Comment on My new baby
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
SANIC
They’re not really supposed to be played like Mario. Sonic is about getting through the level aa quick as you can without dying.
To be fair, the game doesn’t really reward you for doing that (besides the time bonus). But the levels are designed for it.
You gotta be trolling
Most platformers you just keep going to the right.
Sonic has you going left, up, down, and all around. Sometimes you hit dead ends. Sometimes you don’t even have much control over where you go (such as in the casino levels). It was frustrating.
You never played Metroid?
If the goal of Metroid was to get to the right most side of the map as fast as possible, I wouldn’t have liked it if it had the same map.
I was at the casino level for hours trying to go past the tubes. What a dumb idea.
I had your same feeling on Sonic but with the time I started to enjoy its chaos, really an unique platform for the time.
ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The main purpose of the sonic games was to show off how the 16 bit genesis could scroll faster than the 8 bit nes