Rev Up Those Sonic Cycles

[Goemar]

They're not so much QTEs as visual cues? You don't *need* to do the homing attack or foot stomp or slide when the command for it comes up - and indeed, in later stages you get alt. paths and hidden collectables by going against the grain.

Consider that Greenhill is going to be the first stage. It looks incredibly easy because it *is*. Have fun getting the S-Rank, though.

Unless the re-releases were different from the Dreamcast one I would never call Adventure 2 a good game. The Sonic and Shadow levels were "ok" but no where near enough of them and the rest of the character's played like crap. Hell Sonic 4 was more enjoyable than SA 2 and that had some pretty shitty physics.

If they want me to love the new Sonic levels they better have some damn good music. The Adventure games had awesome music, something which has been sadly missing.

Motherfuck, I hate how these threads make me look like a fanboy.
I can't hate on SA2 because it's a) my first Sonic game, b) a game I but a nuts number of hours into (and I didn't even really get many A ranks), and c) still really fun. Some of the mid-game Tails/Eggman stages were samey, but I still dip into it to explore Mad Space or get an A in Final Chase (I STILL CANT. FUCK.). Also the multiplayer. Grind Races. Yesssss.

While the games after SA2 have fluctuated in quality, the music has pretty much always been good. With the exception of Chronicles (and Shadow/06 on the grounds that I've not played them), I can't think of a modern Sonic with bad music.

Sonic Heroes main theme made Sonic seem super uncool. Live and Learn in SA2 made the final boss awesome even though it sucked huge balls. That's the difference I'm on about.

I wasn't a huge fan of SA2 on release and after going back to play it again all my good memories of it seemed to be mistakes. The adventure games are more fun to watch then really play, they look awesome but don't play so great.

And then we have Shadow. I mean Shadow was cool, but then Sega ruined him by bringing him back with no memory, or a robot or some other crap reason to have him back after face grinding the Earth from space. So now one of the main reasons I liked SA 2 when it's disc first clicked into my Dreamcast has been taken away from me.


And for the record I thought Shadow's theme "I am me" (or something like that) was the only good thing about that game.


Edit: After seeing Grooveman's edit I should make clear I meant mostly the theme songs for the characters. Not all the music. My bad.