Good god I finally did it.
I managed to stomach a full Robot Generator run of Sonic CD.
Did this remotely change my outlook on this game that I have fervently hated for the past year?
No.
Sonic CD is still a game where I do not get the inherent appeal of its setup. The search for the Robot Generators can either feel superficial or extremely tedious and it isn't so much based on your skill as it is which level you're in and the gimmicks surrounding it.
I had a way more miserable time in both Collision Chaos and Wacky Workbench than I did in any other area because their level gimmicks center around springs or bouncing mechanics and you wind up not really having much control over Sonic. The pinball physics here are nowhere near as good as Sonic 2's Casino Night Zone or Sonic 3K's Carnival Night Zone and it just makes the whole exploration aspect exhausting and genuinely unpleasant.
Y'know what else makes exploring unpleasant? The timer. Honestly for what they wanted to go for in this game they either needed to extend the amount of time you have per stage or just get rid of it all together because with how the Robot Generator shit works. I timed out twice in this game looking for Robot Generators specifically in the two zones I mentioned earlier because the constant bouncing would cause me to wind up losing a fuck ton of time while searching.
I simply don't understand why this game suddenly started getting praise in recent years, genuinely. It doesn't commit to either gameplay style it tries to go for. You either have one of the most boring "Go Right to Win" 2D Sonic games where there's barely any difficulty because enemies feel so spread out, or you have an exhaustive exploration game that can get outright miserable just from the sheer tedium of it all.
At least I know that I never have to go back to this game anymore, I did the one thing I hadn't done and I no longer care to experience Sonic CD any further. It has a good soundtrack, it looks very pretty but fuck if it isn't one of the most unpleasant Classic Sonic titles I've ever experienced.
Why is it that all the games featuring Metal Sonic as a direct antagonist suck the most in this series?
I managed to stomach a full Robot Generator run of Sonic CD.
Did this remotely change my outlook on this game that I have fervently hated for the past year?
No.
Sonic CD is still a game where I do not get the inherent appeal of its setup. The search for the Robot Generators can either feel superficial or extremely tedious and it isn't so much based on your skill as it is which level you're in and the gimmicks surrounding it.
I had a way more miserable time in both Collision Chaos and Wacky Workbench than I did in any other area because their level gimmicks center around springs or bouncing mechanics and you wind up not really having much control over Sonic. The pinball physics here are nowhere near as good as Sonic 2's Casino Night Zone or Sonic 3K's Carnival Night Zone and it just makes the whole exploration aspect exhausting and genuinely unpleasant.
Y'know what else makes exploring unpleasant? The timer. Honestly for what they wanted to go for in this game they either needed to extend the amount of time you have per stage or just get rid of it all together because with how the Robot Generator shit works. I timed out twice in this game looking for Robot Generators specifically in the two zones I mentioned earlier because the constant bouncing would cause me to wind up losing a fuck ton of time while searching.
I simply don't understand why this game suddenly started getting praise in recent years, genuinely. It doesn't commit to either gameplay style it tries to go for. You either have one of the most boring "Go Right to Win" 2D Sonic games where there's barely any difficulty because enemies feel so spread out, or you have an exhaustive exploration game that can get outright miserable just from the sheer tedium of it all.
At least I know that I never have to go back to this game anymore, I did the one thing I hadn't done and I no longer care to experience Sonic CD any further. It has a good soundtrack, it looks very pretty but fuck if it isn't one of the most unpleasant Classic Sonic titles I've ever experienced.
Why is it that all the games featuring Metal Sonic as a direct antagonist suck the most in this series?
DrDelicious
1 year ago