thoughts on Sonic CD
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5658 pts ★ NoviceOn 2025-02-07 at 15:26:33
What are your thoughts on Sonic CD (dang wish i had a Sega CD its Mega-CD for you guys in Europe or Japan)
On 2025-02-07 at 17:00:38
Honestly. I have no clue. I have never played it.
On 2025-02-07 at 17:41:34
Sonic CD is pretty HUE HUE HUE HUE HUE if you ask me.
1On 2025-02-07 at 17:48:28
Sonic CD is pretty HUE HUE HUE HUE HUE if you ask me.
i get it
On 2025-02-07 at 22:55:45
The levels can be too large, and it's probably what makes the game too hard to finish.
On 2025-02-08 at 00:48:05
Well first I'd actively recommend not playing the 1993 sega/mega cd version, it's buggy, is in 4:3 and has much worse cutscenes. Play the 2011 version instead, preferably on the decompilation with Miracle Edition.
Anyway I think it's one of the stranger classic games, I prefer it to 1 and perhaps 2 but 3k and Mania are absolutely better. Noticeably it's really short if you just run through the game, which I tend to do since that's how I like playing sonic games. Tbh I think that's good. And even then, there's very little disruption to the game itself, all the boss fights being horribly designed (as usual) and particularly easy this time around means they don't get in the way, unlike sonic 2 which I actively don't want to finish once I've beaten wing fortress.
The level design in this game is really odd. It doesn't feel correct at all. I mean look at Stardust Speedway, those acts took me ages to learn in time attack and they're really quick. It doesn't really follow the classic sonic design of high paths being faster, there's kinda just a lot of paths. everywhere. In a level like Quartz Quadrant sticking to the bottom is precisely what you want to do. So yeah, this game is definitely not optimized for time attack, and even outside of time attack it kinda doesn't make sense. I did still enjoy trying to minimize times on these levels, though I'd appreciate if time attack mode didn't include the boss acts.... and it was way less flawed....... like iirc it doesn't let you retry bc you have 0 lives. I think ME might fix this, and I can't comment on Origins because it's origins and i have sonic origins on my computer already
but that's besides the point. I don't find the prospect of getting all the generators particularly enjoyable, and while this special stage is one of my favourites (and the 6th one hates functioning on vanilla decomp for some reason) it's still a chaos emerald-adjacent quest and those aren't my favourite parts of these games.
So:
Short and sweet, easy to just play, but doesn't really have a lot of what i look for. 3/5 and for context in my opinion:
1: 2/5
CD: 3/5
2: 3/5
3k: 5/5
Mania: 5/5
Superstars (Forget it existed while writing LOL): 4/5
Also I should mention this has the best music of all the CLASSIC classics
and also that majin sonic is the funniest shit and you aren't making me find it scary ever
Anyway I think it's one of the stranger classic games, I prefer it to 1 and perhaps 2 but 3k and Mania are absolutely better. Noticeably it's really short if you just run through the game, which I tend to do since that's how I like playing sonic games. Tbh I think that's good. And even then, there's very little disruption to the game itself, all the boss fights being horribly designed (as usual) and particularly easy this time around means they don't get in the way, unlike sonic 2 which I actively don't want to finish once I've beaten wing fortress.
The level design in this game is really odd. It doesn't feel correct at all. I mean look at Stardust Speedway, those acts took me ages to learn in time attack and they're really quick. It doesn't really follow the classic sonic design of high paths being faster, there's kinda just a lot of paths. everywhere. In a level like Quartz Quadrant sticking to the bottom is precisely what you want to do. So yeah, this game is definitely not optimized for time attack, and even outside of time attack it kinda doesn't make sense. I did still enjoy trying to minimize times on these levels, though I'd appreciate if time attack mode didn't include the boss acts.... and it was way less flawed....... like iirc it doesn't let you retry bc you have 0 lives. I think ME might fix this, and I can't comment on Origins because it's origins and i have sonic origins on my computer already
but that's besides the point. I don't find the prospect of getting all the generators particularly enjoyable, and while this special stage is one of my favourites (and the 6th one hates functioning on vanilla decomp for some reason) it's still a chaos emerald-adjacent quest and those aren't my favourite parts of these games.
So:
Short and sweet, easy to just play, but doesn't really have a lot of what i look for. 3/5 and for context in my opinion:
1: 2/5
CD: 3/5
2: 3/5
3k: 5/5
Mania: 5/5
Superstars (Forget it existed while writing LOL): 4/5
Also I should mention this has the best music of all the CLASSIC classics
and also that majin sonic is the funniest shit and you aren't making me find it scary ever
On 2025-02-08 at 00:56:45
I've Never Played the game but I know a bit about it. In My Opinion I would say it is the scariest sonic game (Not saying it's that scary)
Yesterday at 00:53:33
Well first I'd actively recommend not playing the 1993 sega/mega cd version, it's buggy, is in 4:3 and has much worse cutscenes. Play the 2011 version instead, preferably on the decompilation with Miracle Edition.
Anyway I think it's one of the stranger classic games, I prefer it to 1 and perhaps 2 but 3k and Mania are absolutely better. Noticeably it's really short if you just run through the game, which I tend to do since that's how I like playing sonic games. Tbh I think that's good. And even then, there's very little disruption to the game itself, all the boss fights being horribly designed (as usual) and particularly easy this time around means they don't get in the way, unlike sonic 2 which I actively don't want to finish once I've beaten wing fortress.
The level design in this game is really odd. It doesn't feel correct at all. I mean look at Stardust Speedway, those acts took me ages to learn in time attack and they're really quick. It doesn't really follow the classic sonic design of high paths being faster, there's kinda just a lot of paths. everywhere. In a level like Quartz Quadrant sticking to the bottom is precisely what you want to do. So yeah, this game is definitely not optimized for time attack, and even outside of time attack it kinda doesn't make sense. I did still enjoy trying to minimize times on these levels, though I'd appreciate if time attack mode didn't include the boss acts.... and it was way less flawed....... like iirc it doesn't let you retry bc you have 0 lives. I think ME might fix this, and I can't comment on Origins because it's origins and i have sonic origins on my computer already
but that's besides the point. I don't find the prospect of getting all the generators particularly enjoyable, and while this special stage is one of my favourites (and the 6th one hates functioning on vanilla decomp for some reason) it's still a chaos emerald-adjacent quest and those aren't my favourite parts of these games.
So:
Short and sweet, easy to just play, but doesn't really have a lot of what i look for. 3/5 and for context in my opinion:
1: 2/5
CD: 3/5
2: 3/5
3k: 5/5
Mania: 5/5
Superstars (Forget it existed while writing LOL): 4/5
Also I should mention this has the best music of all the CLASSIC classics
and also that majin sonic is the funniest shit and you aren't making me find it scary ever
Anyway I think it's one of the stranger classic games, I prefer it to 1 and perhaps 2 but 3k and Mania are absolutely better. Noticeably it's really short if you just run through the game, which I tend to do since that's how I like playing sonic games. Tbh I think that's good. And even then, there's very little disruption to the game itself, all the boss fights being horribly designed (as usual) and particularly easy this time around means they don't get in the way, unlike sonic 2 which I actively don't want to finish once I've beaten wing fortress.
The level design in this game is really odd. It doesn't feel correct at all. I mean look at Stardust Speedway, those acts took me ages to learn in time attack and they're really quick. It doesn't really follow the classic sonic design of high paths being faster, there's kinda just a lot of paths. everywhere. In a level like Quartz Quadrant sticking to the bottom is precisely what you want to do. So yeah, this game is definitely not optimized for time attack, and even outside of time attack it kinda doesn't make sense. I did still enjoy trying to minimize times on these levels, though I'd appreciate if time attack mode didn't include the boss acts.... and it was way less flawed....... like iirc it doesn't let you retry bc you have 0 lives. I think ME might fix this, and I can't comment on Origins because it's origins and i have sonic origins on my computer already
but that's besides the point. I don't find the prospect of getting all the generators particularly enjoyable, and while this special stage is one of my favourites (and the 6th one hates functioning on vanilla decomp for some reason) it's still a chaos emerald-adjacent quest and those aren't my favourite parts of these games.
So:
Short and sweet, easy to just play, but doesn't really have a lot of what i look for. 3/5 and for context in my opinion:
1: 2/5
CD: 3/5
2: 3/5
3k: 5/5
Mania: 5/5
Superstars (Forget it existed while writing LOL): 4/5
Also I should mention this has the best music of all the CLASSIC classics
and also that majin sonic is the funniest shit and you aren't making me find it scary ever
but remember Yuji Naka was in the US when making Sonic 2 somebody else was making Sonic CD in Japan also the little grey spinning things dont work right in 2011 in 1993 when you run into them they launch you off mantaining your orignal speed in 2011 you can run into them but it wont launch you off like it did in 1993
Yesterday at 01:09:00
The ost
The US ost is ehh but Japan? They just do it better. For example here's Palmtree Panic Good future ost from US and Japan.
US VERSION
JAPAN VERSION
The US ost is ehh but Japan? They just do it better. For example here's Palmtree Panic Good future ost from US and Japan.
US VERSION
JAPAN VERSION
Yesterday at 03:11:52
One thing that keeps me interested in Sonic CD is the unused stage called Dubious Depths. it was unused due to the music limitations, the design, and not matching Sonic's speed, because the game was based on time travel. This is some official art for the zone:
What it could've looked like in the game:
What it could've looked like in the game:
Yesterday at 03:19:56
Well first I'd actively recommend not playing the 1993 sega/mega cd version, it's buggy, is in 4:3 and has much worse cutscenes. Play the 2011 version instead, preferably on the decompilation with Miracle Edition.
Anyway I think it's one of the stranger classic games, I prefer it to 1 and perhaps 2 but 3k and Mania are absolutely better. Noticeably it's really short if you just run through the game, which I tend to do since that's how I like playing sonic games. Tbh I think that's good. And even then, there's very little disruption to the game itself, all the boss fights being horribly designed (as usual) and particularly easy this time around means they don't get in the way, unlike sonic 2 which I actively don't want to finish once I've beaten wing fortress.
The level design in this game is really odd. It doesn't feel correct at all. I mean look at Stardust Speedway, those acts took me ages to learn in time attack and they're really quick. It doesn't really follow the classic sonic design of high paths being faster, there's kinda just a lot of paths. everywhere. In a level like Quartz Quadrant sticking to the bottom is precisely what you want to do. So yeah, this game is definitely not optimized for time attack, and even outside of time attack it kinda doesn't make sense. I did still enjoy trying to minimize times on these levels, though I'd appreciate if time attack mode didn't include the boss acts.... and it was way less flawed....... like iirc it doesn't let you retry bc you have 0 lives. I think ME might fix this, and I can't comment on Origins because it's origins and i have sonic origins on my computer already
but that's besides the point. I don't find the prospect of getting all the generators particularly enjoyable, and while this special stage is one of my favourites (and the 6th one hates functioning on vanilla decomp for some reason) it's still a chaos emerald-adjacent quest and those aren't my favourite parts of these games.
So:
Short and sweet, easy to just play, but doesn't really have a lot of what i look for. 3/5 and for context in my opinion:
1: 2/5
CD: 3/5
2: 3/5
3k: 5/5
Mania: 5/5
Superstars (Forget it existed while writing LOL): 4/5
Also I should mention this has the best music of all the CLASSIC classics
and also that majin sonic is the funniest shit and you aren't making me find it scary ever
Anyway I think it's one of the stranger classic games, I prefer it to 1 and perhaps 2 but 3k and Mania are absolutely better. Noticeably it's really short if you just run through the game, which I tend to do since that's how I like playing sonic games. Tbh I think that's good. And even then, there's very little disruption to the game itself, all the boss fights being horribly designed (as usual) and particularly easy this time around means they don't get in the way, unlike sonic 2 which I actively don't want to finish once I've beaten wing fortress.
The level design in this game is really odd. It doesn't feel correct at all. I mean look at Stardust Speedway, those acts took me ages to learn in time attack and they're really quick. It doesn't really follow the classic sonic design of high paths being faster, there's kinda just a lot of paths. everywhere. In a level like Quartz Quadrant sticking to the bottom is precisely what you want to do. So yeah, this game is definitely not optimized for time attack, and even outside of time attack it kinda doesn't make sense. I did still enjoy trying to minimize times on these levels, though I'd appreciate if time attack mode didn't include the boss acts.... and it was way less flawed....... like iirc it doesn't let you retry bc you have 0 lives. I think ME might fix this, and I can't comment on Origins because it's origins and i have sonic origins on my computer already
but that's besides the point. I don't find the prospect of getting all the generators particularly enjoyable, and while this special stage is one of my favourites (and the 6th one hates functioning on vanilla decomp for some reason) it's still a chaos emerald-adjacent quest and those aren't my favourite parts of these games.
So:
Short and sweet, easy to just play, but doesn't really have a lot of what i look for. 3/5 and for context in my opinion:
1: 2/5
CD: 3/5
2: 3/5
3k: 5/5
Mania: 5/5
Superstars (Forget it existed while writing LOL): 4/5
Also I should mention this has the best music of all the CLASSIC classics
and also that majin sonic is the funniest shit and you aren't making me find it scary ever
Me realizing I got the wrong computer to play Sonic Forever, Sonic 2 Absolute, and Sonic 3 A.I.R:
(I have a ChromeOS)
Yesterday at 03:57:16
What's the point of the Peel-Out? The back part of it makes you brake, because it's in a figure-eight shape.
Yesterday at 16:18:34
The ost
The US ost is ehh but Japan? They just do it better. For example here's Palmtree Panic Good future ost from US and Japan.
US VERSION
JAPAN VERSION
The US ost is ehh but Japan? They just do it better. For example here's Palmtree Panic Good future ost from US and Japan.
US VERSION
JAPAN VERSION
yeah i LOVE japan too like i mean the screenshots i took from this game on this topic was captured via Genesis Plus GX on Retroarch via the JP version of sonic cd and the us version of palmtree panic good future just sounds like im in the past
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