Sonic The Hedgehog

[Spark Of Spirit]

You can beat Silver Sonic in less than a minute. He's not the annoying part.

[gunswordfist]

Then you lied about how dying against him was a frequent occasion due to a glitch.

[talonmalon333]

You can take out half of Silver Sonic's health before he even does anything. I imagine you can easily beat him in thirty seconds.

Then you lied about how dying against him was a frequent occasion due to a glitch.

I think he meant the giant Robotnik robot you fight afterward, idiot.

[Spark Of Spirit]

The real annoyance is if you die during that extremely long final boss and then have to fight through Silver Sonic again. I would have preferred an actual final level.

You can take out half of Silver Sonic's health before he even does anything. I imagine you can easily beat him in thirty seconds.

Then you lied about how dying against him was a frequent occasion due to a glitch.

I think he meant the giant Robotnik robot you fight afterward, idiot.

Bingo.

[gunswordfist]

I see Spark is still piggybacking off of, talon.

You still get killed by Egg Emperor? That's nothing compared to the painful spikes and gravity boss in S3K. That's much longer and a lot less fun.

[Spark Of Spirit]

I usually have Super Sonic by that point, so it's usually fairly short for me. Either way, the bosses in Sonic games are rarely anything great. The Doomsday Zone boss is pretty awesome, though.

[gunswordfist]

I always lose Super Sonic by the time that snorefest is over. So that would mean a deathmatch against some fingers. Not fun.

Except for half the bosses in Death Egg and all the non-Mecha Sonic mini-bosses, S3K does have the best 2D Sonic boss fights (I might still like Generations' the best overall but i have to replay it) and I do love Doomsday and Lava Reef, so there's that.

[Nel_Annette]

SEGA announced a patch for the game coming out soon that returns the old feature of an extra life for every 100 rings you collect, and now when you continue you get 10 lives rather than 5. Which is great for me considering how much I suck at this game.

[Spark Of Spirit]

I honestly don't know why they took that out, but it was smart to put it back in. Lost World is hard enough without it and collecting 500 rings and getting nothing for it is just a tad annoying.

All the wisp powers having button and stick controls is a step up, too.

Definitely a smart patch.

[Foggle]

FINALLY got around to playing Sonic 4 Episode 1. This game is a painfully mediocre nostalgia-fest in every way except for the music and physics, which are awful. I have yet to beat the final boss because his hit box appears to be broken and I keep taking damage when I should be dealing it, sending my rings flying either off the screen or past his body which you cannot ghost through. Whoever thought of putting a boss gauntlet in this game deserves to be drawn and quartered, btw.

EDIT: Got to the end of the fight... and then he broke the floor and I died. It's pretty cool how I tried to homing attack him at the proper moment and it didn't execute (which seems to happen frequently in Sonic 4). This is kind of like the exploding boss in Ninja Gaiden 2 except that game was actually good.

EDIT 2: Well, I beat it. Aside from the final level, which was more tedious and broken than hard, it was probably the easiest and shortest 2D Sonic game I've played. Half my play time and 90% of my deaths were on the last level alone.

[talonmalon333]

FINALLY got around to playing Sonic 4 Episode 1. This game is a painfully mediocre nostalgia-fest in every way except for the music and physics, which are awful. I have yet to beat the final boss because his hit box appears to be broken and I keep taking damage when I should be dealing it, sending my rings flying either off the screen or past his body which you cannot ghost through. Whoever thought of putting a boss gauntlet in this game deserves to be drawn and quartered, btw.

EDIT: Got to the end of the fight... and then he broke the floor and I died. It's pretty cool how I tried to homing attack him at the proper moment and it didn't execute (which seems to happen frequently in Sonic 4). This is kind of like the exploding boss in Ninja Gaiden 2 except that game was actually good.

EDIT 2: Well, I beat it. Aside from the final level, which was more tedious and broken than hard, it was probably the easiest and shortest 2D Sonic game I've played. Half my play time and 90% of my deaths were on the last level alone.

Rate'et.

[Foggle]

I dunno, like, a 4 or 5 out of 10? It's not complete garbage, but it's just barely competent at best IMO.

[talonmalon333]

I didn't play it thoroughly, and I didn't buy the second episode. I can't seem to get into modern Sonic games.

[Nel_Annette]

FINALLY got around to playing Sonic 4 Episode 1. This game is a painfully mediocre nostalgia-fest in every way except for the music and physics, which are awful.

Pretty much the best short explanation of Sonic 4 in a nutshell.  Episode 2 is barely a step up, if only because a few level environments and music are better than the first. At least StH4E2 had the decency to fuse old level tropes on a few levels rather than blatantly rip them off. And even when they did, at least the music was badass (Sky Fortress Act 2).

Who can forget the classic level list of:
Not Green Hill
Not Casino Night
Not Labyrinth
Not Metropolis
Not Aquatic Ruin/Marble Garden at night
Not Ice Cap/Carnival Night
Not Oil Ocean/Sandopolis
Not Sky Chase/Wing Fortress

Classic. 

[Avaitor]

I got a demo of Episode 2 for my iPhone a while ago. It was pretty good, except I am not a tablet gamer at all.