Sonic: The most overrated game ever?

[Squeezol]

curl-6 said:

Squeezol said:

You can control Sonic when in loops, and pipes make up just a few penentages of the whole level in Chemical Plant for example. And yes, they work through memorization. There's no way you can play a classic Sonic level at full speed the first time without taking damage or even dying. Learning levels and running through them faster is the point of the game.

See, that's not my idea of good game design, if you have to learn through trial and error repetition.

In Classic Sonic's case, I think it is. The original idea was that they tried to make the levels seem shorter each time you played them because you couldn't save in Sonic 1 and Sonic 2. If you got a Game Over and had no continues left, you had to start from the beginning. You could argue that this way of level design isn't exactly the best for the later games where you can save, but we're talking about the classics here. You can save in Sonic 3, but the original design is still present there, so if you don't like that, then Sonic's not for you.