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Sonic 2 is fucking. Good.
- Thread starter Mekanos
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I found this out by accident and it turned out to be my favorite way to play the game.
My brother always tried to get him the Chaos Emeralds since he wasn't good at the special stages, one time I refused to do so. He sat behind me waiting for me to get all 7 of them. As soon as I got all of them and transformed into Super Sonic. He decided to reset my Sega Genesis at the time. I was upset thinking that I had to start over, but little I know that you would get to restart the game with ALL 7 Chaos Emeralds, so you could transform into Super Sonic right away when you got 50 rings.
Since that day, I always restarted the game after getting the 7 chaos emeralds.
Sonic 2, Sonic 3&K and Sonic Mania are fantastic
My brother always tried to get him the Chaos Emeralds since he wasn't good at the special stages, one time I refused to do so. He sat behind me waiting for me to get all 7 of them. As soon as I got all of them and transformed into Super Sonic. He decided to reset my Sega Genesis at the time. I was upset thinking that I had to start over, but little I know that you would get to restart the game with ALL 7 Chaos Emeralds, so you could transform into Super Sonic right away when you got 50 rings.
Since that day, I always restarted the game after getting the 7 chaos emeralds.
Sonic 2, Sonic 3&K and Sonic Mania are fantastic
As much as I think Chemical Plant Zone is one of the most iconic levels in the franchise (which I don't think is really controversial, it's probably the third after Green Hill and the Sonic Adventure Orca chase), it is kind of a momentum-killer. I've had a lot of casual re-playthroughs of this game just stop cold because the layout for Chemical Plant's water stuff is confusing and frustrating, with lots of waiting for gizmos to move, hazards that stop you in your tracks, and pits that send you backwards in the level if you miss a finicky jump.
Sonic 2's still probably the peak of the Genesis games for me, but Chemical Plant Zone is an early hurdle.
Sonic 2's still probably the peak of the Genesis games for me, but Chemical Plant Zone is an early hurdle.
Yes, exactly :P
Anyway, I went back to play the iphone version again yesterday. Widescreen really improves all the Sonic games. I wish the 8 bit games also had widescreen remakes.
Sonic 2 was my first console game. I used to play on the Amiga before that.
It also started my obsession with cut content in games, when I accidentally stumbled on Hidden Palace Zone while messing with an Action Replay. That zone, and its music, are still special to me.
It does fall apart towards the end though. As a kid I was apparently fine playing it through over and over, no matter the level, but now I just wanna turn it off when I reach Sky Chase Zone. Nothing after this point is any fun (though Wing Fortress has some cool stuff here and there).
Speaking of Wing Fortress, it's like a Dimps Sonic level, bottomless pits everywhere. I guess that was their favourite.
The original Taxman version is now the legacy version and no longer updated or supported. The current release is riddled with ads.
Sad times.
It also started my obsession with cut content in games, when I accidentally stumbled on Hidden Palace Zone while messing with an Action Replay. That zone, and its music, are still special to me.
It does fall apart towards the end though. As a kid I was apparently fine playing it through over and over, no matter the level, but now I just wanna turn it off when I reach Sky Chase Zone. Nothing after this point is any fun (though Wing Fortress has some cool stuff here and there).
Speaking of Wing Fortress, it's like a Dimps Sonic level, bottomless pits everywhere. I guess that was their favourite.
It's even worse now.
The original Taxman version is now the legacy version and no longer updated or supported. The current release is riddled with ads.
Sad times.
It's arguably the weakest of the original trilogy. It's just SO uneven; it smacks of a rushed development schedule (which is exactly what happened. Really, the amount of stuff that they crammed in and only got working in the final week of development is astounding! THIS game was the original Crunch Development model!)
While it does have some amazing highs (Like Chemical Plant Zone), it also has some real lows... like Wing Fortress Zone. It's the perennial example of a mixed bag; and you can feel that its development team was one of two halves (which it literally was; it was half US, half Japan and it really shows!)
The game really runs out of steam towards the end in particular. It stacks its best ideas in the first half and becomes a bit of a drag towards the end. While its highs are way better than Sonic 1? It's just too inconsistent to be a better game overall.
Sonic 2 overall is actually pretty sloppily made; owing to a ridiculously ambitious development schedule and a big culture clash within its development team at STI. It's tale of development is one of the most fascinating in all of the 16-bit era! And its absolutely evident within the game itself.
While it does have some amazing highs (Like Chemical Plant Zone), it also has some real lows... like Wing Fortress Zone. It's the perennial example of a mixed bag; and you can feel that its development team was one of two halves (which it literally was; it was half US, half Japan and it really shows!)
The game really runs out of steam towards the end in particular. It stacks its best ideas in the first half and becomes a bit of a drag towards the end. While its highs are way better than Sonic 1? It's just too inconsistent to be a better game overall.
Sonic 2 overall is actually pretty sloppily made; owing to a ridiculously ambitious development schedule and a big culture clash within its development team at STI. It's tale of development is one of the most fascinating in all of the 16-bit era! And its absolutely evident within the game itself.
In a similar vein, Chemical Plant Zone was originally due to come between Oil Ocean and Metropolis for a similar style of progression, which also explains the sudden difficulty spike from the first zone.
Nah. The only non all emeralds ending in the series that's better than the all emeralds ending is the non emeralds ending in a Knuckles & Knuckles playthrough of Mania.
Git gud :p
Seriously though, I don't think Death Egg is bad, but it takes time figuring out the patterns of Mecha Sonic and the Death Egg Robo.
Chemical Plant Zone would probably be my favourite zone in the entire series. The music and platforming is perfect for me.
I never knew this! That sounds like a damn fun time, I will have to give it a shot sometime soon.
I find the special stages in Sonic 2 kind of a pain to get through sometimes, but the fact you can get them so constantly makes them easy enough to repeat either way. I love how it is technically possible to get all of the emeralds before the end of Emerald Hill Zone act 2 as well. That's a fun challenge just trying to properly plan that!
