What Is The Best 2D Sonic Game?
The classic Sonic games are especially dear to my heart, so I know how hard it is to decide among them. I’m sure I’m not the only one that feels this way, so I wanted to get everyone’s opinion one which ones are the best. Since I’m not overly cruel, I’ll let you choose up to two games.
(And if you must know what my choices are, they are Sonic 2 and Sonic CD)
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Errr why no Sonic 3 and Knuckles? So I guess I have to vote for Sonic and Knuckles…
Sonic Chaos on MS/GG, that is, was and will always be my favourite Sonic.
Peffico, I didn’t want to get into the whole combos thing.
If you like the Knuckles part most, choose S&K. But you could pick both 😉
I voted Sonic CD and “other” since Sonic Pocket Adventure on the NGPC isn’t on the list and it is one of my favourite games.
I would have voted “Sonic 2” and “Sonic 3&Knuckles” if that had been a possibility. S3K is much more than the sum of its parts thanks to the way it fills in the empty spots in its masterfully told story.
Frankly, I never play the game in two pieces, since it seems as if it wasn’t envisioned that way, and separating them was just a trick to meet a deadline and sell more copies.
I did Sonic 2 and Knuckles’ Chaotix. No matter what you say, I think it’s an awesome game.
Oh heck ya. S2&K was the best. I love how Knuckles completely breaks that game.
I guess I’m just going to have to pick Sonic 2 and S&K.
Yeah, like being able to fly right over certain levels? 🙂
Personally, it’d be Sonic 3 + Knuckles, because otherwise it feels like an incomplete game, but together it’s the longest and most complete Sonic 2D game.
And I hated…. HATED Sonic CD, but that’s just me, I guess… 😕
Even though I didn’t vote for it, I have to say I liked Sonic Rush more than the original Sonic.
Sonic 2 all the way!!
I could play that for days 😀
While the various Genesis sequels tweaked and improved the overall gameplay, the original Sonic the Hedgehog remains the closest to my heart. Nothing quite beats the buzz of sprinting through the technicolor paradise of Green Hill Zone for the very first time.
Hard to pick, Sonic 3 was awesome, but I also loved Sonic and Knuckles. In the end, I flipped a coin and went with Sonic and Knuckles.
I think the first two Sonic games were the most streamlined and playable. I am not saying the others aren’t, just that the first two seemed to carry a distinctive “magic.”
sonic 3 & knuckles combine.
those were the days when good sonic games were created.
until today i still play sonic 1 – knuckles + sonic cd.
I can’t imagine why Sonic CD is doing so well. I mean, yeah, it had a FANTASTIC soundtrack (the Japanese version had a DOUBLE-FANTASTIC soundtrack), but the time travel aspect interfered with gameplay. There are few things more annoying than having to go real slow and backtracking because you accidentally got a future sign instead of a past sign.
And the spin dash was borked.
Sonic 3k is really the game sonic 3 and sonic and knuckles was supposed to be, whenever I talk about these games to others I always refer to them as a whole and thus It seems wrong to have them listed seperatly here. I don’t like sonic 3 more than sonic 2, i don’t like sonic and knuckles more than sonic 2. but I sure do like sonic 3 + sonic and knuckles more than sonic 2.
@Covarr — I think you either love or hate Sonic CD. Yes, the time travel can interupt a blazing fast run, but some of really liked the Time Travel element as there was some strategy behind it if you keep track of scores and such.
It was a strange creature as it was developed by a split Sonic Team (see Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_the_Hedgehog_CD#Development
Some parts of it almost feel like Sonic 1.5. There is an equivalent of the spin dash, but you hold up instead of down and kinda have to charge it up a bit more.
It did have it’s rough edges and I would have liked to see a real follow-up to it — think Sonic 2’s refinement compared to the original applied to Sonic CD.
@Gord Allott: Exactly. Looking at the story, the design, the Knux-specific level pieces in S3, and the S&K code left over in S3, it’s clear that they were meant to be one game. The difficulty ramp also seems to support this, as S&K is generally harder than S3. Admittedly, the difficulty seems to go way down in Mushroom Hill, but it’s still harder than Angel Island, and it goes right back up again for Flying Battery Zone (which is about as hard as Launch Base), suggesting that MHZ was tweaked to be easier at the last minute so it could fit into a “first level” slot.
Also, look at the Angel Island bosses, which are straightforward and very typical for the first bosses in a Sonic game, and compare it to the wood chopping oddity that you saw in Mushroom Hill. They have never put a boss that interesting in the first level, except in S&K. And then there’s the fact that S&K has a series of bosses in a row at the end (bigass robot eggman in Death Egg, then Doomsday if you have all the emeralds), as opposed to S3, which ends with a fairly ordinary (albeit rather hard) level boss but no real final game boss.
And then there were the save slots. S3 had save slots for S3&K, further proving that they’d planned the game linking from the start, rather than adding it into S&K as an afterthought.
It’s clear that these were designed as one game. It’s about like the Golden Sun games on GBA, which were basically one game split in two. I can’t see any reason to list them separately instead of as one game.
Except that they were sold separately, you mean?
BTW, that’s like calling Back to the Future 2 & 3 the same movie because they were filmed at the same time and were planned together.
Sonic 2 (MD + MS) i’d say, the early ones were the best i think. i think once they got to sonic 3 they wernt quite the same. Sonic advance 1 is the best recent sonic game IMO, felt like the megadrive versions. no idea why sonic cds doing that well, i’m not a big fan
no no, they were actually ment to be one game, sega wasn’t happy with how long it was taking to develop and they wanted a game for the christmas rush, so sonic 3 was refinined from what they already had. it was always supposed to be one game and thats why they tried hard to make the two games run seemlessly together with combined.
see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_the_Hedgehog_3#Development for more info
theres also a few sonic fan sites that have a *lot* more indepth info (you know how those guys get).
That’s all well and good, but the fact is they were released separately. As far as I’m concerned for dividing up the poll, that’s what I’m going by.
Sonic 3 & Knuckles is the best Sonic game and since this poll lacks the option, I voted for both games instead.