Sonic CD Re-release

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I wouldn't have minded as much if it weren't a Sonic game, or at the very least if it wasn't supposed to be a DIRECT sequel to the original games. To me, the jump to me was like the original Metroid to Metroid Fusion in differences ignoring the fun factor.

See, but the difference is that Metroid Fusion wasn't designed to be a lazy iPhone game to cash in a "retro" trend with games.

Sonic 4 being fun or not is subjective. It being lazy and being made with a small budget as a side side project, having wonky controls and being extremely short, specially considering its high price are factual.

If they called it "Sonic Portable" and released it for the iPhone only, it'd be a pretty good iPhone game, but of course, SEGA really wanted to cash in on nostalgia, without any consideration to the quality of it when you step it up by making it a XBLA/PSN title and by having a whole fucking year of SoA spouting how it plays exactly like the classics and it is the most true sequel to Sonic 3. But even without it trying to try to convince us that it's exactly like the classic titles, it still falls short specially because it's a really tiny title beatable in less than 2 hours with few replay factor.

I'll admit that some levels, like Splash Hill acts 1 and 3 were kinda fun to play, although still falling short in some aspects due to, well, Dimps. And while just a couple of them are truly shitty, most of them are just, idk, I guess the best word to describe it is passable. It wasn't a frustrating experience, but once you're done with it you cannot come up with any reasons to replay it. And, you know, this is incredibly bad for a short game to be beaten like this.

Having an alienated fandom that doesn't demand from SEGA better designed games are what makes them keep fucking getting away with re-using the same fucking things without any serious thought to the design of the gameplay other than "how to make Sonic look cool while running. oh let's add a loop here and a rail yeah they'll love watching (not playing) our game". I suspect they might have even unlearned how to design levels in any other way that isn't the way that Modern Sonic levels are designed, look at Classic Sonic's levels in Sonic Generations. They are designed exactly the same like Modern Sonic (straightforward, lots of running, enemies are just static sandbags, blandness, item monitors are scarce and seem to have been added as an afterthought, since Modern Sonic doesn't have items in his gameplay). The only thing that is classic Sonic about it is the way that they have designed the levels in "layers" cleverly, but Modern Sonic kinda has that too, Sonic Unleashed already did that, and Sonic Colors did it even better than those two games.


Also: Sonic CD is not available on WiiWare because Nintendo has a shitty size restriction that doesn't allow the game to fit in. Remember that Sonic CD's soundtrack is made out of actual music files and not MIDI. The only way to have Sonic CD on the WiiWare would be to have the soundtrack sound like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSNJYMmMZpg

Still, the game is going to be available on Steam, come on, are you going to say that you cannot have access to a PC and you're typing from the Wii Opera Browser?