it's bad because some millennial youtuber said so 15 years ago
CAN YOU FEEL THE SUNSHINE
It's bad because it's bad
>>736952649You can't blame everything on youtubers anonI didn't think it was that good either, but I appreciated more after replaying it
It's like 75% of the way to being an amazing game. I would have changed the physics and level design to resemble a platformer, fully embrace the on-foot racing even if it's unbalanced.
>>736952649Sonic R is misunderstood. The mistake is thinking of it as a game. Its not a game, its an interactive art work. And as art, its one of the greatest masterworks ever created.
>>736952649>if you don't like a game but some YouTuber says so then you HAVE to like the game periodAnytime you shit on a game some retard will be like "OH CUZ LITERAL WHO TOLD YOU SO YOU THINK ITS SHIT???" No bitch I played the game and it fucking says.I don't even know who you're talking about.
LIVIN' IN THE CITY
i like it
>>736952649It's bad because it sucks. Reminder that this was unironically the Saturn's big Christmas release for '97.
>bad game is le good ackshually>everything is le youtubers
the game itself? yeseveryone was wrong about the ost tho
>>736957762Is that supposed to imply the OST is bad? Because it's the primary thing that makes the game fun and everyone loves it
>>736952649Sonic R is one of the few games I 100%'d.I don't know why I did it.
EVERYBODY'S SUPER SONIC RACINGTRY TO KEEP YOUR FEET RIGHT ON THE GROUNDWHEN YOU'RE SUPER SONIC RACINGDID YOU KNOW THE SINGER IS ACTUALLY WHITE?WE'RE JUST SUPER SONIC RACINGRUNNING TO THE POINT OF NO RETURNEVERYBODY'S SUPER SONIC RACINGCOME ON, LET THE FIRES BURN!
>>736958036huhI just assumed she was black
This nigga used to give me nightmares in middle school.
>>736957924>everyone loves itNOW they doall the 90s kids got filtered by the music, hence them growing up and making game reviews specifically calling the ost shitty
>>736958036geg
>>736958080Haddaway (What is Love) is Black, and Bobby Caldwell (What you won't do for love) is White.How weird is that?
It takes about an hour or less to beat. But I still find it charming as hell. Music is great on every level and even with a dog shit PC I would play LIVING IN THE CITY and still enjoy myself while the game ran at 10 frames a second.
>>736952649I hate zoomers so much.>Noooo you like it because eceleb told you to>Noooo you hate it because eceleb told you toThis is a direct consequence of zoomers thinking you can be a fan just by watching videos, they project their own retarded insecurities on to other people. Sonic R sucks, and I've had this opinion before YouTube was a thing. Kys.
>>736952649>it's good because I'm a history revisionist
>>736958682>check old reviews on GameFAQs>IT'S BAD BUT.... THE POTENTIAL>BUT THE POTENTIAL>IT HAD POTENTIAL>IT ISN'T A GOOD SONIC GAME BUT...Nothing really has changed for Sonic has it?
>>736958906The Saturn in general is that too. Most of the good shit didn't even come to the west. Imagine being the kid in the U.S who only has a fucking Saturn and not an N64 or a PS1. Your friends are playing fucking SM64 and shit, and you're playing fucking Bug!
>>736959069Bug! was fine for 1995.The sequel needed more time in the oven.
>>736958906Name a better couple than Sonic and Potential
>>736952649If it makes you feel any better, Jontron removed the video
>>736952741Absolutely amazing OST.Also fuck anyone who pretends this amazing feel good tune is somehow "creepy" because of le Tails Doll meme.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWoekUxnZ7w
Posting the options theme, a track from Sonic R that barely gets any love in these threads.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jYwnyvEtZs
>>736959460Think of how cool it would be to unlock Sonic (On Foot) in a SEGA Rally game.
>>736959562I like the persistent background joke in the Riders games that Sonic doesn't need an Extreme Gear whatsoever
>>736952649It's objectively bad as a racing game because half the cast is just straight up better than the other half, but everything else is immaculate. One of the best soundtracks in a Sonic game
>>736959835Why do you avatarfag with this gif I have seen you do this for years now in sonic threads, get a new gif to spam you lazy cunt
>>736961124Shut up pissbuttfag
>>736952649WELCOME TO SONIC TEAM WE MAKE GAMES I THINK
>>736952649>tech demo tier game made by bongland studio>can be 100% completed in about 20-30 minutes>catchy as hell soundtrack that will live in the back of mind for the rest of your lifeWE GOT TO MAKE IT REAL
>>736952649>this music playshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAeBXh25NiQ>I'm transported to a world where early 3D Sonic is platforming on Angel IslandDam, imagine if Adventure actually came out on the Saturn?
ALL I NEED IS YOU
>SONIC 06 IS A MISUNDERSTOOD OVERHATED MASTERPIECE, PEOPLE ONLY DISLIKE IT BECAUSE THOSE FUCKING CHUDS AT GAMEGRUMPS MADE FUN OF IT!!!!!Why are sonicfags like this?
>>736957976Because it takes 30 minutes to do and all this game has to unlock is 6 characters?
>>736962545meds.
>>736952649It’s the soulful kind of bad.
>>736952649I guarantee 99% of all the zoomers that cry to the heavens that this game is actually good and that evil Jontron ruined it's reputation haven't played a single second of it.
>>736952649It's no masterpiece...
>>736952649Oldfag here who got it for christmas 97, it's great in some ways - I love the soundtrack and transparency effects they pulled off but you can see everything there is to see in a day's play and there's just not enough to do.
>>736964727Over the years there's this "trend" of Sonic fans trying really hard to gaslight everyone on social media that the bad Sonic games are actually good and people only hate them because of Youtubers They are doing this same weird revisionism with Sonic 06 of all thingsSame thing with Amy, everyone fucking hated how annoying and obsessed with Sonic she was and then Sega changes it a little and they all pretend Sega ruined the character and that everyone loved her just like the way she wasI wonder why this happens with Sonic fans, it can't be just trolling
>>736959460That was crap, you can see why it gets no love
>>736952741I can't.I can't feel the sunshine anymore bros.
>>736952649The game itself is pretty bad. Wildly imbalanced, clunky physics, and also very very short.But the aesthetics are charming and the soundtrack is one of the best in the Sonic franchise (and given the high batting average of Sonic game soundtracks, that's no small feat).
it's a pretty poorly handling racing game. >>736962545They can't comprehend that Sonic used to be a really really good franchise, and then Sega started dropping the ball in the Saturn era, and continued to drop it until it culminated in the biggest ball drop of all, which was 06.If you were eight years old at the time, and Sonic Heroes and 06 are the games you had, you literally just think that's what Sonic is. You were probably like "wow, Shadow is awesome", because your brain hadn't properly developed yet, and you couldn't comprehend why everyone was calling the games shitty and stupid.
>>736967473Youtubers don't appear out of a vacuum though.There's no school of Youtubing (well, there wasn't then). Youtube was just a platform for people to express their own opinions.
And E-celebs were wrong about a lot of stuff back then. The thing is, the bad takes never really stuff.I still remember Screwattack declaring that basically every Megaman after 2 was a piece of shit. No one who actually plays Megaman games thinks this, and they never thought this. I remember Yahtzee declaring that Monster Hunter and Demon's Souls were bad. People basically told him "whatever, retard", and carried on.
>>736952649JonTron hated the music cause he thought a black woman sang it hhhmmm
if you really look at it, what's actually happening here is the forum and Youtube style of communication (somewhat pre-planned and formal essays, where people would try to say something "objective" or at least entertaining) is giving way to the new Twitter, Discord, and Tiktok style of communication (where people just say shit that's wrong and annoying to piss you off, or try to drop a "truthnuke" for attention).And this is why all of the bad Sonic games are actually good Sonic games now. Consider the truthnuke dropped, lil chuds.
>>736952649Diddy Kong Racing released a few days after it, and had like 5x the content within a fraction of the filesize.
>>736952649It's bad because even a casual player will 100% the game in an hour or two. It has basically four real courses with Radient Emerald being a hallway with one branch. The other four do correctly emulate the feel of traditional 2D sonic zone design, having multiple interweaving paths, but they are one, VERY small, and two, there's only four of them. The game needs like, at a minimum, another twelve zones? They could have reused art assets and just made Radical City Act 2, Radical City Act 3, etc.. It has the extra game modes, which are fun, but there's just not enough there. Character balance could also use some work. It's basically Super Sonic > Metal Knuckles >>> everyone else.
>>736952649On my go to playlist I have:Can You Feel the SunshineLiving in the CityDiamond in the SkyAnd I also have Can You Feel the Sunshine instrumental so that I sing along (though I can't remember the lyrics for the life of me, not that I practiced to memorize)
>>736968479git better headphones
>>736973734https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO7OwIhfBjEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J81_NbpiZb4>>736959417>>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWoekUxnZ7w
>>736968479Options themes as a whole are underappreciated. You just have no taste.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1obenSnxwohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQbByG7NQjwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlfxjNeViHkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS3zWtJWNt0
>>736962363kino
