Sonic 1 is the most soulful sonic game

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I just played through sonic 1 for the first time and it seems like almost all of the levels don't actually want you to go fast. Like you said, the only zones that were any fun were green hill and star light.

Sonic 1 is masterpiece. Only brainlets and scrubs disagree.

This.

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You must not like many platformers.

>How the fuck? How the fuck can you pardon Sonic 1 when shitting on CD's level design. The ONLY good levels in 1 are Star Light and Green Hill. Don't even pretend Marble and Spring Yard are decent. FUCK Spring Yard. Labyrinth can eat my ass too.
Copy pasting springs isn't good level design user, it's fucking abysmal. It's easily the worst sonic game by an enormous margin.

"Soul" is a subjective and meaningless buzzword, and using it as an argument makes you sound like a brainlet.
That said, despite the problems with stage design (especially in Marble Zone), it has some of the most iconic visuals and music in the classic series.

>"Soul" is a subjective and meaningless buzzword
t.soulet

>despite the problems with stage design (especially in Marble Zone)
What problems with stage design?

Mania has more soul. It's also the best game in the series.

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>Mania has more soul. It's also the best game in the series.
Mania has synthetic soul, an NPC like you wouldn't understand

Sonic 1's levels aren't bad in and of themselves, they're bad because they don't compliment the character's abilities.

CD's levels are bad both because they don't compliment Sonic's abilities, but are also confusing to navigate, have little cohesion, and aren't good platforming levels in general.

>they're bad because they don't compliment the character's abilities
How do they not?

WRONG. CD is.

Sonic 3 + Knuckles > Sonic 2 > Sonic 1

The rest don't even exist in my world.

complete emphasis on platforming, design is overly blocky and full of roadblocks meant to prevent the player from running in a straight line for too long to make time travel harder to do. Vertical design means levels either inherently hinder Sonic's movement and force him to climb throughout the level, or are flat and featureless.

Based retard

>complete emphasis on platforming
If true, that wouldn't be a bad thing, because it's a platformer. But it's false, as the game also incorporates a lot of pinball elements into the mix.

>design is overly blocky
Not really. The design here is varied. Green Hill, Spring Yard, and Star Light are filled to the brim with sloped areas. Marble has its fair share as well (though they're much more subtle and subdued). Labyrinth (and Scrap Brain Act 3) is pretty much entirely blocky, but even then, there's nothing bad about that. Being 100% blocky would make the game only as bad as Super Mario Bros. (85), which is still a fantastic game. Being almost entirely blocky would make the game only as bad as Super Mario Bros. 3 (88), which is also still a fantastic game.

>full of roadblocks meant to prevent the player from running in a straight line for too long to make time travel harder to do
It's a video game. Facing, and overcoming, adversity is integral to the point.

>Vertical design means levels either inherently hinder Sonic's movement and force him to climb throughout the level, or are flat and featureless.
Vertical level design means multiple paths, which can be accessed via clever and skillful platforming.

>sonic boom
>not soul

Wait, I just now caught that you're talking about CD while I'm talking about 1.

It could've had more soul

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Fuck you Taxman, Tee Lopes and Stealth know far more about Sonic then all of Sonic team since 1996. If you want synthetic "soul", it's called Sonic 4, Lost Shit and Forceshit.

fuck. looking at this makes me sad. Sonic truly came from a really inspired team at one point in time.

every game is a souless cashgrab
what counts is what game is good and what isn't

why the fuck did they put COPE there? makes no sense

Apologising for Sonic's history in advance.

How do you think it looked in motion.

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The intent might've been something like "You Can Do It", like Japanese would say "Ganbare". If they were looking for a short singular word for "You Can Do It" they might end up with "Cope".