Sonic CD, I never played this on the Sega CD, since I didn't own one, but, I have played Sonic CD on the Game cube disc, Sonic Gems. I loved this game from the start, as it introduced one of my favorite Sonic villains ever, Hyper Metal Sonic! This enemy was a beast, designed by Dr. Robotnik to be exactly like Sonic in every way, shape, and form! Except of course, being a hero. Another character in this game is Amy Rose! Sonic's "girlfriend" as she likes to call herself. And excluded character from this game would be Miles "Tails" Prower, whom was put into Sonic 2. Now, onto the graphics. I find these graphics to be good, since the game was made in the 90's, and some of the coolest graphics I found in this game to be the 3D graphics of the special stages, and somewhat 3D graphics of Sonic running up the sides of hills! Another great thing about this game is the introduction, the Sonic Boom song is amazing in my opinion, and the animation was amazing as well. Moving onto sounds, I loved the sounds. I personally, am somewhat addicted to Sonic music, cause it is so great, in my opinion, of course, there are some repetitive sounds that annoy me, along with the ring collecting noise which is running through every Sonic game, and having played, almost all of them, it gets a little stuck in your head. Now, addictiveness, I can play this game upon hours, upon days. And with so many different paths to take, (literally, each level can let you go into the past, or future), I always like to go back through the game to see which levels looked which way, and it was always hard for me to get the Time Crystals that you had to collect to get the good ending. Now, for Story, I especially like. The story is, from what I've read from the manual, is that Sonic and Amy go to the lake to see the "Little Planet" come out from it. Little Planet is sort of like the moon, although it comes out from the lake, instead of being in space, and it comes out once in a blue moon. Now Robotnik, decides to chain up little planet and keep it above ground, which is...bad? I guess, and Sonic's objective is to stop Robotnik. But alas, Metal Sonic makes his first appearance in the first level, where he kidnaps Amy, and runs off with her. Sonic is then having two objectives, stopping Robotnik, and saving Amy Rose. Depth, is rather neat too, as I said earlier, you can go into the past, or future of each level. The past is pleasant, set in where Robotnik hasn't visited the planet yet, but of course, it wouldn't make sense for the past based part of the level to not have badniks. (Actually, that would make more sense.) While the future, is set in an era of if Sonic hadn't saved Little Planet from Robotnik, and if Robotnik had taken over the planet, and made it a post-apocalyptic wasteland. There are plenty of levels for you to spend your hours and hours controlling Sonic and making him run around like a hamster on a wheel. But on a mission. Now, for difficulty, I wouldn't say this game is TOO hard, but it isn't TOO easy either. My first time playing Sonic CD, I had troubles with the first boss of the game...and many of the others. I had the most problems with Metal Sonic though, whom I guess is more of a mini-boss. Either way, you race Metal Sonic in the area which is where you battle Metal Sonic in Sonic Generations for the Chaos Emerald. Except with Metal Sonic in CD, he can really only boost, and start flashing yellow like he was trying to go Super, but failing. Miserably. At the end of the level, whomever makes it past the finish line of course wins, and the loser is trapped behind an impenetrable wall, and then gets blasted by a laser provided by the fat, egg shaped doctor himself. Overall, I love this game. Maybe it's just my bias for Sonic games that made me give this game such a good rating, but I'd always had good memories with Sonic games, and this one as well. There are a lot of cool little Easter eggs in this game as well. I won't spoil them, but I'll just say they're worth looking for...well, almost all of them. Well, that's my review for the hit game, Sonic CD! Sonic CD, I never played this on the Sega CD, since I didn't own one, but, I have played Sonic CD on the Game cube disc, Sonic Gems. I loved this game from the start, as it introduced one of my favorite Sonic villains ever, Hyper Metal Sonic! This enemy was a beast, designed by Dr. Robotnik to be exactly like Sonic in every way, shape, and form! Except of course, being a hero. Another character in this game is Amy Rose! Sonic's "girlfriend" as she likes to call herself. And excluded character from this game would be Miles "Tails" Prower, whom was put into Sonic 2. Now, onto the graphics. I find these graphics to be good, since the game was made in the 90's, and some of the coolest graphics I found in this game to be the 3D graphics of the special stages, and somewhat 3D graphics of Sonic running up the sides of hills! Another great thing about this game is the introduction, the Sonic Boom song is amazing in my opinion, and the animation was amazing as well. Moving onto sounds, I loved the sounds. I personally, am somewhat addicted to Sonic music, cause it is so great, in my opinion, of course, there are some repetitive sounds that annoy me, along with the ring collecting noise which is running through every Sonic game, and having played, almost all of them, it gets a little stuck in your head. Now, addictiveness, I can play this game upon hours, upon days. And with so many different paths to take, (literally, each level can let you go into the past, or future), I always like to go back through the game to see which levels looked which way, and it was always hard for me to get the Time Crystals that you had to collect to get the good ending. Now, for Story, I especially like. The story is, from what I've read from the manual, is that Sonic and Amy go to the lake to see the "Little Planet" come out from it. Little Planet is sort of like the moon, although it comes out from the lake, instead of being in space, and it comes out once in a blue moon. Now Robotnik, decides to chain up little planet and keep it above ground, which is...bad? I guess, and Sonic's objective is to stop Robotnik. But alas, Metal Sonic makes his first appearance in the first level, where he kidnaps Amy, and runs off with her. Sonic is then having two objectives, stopping Robotnik, and saving Amy Rose. Depth, is rather neat too, as I said earlier, you can go into the past, or future of each level. The past is pleasant, set in where Robotnik hasn't visited the planet yet, but of course, it wouldn't make sense for the past based part of the level to not have badniks. (Actually, that would make more sense.) While the future, is set in an era of if Sonic hadn't saved Little Planet from Robotnik, and if Robotnik had taken over the planet, and made it a post-apocalyptic wasteland. There are plenty of levels for you to spend your hours and hours controlling Sonic and making him run around like a hamster on a wheel. But on a mission. Now, for difficulty, I wouldn't say this game is TOO hard, but it isn't TOO easy either. My first time playing Sonic CD, I had troubles with the first boss of the game...and many of the others. I had the most problems with Metal Sonic though, whom I guess is more of a mini-boss. Either way, you race Metal Sonic in the area which is where you battle Metal Sonic in Sonic Generations for the Chaos Emerald. Except with Metal Sonic in CD, he can really only boost, and start flashing yellow like he was trying to go Super, but failing. Miserably. At the end of the level, whomever makes it past the finish line of course wins, and the loser is trapped behind an impenetrable wall, and then gets blasted by a laser provided by the fat, egg shaped doctor himself. Overall, I love this game. Maybe it's just my bias for Sonic games that made me give this game such a good rating, but I'd always had good memories with Sonic games, and this one as well. There are a lot of cool little Easter eggs in this game as well. I won't spoil them, but I'll just say they're worth looking for...well, almost all of them. Well, that's my review for the hit game, Sonic CD! |