I actually played that one a ton :-D

lots of good suggestions in here, but I'd also recommend Sonic Spinball. it's way more fun than you'd expect from a spin-off game, and the graphics and music are great.

atomic purple gbc when

nintendo, i'm so tired.... just make something good for once

wait, this is real, omg lol

I played this recently. Never played the unmodded game for more than an hour or so so I don’t have first-hand experience of the normal version of the game but I think without the easing the requirements to the missions and making unlocking the ending easier it would have been a much more miserable experience.

My favorite quote from Sonic the Hedgehog is when Sonic said "I'm Sonic the Hedgehog"

My favorite quote from Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is when Robotnik said "I'll get you, Tails! And Sonic the Hedgehog, too!"

My favorite quote from Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is when Sonic said, "I'm Sonic the Hedgehog! Three of us are here to kick your butt!"

he says it a lot in 1, idk if he says it in 2 as well

If that voiceline was in the game, I wouldn't have been able to tell, because of the audio mixing

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

Update: WOW that's a bad game

It does a few things very well, but this game is defined by jank. It was bad in 2001 and it's unplayable in 2024. Every moment that felt good is subverted by the horrible controls. It's damning that this is the best of the 3D Sonics, too.

The Sonic/Shadow levels are good, the Tails/Eggman levels would be okay if it weren't for the BEEEEEEEEEEEEEPBEEEEEEEEPBEEEEEEEP, and the Knuckles/Rouge levels bring the whole thing down.

I have so much positive memory of this game that I threw away by playing it again. This one should have cooked a lot, lot longer.

I wish I had more good things to say about this. Chao Garden is the best part of the game though

this is such a nice story. listening to the restaurant owner talking about how they wished that someone who would appreciate the TV would take care of it, the way that people came through to help others

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