

If you look at previous Sonic Games, whenever the games changed engine, so did the model: Well, I have a theory for why the forces model was reused. At the very least, classic sonic isn't as bad as the werehog.In the Game Awards trailer for Sonic Frontiers I saw a lot of people complaining about Sonic's Model being reused from Forces. What's worse, is that the ring system has been made even further abusable, since with enough rings, sonic doesnt even lose all of his rings, which is a good mechanic in the blazing fast modern levels where you don't have time to go back for your rings, but just makes the classic stages easier than they should be.Īm I crazy? It feels like everyone loves classic sonic in generations, but all I can think while playing them is "I wish I was playing an act 2 level" or "I wish I was playing a real classic sonic game". Sonic blasts off so quickly that sometimes, I don't even jump properly and sonic just goes barreling into a pit, and even if you do manage to do it correctly, he goes so quickly that you have a 50/50 chance of overshooting your jump and, again, dying horribly.Īct 1 stages, to me, just feel like the 2D sections of modern stages, but with a heavy jump that feels awful to use, unsatisfying animations, and a shitty spindash that has had half of it's use cases removed. In generations, trying to spindash jump just feels awful. Jumping out of a spindash in the classic games is a fun technique to get more out of a jump when a normal one just doesn't work. I went into this game thinking I would adore the classic stages, yet I usually play them once or twice then go back to the modern acts.Ĭlassic sonic's jump just feels heavy and unsatisfying, his running animation is ugly, and his spindash is overpowered, which, granted, is fun sometimes, but it just makes it's use cases go way down. Sonic 3&K is my favorite game of all time. For the most part, I prefer the 2D games to the 3D games.

Modern sonic controls beautifully and I can't stop replaying the act 2 stages just to get even a marginally faster time, I love it and can't get enough of it.īut I cant seem to enjoy the classic stages no matter how much I want to like them. I recently picked up Sonic Generations, and I'm loving it.
