So my feelings on this collection are kinda mixed overall, on one hand, this is definitely the best way to experience these classics on consoles and the like (offically at least). The wide-screen and HD visuals along with the neat animated segments for each game, and the general convenience of being on consoles help out this collections overall worth when it comes strictly to the games. The remasters themselves are great, adding a great tight gameplay feel to the games along with some great extra bits added in. This is outside of a few glitches, some major and minor, and sonic 1 where I felt a bit of delay which was pretty bad.

My main complaints come with some of the extra content feels lacking. There are some songs from sonic 3 that are left out, sonic spinball, 3d blast, and chaotix only having their music in the game reeks of laziness, the recompossed music sucks of course, i get not being able to get the rights for the tracks but you could at least make the replacement tracks good, and other general issues with content bring down the collection. The way this game has been handled with its realease was also messy. Sonic Team making many different ways to just buy 5 dollars of extra content felt like forced DLC and complicated things with the collection. Sonic Team also using the wrong build of the Sonic 3 remaster was also a shame to see, even though I think headcannon did a great job with their remaster. The delisting of the standalone remasters on digital store places is also awful, there are some people that find that more convenient and have had those versions available for things such as fan projects like sonic air, a baffling move on every front

All in all, it's not a perfect collection, and the issues I have with some of the extras don't bring down the fact that these are the versions of the games I will come back to play with in the future, but maybe try and see if you can catch this one on sale, because the 40 dollar price is not worth it, maybe 30 to 20 dollars is an appropriate deal

Was reccomended to by Teddie_Fazbear

"You can't even do anything, so don't even try. Get some help." Rawest bar to ever be rapped...

I like this a tiny bit more than sonic 2 I think. definitely has favorite soundtrack and visual flare out of any of the classic sonic games. The level design is also great for the most part, I like the more maze like design it really compliments classic sonic well. The environmental storytelling here is really solid, too, as funny as that is to say for a classic sonic game. The main theme of nature vs. technology is taken up to 11 here and i kinda love it.

My main issue with the game is going for the true ending though. Time traveling could've been more fine tuned, there's a limited amount of opportunities and they're all only one time shots to get them right. You also have to run for way too long in order to time travel, it doesn't really work with the level design philosophy of this game. On top of that it feels like the ratio of future to past signs is 3:1, frustrating because the future is basically pointless. the machine hunting itself is fine, can be a bit hard in some areas, but overall pretty fun.
EDIT: on another playthrough, I actually found the machine hunts to be very fun and fit it with the overall design of the game.

Despite my grievances with the game however, it was all around a pretty fun time. Also helps that those greviences can be completely avoided on other playthoughs....

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"Brazil"

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