Pretty much the same. It's been the better part of a decade since it has even crossed my mind.
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Remember Sonic the Hedgehog 4?
- Thread starter NuclearCake
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They weren't great. Good for like a single play through, but zero desire to revisit them whatsoever.
Episode 2's promotion made me laugh though. Hyping up the return of Tails (who isn't playable), Metal Sonic (who was in the previous game) and new enemies and bosses, as if that's something praise-worthy
Episode 2's promotion made me laugh though. Hyping up the return of Tails (who isn't playable), Metal Sonic (who was in the previous game) and new enemies and bosses, as if that's something praise-worthy
Episode 2 is perfectly serviceable as a junkfood sonic platformer, but episode 1 is so horrid. Sometimes people say "Well if it wasnt called Sonic 4" as a defense and so what if it wasnt? Itd still be a platformer with one of the worst feeling jumps this side of a bootleg nes game.
Like everything else in the game, the concept isn't even bad. But absolutely no thought was given to the execution of it. As a result, half of it is struggling with Sonic fighting the physics every time you get bounced around.
It was f'n awful and the controls were horrible.
And then it was split up in two episodes/games. Only bought the first and very rarely do I regret a games purchase this badly.
And then it was split up in two episodes/games. Only bought the first and very rarely do I regret a games purchase this badly.
It was… OK I guess. But certainly not a sequel worth its title. Sonic Mania is not Sonic 4 either, though, being the (albeit brilliant) mash-up it is.
I thought the music was the only good thing about those games. Mainly the composition and melodies, NOT the execution of those songs.
The music was good, but the choice of how they represented it through synth choices and such was horrible. I'm sure if Tee Lopes ever got around to doing remixes of a lot of these songs, they'd sound great. I love his Splash Hill remix:
It's just, the way they chose to represent them in Episode 1 and 2, it was like they were saying, "It's gotta sound retro, like bloops and bleeps!", but managed to make it sound WORSE than what you heard in the Genesis era. They literally sound like when, back in the day, fans would upload very basic sounding MIDIs to their Geocities fan pages. "Hey, look at my Beatles Geocities fan page and listen to this bad sounding 'Hey Jude' MIDI as you look around!"
Oh how I love how 4 was conveniently omitted. :lolI don't think anyone thinks it's a secret
It deserves to be omitted.
I had fun with that game, but I don't want to play it again, unlike the others Sonics.
Such a waste to use the "4" for that game.
Such a waste to use the "4" for that game.
I literally saw it yesterday on the 360 backward compatibility list OP. The craziest thing about it isn´t even how bland and boring it is. The game was episodic, with the 2nd ep taking 1,5 years to come out and also being the last ep. Sonic Colors and Generations came out in between. You know, the 2 kinda good 3D games? That´s wild.
Sega had some balls to name this game friggin Sonic 4. And not the good kind of balls.
This one though was also a mistake because it ommits CD which is in Mania and also happens to be the best of the bunch.
I don't think anyone thinks it's a secret
This one though was also a mistake because it ommits CD which is in Mania and also happens to be the best of the bunch.
I hardly think it's an abomination or anything, but Sega did both it and the classic series a great disservice by slapping the Sonic 4 label on it.
Like others have said, Episode II was decent, so it's funny how much the games media seemed to have cooled on it compared to Episode I.
Just another chapter in the long and storied history of game critics giving a thumb's up to certain Sonic games in the moment, then a few years later pretending they were never good, and also the Genesis games were trash all along too!
Like others have said, Episode II was decent, so it's funny how much the games media seemed to have cooled on it compared to Episode I.
Just another chapter in the long and storied history of game critics giving a thumb's up to certain Sonic games in the moment, then a few years later pretending they were never good, and also the Genesis games were trash all along too!
Episode 2 is honestly a pretty good game. Absolutely not worthy of the title Sonic 4, but it's no worse than the stuff Dimps did on the handhelds.
The first episode is probably one of the worst games I've ever played. I think the biggest problem I have with it is that it manages to be so awful even though it doesn't have a single unique idea of its own.
The first episode is probably one of the worst games I've ever played. I think the biggest problem I have with it is that it manages to be so awful even though it doesn't have a single unique idea of its own.
I'm pretty sure I ended up never actually playing Sonic 4 but I do remember someone on a forum I was on before the game came out back then getting hilariously angry over Sega not using the Genesis design for Sonic when it was being called Sonic 4.
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Sorry for the slight bump but i also came across this video today of this fan project which released around the same time as Sonic 4.
I wonder why this project stopped? Everybody was talking about it back then. I just remember thinking how this fan project made Sonic 4 seem that much worse. lol
I wonder why this project stopped? Everybody was talking about it back then. I just remember thinking how this fan project made Sonic 4 seem that much worse. lol
