Welcome readers, I am MechaMento with another brand new review on a not so brand new game. Today I will be the critic towards the game Sonic CD for no other than the Sega CD. Be sure to read the whole review and after you can give me praise, or criticism depending on how well you think I did. 



Why I Played This

To be honest I had never heard of the Sega CD, only the Mega Drive (Genesis) and Game Gear which were both passed down to me from my parents. I have been a rather big fan of Sonic the Hedgehog, though not because I was good at it because I was certainly not! I hated all of the modern Sonic games, I hated his appearance character and the fact that the games was a 3D platformers. I had to search for remakes of the classic 2D platformers on the Xbox Live Arcade and to my surprise there was a game I was yet to of heard of that being, Sonic CD. Before I knew of Vizzed I just went and got the trial since I did not want to pay for a game I had no idea about. But when I did find vizzed I went along to purchase the game, without question. 


Graphics

During my time on Vizzed, I have also played other Sega CD titles. There are many great entries to the system with fantastic graphics and Sonic CD is not excluded from the list. Sega put a lot of effort into improving the graphics engine from the original Sonic the Hedgehog and the final product was more than expected. Most of the sprites were kept the same style design as the original but smoothed out a little more so it was almost like a HD version of the original. I am very pleased they kept the style of sprites similar to the original, it kept the same loving feel that all Sonic fans loved in the first Sonic title and encouraged them to keep buying Sega products.
I may of gave this game a lot of praise for its graphics but you may notice I rated the Graphics 8 rather than 9 or 10. There is a good reason to it as well, and we have to compare it to the less powerful console, the Sega Mega Drive (Genesis). Now not often do I compare the graphics to a different console since it is not fair, but I have a decent point, to well... Point out. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 for the Sega Mega Drive was, in my opinion, better designed  than Sonic CD. The whole game layout was better, and the bonus stages can almost be compared with games on the Nintendo 64! However Sonic the Hedgehog 2 may of came out a little while after Sonic CD but let's be honest it puts the Sega CD to shame if a cartridge has better graphics.  


Sound

When you boot up Sonic CD you are greeted with the game's soundtrack "Sonic Boom". Due to Sonic CD being a CD based game, the sound quality was a generation ahead of all of the rival cartridge consoles. The great sound at vinyl quality continues through out the game so it is not a game, like for instance pokemon, where I would mute the volume when playing the game. The soundtrack never stays the same, by that I mean there is not many levels that hold the same music to another level. For instance the game Super Mario World 2, Yoshi's Island, the game music is the same for every level so you would just get fed up with the song, Sonic CD is not anything like that so everything entering my ears is fresh!


Depth

There is a lot that Sega offer in Sonic CD and out of all of the Sega CD games I have played, this one has to be the most compact. Levels stretch on for decent lengths. They are not too short to complete in less than a minute (that is when not doing a speedrun) but not too long to lose the players interest. To add on to the fact that the levels are long, you can travel back and forwards in time in the levels to experience what like in the past and future in the world Sonic! The bonus stages are very fun and they can range into various engaging events. There are also some hidden features and easter eggs you can access via sound test mode, including the dreaded creepy message apparently stating "Fun is Infinite, Sega Enterprise." not so creepy, but at the bottom it is meant to be signed by saturn himself! This game is big, really big and that is why it deserves a 10 for its depth and it remains as one of the biggest sonic games produced!



I hope you enjoyed my review. Be sure to rate, comment or give me any feedback you want, whether that be praise or criticism! Thank for reading, I consider your effort for engaging throughout the whole review. If you have any suggestions do tell me and you are most like to get what you requested. 


~MechaMento

And this is why you make reviews.

Amazing quality, and quantity. It's nice how you give your overall opinion on the series as a whole at the start, and voice your opinion on the new Sonic. I gave up writing reviews ages ago. Just got tired. You could become the local Game Reviewer soon!

Pokegeek : I certainly hope to, though that is rather ambitious. I am not sure I will reach it since the current Local Game Review is really good. I do not see why you stopped reviewing, you get a lot of CP for your effort. I think a mass poster like you can get a lot out of it, maybe it will help you get to being a trusted member. You will never know!

MechaMento : Mass Poster? I don't see myself as that, only 500 posts. And trusted is a long way off you might become Vizzed Elite next year.

Pokegeek : They are my targets but an elite in a year, that is mad. Most elites like Pokemon x became elites after they were staff for a long time. I think it will take more than a year. You use to be a mass post right? I swear when I first signed up to vizzed I kept seeing your name on the new posts page. I only started to post more because of the Vizzed Championship Series but that is over now, I came 6th because I gave up after only the 7th day or something. Well it gave me time to relax and prepare for the Tour de Vizzed. Are you competing?

I may be competing, but I will be going to Scotland on Saturday for a week, and I am very busy with school, so I won't be very active, unfortunately and I also posted like 30-50 a day, but with the lack of new threads to post in, I haven't had much opportunity.