Sonic Superstars is the latest installment in the franchise and it hasn't become any clearer how anyone should be playing these games.
. I’ve sunk a not insignificant amount of time in the game, speeding through multiple of its stages in the last few days and trying to explore every nook and cranny of its labyrinthine design for goodies like bonus stages and power-ups.
The iconic blue hedgehog’s catchphrase “Gotta go fast” suggests an obvious philosophy, but I’d contend that it is not in fact so obvious. Time and time again, I’ve picked up one of these games, revved up in ball form and gone fast, only to slam headfirst a few seconds later into some spike trap or deviously placed enemy. I’m more familiar with the sound of all my character’s rings leaving my body than I am the triumphant fanfare of completing a Sonic stage.
After a while, I tried to find some reading on the matter, figuring I can’t be the only person in history to ever feel at odds with the Sonic franchise. Though I failed to turn up articles on the subject—even if I’m sure they’re out there—I did come across forum threads that echoed my feelings and even elucidated points about the design of these games that should feel clearer having played so many and yet eluded me.
Elsewhere, I found that you’re not really supposed to always go fast, which really shook me to my core. Apparently—and I won’t say this is the definitive way to play, just what I’ve now seen passed off as sound advice—I’m supposed to take Sonic stages slowly at first, taking advantage of that tiered stage design and only occasionally going fast when the game really calls for it.
Walking away from this crisis, I think what I finally understand about Sonic is that there’s perhaps a definitive way to play these games that I don’t, and may never, get. I’m not even sure its fandom can agree on it, and that makes Sonic as interesting as it is baffling.is at the very least then, a worthy inheritor of that bewildering legacy.
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