There's an unfathomable amount of adoration I have for Sonic's first 8-bit adventure that is sorely missed from pretty much every other journey that would be released on Master System and Game Gear.
It almost feels like Sonic's first canonical conflict with Dr. Eggman, what with Egghead's first genius tactic to deploy against the blue blur being to harmlessly fly overhead and seemingly taunt the rodent before eating shit and find himself covered in ash in what would be a reoccurring situation for years to come. It's a minor thing, but that's just my personal headcanon explanation for why the first boss fight is a tad underwhelming. It's actually even dumber in the Game Gear version, because you can hit him while he's flying around in that one. A strange difference to have Eggman miscalculate his flight trajectory by about one pixel.
Map screens!! Hot damn! I love you already! 16-bit Sonic 1 is already jealous of it's younger sibling's stellar scope of traveling from the lush habitats of Sonic and friends to Eggman's dystopia of endgame capitalism, tediously slow-moving water stages, and probably tons of OSHA violations. A most terrible person. Not even I would be mean enough to subject my worst enemies to sluggish labyrinths of water straight out of the septic system of my scientifically sound mean bean factory. "I promise you I would never do such a thing." I say as I hide the big red button at my computer desk that absolutely isn't connected with a trap door mechanism.
Slightly shoddy collision and some whack death zones in Jungle Zone Act 2 do little to sour my experience here. I find myself only getting comfy as I tag with my hedgehog buddy to take down the cackling vaguely walrus-looking opposition for the umpteenth time. How many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man? You didn't even really use the chaos emeralds in this one! You just threw them around the island as if they were Dracula's body parts! What was the plan there Egg McMuffin? Bah.
The very first outing of Yuzo Koshiro's company Ancient! Quite a treat to find out that the master himself did the music! Bamboozling range to go from the cuteness of 8-bit Green Hill to Streets of Rage 3's craziness in only three years. If I ever get angry at the guy for some reason, they can rest easy knowing that they only need to start playing Bridge Zone to make me suddenly have rivers flowing from my eyes and be rendered completely helpless.
Genuinely good and underrated! My own nostalgia be damned!
It almost feels like Sonic's first canonical conflict with Dr. Eggman, what with Egghead's first genius tactic to deploy against the blue blur being to harmlessly fly overhead and seemingly taunt the rodent before eating shit and find himself covered in ash in what would be a reoccurring situation for years to come. It's a minor thing, but that's just my personal headcanon explanation for why the first boss fight is a tad underwhelming. It's actually even dumber in the Game Gear version, because you can hit him while he's flying around in that one. A strange difference to have Eggman miscalculate his flight trajectory by about one pixel.
Map screens!! Hot damn! I love you already! 16-bit Sonic 1 is already jealous of it's younger sibling's stellar scope of traveling from the lush habitats of Sonic and friends to Eggman's dystopia of endgame capitalism, tediously slow-moving water stages, and probably tons of OSHA violations. A most terrible person. Not even I would be mean enough to subject my worst enemies to sluggish labyrinths of water straight out of the septic system of my scientifically sound mean bean factory. "I promise you I would never do such a thing." I say as I hide the big red button at my computer desk that absolutely isn't connected with a trap door mechanism.
Slightly shoddy collision and some whack death zones in Jungle Zone Act 2 do little to sour my experience here. I find myself only getting comfy as I tag with my hedgehog buddy to take down the cackling vaguely walrus-looking opposition for the umpteenth time. How many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man? You didn't even really use the chaos emeralds in this one! You just threw them around the island as if they were Dracula's body parts! What was the plan there Egg McMuffin? Bah.
The very first outing of Yuzo Koshiro's company Ancient! Quite a treat to find out that the master himself did the music! Bamboozling range to go from the cuteness of 8-bit Green Hill to Streets of Rage 3's craziness in only three years. If I ever get angry at the guy for some reason, they can rest easy knowing that they only need to start playing Bridge Zone to make me suddenly have rivers flowing from my eyes and be rendered completely helpless.
Genuinely good and underrated! My own nostalgia be damned!
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30+ years of kicking ass, could literally fall asleep comfortably listening to them simply fiddling with their synthesizer.
Faith is My Pillar has to be one of the best JRPG battle themes ever made.
BlazingWaters
1 year ago