I do generally like the story of SA2 but a lot of Sonic Fans seem to overlook how a lot of the Story just isn’t well explained. The presentation of this game is really bad.
Honestly watching your video made me question whether or not you were paying attention a lot with the story and your criticisms of the mech shooting and treasure hunting stages legitimately just come off as though you're just bad at those gameplay styles. Firstly for the story Centric stuff I'll Grant you most of it but there are some things that you got significantly wrong. First of all Knuckles shutting off the Chaos Emeralds with that Master Emerald didn't "fail" make dad's successfully shut off the chaos emeralds the problem is that the space Colony Ark was building up momentum that entire time so regardless of them shutting off the emeralds the ark already had enough momentum by that point to keep hurdling towards the Earth even more so when the bio lizard attached itself to it to increase the momentum even more. 2nd the Bio lizard was alluded to in the story when Rouge confronts Shadow about him not being the real ultimate life form and holds up the files of project Shadow you can see a picture of the Bio lizard showcasing that it was planned to appear and didn't come out of nowhere. 3rd although you didn't really touch on this aspect you did mention how the info dumping in the final story was rather confusing making you feel as though you fell asleep but all this info dump really says is that the gun soldiers went on to the ark and killed Maria sometime after this professor Gerald saw her name among those who died on the ark after going insane he created shadow as his instrument of Revenge. The fact that he created Shadow after the incident on the ark means all of Shadows memories are fake implants put in their by Professor Gerald to give him a burning hatred of humans and make him want to exact this Revenge but Professor Gerald also mentions how she was slipping in and out of insanity which most likely means that the Maria portions where she is telling Shadow to save the humans and wanting them to be happy was put in there by Professor Gerald when he managed to slip it out of insanity. That's all that info dump really says as for the next shooting stages do you really expect Eggman to play like Sonic? do you really see this fat bastard rolling around at the speed of sound jumping on creatures to destroy them and doing homing attacks and stuff like that? really? Honestly I think that the different characters having their own gameplay Styles is a good thing because Sonic is supposed to be the one who has speed as his defining ability that he is supposed to be the fastest one alive but if everyone plays like him and is just as fast as him then Sonic isn't special anymore. As for the mech shooting stages and why I feel you're wrong on them the next shooting and treasure hunting stages encouraged speed and replayability in the same way that the classic Sonic games do with their levels you earn speed by getting better at the levels and knowing where the pitfalls are where to cut corners etc etc. In the Mech shooting stages for example you go faster by knowing the level layout where enemies pop in out of nowhere and where all the different power-ups are not to mention mastering the controls themselves and the same goes for the treasure hunting stages mastering the level layouts where all the emeralds spawn using strategic use of the hints to be able to get them fast enough and get a high enough score to get the a rank. Watching your video honestly just confirmed to me what I've been thinking about for a while about people not liking these gameplay Styles and it's that people judge these gameplay styles deciding they don't like them either just on principle or specially throwing them in a Sonic game rather than actually critiquing them on their own merits I can see you tried to critique them on their own merits but your critiques legitimately come off as though you're just bad at the game because just about all of your problems with the stages are things that I and many others who have actually Gotten Good at these various control types don't experience because simply put we arent bad at the game.
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I do generally like the story of SA2 but a lot of Sonic Fans seem to overlook how a lot of the Story just isn’t well explained.
The presentation of this game is really bad.
Honestly watching your video made me question whether or not you were paying attention a lot with the story and your criticisms of the mech shooting and treasure hunting stages legitimately just come off as though you're just bad at those gameplay styles.
Firstly for the story Centric stuff I'll Grant you most of it but there are some things that you got significantly wrong. First of all Knuckles shutting off the Chaos Emeralds with that Master Emerald didn't "fail" make dad's successfully shut off the chaos emeralds the problem is that the space Colony Ark was building up momentum that entire time so regardless of them shutting off the emeralds the ark already had enough momentum by that point to keep hurdling towards the Earth even more so when the bio lizard attached itself to it to increase the momentum even more.
2nd the Bio lizard was alluded to in the story when Rouge confronts Shadow about him not being the real ultimate life form and holds up the files of project Shadow you can see a picture of the Bio lizard showcasing that it was planned to appear and didn't come out of nowhere.
3rd although you didn't really touch on this aspect you did mention how the info dumping in the final story was rather confusing making you feel as though you fell asleep but all this info dump really says is that the gun soldiers went on to the ark and killed Maria sometime after this professor Gerald saw her name among those who died on the ark after going insane he created shadow as his instrument of Revenge.
The fact that he created Shadow after the incident on the ark means all of Shadows memories are fake implants put in their by Professor Gerald to give him a burning hatred of humans and make him want to exact this Revenge but Professor Gerald also mentions how she was slipping in and out of insanity which most likely means that the Maria portions where she is telling Shadow to save the humans and wanting them to be happy was put in there by Professor Gerald when he managed to slip it out of insanity.
That's all that info dump really says as for the next shooting stages do you really expect Eggman to play like Sonic? do you really see this fat bastard rolling around at the speed of sound jumping on creatures to destroy them and doing homing attacks and stuff like that? really? Honestly I think that the different characters having their own gameplay Styles is a good thing because Sonic is supposed to be the one who has speed as his defining ability that he is supposed to be the fastest one alive but if everyone plays like him and is just as fast as him then Sonic isn't special anymore.
As for the mech shooting stages and why I feel you're wrong on them the next shooting and treasure hunting stages encouraged speed and replayability in the same way that the classic Sonic games do with their levels you earn speed by getting better at the levels and knowing where the pitfalls are where to cut corners etc etc.
In the Mech shooting stages for example you go faster by knowing the level layout where enemies pop in out of nowhere and where all the different power-ups are not to mention mastering the controls themselves and the same goes for the treasure hunting stages mastering the level layouts where all the emeralds spawn using strategic use of the hints to be able to get them fast enough and get a high enough score to get the a rank.
Watching your video honestly just confirmed to me what I've been thinking about for a while about people not liking these gameplay Styles and it's that people judge these gameplay styles deciding they don't like them either just on principle or specially throwing them in a Sonic game rather than actually critiquing them on their own merits I can see you tried to critique them on their own merits but your critiques legitimately come off as though you're just bad at the game because just about all of your problems with the stages are things that I and many others who have actually Gotten Good at these various control types don't experience because simply put we arent bad at the game.
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