Sonic CD Origins | The Completionist
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 มิ.ย. 2024
- Sonic the Hedgehog is officially 31 years old! To celebrate Sega released Sonic Origins, a compilation featuring Sonic 1-3 and Sonic CD. I haven't played the latter and am excited to dive into it with my Sonic CD Origins review!
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Opening 0:00
Intro 3:19
Sonic CD stands for Completely Delightful 6:42
Sonic Origins stands for The Origins-al music was better 12:53
Call em as I museum 21:30
Relive the classic collected adventures of Sonic The Hedgehog, Sonic The Hedgehog 2, Sonic 3 & Knuckles, and Sonic CD in the newly remastered Sonic Origins! From the iconic Green Hill Zone to the treacherous Egg Robot, you'll speed down memory lane to thwart the sinister plans of Doctor Robotnik in polished high definition! This latest version includes new areas to explore, exclusive animations, and a brand new Anniversary mode!
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I really wish there was more positivity around CD discussions like this. It’s so special and absolutely my favorite classic game weird as that may be.
My personal favourite in series. Never get sick of it.
Zelda fan here-Zelda II is my favorite game of all time; I know exactly what you’re talking about.
it's odd to me that its hated now because in the early to mid 2000s CD was widely considered the second best behind 3&k.
Sonic CD gets a lot of flak for its weird level design, but for me its what makes it so unique. Having to travel to the past to destroy the machines encourages exploration, something the other Sonic games don't really do a whole lot of. And that soundtrack! People swear by Sonic 2, but dare I say that I enjoy Sonic CD more just for its charm.
I would really love to see the time travel mechanic return. Yes, in CD, the signs can be frustrating. And there's no reason to go to the future until you've destroyed both machines. But I think there's still a lot of potential there. I'd love a sonic game where the time travel is based on the direction you run, so you still have that cool explorer aspect of needing to find the best places in the level where you can time travel, but without that frustration of touching the wrong sign and having to restart the level. If polished and worked on, it could be a really fun mechanic for either future 3D or 2D Sonic games.
I’ll always consider the Metal Sonic boss battle to be one of my favorites in video games purely for the uniqueness of it being a race/fight.
It also feels so tense and hard when you slow down from losing rings or having to go up a hill when not fast enough. And Eggman's there ready to shoot his laser beam of death from not being fast enough. And if you don't get in front of metal sonic he just closes the door on you as you have to wait for your death from the laser from Eggman. But it is fun boss fight though even though it can be tough to jump over each obstacle and have to go faster than the boss in the boss fight.
Real missed opportunity to have Amy Rose to be playable at one point.
No one remembers how she played in Advance it's terrible
@@SolidN8 Then use her gameplay from Sonic Adventure.
@@BlackFlash09 that is the advanced game play
Or Metal Sonic
That’s kind of like if Nintendo released a collection of classic Mario someone’s like, “real missed opportunity to not let us use Yoshi in Mario 1.” It’s like because the Sonic remasters add some playable characters, people just expect every character to be added now - even the ones that were never even playable in the classic series to begin with. Extra playable characters are… extra. They’re not really expected
Was not expecting a Dick Assman reference. Been a while since I thought of him, probably since he passed a few years ago. Worked with him for a while back in the early 2000s, pretty nice fellow.
Glad to hear it!
This is the one game I've been waiting YEARS for Jirard to play. Sonic CD is always going to be my favorite Sonic. Hopefully one day he'll play the Sonic Advance games too
He has a history with Advance 2 if Johnny's video is anything to go by
Oh boy, while the Advance games are goodish there are problems with them. Then again I like Sonic Rush so who I am to judge?
@@raxadian I wouldn't put any of them in top 10 favorite sonic games but is definitely recommend them to any sonic fan or people interested in handheld platformers
@@MalikEKC As someone who was introduced late to the Sonic franchise, I prefer the Sonic Advance series than the Classic Sonic Series. Probably because I usually only like games where u can play as multiple characters like Sonic Advance/Sonic Heroes/Sonic Adventure, since Sonic is my least favorite character from the franchise(I like Sonic and The Black Rings tho, because the aesthetic of that game oozes personality)
JIMMY!
Ah, yes. Sonic game that gave us Amy and Metal Sonic. You might not have heard of it, but it's just as important as Sonic 1-3.
I feel like people remember it
Too bad Sonic 3 & Knuckles is just 10x better😏
@@beezusHrist true
@@beezusHrist Hard to compete with S3&K. That game is 10x better than most 2D platformers that don't feature Italian plumbers.
@@beezusHrist no 3 and knuckles is overrated CD is the superior game
As one who played Sonic CD as a young'un on the PC; I welcome you, Jirard, to the collective of fans who love this underrated gem.
the prototype tracks have positives, but the main issue with them in orgins is that they are based moreso on the PC port, that had a worse sound in general to the original version. the remastered tracks done in the sonic 3 style rather than using this inferior sound make these tracks sound much better.
It's been found out it's very likely they're from an even earlier Sonic 3 prototype than the one we got. Speculation suggests they're the actual demo recordings used for the PC port MIDIs.
I 1000% agree with you, Jirard, and I don't think you sound overly whiny at all. This collection could/SHOULD be the definitive version of all of these games and it is so frustrating that it's not. (Leave that to PC modders.) I appreciate you using your platform to voice your displeasure to Sega - I really hope they hire Headcannon back to fix the bugs in Sonic 3 and that they find some way to improve the music or get the MJ tracks back.
And with that, Jirard has finally completed every classic Sonic game.
And just 3, soon to be 4, "main series" episodes left. Sonic 3D Blast, Sonic 4 (you have to know he's not doing that one as two episodes) and Sonic Lost World as far as currently released titles are concerned.
@@Volvagia1927 Don't forget the Advance and Rush games
Knuckles' Chaotix
@@Marc_Araujo That's a side game, that's different.
@@aidanredding8058 I still consider it one of the classic Sonic games. It also introduces many characters that are mainstays of the series.
That joke about Sonic Origins as a package being dissapointing was actually quite funny
Sonic CD is one of those great games never talked about.
I disagree. People use to always talk about the “lost sonic masterpiece” when it was marooned on the Sega CD. But then it became easier to play and people realized “meh, maybe this isn’t that good”. Thus people stoped talking about the game that has major design issues.
It looks good and the controls are fine. But it's like someone gave a 5 year old a Sonic version of Mario Maker. I love sonic but this is in my bottom 5
That would be true if it was 20 years ago
@@leeartlee915 I feel u n I'm a old skool Sonic Fan 🤣✌🤙
Oh it's talked about... just usually in a negative light.
I wonder if we'll ever get to the point where people be asking "What's a CD?"
yeah
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
Cd's nutz
… I’m so old. 😂😭
Give it another ten to fifteen years. They'll figure something out.
That theme song has to be one of Sonic’s best. Sonic boom is an absolute banger and I would sing it all the time as a kid back when I played cd on the GameCube
The Crush 40 version is somehow BETTER
8:00 I mean that was the intent with all Sonic games even Sonic 1, they just didn't have time to do it beyond Green Hill zone, they put all their focus on that... and every level after was linear slow paced side scrolling. 2 and CD not only changed the Sonic franchise's landscape, but gaming in general. 2 yeah was more speed based, but still touted exploration, the whole idea of speed was behind your own capability, otherwise Sonic ironically was more about exploration than speed. You take a lower route it's more enemies, slower, treacherous with spikes and pit falls, take a higher route moderate speed, lots of collectibles and rewards, you want to go fast you stay for the most part on the straight and narrow, down the middle, occasionally taking an upper path maybe as some speed runners do. So even Sonic 2 had these aspects, that was the intent behind the entire franchise from day 1, what pushed Sonic to doing what other companies and especially Nintendon't, with Mario, Castlevania, Megaman, Sonic not only had speed but multiple routes to take to get to one goal, the best Mario could do this was a secret pipe that lets you skip levels and gameplay... that's not a game, that's taking the easy way out to skip large chunks of gameplay.
Then CD being made at the same time took it a step further. You not only affected the speed, you affected the game's difficulty setting. You can blow past the game gotta go fast, and everything like Sonic does... but then the game gets harder, boss fights get more difficult because you didn't take your time to save everyone, so you get the bad ending. You take your time, slow down, go to the past, explore, destroy holograms, robot making machines, and collect timestones, you get the good ending (however should be noted, if you want to do all of that, you need to save the last timestone for the last level, you collect it before all the machines and holograms are destroyed, the game bugs out and you get a bad good ending not the good ending). This is why I love CD, even more than 3&K, I love all the classic games in their own right (except 1 ullgh no thanks), but CD after I played it back in 2011, easily became one of my favorite Sonic games, nay one of my favorite games I've ever played. Really is unfortunate Origins butchered it and the other games a little bit.
Dude yes. Sonic CD was the first 2D Sonic I actually managed to beat on my own. I adore this game.
Aside from feeling called out with Goldfinger “Superman” and the existential dread of being 31, this episode hits me right in the nostalgia In that this was the first PC game I ever played. I still remember the disc with sonic in spinball mode playing on my family computer running windows 98. As I sit here at work, This episode makes me feel like a kid again, thanks for making it.
I always thought the D.A. mode was an abbreviation for either Digital Artbook, Digital Audio, or Disc Access lol
Genesis Sonic 3&K players on Origins: "What's with the prototype music?"
PC S&K collections players on Origins: "They improved the prototype music?"
I wonder how it will take for the Sonic modding community to restore the Genesis tracks to Origins.
You forgot to mention the holograms, also you can't get the good ending by getting the time stones (unless this bug was fixed in Origins which... I guess is props even though theres so many more bugs than before?). Not a lot of people seem to know why, but if you want a complete save file the only way of doing this is destroying all the holograms and robot creating machines, then in the final level after you've destroyed the robot machine, only then can you get the last time stone, otherwise you end up with a bad good ending if you collect all the timestones 1st.
Origins is a great collection, but I wish it had bug fixes and more content
The promised playable Amy would’ve been dope but yeah overall it’s pretty great. I still hope one of these days we get a knuckles Chaotix brought to modern systems.
@@Machamp-ps7wx promised?
@@Machamp-ps7wx was it actually promised for did people just assume it would happen?
@@sb6196 It was never promised.
@@Machamp-ps7wx That was never promised
I actually played Sonic CD for the first time on PC. It was released as a SEGA PC title on CD-ROM. I remember trying to play it on a keyboard on my old Compaq Presario that ran Windows 98.
I had Sonic CD, Sonic 3D Blast (a SEGA CD port of the Saturn version I believe), Sonic R, and the Sonic & Knuckles Collection. That last one had all the music as Midi Format and used a version of music in Carnival Night, Ice Cap, and Launch Base that would be redone and featured in Origins.
The Sonic & Knuckles Collection also had a pretty sweet Screensaver where animated versions of Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, and Eggman would appear to transition one picture to the next.
As for Origins, it's fine, but it really needed a lot more polish, and a much better price point.
Yep. My first experience was Sonic CD on PC back in the day, with the original English soundtrack. It was a really fresh experience coming off the Genesis titles. A different kind of vibe.
Really enjoyed this game. Played it 3 times, 2 anniversary mode playthrough's (1 as Sonic, 1 as Tails) and once during the story mode. I even completed the special stages during one of the playthrough's without screwing up and restarting once. And completed it in 1 sitting, I never did this before previously in any 2D Sonic game.
Fun fact: this is the very first time ever that all the mainline classic Sonic games (including CD) are collected in one package. Also, these games are ALL remastered, unlike, say, the Cowabunga Collection
I wouldn't worry about it Completionist, there's so many things wrong with Origins, I can't even count them all on both my hands and I end up making bare minimum 3 paragraphs when explaining to people all the miss comings there's just so many. If people want to hear my thoughts, I'll elaborate, but please be respectful.
I'll list 3 right now, the bottlenecking with the delistings, the price gouging, and at the very least maybe these two could be remedied... if they added new characters now I don't want to sound greedy or anything, but these are inferior versions and us older fans do already have multiple copies of these games, this could be remedied bare minimum by adding say Metal Sonic and Amy, or Mighty and Ray which even predate Sonic... 1? 2 and CD? I forget when their arcade game came out, and Knuckles Chaotix with Mighty was obviously after 3&K. I have 5 copies bare minimum of Sonic 1, which is my least favorite of the classic games... why play it again? Why buy it again? If it offers nothing new, because these are all just ports of the 2011 CD, 2012 Sonic 1, and 2013 Sonic 2 remakes that were on Steam and consoles before the delisting, that are currently on mobile platforms still free with ads, or for 2$ each totaling 6 since 3&K isn't there... but at the same time 3&K still isn't doing anything new, heck it's even being sold as 1 game, there's no way to play them separately as 2 games if you wanted that option, not sure why, but maybe some people do, especially since there are some minor changes like the boss fight and music (which I hear is also not returning because of the whole Michael Jackson shenanigans, I don't blame Sega for that despite blaming them for all these other things). Heck even mods did this for the existing games on Steam, there's a mod for CD called episode Metal which not only swaps the pallets, but they even gave Metal Sonic and Amy new moves so they aren't just Sonic and Tails copies.
See what I mean, that's just 1 of my 3 paragraphs with my biggest gripes, BEFORE the game released, there's just so many wrong things to this bundle that damaged these games, it's unfortunate. So don't worry Jirard, it's just us older fans feeling the backlash, I don't want to dampen it for the younger and newer fans either, I don't want to seem nitpicky, greedy, or anything... but these are big problems, especially if you can go back and say the versions that they delisted were the superior versions, or playing them on Mega Collection + or Gems +, whether you buy them for large amounts of money, or emulated the gamecube versions free on a laptop. It's disappointing for sure, especially because there shouldn't have been any way they could screw these up... yet Sega somehow did, same with Colors Ultimate, Forces, even Mania as good as it is, Sega held Taxman and Stealth back by pushing more remix stages than newer stages, which I don't mind remixing some stages, but we only got like 4 new levels? We've seen Green Hill and Chemical Plant how many times? Like if Mania 2 comes out... not likely since Taxman left after Mania, took 1/2 their team because of a disagreement with Sega (I wouldn't doubt this is why, and he had stealth hang back so they didn't screw Origins up)... but if they did I'd still want SOME remix stages because Mania is a celebration. I'd say just 1 from each game in future Mania sequels, so Mania 2 has Marbel zone, Emerald Hill or Mystic Cave from 2, Tidal Tempest from CD, Icecap from 3, and Sandopolis from Knuckles, maaaybe a Knuckles Chaotix stage (so we can also bring in Team Chaotix as playable characters). That's 6 out of 14, since Mania 1 had 14 in total, so 8 brand new levels, or maybe split the difference 6 old 6 new for 12 total... I'm running on too much at this point, my point is I agree with you Jirard and don't worry about it, and if newer fans are enjoying this, great that's perfectly fine... but also you deserved better too.
If you do Metroid Fusion, you NEED to do a 1% run. I think it qualifies as a completion bonus.
If I'm not wrong only Zero Mission rewards you for doing a minimalist run (15% or less), that said, you can beat Fusion with 0% item completion, it's just that avoiding Bob (that one unavoidable missile tank in Sector 3) is incredibly difficult to pull off.
@@MexicanSheepMan I’m not saying it’s an official completion bonus, but worth trying if you want to truly master the game.
Origins really opened my eyes to CD. I had played it before but the time travel aspect confused me so I didn't play it much. After playing through it again, it's now my favorite classic 2D Sonic Game (excluding Mania)
I remember when my uncle let me ply this on his SEGA CD back in the day. Sewer Shark and Ground Zero Texas were the only other two I really remember….and this weird ass game called Supreme Warriors which required a 32X and CD in order to play.
Man, I'm so happy Jirard enjoyed CD. Super underrated game.
I just got the Capcom Fighting Collection recently, it's really cool. Capcom is doing a little better at their collections recently, thank goodness. No more putting half of the collection in a code or lackluster bonuses.
Honestly, I kinda hoped that the console versions of Darkstalkers 3 and Cyberbots were included due to the bonus content they had but I’m still fine with what we got. I also hope we get a collection of 3d fighters next year
Dude, I agree! The cutscenes are incredible, brilliant and fantastic! 😃
I hope you feel better my dude. Love you man
Dude me too on the blue spheres mini game! I could never pinpoint what changed and why I suddenly was so bad at it. like yourself I was amazing at it on the original platforms. I didn't even realize it was the music! Thanks and keep it up!
Yeah Casltevania collection 1 20$ 8 games and an artbook, Megaman collection 1 10 games 30$, Sega's own Mega Collection + back in early 2000s had 15 games for 40$ and all the bonus features, art, animations, cutscenes that Origins is offering, same with Gems collection released around the same time. Like 40$ I would expect from an Adventures 1/2/Heroes/Shadow bundle remake collection like Spyro and Crash got... and... uggh Mario but that was 60$ and... well we all know how awful that whole situation was. These games before being delisted to bottleneck the expensive Origins bundle were priced at 5$ each on Steam, and consoles (minus 3&K on consoles, it was on Steam though), that means you should only be paying 20$, maaaybe 25 since all that bonus content is ALSO behind a 5$... DLC? paywall? Not really because you can unlock them in game, so it's more like a gacha game mechanics pay to win? That's stupid, pointless. That or you could argue 8$ maybe 13, because they're all free on mobile platforms like tablets and phones, with ads or you can pay 2$ each for a total of 8, again 13 coming from that 5$ "extra" content. There was no need for that 40$ price tag. Also that art you mentioned in the museum... not sure if it's all in Mega Collection + and Gems, but a lot of them were in those bundles as I previously mentioned, even early sketches.
I love time travel mechanics, but my favorite part is in time travel and alternate universe games, where the actions you take affect other times/universes. There are so many opportunities for fun puzzles from that. Like in Radiant Historia.
As a big Sonic fan myself, I found myself agreeing with a lot you said about Origins. It’s definitely not perfect (though I legit enjoyed the different tunes for Carnival Night & Launch Base), but it does what it set out to do; Give us a modern way to play these classic games.
Apart from some halted flashing during Mushroom Hill’s 2nd boss, the only bug I encountered in 3&K was having to start Sandopolis Act 2 ALL OVER whenever I died unless I got to the boss…
I grew up with the PC port, so Launch Base was always the prototype track for me, and I think it’s a lot better than the Genesis version. So I’m glad to hear you say that!
I’m glad you love the game it is always great to find a gem in a franchise you love.
Yes! Gimme that Chemical plant Zone theme! Thanks jirard and company you’re the best!
I might be one of the world's biggest Sonic fans. I have a Sonic tattoo and played Sonic music at my wedding. Sonic 3 & Knucles RAISED me, and I loved the music so much that I recorded it on cassette and listened to it on my walkman. Ice Cap Zone was my absolute favourite and the tune still gives me goosebumps. Seeing the music changes in Sonic Origins was a dealbreaker, unfortunately. I would've bought it day 1 if they didn't change the music. Heartbreaking.
loved the style of this video! intro was pretty chill, informal, and yeah!
Mad respect for addressing the lack of 3&K's original music like an actual adult. As much as I dislike the beta music that replaced it, it's not enough to keep me from enjoying these classic games. I'll just loop the og tracks on youtube when I play the levels.
Got a Sega CD in the early 2000s and it came with Sonic CD. It became my favorite 2D Sonic game pretty quickly.
This has been such a treat of an episode, I love Goldfinger, and Sonic CD was the game that made Sonic into my lifelong favorite game character.
Compliting sonic with a mario T-shirt… respect.
Agreed with everything you said! Your rank of the games is so on point as well.
NOW all that is left is lost world, and then you have completed the sonic retrospective(until frontiers)
Hey 3 years after the SegaCD version came out, they released a PC port of the game. My folks bought me that for christmas one year, it was my first sonic game.
“No series has better music than Sonic the Hedgehog.”
*Laughs in Mega Man.*
Sonic music is awesome though, no doubt at all.
sonic and megaman have really good music, I can't really choose what I like better
MegaMan is close, very close imo
@@raychang8606 your gonna hate this but I think planet whisp is mid.
I do know why alot of people like it though
@@kimaster5893 nah, i removed because after thinking about it there are definitely better ones
... Like Pumpkin Hill 😋
Honestly, I never noticed the Blue Spheres music change. I played Blue Spheres like I always did, and got almost all of the Chaos and Super Emeralds on my first try (two or three of them required a few retries). I’ve actually never gotten the Super Emeralds before, so that was a neat experience.
I dare say this: carnival night zone act 2 prototype music is better than the original music that released on the genesis
My favorite classic Sonic game, I’m super happy Jirard is playing it and spreading the love.💙
Awesome review man👊. Keep it up!
I did not expect this, but I love it.
I really wish that they had just used the original prototype tracks instead of remixing them and making them worse
Origins was also how I played Sonic CD for the first time as well as Sonic 3 and Knuckles. Both games are awesome, especially Sonic 3 and Knuckles
The Completionist is my go-to gaming channel ,i love the stuff jirad n beard bros do
It's worth noting that both the Capcom Fighting Collections and the TMNT collection are, at the end of the day, a collection of rom files as opposed to fully remastered ports like in Origins. Not to mention over half of the games on the capcom side are different variations of Darkstalkers...don't get me wrong, I love Darkstalkers, but making up over half the bundle when there are other games in their backlog they could've included is excessive.
Jirards experience to Sonic CD is similar to mine. I never played the game but always heared good and bad things about it. But after playing it on Orgins I had a great time with it!
I’m 16 and I got that gold finger reference. I appreciated that.
Sonic CD was my first game on the gamecube when i was 5, i may not have know what i was doing but i had fun and loved the hell out of the opening cinematic along with its song. I'm glad its getting some love it deserves because it introduced me to sonic before i played the adventure games on gamecube.
For the Sonic CD soundtracks, I can understand why you aren’t used to the US, considering you never played it until now and the JP soundtrack is more of the mainstream soundtrack within the past 10 years or so. Sonic CD is my fave classic Sonic game, and I grew up with CD for a VERY long time that I only knew about the JP version until TH-cam became a thing. US soundtrack is nostalgia to me, but I truly appreciate the JP soundtrack and love both version equally for different reasons
man, im 16 and have still been playing s3&k for a decade
i was so disappointed to hear that its music was so drastically changed
Not negative, informative. You pointing out these issues could inform and inspire many to go listen to the music too. 👍
Hooray, the classic era is complete!
Thumbs up for the Goldfinger reference!
hell yeh this is my favorite sonic game. i love the soundtrack and the unique use of sonics speed in this game
See that’s why I kept my Meg collection for gamecube. All the original music is on there
I'm actually shocked you'd never played CD, Jirard. I've been following your content for a while so I've picked up on your enthusiasm regarding Sonic so I'm definitely surprised. I personally didn't and still don't care for it outside of the aesthetics but I didn't play it until on an emulator in college in the mid-00s because I didn't have a Sega CD either when I was a teenager. You though, I'm definitely surprised you didn't play any of it until the Mania stage remakes.
I didn't like sonic CD at all the first time I played it as a kid but now that I understand what's going on, the concept is actually really cool. Definitely miss the old music in S3&K but I had a great time playing this. The collectibles were really cool to comb through and the missions were a fun addition. Pretty satisfied overall
I still love that intro.
I think the video that introduced me to The Completionist was Jirard completing a Sonic game on Game Grumps, so it kind of feels like it's coming full-circle with this video. Big ups. 👍
So here I am, doing everything I can holding onto what I ammmm pretending I’m a superman
Sonic CD is my personal favorite out of the classic Sonic games. It's nice to see you also liking it. 🙂
Great Review! Sonic CD was the only Sonic game I had out of the original 4
Love the Eggman face in the thumbnail!
If you ask me, the best ports of CD are the 2011 Remaster and Sonic Origins. Smoother frame rate and, well, actually playable compared to the original version.
Agree
Drop dash is so op In CD (Origins) can pretty much time travel anywhere now.
Not that I’m complaining.
I’m very happy that more and more people are coming to appreciate CD’s qualities.It’s not a perfect game by any means(some level design choices are just straight up odd/over the top)but it has a lot of unique and interesting things in its stages.The time travel mechanic is not only a great way to unlock new paths and secretly hidden shields/extra lives but if you’re going for 50 rings time travelling is also useful because rings reset even after you’ve collected them.Not only that but some time periods in certain stages have wayyy more ring monitors than in others(Tidal Tempest Act 2 Bad/Good future is a perfect example.)CD provides on both fronts.If you don’t want to explore then go for the time stones.If you’re having trouble keeping your rings to a high amount then go for the Generators(holograms are optimal btw they only provide visual changes.)It’s a great change of pace compared to all the other classic games even mania which it’s creative boss fights and special stages.
I was fortunate enough to to be able to play Sonic CD when it first came out in the 90s on CD ROM; I absolutely loved it and the “Sonic Boom” song and all but one of my friends knew why I was so obsessed with it
So glad I watched this before buying. Sonic 3 was the entire reason this collection was appealing to me as it's by a long shot my absolute favourite in the series, and its delisted / not backwards compatible on consoles now.
You're 100% correct about everything you said. It's not anywhere as low effort as Super Mario 3D All-Stars (I don't think most collection can reach that point even if they don't try), but the shortcomings this collection has are genuinely unfortunate.
But these are 4 sega genesis games while Nintendo sold you 3 games that released on Nintendo 64, GameCube, and wii.
Sega sells people 4 GENESIS games for $40
Nintendo sells people 3 games from VARIOUS recently released consoles for $59.99...
I have to say that Nintendo has the better deal.
Sonic CD was for many years the only Sonic game I had ever played. My Grandma got a Genisis from a neighbor with the disc drive add on and it just happened to include the game. It's nice to have finally beaten it after well over a decade.
Sonic cd is one of my favorites! I’m glad to see people like it since it gets bashed a lot online
I completely agree with you on that Sonic origins should have more in its collection. Such games should be: the Sonic 1 & 2 master system, Sonic choas, Sonic drift 1&2, Sonic triple trouble, sonic blast and 3D blast, sonic labyrinth, sonic spin ball, and egg man mean bean
Seeing Sonic 2's pipe secret stage running so cleanly is jarring, but in a good way. It's so smooth.
Random note, I had to look through the years of your intros to find my favorite one and I'm happy it landed in this sonic video 🥹
You got my like at the Goldfinger reference, and I have no regrets!
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I appreciated the Goldfinger reference. Thank you!
6:54 we can see that he’s missing out on the Junio sonic fan base. Sonic CD has to have one of the most interesting designs along with ova and sonic jam for sega saturn.
The plumber analogy was great. Although, I'd like to point out that more time can't fix every game. For example, Sonic Frontiers seems to me to have some problems with certain design decisions that were made (such as having the gameplay not really integrated into the environment) that couldn't really be fixed with a delay. A lot of these issues seem to come from issues with priority, but that's really just speculation since I don't really know what's going on behind the scenes
this collection is great for me I wad introduced to these games when I was at a daycare with a summer camp program when I was little. I would watch the older kids play most of these games. And my first game in the series was Heros. So now that I can play them myself I am happy.
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CD Still holds the fact that it is the literal ONLY instance in a mainline Sonic game where a boss fight consists of you racing someone to a finish line. It's not "run next to them and hit them until they die" it's "win the race and you win the fight" and I love that. (yes I know the Tails missions in SA1 do something similar but its frankly a challenge NOT to win those, I barely think of them as races)
I got the reference at the start of the video. Thank you for that, Jirard.
That gold finger song, “Superman” is so nostalgic for me and brings me right back to like 7th or 8th grade? playing Tony Hawk’s pro skater with my friends for hours! In my opinion, that song was the best on the soundtrack .. my other 2 favorite, most memorable songs from that soundtrack are, The Ernies-“Here and now” and Suicide Machines- “New Girl”…. None of these are bands I’d typically listen to, but they’re still good.. it’s the memories that are tied to them that make them so special for me though. 🖤 ahh, good times.. before the entire world went mad and life turned into a fever dream… better yet, a nightmare. But hey, at least we have Jirard and the boys providing us with great content consistently to help us escape reality. Thanks Beard Bros and crew!
Capcom did it more gracefully with the Onimusha Warlords Remastered. They changed the ENTIRE soundtrack with new one that has the same quality or even better.
We have to be a whiny baby sometimes to see the things we love improve
You’re justified in your criticism of sonic 3. The music is a very big factor. You were very fair in your review. I thoroughly enjoyed your review. And we know you’re a real sonic fan! All good 👍🏽
Thank you for the reference Girard.❤
While I'm sad I'm too lazy to go to Patreon and missed the vote, I'm glad to see all the most painful potential Completionist nightmares off the table. For now.