you just gotta go fast

this was much more fun than I expected it to be, not sure why I didn't think I'd enjoy it because this sort of thing is my youtube bread and butter, thanks for the devtesla seal of approval cos I don't think I'd have watched it without a trusted recommendation!

showing this to my mum next time she complains about the 50kg crt i brought into her house that's too heavy to move

Update: I am just playing "Sonic Adventure 2 Battle" again.

This style of Sonic game translates really well, and I think it's because the levels are navigable at-speed. I think having small segments to explore, interspersed with "hold forward here" sections, is a really smart idea.

And that opening level really holds up as one of the best of all time. Sorry Doom E1M1, there's a reason you aren't an opening level so beloved that it's casually and consistently remade like Mario 1-1 or Green Hills.

The casual absurdity and destruction is fun. The game is so janky but so charming.

These are many points in the Mania camp!

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

Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed

Sonic Mania is the only sonic game where I truly felt like I was enjoying myself the entire time, lol

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).

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.

Sonic moves too fast for me. This might be the Sonic for me

Snolf

yeah

I was playing 4u on the bus to a school gym activity one time, and it made me motion sick so as soon i started doing the excerises i had to run outside and throw up in a bush.... I love monster hunter 🥹

I learned from the Luigi Poker minigame in New Super Mario Bros. for the Nintendo DS. Thank you Nintendo for instilling the value of gambling to me at an impressionable young age 🫡🫡

funny story i learned how to play poker because my grandpa was a professional gambler lmao

Along with the obsession over Texas Hold’em, quite possibly the worst version of poker that actually uses cards.

But I’m not bitter or anything.

The poker boom was a period between 2003 and 2006, so I am pretty sure it was late high-school / early college.

I can't tell you when I learned how to play poker, I think I just always knew. I have the gambler's soul

you only need to know to play the cards with the same color

pay $2.75 for the guacamole.....

Thank you, I'm unaware of this (also a senior citizen), I shall investigate...

It’s referencing the 96 year old diner post that gets reposted every 2 seconds

A comment says "this 36 year old streamer is still reading chat the old fashioned way", how do young people read chat?

how close to shitting yourself would you have to be to use one of these