This is my first time replaying this since I was a tiny child and uhhhh I guess I don't really like this one all that much.
Sonic controls well enough but there's a certain "walking on eggshells"-ness to Sonic's movement that (barring complete mastery) feels like the most reliable way to play him, I rarely felt confident in using homing attacks to blitz through a level at high speeds as it was almost always more responsive to let your jump slowly reach its apex and then more methodically dash when you knew exactly how Sonic would react. However once you start doing this you'll find that his (and the rest of the playable cast's) levels just feel trivial to play. They're just breezy enough to not be particularly interesting or exciting. That is when the camera, collision and homing detection decides to do what you want, which is most of the time but shit broke frequently enough for me to not understand why someone would give this game a 9-10/10.
Because y'know excellent games generally don't do this.
Music ranges from pretty good to great but it's completely outclassed by SA2 in virtually every way I care about. Like... come on... Metal Harbor...Supporting Me...Aquatic Mine...Pyramid Cave... Get real
To give SA1's OST Some Credit though my standouts are Red Mountain, E102's theme and Unbound for being absolute bangers (the character themes in general are pretty good) and Crush 40 is always amazing.
Unbound and E102's story unearthed a whole treasure trove of nostalgic emotion within me and replaying him was probably my favourite part of the whole thing.
Virtually everything that's good about this game is seemingly better in SA2, although I am prepared to eat my words if that doesn't hold up to my childhood impression either upon replaying. Sorry in advance.
Sonic controls well enough but there's a certain "walking on eggshells"-ness to Sonic's movement that (barring complete mastery) feels like the most reliable way to play him, I rarely felt confident in using homing attacks to blitz through a level at high speeds as it was almost always more responsive to let your jump slowly reach its apex and then more methodically dash when you knew exactly how Sonic would react. However once you start doing this you'll find that his (and the rest of the playable cast's) levels just feel trivial to play. They're just breezy enough to not be particularly interesting or exciting. That is when the camera, collision and homing detection decides to do what you want, which is most of the time but shit broke frequently enough for me to not understand why someone would give this game a 9-10/10.
Because y'know excellent games generally don't do this.
Music ranges from pretty good to great but it's completely outclassed by SA2 in virtually every way I care about. Like... come on... Metal Harbor...Supporting Me...Aquatic Mine...Pyramid Cave... Get real
To give SA1's OST Some Credit though my standouts are Red Mountain, E102's theme and Unbound for being absolute bangers (the character themes in general are pretty good) and Crush 40 is always amazing.
Unbound and E102's story unearthed a whole treasure trove of nostalgic emotion within me and replaying him was probably my favourite part of the whole thing.
Virtually everything that's good about this game is seemingly better in SA2, although I am prepared to eat my words if that doesn't hold up to my childhood impression either upon replaying. Sorry in advance.