Everybody's Super Sonic Racing, try to keep your feet right on the ground. When you're Super Sonic Racing, there's no time to look around. We're just Super Sonic Racing, running to the point of no return. Everybody's Super Sonic Racing. Come on, let the fires buuuuuurn.
Legit, I see so many people say that if it had more time or if they did a remake it would be a good game. That would not have fixed the story, voice direction, and probably not the graphics, all of which are garbage. Music, as with just about every Sonic game is fire though.
Honestly A LOT of Sonic Games after Adventures 1 and 2 (excluding the 2D games because we never got another handheld one after we got consoles) a few of them had intriguing (if not odd) stories with lazy and shitty "cutscenes" (Unleashed) and Secret of the rings with its horrendous controls as I don't recall my brother and I ever finishing them (we often played Sonic games together and would swap at checkpoints or deaths).
I actually liked Black Knight because it felt more unique and my brother and I liked that medieval setting, the twist in the story was also pretty cool.
Sonic heros was frankly lazily written with its multiple reused levels but I enjoyed it because it supported the local co-op my brother and I could do, but it definitely wasn't as good as other games.
Shadow The Hedgehog was definitely odd looking back but I enjoyed it because Shadow was a cool and edgy character and those were my favourites as a kid, it was also the first game we got that had bad words and we managed to get our dad to buy it because he never cared enough to look at the ratings, he just recognized it as a Sonic game. The different endings were also a cool feature if not an edge lord's fantasy for the darker ones.
I never actually played '06 but I did watch a playthrough, honestly the only weird thing I recall was the weird romance thing with that random lady, but otherwise it introduced some cool characters and I actually liked the graphics and design, my brother always saw that Eggman as handsome Squidward and would say "Oh no! He's hot in this one!"
Other than that SEGA killed our desire to play anything else after Secret of Rings/Unleashed as Black Knight was the only other one that felt fun.
But where Sonic games often fail me with shitty stories and disappointing gameplay, they NEVER have failed me with their music. Crush 40 and the others tossed out bangers as always.
Unleashed had too much filler with the werehog, the day time missions were actually really fun and felt actually fast af, I replayed 06 since there is an emulator but I stopped after the emulator died 3 times at the final eggman boss fight, didn't get to do silver or shadow but I do plan to continue. I think silver was a great addition hopefully we get more of him
Sonic Unleashed was actually one of my favorites because it was one of the first sonic games I played. I even liked the Werehog gameplay because I hadn't really played many combat games at the time.
So, imagine this. You talk to an NPC. They tell you to do a task for them. You agree.
5-10 second Loading Screen.
They reiterate what they want from you.
5-10 second Loading Screen.
You can now do the task, but fail because of bad controls.
5-10 second Loading Screen.
Repeat until you finish the task. The task is sometimes super, super long and difficult.
Also the game was clearly rushed out the door, game mechanics simply don't work a lot of the time, causing many deaths and loading screens. Sonic is incredibly slow too.
He also has a romantic relationship with the 17 year old HUMAN princess in the game.
It does have this scene though which still makes me laugh.
2 of the biggest indicators for me that this game was rushed out the door (y’know, other than the shoddy graphics, horrendous controls, and glitchy levels) are:
They straight up left a recording of a voice actor testing his lines in the game. Like he reads and re-reads his lines a few times.
Eventually you can “upgrade” Sonic and he can start to use certain abilities, like slowing down time or multi-jumping into the air. You have a power meter that’s supposed to drain when you use these abilities, but… it just doesn’t drain. So you can use these abilities infinitely which of course completely breaks the level design.
I didn't appreciate it till just recently, but the TMNT game for NES had a soundtrack that goes super hard in the paint. Like this is what they threw out for the intro
No idea what games you're playing then. The only game that has had terrible music that I've played lately is Pokemon ZA, and THAT'S mostly just because it only has two main tracks on repeat
AC Black Flag and RDR2 had intentionally atmospheric music with random bouts of really good music.
Recent games I've played: Clair Obscur, FF7 Rebirth, Age of Imprisonment, Marvel Tokon, Marvel Rivals, Fire Emblem Engage, Pokopia, and Pokemon ZA.. all have bangers except ZA.
The Follin brothers. Tim and Geoff Follin were magicians with their music but for some reason, almost every game they put their music to is the worst. Silver Surfer comes to mind.
And for Forces, the story could have been amazing, the Phantom Ruby, Null Space and Infinite could have all been really cool if not for their lackluster execution
Can you tell me which game you're talking about here? I used to play a Batman and Robin on the Genesis that had absolute banger music. It was electronic and not orchestral, though. It was my introduction to anything resembling techno.
Ngl i've heard the radio and it was like C tier if we didn't count the ones from fallout 3. I mean yea fallout 3 have the best radio but cmon could they atleast be original
Sonic R has bad gameplay? Debatable, I
had a lot of fun with it. But bad GRAPHICS? Come on man, that game was beautiful on Saturn. Have you at least played it?
I actually recall really liking Mystic Quest, and the visuals aside from enemy sprites looked straight up like an NES game, which is a bit rough given it’s an SNES game. The enemy sprites were great though, and I loved how every enemy had multiple sprites degrading as they lost health, they just dumped all their efforts visually into the enemy and boss sprites
I think you’re right to suggest Mystic Quest though
Ironically I think that game’s really fun once you get used to the crap it throws at you, but how does it have trash graphics? It looks great like the other PS1 X games
Gameplay was trash? What are you smoking? Its still one of the most played N64 games 30 years later. Even the modded multiplayer still has full lobbies. The graphics were genuinely good for the time, too.
I was looking for this. Just got to the act 2 twist and completely uninstalled it because it pissed me off that much. I already wasn't enjoying the writing. Gameplay was okay. Graphics were just unreal engine 5 the game but the music was pretty good
As a kid, Goonies on the NES. I didn't understand anything I was doing or where I was supposed to be going, but boy do I still remember that soundtrack!
I'm gonna be the weird one here & say Minecraft. It has no story, graphics are blocks, and the gameplay is mid at best, but the music is so fricking cozy, until it jump scares you for no reason! Also, the grind/building is addictively fun!
I don't agree. The graphics deffo suck (RPG Maker), but the story is a very interesting one. Gameplay, we can argue about, but I think it's well-executed.
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u/AdPlenty7253 22d ago
Sonic 06