This holds true for Green Hill and other classic Sonic stages and makes what’s old feel far fresher. They look more intimidating and yet retain everything that made the original Sonic 2 version so memorable, and stay within what the side-scrolling classic Sonic version looks like. We’re used to seeing the iconic blue and yellow rail-looking areas, but here, we see just how they would look if we were Sonic running through them. These allow themes like the Chemical Plant of Sonic 2 to be explored in new ways. Modern Sonic is a whole different beast and where the game shines when it comes to classic stages. Thankfully, his jumping feels largely the same and it’s nowhere near as floaty as it was in Sonic 4, where it felt like you were jumping with helium boots on. The physics aren’t the same as they were in the Genesis games and it takes Sonic longer to pick up speed. Seeing classic Sonic stages with polygons and retaining much of the original gameplay style is itself cool – albeit with some caveats. Act 1 featured classic Sonic-style gameplay with a side-scrolling perspective and lacked things like Sonic 4’s implementation of things like boosting or auto-aiming and dashing at enemies in mid-air. It also used a time travel motif to feature stages from most major Sonic games up to that point, enabling it to be a “best of” game that tried something new with various level themes.īringing back classic levels has become a common trend for Sonic, but no game quite did it like Generations.
One of the few games to blend 2D and 3D gameplay well was Sonic Generations, which came out after Unleashed and had the benefit of seeing what worked there and what didn’t. The post-2D era of Sonic has been a weird one, with many games coming out in 3D that didn’t fire on all cylinders while games like Sonic 4 dropped the ball when it should have been impossible to do so.
We’ve covered Sonic the Hedgehog quite a bit in the Graveyard and it’s been fascinating to track the franchise’s highest points in 2D with things like the third entry alongside games that felt like they were greater in real-time than time showed them to be like the Sonic Adventure series. You’ll see both good and bad souls unearthed every month as we search through the more… forgotten…parts of history. Inside, we’ll be digging up games that have long been without a pulse. Watch your step, for you’ve just entered the Graveyard.
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