You’re right, but anyway a game based on speed and fast reaction is not really fun (to me). Coming from the classics, Modern Sonic is a less fun experience.

And also modern Sonic games have tracks with vocals, which are really cheesy in my opinion, and makes the game feel even more like a racing game 🙁

Also, Super Mario World was an evolution of what Nintendo learnt from Mario Bros 3. Sonic 1 was the first attempt on creating a new gameplay style. They fixed/improved a lot of things for Sonic 2:

-Tails.
-Coop (not very cool, though) and versus modes (VERY fun).
-Zones had 2 acts, therefore we had more different levels while having more or less the same length.
-New and much more fun special stage, that you could reach during the stage and not at the end.
-Super Sonic.
-Spin dash.

Then came Sonic 3, which, if it had been launched as originally intended (Sonic 3 + Sonic & Knuckles) it had been perfection: Knuckles, new elemental shields with powerups, new bonus AND special stages (the great Blue Spheres), track remixes for second acts, first act bosses, second act starting where first act finished, environment changes, new and cooler sprites, Tails could fly, Sonic had insta-shield, Knuckles could glide and climb, cutscenes… Sonic 3 & Knuckles was to Sonic series what Super Mario World was to Super Mario Bros 1.

Classic Sonic may not accomplish “good” game design, but it was an original and fun experience.

Now, Modern Sonic is all about speed, and to me, you enjoy the game more by watching someone else playing it (so you can see the beautiful environments) than playing it yourself. It’s almost a racing game, and from time to time you press a button so you don’t loose speed. Not fun in my opinion.

Fortunately, we’re getting Mania next Tuesday 🙂

As I said, parsing. Sonic would control better with prompts such as the reaction command button in response to oncoming hazards at high speed.

I don’t understand. Can you be more specific about Sonic taking action notes from Kingdom Hearts especially since the article is talking about the older titles? They’re both completely different genres of video games.

Sonic Lost World? Sonic is much slower and there is exploration and platforming? Or are we labeling all modern Sonic games in the “boost” category now? Even though games like Sonic Unleashed and even Sonic Generations is more boost heavy, those games still has multiple routes (and you use werehog mainly to explore) and Colors has plenty of platforming.

Yes it was to promote the “BLAST PROCESSING” but technically every game can be done very quickly when mastered (Doom, Mario 64 and many speedrunned games). It’s just that people likes to complain when they don’t go fast but also complain when they go “too fast”…