment by emma in Someone tell me what Sonic games to play by twovests

I appreciate this breakdown, I remember Mania receiving a lot of love.

I definitely tried to play the original a few times over the years but I never understood how Sonic was meant to be played. The levels in most 2D Sonics seem to zip by too fast for me to meaningfully interact with them. I think I might start with Mania and then move back

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voxpoplar wrote

Reply to Someone tell me what Sonic games to play by twovests

A re-release of Sonic Generations just came called Sonic × Shadow Generations that ads a new campaign just for Shadow. Sonic Generations was already the best of the boost-style Sonic games but the Shadow Generations portion they added might be even better.

From the 2D side of things Sonic Mania is really good and there’s also a port of all the old Mega Drive games to the same engine on modern systems called Sonic Origins.

Sonic Frontiers is janky as all hell but I also love it and it’s honestly just really fun to move around in an open world as Sonic and I feel like the first game where they were finally figuring out how to actually do boss fights for Sonic (though they are still also janky as hell).

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emma wrote (edited )

Reply to Someone tell me what Sonic games to play by twovests

play the original sonic the hedgehog. if you enjoy that, i suggest also playing these other 2d sonics:

  • sonic cd
    • introduces the spin dash.
    • play the japanese version. they absolutely butchered the american release. sega of america decided that slapping house music is too much for innocent, christian, american children to handle, so they replaced most of it with a bunch of other shit that's thematically unfitting, but left the 'past' versions of the tracks alone because they couldn't figure out how to replace the non-red book pcm audio.
    • this game is easy to beat, but hard to find all the secrets in.
  • sonic 2
    • refines the spin dash
    • has tails
  • sonic 3 and/or knuckles
    • yes there's actually three combinations. they split the game in half so they could rush it out as 'sonic the hedgehog 3'. then they released the other half of the game as 'sonic & knuckles'. if you stuck sonic 3 onto sonic & knuckles, you'd get to play the whole game as one, so basically it was dlc for the prehistoric era of gaming.
    • very long, stages are quite complex
  • sonic mania
    • 2017 game, homage to the old sonics
    • mixes old and new stages

don't play knuckles & chaotix, it sucks. also don't play sonic 4, it's a shitty cash grab.

i also recall sonic advanced being not terrible, which is high praise for a sonic game, really.

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nomorepie wrote

Reply to solstice. sonic. snow. a beautiful day by twovests

Hell yea solstice! We haven't gotten snow yet, but it is forecasted on Christmas Eve? I can't even remember the last time that happened, so I hope it will come to pass. And Sonic is eternal, of course.

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toasthaste wrote (edited )

Reply to Get your TDaP booster and Polio booster and Chickenpox booster and MMR booster and HepA booster and HepB booster and HPV booster and covid booster and by twovests

I'm not allowed to get the shingles vaccine because they limit it to older folks but man I'd really love to not get shingles (I was of the last generation to get "chicken pox parties" as kids)

I did finally get my TDaP booster last year. I should really catch up on the others.

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