(I played the Steam release with mods to make it like the Dreamcast release and a couple other small, mostly graphical enhancements. You might say it's not pure, but it's the best way to play this game!)
Wow. I loved this game to bits a pieces. For the series first jump into a real 3D game? It was amazing! The graphics, for 1998, are incredible, the controls are... well, this is the best Sonic has probably ever controlled in 3D. Every level is so much fun to go through and find your own path to complete.
It's not perfect... Big the Cat's stages are barely tolerable, and that's once you look in the manual to know how to play them, and the camera is very 1998-3D-platformer-esque (it's clunky and sometimes problematic). And the storytelling could use some work. For some characters, like Big or Knuckles who's stories make you groan in boredom or facepalm in stupidity respectively, there are other character stories who pick up the slack like Gamma's beautiful arc and Sonic's fun and simple journey.
But at the end of the day, I mostly recommend it! I think it's a decent introduction to the 3D Sonic games for anyone, and for any Sonic fans who haven't played this yet, what are you waiting for? But PLEASE play this with an open mind, mostly for the fact that this came out in 1998 on new technology, so yes the cutsccents are rough and the camera is clunky, but these issues weren't exclusive to Sonic at the time, you know?
Wow. I loved this game to bits a pieces. For the series first jump into a real 3D game? It was amazing! The graphics, for 1998, are incredible, the controls are... well, this is the best Sonic has probably ever controlled in 3D. Every level is so much fun to go through and find your own path to complete.
It's not perfect... Big the Cat's stages are barely tolerable, and that's once you look in the manual to know how to play them, and the camera is very 1998-3D-platformer-esque (it's clunky and sometimes problematic). And the storytelling could use some work. For some characters, like Big or Knuckles who's stories make you groan in boredom or facepalm in stupidity respectively, there are other character stories who pick up the slack like Gamma's beautiful arc and Sonic's fun and simple journey.
But at the end of the day, I mostly recommend it! I think it's a decent introduction to the 3D Sonic games for anyone, and for any Sonic fans who haven't played this yet, what are you waiting for? But PLEASE play this with an open mind, mostly for the fact that this came out in 1998 on new technology, so yes the cutsccents are rough and the camera is clunky, but these issues weren't exclusive to Sonic at the time, you know?