I thought Sonic was supposed to be about going fast. Why is there so much waiting around in this game and "gotchas" to slow you down?
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Brody Fisher
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Tyler Taylor
This is an issue that's mostly contained to Sonic 1 and CD. They weren't confident in selling a game where you could run through it too quickly to justify buying it at full price, so they added slower, more traditional 2d platforming levels to break things up.
Once they realized how people loved going fast and design that facilitated it, 2 and 3 mostly did away with slower gameplay segments. Mostly.
Robert Smith
Huh, didn't expect a good response. Interesting.
Dominic Collins
Because Sonic was never good.
Claiming it is is the unintentional but simultaneously biggest psyop in video game history, instigated by the poor children, that we used to call Sega Kids, coping with not having Nintendo back then.
Liam Gomez
It's been three decades. Let it go.
William Adams
that resolution looks all fucked up
John Fisher
I love watching a new batch of idiots get filtered by sonic.
Oliver Morgan
i think you just memorize the levels when you play through the game couple of times and go faster each time
Thomas Gonzalez
Sonic was NEVER about going fast, stop spreading this lie.
That meme only became real with all the 3D shit games and boosting.
Yes, SEGA had the commercials about blast processing and shit being faster paced, but that doesnt mean Sonic is all about going fast.
Evan Allen
What's sonic about then
Brayden Martinez
being shit
Jonathan Collins
It's a platformer.
Christian James
You're supposed to master the levels so you can find ways to avoid or circumvent the "gotchas". In your example, there are shortcuts to avoid having to wait on the platforms. A popular example is jumping across the platforms in Marble Zone to avoid waiting on the block in the lava.
Isaac Brooks
Physics.
Xavier Mitchell
Efficiently gaining momentum in order to speed through the levels. Sonic is not a one and done game, it's very much an arcade game that encourages replayability in order to fully master sonic's movement and recognize the best routes to take through each level. The reason why Marble and Labyrinth are the weaker zones is not because they are difficult, but because they are much more linear and slow paced. They don't have any of the alternate routes of the other zones for the most part, and are much more straightforward in their design. The best Zones (Green Hill, Spring Yard and Starlight) are open ended and leave alot of routes for the players to take, which is where the replayability factor comes in.
Adam Sanchez
artificial fun
Brody Foster
you can beat both acts of spring yard in 20 seconds each
git gud
Jayden Evans
Truth
Brayden Brooks
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Connor Lopez
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and it's quite easy to do, too
Cameron Foster
>le Sonic le is le not le shit le meme
Camden Carter
>I thought Sonic was supposed to be about going fast
It is not, that retarded shit was added later. Original Sonic, like all good platformers, is about going slowly, carefully and methodically. All the later games are badly designed.
Tyler Jones
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Nathan Gray
you have to calm down
Dylan Green
Why do so many people think that the second you pick up Sonic you should have a perfect grip on the controls and nothing should surprise you?
The whole point of this franchise is to replay the levels for better scores and times
Michael Walker
CD in particular was also designed with heavy exploration in mind so they made the levels more vertical to make it harder to find the generators. Which is still retarded since it limits your route option if you want the good ending and makes the past the only time period you really want to be in.
Chase Bell
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