And I still have two continues left

[prog]

I just played Sonic (via Virtual Console) for the first time in 15 years and I totally got all the way up to the second-to-last stage in one game.

I cannot get over how well-designed the levels are. I was too young to appreciate it way back then!

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Also my Blue Snowball came and it's freaking huge, the size of a grapefruit. The pop filter I purchased separately clamps onto its little stand very nicely.

Comments

[chocorisu.livejournal.com]

Sonic is still one of my favourite games ever, Sonic 2 and Sonic CD beating it by a little. I know every inch of those levels, even the bits you're not supposed to get to, and they're magnificent.

[prog.livejournal.com]

I probably played more Sonic 2. I had Sonic CD but I never really got into it.

[karlvonl.livejournal.com]

I'm currently working on Sonic Rush for DS. Compared to the old Genesis Sonic games, the level designs seem more gimicky and less inspired, but that might be just because there's no real incentive to explore multiple paths through each level, so you just zip through as quickly as you can. Once you've done Act 1 and 2 of each zone, and successfully grabbed the chaos emerald along the way, there's no reason to go back. At least Sonic Advance 3 made you explore every nook and cranny of each level to find all of the stupid little blue "Chao" creatures before you even had a chance to try to earn the chaos emerald. And of course the Genesis games didn't have a save feature, so your incentive to explore was based on trying to break the tedium of replaying a level you've already done 30 times before.