As far as first games in a franchise go, this game is a fucking masterpiece. Sega somehow perfected the formula for sonic games with just the very first game, you could of made every other sonic game in the likeness of the first for all of human history and they'd be pretty good. Sonic 2 is a good example of that, same formula but just more speed orientated levels over traditional platforming.
>>12586691This game could have saved the Sega Saturn
>>12586691it's the simplest one but despite being rushed and buggy it still feels like the most polished one. the difficulty also has a better progression, save for the very cheeseable bosses.
>>12586691>no spindash This kills the zoomer.
>>12586708This game was on the Sega Saturn via Sonic Jam>>12586727It's by far more polished than a lot of games released at that time, i've played this game like a trillion times and only noticed few bugs. (Except that annoying spike bug)>>12586729The lack of spindash is nice to keep the game challenging, not like it would've worked well in this game's stages anyway.
>>12586691I still remember the first time I saw it shortly after launch. I was about 5 years old and had only ever played NES and Atari a few times at my cousins. We went by a friend of my mom's house and the lady's husband said "Hey you like video games? Check this out" and showed me the Genesis and booted up Sonic 1. My jaw was on the floor and my mind was blown. All I could think about after that was getting a Genesis of my own and I eventually did a year later.
>>12586741*I had an NES but my cousins had gotten out an Atari that they'd had before they got their NES a few times when I was over there
>>12586737>It's by far more polished than a lot of games released at that timetrue
>>12586741I grew up as a Nintendo kid so I didn't get a chance to own a mega drive for a long while, getting a taster of the mega drive sonic games was an amazing experience.
>>12586753Yeah I was Genesis all the way, even had a Sega CD and quite a few games for it including the light gun and Lethal Enforcers. Me and my friend used to play Adventures of Willy Beamish trying to finish it, we'd play all night on weekends sometimes. I don't think we even finished it but we got right to the end. Android Assault was fuckin rad for it too. After that I went N64. Back then I wasn't really into RPGs so I had a blast with it though years later I would think I should've chose Playstation for the RPGs. I was really into wrestling though and those THQ games were so good. Got a Dreamcast after that though so I still went back to Sega until they folded. I never even saw a Saturn or knew anyone that had one until I bought one from a coworker in my 20s.
>>12586768I own pretty much every sega console except the dreamcast, if you understand japanese you get access to one of the best libraries of games ever made but the actual quality of the saturn is greatly reduced otherwise since most of the good games were made in Japan.
>>12586774Yeah I burned a lot of the Japanese heavy hitters when I got the Saturn and used the disc swap trick to play them. I was overall underwhelmed with it though admittedly I was playing it in the PS2 era. I remember thinking it looked cool in magazines when it was new but so I never encountered one. I had a Game Gear too but only had like Columns and a Sonic game for it. Funnily enough I did encounter a Jaguar once though. I spent the night at a friends and his dad had one. I finally got to play Kasumi Ninja which I, as a huge MK fan, had seen in game magazines and been building up in my mind as some amazing game I was missing out on. Actually playing it I remember thinking how shit it was.
Sonic didn't get good until Mike Cerny created Sonic 2 Everyone knows that
>>12586691sorry, but marble zone is like hitting a brick wallcompletely kills the pacing
>>12586847It really does yeah
>>12586847>>12586848Sonic 1 rewards skill expression and memorisation with speed, this game only goes at the pace you are willing to go.
>>12586691It's decent but SMW blows it out of the fucking water and it's why segakiddies will always be a joke to me
>>12586929>SMW>the game with shit physics and a gay dinosaur
>>12586691People act like the game is mediocre after Green Hill Zone. Fuck that. This game has so much soul and is paced great. Had a much better time playing this than Sonic 3. What a slog that game was after the first couple zones. Also labyrinth zone is underrated as fuck. Great aesthetic and decent platforming
>>12586929>SMW blowsagreed
>>12586870the whole point of the game is speed and the level design of marble zone does not lend itself to that at all, it is something more suited to castlevania and its like gitting as gud as webm related in any game is rewarding, it's less rewarding when you have to wade through shit instead of feeling like you are solving a carefully constructed puzzle with the game's core tenet in mind. Sonic 2, 3 and 3&K also has the former but less of it and does more of the latter
>>12588432>the whole point of the game is speed no, it's not. Speed is a reward for memorisation and clever platforming, it is not something handed to you like in Sonic 2. The original sonic was a traditional arcade platformer, speed was a reward for players who understood how the levels were designed and took risks.
>>12588486>Speed is a reward for memorisation and clever platformingI have a hard time believing this cope when all the character is specifically designed to do is go fast based on the moveset and physics programmed into the game it's bad level design, plain and simple
>>12586691Sorry but sonicCD is better. I like them both though
>>12588530>I have a hard time refuting your point so i'm just going to mention something already established
>>12588530>i can't just push right to finish the game WHAAAAAnintendies need to make up their mind
>>12588819I don't think it's tendies, it's just people who hardline defend Sonic 2 which is the most braindead and piss easy sonic game ever made, and as such has plagued discussion on any classic sonic game that isn't S3&K ever since.
>>12588841maybe. Sonic 2 is my least favorite classic. Tails is downright annoying too
>>12588882>the game is impossible to fail, getting a game over unintentionally never happens>all the levels lack any real challenge, besides metropolis zone which is the endgame there is no build up or difficulty>special stages are made null if you bring tails, sonic 1 and CD perfected the special stage formula but 2 fucked it up by bringing dead weight with you>millions of people view this game as the best sonic game ever made and act like the original is a horrible piece of shitsonic 2 is a good game but really, it has mentally destroyed the perception of the other games.
>>125889242 is also the ugliest of the bunch i'd say
>>12588924this anon get its. Everything's fault of the STI and the perception americans had of sonicbeing a wacky character character. Yuji Naka wasn't wrong after all.
>>12588819>a game about speed is actually not about speed because headcanon
>>12589184>AAAAAAA I HAVE TO KEEP RUNNING OR I'M GOING LITERALLY INSAAAANEit's not a "game about speed" it's a platformer with a fast character
>>12589262>platformer with a fast character exactly, a game about speed was this supposed to prove me wrong? lolmao
>>12589265Mario is a plumber. why is there anything else than sewers in Mario games then?
>>12589272Retarded analogy
>>12589273your autism has developed autism sir, it's terminal
>>12589272we're talking about how the character moves, not what he literally is you retard by your own shit for brains retarded logic sonic the hedgehog should be nothing except roads and gardens
>>12586691I don't know, it feels like a forced meme because this game, unlike SMB, fails to offer a good gameplay loop. (No pun intended), after Green Hill Zone. The game does shit with the physics and gameplay gimmicks. Starting with the second game (and even CD), they started focusing more on Sonic's gameplay dynamics, making for a much more interesting game
>>12586870>completely blind jumps over swinging platforms>jumping around every single caterkiller instead of rolling into themI should really make a better webm
>>12589335>blind jumpsyou mean memorising the stages? the original game is short, it's meant to be replayed.>jumping around every single caterkillerokay that is odd.
>>12589284>WHAAA SANIC IS FAST WHY DO I HAVE TO PLATFORM WHAAAAAAA
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>>12588534worst of the old Sonics but ok.
