Gotta love the timing of that "Is Sonic '06 secretly the best sonic game?" "...Nnnoooo..." Shadow: "Yes!"

hi blaze, hope all is well. do you think this remake improves 06 a lot overall or do you still stand by the notion that 06 would need to be fundamentally rebuilt from the ground up to be redeemable?

@BlazeHedgehog

2 жыл бұрын

This is a complicated thing. I do touch on it a bit here in this video, and I have a tumblr blog going up in about an hour where I talk about it some more, but... In broad strokes, I think this is a definitive improvement. Sonic's campaign is actually legitimately kind of fun now. There are a couple of stinkers that can't reliably be fixed without dumping the existing level and rebuilding it from scratch (notably Tropical Jungle) but when Sonic's final campaign demo came out I actually played tons of it and enjoyed it a lot. Speaking about this specific demo, I don't know if it's just other games I've been playing recently or what, but the controls don't feel as tight as I remember. Both Shadow and Sonic feel heavier and more slippery in a way that makes them a bit unwieldy. Shadow's campaign also doesn't feel anywhere near as polished as Sonic's did. It's a lot harder and it reminds me a lot more of the original Sonic 2006 game. The vehicles are still terrible and janky and weird, the camera seems to freak out a lot more easily, and just, in general, I wasn't having a lot of fun. I came away with kind of a sour taste. I still have faith that ChaosX will polish things up, though. The first couple of Sonic demos were kind of rough, too. But I also worry about that dude's work ethic. Rebuilding an entire game like this is a lot of work and with how fast he is and how high quality his work usually is, something's going to give out eventually.

@MajoraWaffle

2 жыл бұрын

@@BlazeHedgehog thanks for the response, i always love your insights into any media-related topics!

Tbh the only good thing about 06 are sonics levels. I’m not sure why the fanbase keeps talking about the same things forever either. The games obviously failed to fulfill the desires of Americans.