I guess I'm in the minority because I like Knuckles Chaotix.
I guess I'm in the minority because I like Knuckles Chaotix.
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Your not, the game is fun, colorful, and the music is kickass.
Despite all the times I've tried to get into it I really just don't like Sonic Spinball. As a kid I always found it a confusing, frustrating, but ultimately boring game and that hasn't changed over the years. I played through a ton of 3D blast with the same feel, I gave up because it became a boring and confusing mess.
I haven't played a post Sonic Adventure outside of COLORS and even Sonic Adventure didn't impress me very much. It was an ok game but nothing I can get nostalgic over since I didn't own a Dreamcast back when it was new.
I am pretty surprised that the OP didn't list the Sonic Rush series. I hear hardcore Sonic fans bash those games all day long. I actually found them to be pretty fun and a rare positive change to the Sonic formula.
Count in another for Knuckles Chaotix! I actually LOVE the game, it's my favorite out of all the Sonic series to be honest. And come on, Tails' Adventure on Game Gear is awesome too! And Sonic R? Man, the music alone makes the game! Not to mention it's actually quite fun, and the graphics are some of the best on the Saturn.
Mean Bean Machine isn't too bad either, I think it gets too much hate simply because it was given a different license from plain old Puyo Pop here in the States. Spinball had some awesome special stages, but the rest of the game was meh. Sonic Blast on Game Gear was a decent platformer, not amazing but not awful either.
Everything else on that list I agree with though, mostly because it's after the Sonic Adventure period, that's when Sonic just went downhill for me. Hopefully Generations will be a good game, it looks promising.
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You're also in a minority because you played it, lol.
Got to admit I loved a great many of the games on that list- Spinball- 16-bit only, the GG port was diabolical- Mean Bean Machine, Sonic R (if only for the music) and to a certain extent Sonic Heroes were all really fun.
Sonic Genesis though- and I may have stated this before- was so god-awful it actually managed to travel back in time to 1992 and rape my 9-year old self senseless. Sonic 2006 was also beyond awful and had a baffling achievement system, to the extent I actually managed to complete half the game and not unlock a single bloody one of them before getting fed up and switching off. Sonic Unleashed also managed to hold my interest for all of one level, then came the werehog and a loud cry of 'fuck this'.
I loved Colours, though. And I'm really looking forward to Generations. More fool me.
Spinball is one of those games I kept trying to like, but it was too hard for its own good. The high concept was a neat idea, but it was far too frustrating in practice.
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I'm a huge Sonic fan myself, so I've played or watched most of the media on the list, with exception of Sonic '06.
Really, the only thing I consider absolutely horrible is Sonic Labyrinth. Every thing else has at least some redeeming qualities.
I owned Sonic Labyrinth briefly years ago. I had asked for Sonic Blast (Game Gear) for Christmas, but my mom couldn't find it at EB Games. So she decided to get me this game instead. I tried playing it on Christmas Eve, but gave up within a half hour. Fortunately, at that time EB Games still had the policy where you could return a game if you didn't like it, no questions asked. So I returned that piece of crap, and eventually found a copy of Sonic Blast.
i plowed my way through spinball in the day, the last level is brutal, but if you grind enough extra men by collecting all the rings in each stage, its doable
i also liked chaotix. its not great, but its not bad either
im also in the minority in that i did not like either sonic adventure game on the dreamcast. neither sonic nor mario work for me in 3D.
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