ATemporaryDistraction.com: "The recent upward swing in quality of the Sonic games has been something of a minor miracle for fans of the series. After being cemented as a gaming icon who figured prominently in many a childhood, the sneaker-wearing hedgehog spent years of languishing in atrocious attempts to drag him into the 3D gaming era, the former fast-paced joy of the Sonic titles being smothered amidst a cacophony of unbearable sidekicks, baffling story ideas and clumsy gameplay mechanics. SEGA have since apparently taken a long, hard introspective look at what once made the series so great and slowly started working towards giving long-suffering fans something that lives up to their lofty expectations for a new Sonic game. That game has at long last arrived, with Sonic Generations finally managing to merge the old-school platforming fun of the SEGA mascot with the 3D white-knuckle rollercoaster glee that later Sonic games have strived to deliver."
Sonic the Hedgehog has a long and turbulent history in videogames, but which are the best games featuring the blue bur?
Generations over Mania? Please… Generations doesnt have any new ideas in the levels/bosses.
Also a top 7 of Sonic games shouldn’t have any 3D crap and contain at least one of the 8-bit titles.
Sonic CD getting snubbed is weird. Number 1 is definitely interchangable between Sonic 2 and Sonic 3 & Knuckles.
Top 7 for me
7 cd
6 mania
5 Frontiers
4 sonic 3
3 sonic 1
2 sonic and knuckles
1 sonic 2
Sometimes I feel like the Sonic Advanced games just didn’t exist with how much it’s always forgotten 😭
The divide between both iterations of Sonic is now reaching spin-off territory, and the way Sega is handling it is both a blessing and a curse.
BLG writes: "With the success of the films and the promise of Frontiers, it’s possible that we’re ushering in a new golden age of Sonic the Hedgehog. While Sega is looking forward, the company is also looking back. It’s giving us Sonic Origins, a retooled collection of Genesis classics. However, this package fails to provoke a burning question: what’s the best Sonic handheld game?"