Sonic Colors has taken the speedy blue hero out from the depths of mediocrity and given it a new boost of life. Before this, most new instalment were met with near derision by a fanbase that seemed to crave the magic of the classic 2D games. This has led to some fans putting their own Sonic games online.
Among them, one of the most popular is Sonic Ultimate Flash by Dennis Gid, that tries to replicate the nostalgia of the old games from the early nineties using flash. It also has shades of some of the more recent games such as the Advance games. While playing the game, many things jump out as fuelling this nostalgia, beginning with Leaf Forest, which is the first level. One of the defining trends of many of these games is the first level being a palm tree beach styled level. This began with Green Hill Zone from the very first game of the series.
Green Hill Zone and similar levels in later instalments, such as Emerald Hill Zone in Sonic the Hedgehog 2, are known for being colourful and easy enough for any new player to get accustomed to the game. There is ample opportunity to utilise the speediness of the main character without getting him killed in the process. Leaf Forest follows this pattern, exactly.
Leaf Forest is a brightly colored induction to a series of nostalgic levels, and it is hard to die here and easy to explore and pick up speed. This is good for anyone who is not familiar with the Sega games, of course, but, really, this game seems to be primarily for fans looking for a bit of nostalgia.
The levels progress in a way that continues this, although it becomes apparent that the game mirrors Sonic Advance 2 more that it does the games from the early nineties. This is not ever such a problem since the Advance series in themselves are a call back to those early games. The music is taken from both the Advance games and the Classic games, giving the game a familiar soundtrack alongside those trademark noises that we have come to expect.
The available characters are Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Cream with two more secret characters to be unlocked. The hedgehog still has his speed and Tails still flies, although Knuckles now, for some reason, lacks the ability to glide or climb. Cheese the Chao also does not have the skills that made Cream such an easy character to play in her debut game, but this does not stop this from being the closest thing to a real Sonic game that you can find, online.
A popular thing to do with fan games is the idea of combining one well-known franchise with another. The hedgehog is no stranger to this, and the combination of Mario and he must be one of the most frequent. In Sonic Lost In Mario World, he is placed in, of course, the world of Mario. He is now fighting koopas and goombas instead of animal-powered robots and egg-shaped scientist, and is collecting coins instead of rings. It is a simple concept, but a significant one, especially since the speediness still works within the confine of traditional Mario-style platforming.
As well as the Mario crossovers, you will find things like Sonic in Pacman or Final Fantasy, but that will generally be in looks only, with none of the associated gameplay conventions. There are, however, several good examples of Sonic games online.
Among them, one of the most popular is Sonic Ultimate Flash by Dennis Gid, that tries to replicate the nostalgia of the old games from the early nineties using flash. It also has shades of some of the more recent games such as the Advance games. While playing the game, many things jump out as fuelling this nostalgia, beginning with Leaf Forest, which is the first level. One of the defining trends of many of these games is the first level being a palm tree beach styled level. This began with Green Hill Zone from the very first game of the series.
Green Hill Zone and similar levels in later instalments, such as Emerald Hill Zone in Sonic the Hedgehog 2, are known for being colourful and easy enough for any new player to get accustomed to the game. There is ample opportunity to utilise the speediness of the main character without getting him killed in the process. Leaf Forest follows this pattern, exactly.
Leaf Forest is a brightly colored induction to a series of nostalgic levels, and it is hard to die here and easy to explore and pick up speed. This is good for anyone who is not familiar with the Sega games, of course, but, really, this game seems to be primarily for fans looking for a bit of nostalgia.
The levels progress in a way that continues this, although it becomes apparent that the game mirrors Sonic Advance 2 more that it does the games from the early nineties. This is not ever such a problem since the Advance series in themselves are a call back to those early games. The music is taken from both the Advance games and the Classic games, giving the game a familiar soundtrack alongside those trademark noises that we have come to expect.
The available characters are Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Cream with two more secret characters to be unlocked. The hedgehog still has his speed and Tails still flies, although Knuckles now, for some reason, lacks the ability to glide or climb. Cheese the Chao also does not have the skills that made Cream such an easy character to play in her debut game, but this does not stop this from being the closest thing to a real Sonic game that you can find, online.
A popular thing to do with fan games is the idea of combining one well-known franchise with another. The hedgehog is no stranger to this, and the combination of Mario and he must be one of the most frequent. In Sonic Lost In Mario World, he is placed in, of course, the world of Mario. He is now fighting koopas and goombas instead of animal-powered robots and egg-shaped scientist, and is collecting coins instead of rings. It is a simple concept, but a significant one, especially since the speediness still works within the confine of traditional Mario-style platforming.
As well as the Mario crossovers, you will find things like Sonic in Pacman or Final Fantasy, but that will generally be in looks only, with none of the associated gameplay conventions. There are, however, several good examples of Sonic games online.
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