It also feels so tense and hard when you slow down from losing rings or having to go up a hill when not fast enough. And Eggman's there ready to shoot his laser beam of death from not being fast enough. And if you don't get in front of metal sonic he just closes the door on you as you have to wait for your death from the laser from Eggman. But it is fun boss fight though even though it can be tough to jump over each obstacle and have to go faster than the boss in the boss fight.
Sonic CD gets a lot of flak for its weird level design, but for me its what makes it so unique. Having to travel to the past to destroy the machines encourages exploration, something the other Sonic games don't really do a whole lot of. And that soundtrack! People swear by Sonic 2, but dare I say that I enjoy Sonic CD more just for its charm.
I would really love to see the time travel mechanic return. Yes, in CD, the signs can be frustrating. And there's no reason to go to the future until you've destroyed both machines. But I think there's still a lot of potential there. I'd love a sonic game where the time travel is based on the direction you run, so you still have that cool explorer aspect of needing to find the best places in the level where you can time travel, but without that frustration of touching the wrong sign and having to restart the level. If polished and worked on, it could be a really fun mechanic for either future 3D or 2D Sonic games.
This is the one game I've been waiting YEARS for Jirard to play. Sonic CD is always going to be my favorite Sonic. Hopefully one day he'll play the Sonic Advance games too
@@raxadian I wouldn't put any of them in top 10 favorite sonic games but is definitely recommend them to any sonic fan or people interested in handheld platformers
@@MalikEKC As someone who was introduced late to the Sonic franchise, I prefer the Sonic Advance series than the Classic Sonic Series. Probably because I usually only like games where u can play as multiple characters like Sonic Advance/Sonic Heroes/Sonic Adventure, since Sonic is my least favorite character from the franchise(I like Sonic and The Black Rings tho, because the aesthetic of that game oozes personality)
Was not expecting a Dick Assman reference. Been a while since I thought of him, probably since he passed a few years ago. Worked with him for a while back in the early 2000s, pretty nice fellow.
That’s kind of like if Nintendo released a collection of classic Mario someone’s like, “real missed opportunity to not let us use Yoshi in Mario 1.” It’s like because the Sonic remasters add some playable characters, people just expect every character to be added now - even the ones that were never even playable in the classic series to begin with. Extra playable characters are… extra. They’re not really expected
I 1000% agree with you, Jirard, and I don't think you sound overly whiny at all. This collection could/SHOULD be the definitive version of all of these games and it is so frustrating that it's not. (Leave that to PC modders.) I appreciate you using your platform to voice your displeasure to Sega - I really hope they hire Headcannon back to fix the bugs in Sonic 3 and that they find some way to improve the music or get the MJ tracks back.
Aside from feeling called out with Goldfinger “Superman” and the existential dread of being 31, this episode hits me right in the nostalgia In that this was the first PC game I ever played. I still remember the disc with sonic in spinball mode playing on my family computer running windows 98. As I sit here at work, This episode makes me feel like a kid again, thanks for making it.
And just 3, soon to be 4, "main series" episodes left. Sonic 3D Blast, Sonic 4 (you have to know he's not doing that one as two episodes) and Sonic Lost World as far as currently released titles are concerned.
the prototype tracks have positives, but the main issue with them in orgins is that they are based moreso on the PC port, that had a worse sound in general to the original version. the remastered tracks done in the sonic 3 style rather than using this inferior sound make these tracks sound much better.
It's been found out it's very likely they're from an even earlier Sonic 3 prototype than the one we got. Speculation suggests they're the actual demo recordings used for the PC port MIDIs.
That theme song has to be one of Sonic’s best. Sonic boom is an absolute banger and I would sing it all the time as a kid back when I played cd on the GameCube
Really enjoyed this game. Played it 3 times, 2 anniversary mode playthrough's (1 as Sonic, 1 as Tails) and once during the story mode. I even completed the special stages during one of the playthrough's without screwing up and restarting once. And completed it in 1 sitting, I never did this before previously in any 2D Sonic game.
I disagree. People use to always talk about the “lost sonic masterpiece” when it was marooned on the Sega CD. But then it became easier to play and people realized “meh, maybe this isn’t that good”. Thus people stoped talking about the game that has major design issues.
It looks good and the controls are fine. But it's like someone gave a 5 year old a Sonic version of Mario Maker. I love sonic but this is in my bottom 5
8:00 I mean that was the intent with all Sonic games even Sonic 1, they just didn't have time to do it beyond Green Hill zone, they put all their focus on that... and every level after was linear slow paced side scrolling. 2 and CD not only changed the Sonic franchise's landscape, but gaming in general. 2 yeah was more speed based, but still touted exploration, the whole idea of speed was behind your own capability, otherwise Sonic ironically was more about exploration than speed. You take a lower route it's more enemies, slower, treacherous with spikes and pit falls, take a higher route moderate speed, lots of collectibles and rewards, you want to go fast you stay for the most part on the straight and narrow, down the middle, occasionally taking an upper path maybe as some speed runners do. So even Sonic 2 had these aspects, that was the intent behind the entire franchise from day 1, what pushed Sonic to doing what other companies and especially Nintendon't, with Mario, Castlevania, Megaman, Sonic not only had speed but multiple routes to take to get to one goal, the best Mario could do this was a secret pipe that lets you skip levels and gameplay... that's not a game, that's taking the easy way out to skip large chunks of gameplay. Then CD being made at the same time took it a step further. You not only affected the speed, you affected the game's difficulty setting. You can blow past the game gotta go fast, and everything like Sonic does... but then the game gets harder, boss fights get more difficult because you didn't take your time to save everyone, so you get the bad ending. You take your time, slow down, go to the past, explore, destroy holograms, robot making machines, and collect timestones, you get the good ending (however should be noted, if you want to do all of that, you need to save the last timestone for the last level, you collect it before all the machines and holograms are destroyed, the game bugs out and you get a bad good ending not the good ending). This is why I love CD, even more than 3&K, I love all the classic games in their own right (except 1 ullgh no thanks), but CD after I played it back in 2011, easily became one of my favorite Sonic games, nay one of my favorite games I've ever played. Really is unfortunate Origins butchered it and the other games a little bit.
The promised playable Amy would’ve been dope but yeah overall it’s pretty great. I still hope one of these days we get a knuckles Chaotix brought to modern systems.
You forgot to mention the holograms, also you can't get the good ending by getting the time stones (unless this bug was fixed in Origins which... I guess is props even though theres so many more bugs than before?). Not a lot of people seem to know why, but if you want a complete save file the only way of doing this is destroying all the holograms and robot creating machines, then in the final level after you've destroyed the robot machine, only then can you get the last time stone, otherwise you end up with a bad good ending if you collect all the timestones 1st.
If I'm not wrong only Zero Mission rewards you for doing a minimalist run (15% or less), that said, you can beat Fusion with 0% item completion, it's just that avoiding Bob (that one unavoidable missile tank in Sector 3) is incredibly difficult to pull off.
I actually played Sonic CD for the first time on PC. It was released as a SEGA PC title on CD-ROM. I remember trying to play it on a keyboard on my old Compaq Presario that ran Windows 98. I had Sonic CD, Sonic 3D Blast (a SEGA CD port of the Saturn version I believe), Sonic R, and the Sonic & Knuckles Collection. That last one had all the music as Midi Format and used a version of music in Carnival Night, Ice Cap, and Launch Base that would be redone and featured in Origins. The Sonic & Knuckles Collection also had a pretty sweet Screensaver where animated versions of Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, and Eggman would appear to transition one picture to the next. As for Origins, it's fine, but it really needed a lot more polish, and a much better price point.
Yep. My first experience was Sonic CD on PC back in the day, with the original English soundtrack. It was a really fresh experience coming off the Genesis titles. A different kind of vibe.
Dude me too on the blue spheres mini game! I could never pinpoint what changed and why I suddenly was so bad at it. like yourself I was amazing at it on the original platforms. I didn't even realize it was the music! Thanks and keep it up!
Fun fact: this is the very first time ever that all the mainline classic Sonic games (including CD) are collected in one package. Also, these games are ALL remastered, unlike, say, the Cowabunga Collection
Origins really opened my eyes to CD. I had played it before but the time travel aspect confused me so I didn't play it much. After playing through it again, it's now my favorite classic 2D Sonic Game (excluding Mania)
I wouldn't worry about it Completionist, there's so many things wrong with Origins, I can't even count them all on both my hands and I end up making bare minimum 3 paragraphs when explaining to people all the miss comings there's just so many. If people want to hear my thoughts, I'll elaborate, but please be respectful. I'll list 3 right now, the bottlenecking with the delistings, the price gouging, and at the very least maybe these two could be remedied... if they added new characters now I don't want to sound greedy or anything, but these are inferior versions and us older fans do already have multiple copies of these games, this could be remedied bare minimum by adding say Metal Sonic and Amy, or Mighty and Ray which even predate Sonic... 1? 2 and CD? I forget when their arcade game came out, and Knuckles Chaotix with Mighty was obviously after 3&K. I have 5 copies bare minimum of Sonic 1, which is my least favorite of the classic games... why play it again? Why buy it again? If it offers nothing new, because these are all just ports of the 2011 CD, 2012 Sonic 1, and 2013 Sonic 2 remakes that were on Steam and consoles before the delisting, that are currently on mobile platforms still free with ads, or for 2$ each totaling 6 since 3&K isn't there... but at the same time 3&K still isn't doing anything new, heck it's even being sold as 1 game, there's no way to play them separately as 2 games if you wanted that option, not sure why, but maybe some people do, especially since there are some minor changes like the boss fight and music (which I hear is also not returning because of the whole Michael Jackson shenanigans, I don't blame Sega for that despite blaming them for all these other things). Heck even mods did this for the existing games on Steam, there's a mod for CD called episode Metal which not only swaps the pallets, but they even gave Metal Sonic and Amy new moves so they aren't just Sonic and Tails copies. See what I mean, that's just 1 of my 3 paragraphs with my biggest gripes, BEFORE the game released, there's just so many wrong things to this bundle that damaged these games, it's unfortunate. So don't worry Jirard, it's just us older fans feeling the backlash, I don't want to dampen it for the younger and newer fans either, I don't want to seem nitpicky, greedy, or anything... but these are big problems, especially if you can go back and say the versions that they delisted were the superior versions, or playing them on Mega Collection + or Gems +, whether you buy them for large amounts of money, or emulated the gamecube versions free on a laptop. It's disappointing for sure, especially because there shouldn't have been any way they could screw these up... yet Sega somehow did, same with Colors Ultimate, Forces, even Mania as good as it is, Sega held Taxman and Stealth back by pushing more remix stages than newer stages, which I don't mind remixing some stages, but we only got like 4 new levels? We've seen Green Hill and Chemical Plant how many times? Like if Mania 2 comes out... not likely since Taxman left after Mania, took 1/2 their team because of a disagreement with Sega (I wouldn't doubt this is why, and he had stealth hang back so they didn't screw Origins up)... but if they did I'd still want SOME remix stages because Mania is a celebration. I'd say just 1 from each game in future Mania sequels, so Mania 2 has Marbel zone, Emerald Hill or Mystic Cave from 2, Tidal Tempest from CD, Icecap from 3, and Sandopolis from Knuckles, maaaybe a Knuckles Chaotix stage (so we can also bring in Team Chaotix as playable characters). That's 6 out of 14, since Mania 1 had 14 in total, so 8 brand new levels, or maybe split the difference 6 old 6 new for 12 total... I'm running on too much at this point, my point is I agree with you Jirard and don't worry about it, and if newer fans are enjoying this, great that's perfectly fine... but also you deserved better too.
Genesis Sonic 3&K players on Origins: "What's with the prototype music?" PC S&K collections players on Origins: "They improved the prototype music?" I wonder how it will take for the Sonic modding community to restore the Genesis tracks to Origins.
I remember when my uncle let me ply this on his SEGA CD back in the day. Sewer Shark and Ground Zero Texas were the only other two I really remember….and this weird ass game called Supreme Warriors which required a 32X and CD in order to play.
I just got the Capcom Fighting Collection recently, it's really cool. Capcom is doing a little better at their collections recently, thank goodness. No more putting half of the collection in a code or lackluster bonuses.
Honestly, I kinda hoped that the console versions of Darkstalkers 3 and Cyberbots were included due to the bonus content they had but I’m still fine with what we got. I also hope we get a collection of 3d fighters next year
Mad respect for addressing the lack of 3&K's original music like an actual adult. As much as I dislike the beta music that replaced it, it's not enough to keep me from enjoying these classic games. I'll just loop the og tracks on youtube when I play the levels.
I love time travel mechanics, but my favorite part is in time travel and alternate universe games, where the actions you take affect other times/universes. There are so many opportunities for fun puzzles from that. Like in Radiant Historia.
Yeah Casltevania collection 1 20$ 8 games and an artbook, Megaman collection 1 10 games 30$, Sega's own Mega Collection + back in early 2000s had 15 games for 40$ and all the bonus features, art, animations, cutscenes that Origins is offering, same with Gems collection released around the same time. Like 40$ I would expect from an Adventures 1/2/Heroes/Shadow bundle remake collection like Spyro and Crash got... and... uggh Mario but that was 60$ and... well we all know how awful that whole situation was. These games before being delisted to bottleneck the expensive Origins bundle were priced at 5$ each on Steam, and consoles (minus 3&K on consoles, it was on Steam though), that means you should only be paying 20$, maaaybe 25 since all that bonus content is ALSO behind a 5$... DLC? paywall? Not really because you can unlock them in game, so it's more like a gacha game mechanics pay to win? That's stupid, pointless. That or you could argue 8$ maybe 13, because they're all free on mobile platforms like tablets and phones, with ads or you can pay 2$ each for a total of 8, again 13 coming from that 5$ "extra" content. There was no need for that 40$ price tag. Also that art you mentioned in the museum... not sure if it's all in Mega Collection + and Gems, but a lot of them were in those bundles as I previously mentioned, even early sketches.
Honestly, I never noticed the Blue Spheres music change. I played Blue Spheres like I always did, and got almost all of the Chaos and Super Emeralds on my first try (two or three of them required a few retries). I’ve actually never gotten the Super Emeralds before, so that was a neat experience.
As a big Sonic fan myself, I found myself agreeing with a lot you said about Origins. It’s definitely not perfect (though I legit enjoyed the different tunes for Carnival Night & Launch Base), but it does what it set out to do; Give us a modern way to play these classic games. Apart from some halted flashing during Mushroom Hill’s 2nd boss, the only bug I encountered in 3&K was having to start Sandopolis Act 2 ALL OVER whenever I died unless I got to the boss…
I grew up with the PC port, so Launch Base was always the prototype track for me, and I think it’s a lot better than the Genesis version. So I’m glad to hear you say that!
Hey 3 years after the SegaCD version came out, they released a PC port of the game. My folks bought me that for christmas one year, it was my first sonic game.
I might be one of the world's biggest Sonic fans. I have a Sonic tattoo and played Sonic music at my wedding. Sonic 3 & Knucles RAISED me, and I loved the music so much that I recorded it on cassette and listened to it on my walkman. Ice Cap Zone was my absolute favourite and the tune still gives me goosebumps. Seeing the music changes in Sonic Origins was a dealbreaker, unfortunately. I would've bought it day 1 if they didn't change the music. Heartbreaking.
Jirards experience to Sonic CD is similar to mine. I never played the game but always heared good and bad things about it. But after playing it on Orgins I had a great time with it!
You’re justified in your criticism of sonic 3. The music is a very big factor. You were very fair in your review. I thoroughly enjoyed your review. And we know you’re a real sonic fan! All good 👍🏽
For the Sonic CD soundtracks, I can understand why you aren’t used to the US, considering you never played it until now and the JP soundtrack is more of the mainstream soundtrack within the past 10 years or so. Sonic CD is my fave classic Sonic game, and I grew up with CD for a VERY long time that I only knew about the JP version until RUclips became a thing. US soundtrack is nostalgia to me, but I truly appreciate the JP soundtrack and love both version equally for different reasons
I really appreciate you criticizing the collection. I feel like a lot of Sonic fans are so afraid to point to flaws whenever there are some, likely a result of the pure hate the series usually gets. I'm glad people like you can show that, hey, there is an in-between. You can see flaws and also still love the blue hedgehog.
I didn't like sonic CD at all the first time I played it as a kid but now that I understand what's going on, the concept is actually really cool. Definitely miss the old music in S3&K but I had a great time playing this. The collectibles were really cool to comb through and the missions were a fun addition. Pretty satisfied overall
6:54 we can see that he’s missing out on the Junio sonic fan base. Sonic CD has to have one of the most interesting designs along with ova and sonic jam for sega saturn.
Honestly it’s important to talk about rushed development, crunching, and high game prices. As gamers and consumers if we don’t like how a company does something, we should voice it. Especially when there are comparisons of better products, and when a company has a repeated history of rushing games and not learning from their past mistakes.
I completely agree with you on that Sonic origins should have more in its collection. Such games should be: the Sonic 1 & 2 master system, Sonic choas, Sonic drift 1&2, Sonic triple trouble, sonic blast and 3D blast, sonic labyrinth, sonic spin ball, and egg man mean bean
It's worth noting that both the Capcom Fighting Collections and the TMNT collection are, at the end of the day, a collection of rom files as opposed to fully remastered ports like in Origins. Not to mention over half of the games on the capcom side are different variations of Darkstalkers...don't get me wrong, I love Darkstalkers, but making up over half the bundle when there are other games in their backlog they could've included is excessive.
If you ask me, the best ports of CD are the 2011 Remaster and Sonic Origins. Smoother frame rate and, well, actually playable compared to the original version.
CD Still holds the fact that it is the literal ONLY instance in a mainline Sonic game where a boss fight consists of you racing someone to a finish line. It's not "run next to them and hit them until they die" it's "win the race and you win the fight" and I love that. (yes I know the Tails missions in SA1 do something similar but its frankly a challenge NOT to win those, I barely think of them as races)
I'm actually shocked you'd never played CD, Jirard. I've been following your content for a while so I've picked up on your enthusiasm regarding Sonic so I'm definitely surprised. I personally didn't and still don't care for it outside of the aesthetics but I didn't play it until on an emulator in college in the mid-00s because I didn't have a Sega CD either when I was a teenager. You though, I'm definitely surprised you didn't play any of it until the Mania stage remakes.
Sonic CD was for many years the only Sonic game I had ever played. My Grandma got a Genisis from a neighbor with the disc drive add on and it just happened to include the game. It's nice to have finally beaten it after well over a decade.
The plumber analogy was great. Although, I'd like to point out that more time can't fix every game. For example, Sonic Frontiers seems to me to have some problems with certain design decisions that were made (such as having the gameplay not really integrated into the environment) that couldn't really be fixed with a delay. A lot of these issues seem to come from issues with priority, but that's really just speculation since I don't really know what's going on behind the scenes
You're 100% correct about everything you said. It's not anywhere as low effort as Super Mario 3D All-Stars (I don't think most collection can reach that point even if they don't try), but the shortcomings this collection has are genuinely unfortunate.
But these are 4 sega genesis games while Nintendo sold you 3 games that released on Nintendo 64, GameCube, and wii. Sega sells people 4 GENESIS games for $40 Nintendo sells people 3 games from VARIOUS recently released consoles for $59.99... I have to say that Nintendo has the better deal.
... no offense Jirard, but how have you not played CD? lol, You could have gotten it for 5$ on X Box, Steam, Playstation and it plays the same, actually it's better than the Origins version somehow. Origins took the 2011 remake of CD, 2012 remake of 1, and 2013 remake of 2 and butchered them, but then also price gouged it at a much higher price, then they bottle necked the game so the Origins bundle is the only way to play by delisting the games on all the platforms (though sounds like mobile versions which are free, or 2$ without ads, are still available, and they're the exact same versions... so still a rip off paying 40$ for what would equate to 8 on mobile platforms (granted that is only 6 since 3&K isn't on them, but I know you got other ways to play it)). There is so much you missed out on because you missed your chance thanks to the delisting, it's a shame you never got around to playing this sooner. Heck I swear you did have a video on this game already, at the very least before Mania came out 6 years ago. Sonic CD is one of my favorite not just Sonic games, but games in general of all time, I'd even go so far as to say I like it more than 3&K, but that's just personally, I know 3&K did a lot for the franchise, I think it's a result of me playing that too much when I was a kid, on top of being longer than Sonic 2 and CD which I never got tired of replaying, it just hasn't held up, but again that's just me I won't deny it being an amazing game. Well anyways again super surprised you haven't covered it Jirard, but glad you finally are, just unfortunate you got on the band wagon too soon, nothing against oyu Jirard, hopefully I don't sound like I'm blaming you or anything, I'm really happy you are covering it... just like you're disappointed with Jeremy and his dick jokes, I'm just disappointed in Sega.
Having played CD 100% a few days ago, it’s a refreshing change of pace. Exploration instead of going fast. Still a lot of glitchy stuff and cheap deaths, but fun overall.
the glitches are likely in Origins rather than CD, its based on the 2011 port's mobile version, aka the buggier/older version of the game but the cheap deaths maaaaybe cd itself, unless its from glitches like you said
@@innocentzbat it generally is from glitches. the crushers in metallic madness and wacky workbench have bugged collisions in the remake. a lot of baby complaints about collision chaos are also remake jank, since the bumpers in that have twice the hitbox for some reason which breaks the level design a bit
PLEASE! Don't necessarily feel 100% is worth it for that game from personal experience, but it's TOO damn good of a love letter to the franchise not to get showcased. One of many criminally underrated gems of the Gamecube/PS2 era! :)
Sonic CD was my first game on the gamecube when i was 5, i may not have know what i was doing but i had fun and loved the hell out of the opening cinematic along with its song. I'm glad its getting some love it deserves because it introduced me to sonic before i played the adventure games on gamecube.
I liked the idea that classic games have been brought to modern hardware, never played sonic 3& knuckles before so I finally got the chance. I hope that the classic games aren't the only ones getting this treatment, would absolutely love a early 3D sonic collection. Sonic adventure 1-2 and heroes. (A man could dream.)
I was fortunate enough to to be able to play Sonic CD when it first came out in the 90s on CD ROM; I absolutely loved it and the “Sonic Boom” song and all but one of my friends knew why I was so obsessed with it
Problems aside I’m just happy to have a modernized official re-release of sonic 3 plus I enjoyed playing it in origins just as much as I did any other version of the game that I played
Jirard, it's often overlooked, but using the level select cheats for Sonic 1 and 2 also gets you access to gameplay options not openly presented. Sonic 1 wins the lottery here, as it gets options for playing as Sonic WITH Tails, as well as changing the aesthetics of the shield and invincibility to look like Sonic 2 versions. And, most importantly, adding Sonic 3's eelmental shields and the insta flash for Sonic. THESE REALLY NEED POINTING OUT MORE OFTEN.
I think the video that introduced me to The Completionist was Jirard completing a Sonic game on Game Grumps, so it kind of feels like it's coming full-circle with this video. Big ups. 👍
Capcom did it more gracefully with the Onimusha Warlords Remastered. They changed the ENTIRE soundtrack with new one that has the same quality or even better.
Maybe I'm not as much of a music guy, but I feel like people are making the music change in Sonic 3 to be a much bigger deal than it actually is. It's just a few songs, if the game itself is good, that should be the main thing. Not that you shouldn't complain, but I wouldn't by any means call this "something to be mad about". You're right about the glitches though.
Agreed it's not like we are missing the boss themes or anything just a few tracks. Though it is unfortunate that the best versions of the prototype tracks are the original's not the sonic origin versions.
I’ll always consider the Metal Sonic boss battle to be one of my favorites in video games purely for the uniqueness of it being a race/fight.
It also feels so tense and hard when you slow down from losing rings or having to go up a hill when not fast enough. And Eggman's there ready to shoot his laser beam of death from not being fast enough. And if you don't get in front of metal sonic he just closes the door on you as you have to wait for your death from the laser from Eggman. But it is fun boss fight though even though it can be tough to jump over each obstacle and have to go faster than the boss in the boss fight.
I really wish there was more positivity around CD discussions like this. It’s so special and absolutely my favorite classic game weird as that may be.
My personal favourite in series. Never get sick of it.
Zelda fan here-Zelda II is my favorite game of all time; I know exactly what you’re talking about.
it's odd to me that its hated now because in the early to mid 2000s CD was widely considered the second best behind 3&k.
Sonic CD gets a lot of flak for its weird level design, but for me its what makes it so unique. Having to travel to the past to destroy the machines encourages exploration, something the other Sonic games don't really do a whole lot of. And that soundtrack! People swear by Sonic 2, but dare I say that I enjoy Sonic CD more just for its charm.
I would really love to see the time travel mechanic return. Yes, in CD, the signs can be frustrating. And there's no reason to go to the future until you've destroyed both machines. But I think there's still a lot of potential there. I'd love a sonic game where the time travel is based on the direction you run, so you still have that cool explorer aspect of needing to find the best places in the level where you can time travel, but without that frustration of touching the wrong sign and having to restart the level. If polished and worked on, it could be a really fun mechanic for either future 3D or 2D Sonic games.
This is the one game I've been waiting YEARS for Jirard to play. Sonic CD is always going to be my favorite Sonic. Hopefully one day he'll play the Sonic Advance games too
He has a history with Advance 2 if Johnny's video is anything to go by
Oh boy, while the Advance games are goodish there are problems with them. Then again I like Sonic Rush so who I am to judge?
@@raxadian I wouldn't put any of them in top 10 favorite sonic games but is definitely recommend them to any sonic fan or people interested in handheld platformers
@@MalikEKC As someone who was introduced late to the Sonic franchise, I prefer the Sonic Advance series than the Classic Sonic Series. Probably because I usually only like games where u can play as multiple characters like Sonic Advance/Sonic Heroes/Sonic Adventure, since Sonic is my least favorite character from the franchise(I like Sonic and The Black Rings tho, because the aesthetic of that game oozes personality)
JIMMY!
As one who played Sonic CD as a young'un on the PC; I welcome you, Jirard, to the collective of fans who love this underrated gem.
Was not expecting a Dick Assman reference. Been a while since I thought of him, probably since he passed a few years ago. Worked with him for a while back in the early 2000s, pretty nice fellow.
Glad to hear it!
Real missed opportunity to have Amy Rose to be playable at one point.
No one remembers how she played in Advance it's terrible
@@SolidN8 Then use her gameplay from Sonic Adventure.
@@BlackFlash09 that is the advanced game play
Or Metal Sonic
That’s kind of like if Nintendo released a collection of classic Mario someone’s like, “real missed opportunity to not let us use Yoshi in Mario 1.” It’s like because the Sonic remasters add some playable characters, people just expect every character to be added now - even the ones that were never even playable in the classic series to begin with. Extra playable characters are… extra. They’re not really expected
Ah, yes. Sonic game that gave us Amy and Metal Sonic. You might not have heard of it, but it's just as important as Sonic 1-3.
I feel like people remember it
Too bad Sonic 3 & Knuckles is just 10x better😏
@@beezusHrist true
@@beezusHrist Hard to compete with S3&K. That game is 10x better than most 2D platformers that don't feature Italian plumbers.
@@beezusHrist no 3 and knuckles is overrated CD is the superior game
I 1000% agree with you, Jirard, and I don't think you sound overly whiny at all. This collection could/SHOULD be the definitive version of all of these games and it is so frustrating that it's not. (Leave that to PC modders.) I appreciate you using your platform to voice your displeasure to Sega - I really hope they hire Headcannon back to fix the bugs in Sonic 3 and that they find some way to improve the music or get the MJ tracks back.
Aside from feeling called out with Goldfinger “Superman” and the existential dread of being 31, this episode hits me right in the nostalgia In that this was the first PC game I ever played. I still remember the disc with sonic in spinball mode playing on my family computer running windows 98. As I sit here at work, This episode makes me feel like a kid again, thanks for making it.
And with that, Jirard has finally completed every classic Sonic game.
And just 3, soon to be 4, "main series" episodes left. Sonic 3D Blast, Sonic 4 (you have to know he's not doing that one as two episodes) and Sonic Lost World as far as currently released titles are concerned.
@@Volvagia1927 Don't forget the Advance and Rush games
Knuckles' Chaotix
@@Marc_Araujo That's a side game, that's different.
@@aidanredding8058 I still consider it one of the classic Sonic games. It also introduces many characters that are mainstays of the series.
Dude yes. Sonic CD was the first 2D Sonic I actually managed to beat on my own. I adore this game.
the prototype tracks have positives, but the main issue with them in orgins is that they are based moreso on the PC port, that had a worse sound in general to the original version. the remastered tracks done in the sonic 3 style rather than using this inferior sound make these tracks sound much better.
It's been found out it's very likely they're from an even earlier Sonic 3 prototype than the one we got. Speculation suggests they're the actual demo recordings used for the PC port MIDIs.
That theme song has to be one of Sonic’s best. Sonic boom is an absolute banger and I would sing it all the time as a kid back when I played cd on the GameCube
The Crush 40 version is somehow BETTER
Really enjoyed this game. Played it 3 times, 2 anniversary mode playthrough's (1 as Sonic, 1 as Tails) and once during the story mode. I even completed the special stages during one of the playthrough's without screwing up and restarting once. And completed it in 1 sitting, I never did this before previously in any 2D Sonic game.
I wonder if we'll ever get to the point where people be asking "What's a CD?"
yeah
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
Cd's nutz
… I’m so old. 😂😭
Give it another ten to fifteen years. They'll figure something out.
Sonic CD is one of those great games never talked about.
I disagree. People use to always talk about the “lost sonic masterpiece” when it was marooned on the Sega CD. But then it became easier to play and people realized “meh, maybe this isn’t that good”. Thus people stoped talking about the game that has major design issues.
It looks good and the controls are fine. But it's like someone gave a 5 year old a Sonic version of Mario Maker. I love sonic but this is in my bottom 5
That would be true if it was 20 years ago
@@leeartlee915 I feel u n I'm a old skool Sonic Fan 🤣✌🤙
Oh it's talked about... just usually in a negative light.
I always thought the D.A. mode was an abbreviation for either Digital Artbook, Digital Audio, or Disc Access lol
8:00 I mean that was the intent with all Sonic games even Sonic 1, they just didn't have time to do it beyond Green Hill zone, they put all their focus on that... and every level after was linear slow paced side scrolling. 2 and CD not only changed the Sonic franchise's landscape, but gaming in general. 2 yeah was more speed based, but still touted exploration, the whole idea of speed was behind your own capability, otherwise Sonic ironically was more about exploration than speed. You take a lower route it's more enemies, slower, treacherous with spikes and pit falls, take a higher route moderate speed, lots of collectibles and rewards, you want to go fast you stay for the most part on the straight and narrow, down the middle, occasionally taking an upper path maybe as some speed runners do. So even Sonic 2 had these aspects, that was the intent behind the entire franchise from day 1, what pushed Sonic to doing what other companies and especially Nintendon't, with Mario, Castlevania, Megaman, Sonic not only had speed but multiple routes to take to get to one goal, the best Mario could do this was a secret pipe that lets you skip levels and gameplay... that's not a game, that's taking the easy way out to skip large chunks of gameplay.
Then CD being made at the same time took it a step further. You not only affected the speed, you affected the game's difficulty setting. You can blow past the game gotta go fast, and everything like Sonic does... but then the game gets harder, boss fights get more difficult because you didn't take your time to save everyone, so you get the bad ending. You take your time, slow down, go to the past, explore, destroy holograms, robot making machines, and collect timestones, you get the good ending (however should be noted, if you want to do all of that, you need to save the last timestone for the last level, you collect it before all the machines and holograms are destroyed, the game bugs out and you get a bad good ending not the good ending). This is why I love CD, even more than 3&K, I love all the classic games in their own right (except 1 ullgh no thanks), but CD after I played it back in 2011, easily became one of my favorite Sonic games, nay one of my favorite games I've ever played. Really is unfortunate Origins butchered it and the other games a little bit.
That joke about Sonic Origins as a package being dissapointing was actually quite funny
Origins is a great collection, but I wish it had bug fixes and more content
The promised playable Amy would’ve been dope but yeah overall it’s pretty great. I still hope one of these days we get a knuckles Chaotix brought to modern systems.
@@Machamp-ps7wx promised?
@@Machamp-ps7wx was it actually promised for did people just assume it would happen?
@@sb6196 It was never promised.
@@Machamp-ps7wx That was never promised
You forgot to mention the holograms, also you can't get the good ending by getting the time stones (unless this bug was fixed in Origins which... I guess is props even though theres so many more bugs than before?). Not a lot of people seem to know why, but if you want a complete save file the only way of doing this is destroying all the holograms and robot creating machines, then in the final level after you've destroyed the robot machine, only then can you get the last time stone, otherwise you end up with a bad good ending if you collect all the timestones 1st.
If you do Metroid Fusion, you NEED to do a 1% run. I think it qualifies as a completion bonus.
If I'm not wrong only Zero Mission rewards you for doing a minimalist run (15% or less), that said, you can beat Fusion with 0% item completion, it's just that avoiding Bob (that one unavoidable missile tank in Sector 3) is incredibly difficult to pull off.
@@MexicanSheepMan I’m not saying it’s an official completion bonus, but worth trying if you want to truly master the game.
I actually played Sonic CD for the first time on PC. It was released as a SEGA PC title on CD-ROM. I remember trying to play it on a keyboard on my old Compaq Presario that ran Windows 98.
I had Sonic CD, Sonic 3D Blast (a SEGA CD port of the Saturn version I believe), Sonic R, and the Sonic & Knuckles Collection. That last one had all the music as Midi Format and used a version of music in Carnival Night, Ice Cap, and Launch Base that would be redone and featured in Origins.
The Sonic & Knuckles Collection also had a pretty sweet Screensaver where animated versions of Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, and Eggman would appear to transition one picture to the next.
As for Origins, it's fine, but it really needed a lot more polish, and a much better price point.
Yep. My first experience was Sonic CD on PC back in the day, with the original English soundtrack. It was a really fresh experience coming off the Genesis titles. A different kind of vibe.
Dude me too on the blue spheres mini game! I could never pinpoint what changed and why I suddenly was so bad at it. like yourself I was amazing at it on the original platforms. I didn't even realize it was the music! Thanks and keep it up!
Fun fact: this is the very first time ever that all the mainline classic Sonic games (including CD) are collected in one package. Also, these games are ALL remastered, unlike, say, the Cowabunga Collection
Origins really opened my eyes to CD. I had played it before but the time travel aspect confused me so I didn't play it much. After playing through it again, it's now my favorite classic 2D Sonic Game (excluding Mania)
I wouldn't worry about it Completionist, there's so many things wrong with Origins, I can't even count them all on both my hands and I end up making bare minimum 3 paragraphs when explaining to people all the miss comings there's just so many. If people want to hear my thoughts, I'll elaborate, but please be respectful.
I'll list 3 right now, the bottlenecking with the delistings, the price gouging, and at the very least maybe these two could be remedied... if they added new characters now I don't want to sound greedy or anything, but these are inferior versions and us older fans do already have multiple copies of these games, this could be remedied bare minimum by adding say Metal Sonic and Amy, or Mighty and Ray which even predate Sonic... 1? 2 and CD? I forget when their arcade game came out, and Knuckles Chaotix with Mighty was obviously after 3&K. I have 5 copies bare minimum of Sonic 1, which is my least favorite of the classic games... why play it again? Why buy it again? If it offers nothing new, because these are all just ports of the 2011 CD, 2012 Sonic 1, and 2013 Sonic 2 remakes that were on Steam and consoles before the delisting, that are currently on mobile platforms still free with ads, or for 2$ each totaling 6 since 3&K isn't there... but at the same time 3&K still isn't doing anything new, heck it's even being sold as 1 game, there's no way to play them separately as 2 games if you wanted that option, not sure why, but maybe some people do, especially since there are some minor changes like the boss fight and music (which I hear is also not returning because of the whole Michael Jackson shenanigans, I don't blame Sega for that despite blaming them for all these other things). Heck even mods did this for the existing games on Steam, there's a mod for CD called episode Metal which not only swaps the pallets, but they even gave Metal Sonic and Amy new moves so they aren't just Sonic and Tails copies.
See what I mean, that's just 1 of my 3 paragraphs with my biggest gripes, BEFORE the game released, there's just so many wrong things to this bundle that damaged these games, it's unfortunate. So don't worry Jirard, it's just us older fans feeling the backlash, I don't want to dampen it for the younger and newer fans either, I don't want to seem nitpicky, greedy, or anything... but these are big problems, especially if you can go back and say the versions that they delisted were the superior versions, or playing them on Mega Collection + or Gems +, whether you buy them for large amounts of money, or emulated the gamecube versions free on a laptop. It's disappointing for sure, especially because there shouldn't have been any way they could screw these up... yet Sega somehow did, same with Colors Ultimate, Forces, even Mania as good as it is, Sega held Taxman and Stealth back by pushing more remix stages than newer stages, which I don't mind remixing some stages, but we only got like 4 new levels? We've seen Green Hill and Chemical Plant how many times? Like if Mania 2 comes out... not likely since Taxman left after Mania, took 1/2 their team because of a disagreement with Sega (I wouldn't doubt this is why, and he had stealth hang back so they didn't screw Origins up)... but if they did I'd still want SOME remix stages because Mania is a celebration. I'd say just 1 from each game in future Mania sequels, so Mania 2 has Marbel zone, Emerald Hill or Mystic Cave from 2, Tidal Tempest from CD, Icecap from 3, and Sandopolis from Knuckles, maaaybe a Knuckles Chaotix stage (so we can also bring in Team Chaotix as playable characters). That's 6 out of 14, since Mania 1 had 14 in total, so 8 brand new levels, or maybe split the difference 6 old 6 new for 12 total... I'm running on too much at this point, my point is I agree with you Jirard and don't worry about it, and if newer fans are enjoying this, great that's perfectly fine... but also you deserved better too.
Genesis Sonic 3&K players on Origins: "What's with the prototype music?"
PC S&K collections players on Origins: "They improved the prototype music?"
I wonder how it will take for the Sonic modding community to restore the Genesis tracks to Origins.
Yes! Gimme that Chemical plant Zone theme! Thanks jirard and company you’re the best!
I remember when my uncle let me ply this on his SEGA CD back in the day. Sewer Shark and Ground Zero Texas were the only other two I really remember….and this weird ass game called Supreme Warriors which required a 32X and CD in order to play.
I hope you feel better my dude. Love you man
I just got the Capcom Fighting Collection recently, it's really cool. Capcom is doing a little better at their collections recently, thank goodness. No more putting half of the collection in a code or lackluster bonuses.
Honestly, I kinda hoped that the console versions of Darkstalkers 3 and Cyberbots were included due to the bonus content they had but I’m still fine with what we got. I also hope we get a collection of 3d fighters next year
Mad respect for addressing the lack of 3&K's original music like an actual adult. As much as I dislike the beta music that replaced it, it's not enough to keep me from enjoying these classic games. I'll just loop the og tracks on youtube when I play the levels.
Man, I'm so happy Jirard enjoyed CD. Super underrated game.
I love time travel mechanics, but my favorite part is in time travel and alternate universe games, where the actions you take affect other times/universes. There are so many opportunities for fun puzzles from that. Like in Radiant Historia.
Yeah Casltevania collection 1 20$ 8 games and an artbook, Megaman collection 1 10 games 30$, Sega's own Mega Collection + back in early 2000s had 15 games for 40$ and all the bonus features, art, animations, cutscenes that Origins is offering, same with Gems collection released around the same time. Like 40$ I would expect from an Adventures 1/2/Heroes/Shadow bundle remake collection like Spyro and Crash got... and... uggh Mario but that was 60$ and... well we all know how awful that whole situation was. These games before being delisted to bottleneck the expensive Origins bundle were priced at 5$ each on Steam, and consoles (minus 3&K on consoles, it was on Steam though), that means you should only be paying 20$, maaaybe 25 since all that bonus content is ALSO behind a 5$... DLC? paywall? Not really because you can unlock them in game, so it's more like a gacha game mechanics pay to win? That's stupid, pointless. That or you could argue 8$ maybe 13, because they're all free on mobile platforms like tablets and phones, with ads or you can pay 2$ each for a total of 8, again 13 coming from that 5$ "extra" content. There was no need for that 40$ price tag. Also that art you mentioned in the museum... not sure if it's all in Mega Collection + and Gems, but a lot of them were in those bundles as I previously mentioned, even early sketches.
I’m glad you love the game it is always great to find a gem in a franchise you love.
Honestly, I never noticed the Blue Spheres music change. I played Blue Spheres like I always did, and got almost all of the Chaos and Super Emeralds on my first try (two or three of them required a few retries). I’ve actually never gotten the Super Emeralds before, so that was a neat experience.
My favorite classic Sonic game, I’m super happy Jirard is playing it and spreading the love.💙
As a big Sonic fan myself, I found myself agreeing with a lot you said about Origins. It’s definitely not perfect (though I legit enjoyed the different tunes for Carnival Night & Launch Base), but it does what it set out to do; Give us a modern way to play these classic games.
Apart from some halted flashing during Mushroom Hill’s 2nd boss, the only bug I encountered in 3&K was having to start Sandopolis Act 2 ALL OVER whenever I died unless I got to the boss…
I grew up with the PC port, so Launch Base was always the prototype track for me, and I think it’s a lot better than the Genesis version. So I’m glad to hear you say that!
Hey 3 years after the SegaCD version came out, they released a PC port of the game. My folks bought me that for christmas one year, it was my first sonic game.
Got a Sega CD in the early 2000s and it came with Sonic CD. It became my favorite 2D Sonic game pretty quickly.
Agreed with everything you said! Your rank of the games is so on point as well.
“No series has better music than Sonic the Hedgehog.”
*Laughs in Mega Man.*
Sonic music is awesome though, no doubt at all.
sonic and megaman have really good music, I can't really choose what I like better
MegaMan is close, very close imo
@@raychang8606 your gonna hate this but I think planet whisp is mid.
I do know why alot of people like it though
@@kimaster5893 nah, i removed because after thinking about it there are definitely better ones
... Like Pumpkin Hill 😋
This has been such a treat of an episode, I love Goldfinger, and Sonic CD was the game that made Sonic into my lifelong favorite game character.
I dare say this: carnival night zone act 2 prototype music is better than the original music that released on the genesis
NOW all that is left is lost world, and then you have completed the sonic retrospective(until frontiers)
I might be one of the world's biggest Sonic fans. I have a Sonic tattoo and played Sonic music at my wedding. Sonic 3 & Knucles RAISED me, and I loved the music so much that I recorded it on cassette and listened to it on my walkman. Ice Cap Zone was my absolute favourite and the tune still gives me goosebumps. Seeing the music changes in Sonic Origins was a dealbreaker, unfortunately. I would've bought it day 1 if they didn't change the music. Heartbreaking.
I really wish that they had just used the original prototype tracks instead of remixing them and making them worse
Compliting sonic with a mario T-shirt… respect.
Jirards experience to Sonic CD is similar to mine. I never played the game but always heared good and bad things about it. But after playing it on Orgins I had a great time with it!
man, im 16 and have still been playing s3&k for a decade
i was so disappointed to hear that its music was so drastically changed
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I’m 16 and I got that gold finger reference. I appreciated that.
Origins was also how I played Sonic CD for the first time as well as Sonic 3 and Knuckles. Both games are awesome, especially Sonic 3 and Knuckles
You’re justified in your criticism of sonic 3. The music is a very big factor. You were very fair in your review. I thoroughly enjoyed your review. And we know you’re a real sonic fan! All good 👍🏽
For the Sonic CD soundtracks, I can understand why you aren’t used to the US, considering you never played it until now and the JP soundtrack is more of the mainstream soundtrack within the past 10 years or so. Sonic CD is my fave classic Sonic game, and I grew up with CD for a VERY long time that I only knew about the JP version until RUclips became a thing. US soundtrack is nostalgia to me, but I truly appreciate the JP soundtrack and love both version equally for different reasons
loved the style of this video! intro was pretty chill, informal, and yeah!
I really appreciate you criticizing the collection. I feel like a lot of Sonic fans are so afraid to point to flaws whenever there are some, likely a result of the pure hate the series usually gets. I'm glad people like you can show that, hey, there is an in-between. You can see flaws and also still love the blue hedgehog.
The Completionist is my go-to gaming channel ,i love the stuff jirad n beard bros do
Sonic CD is my personal favorite out of the classic Sonic games. It's nice to see you also liking it. 🙂
Didn't Jirard already do a completionist run of metroid fusion on Beard Bros.?
Random note, I had to look through the years of your intros to find my favorite one and I'm happy it landed in this sonic video 🥹
I didn't like sonic CD at all the first time I played it as a kid but now that I understand what's going on, the concept is actually really cool. Definitely miss the old music in S3&K but I had a great time playing this. The collectibles were really cool to comb through and the missions were a fun addition. Pretty satisfied overall
6:54 we can see that he’s missing out on the Junio sonic fan base. Sonic CD has to have one of the most interesting designs along with ova and sonic jam for sega saturn.
Honestly it’s important to talk about rushed development, crunching, and high game prices. As gamers and consumers if we don’t like how a company does something, we should voice it. Especially when there are comparisons of better products, and when a company has a repeated history of rushing games and not learning from their past mistakes.
I completely agree with you on that Sonic origins should have more in its collection. Such games should be: the Sonic 1 & 2 master system, Sonic choas, Sonic drift 1&2, Sonic triple trouble, sonic blast and 3D blast, sonic labyrinth, sonic spin ball, and egg man mean bean
It's worth noting that both the Capcom Fighting Collections and the TMNT collection are, at the end of the day, a collection of rom files as opposed to fully remastered ports like in Origins. Not to mention over half of the games on the capcom side are different variations of Darkstalkers...don't get me wrong, I love Darkstalkers, but making up over half the bundle when there are other games in their backlog they could've included is excessive.
If you ask me, the best ports of CD are the 2011 Remaster and Sonic Origins. Smoother frame rate and, well, actually playable compared to the original version.
Agree
Drop dash is so op In CD (Origins) can pretty much time travel anywhere now.
Not that I’m complaining.
I still love that intro.
Great Review! Sonic CD was the only Sonic game I had out of the original 4
CD Still holds the fact that it is the literal ONLY instance in a mainline Sonic game where a boss fight consists of you racing someone to a finish line. It's not "run next to them and hit them until they die" it's "win the race and you win the fight" and I love that. (yes I know the Tails missions in SA1 do something similar but its frankly a challenge NOT to win those, I barely think of them as races)
Sonic cd is one of my favorites! I’m glad to see people like it since it gets bashed a lot online
Not negative, informative. You pointing out these issues could inform and inspire many to go listen to the music too. 👍
Thumbs up for the Goldfinger reference!
I'm actually shocked you'd never played CD, Jirard. I've been following your content for a while so I've picked up on your enthusiasm regarding Sonic so I'm definitely surprised. I personally didn't and still don't care for it outside of the aesthetics but I didn't play it until on an emulator in college in the mid-00s because I didn't have a Sega CD either when I was a teenager. You though, I'm definitely surprised you didn't play any of it until the Mania stage remakes.
Best Sonic game to this day
Hooray, the classic era is complete!
Lol 😂 Jeremy is that friend.. that we all love
😁
Sonic CD was for many years the only Sonic game I had ever played. My Grandma got a Genisis from a neighbor with the disc drive add on and it just happened to include the game. It's nice to have finally beaten it after well over a decade.
The plumber analogy was great. Although, I'd like to point out that more time can't fix every game. For example, Sonic Frontiers seems to me to have some problems with certain design decisions that were made (such as having the gameplay not really integrated into the environment) that couldn't really be fixed with a delay. A lot of these issues seem to come from issues with priority, but that's really just speculation since I don't really know what's going on behind the scenes
See that’s why I kept my Meg collection for gamecube. All the original music is on there
You're 100% correct about everything you said. It's not anywhere as low effort as Super Mario 3D All-Stars (I don't think most collection can reach that point even if they don't try), but the shortcomings this collection has are genuinely unfortunate.
But these are 4 sega genesis games while Nintendo sold you 3 games that released on Nintendo 64, GameCube, and wii.
Sega sells people 4 GENESIS games for $40
Nintendo sells people 3 games from VARIOUS recently released consoles for $59.99...
I have to say that Nintendo has the better deal.
... no offense Jirard, but how have you not played CD? lol, You could have gotten it for 5$ on X Box, Steam, Playstation and it plays the same, actually it's better than the Origins version somehow. Origins took the 2011 remake of CD, 2012 remake of 1, and 2013 remake of 2 and butchered them, but then also price gouged it at a much higher price, then they bottle necked the game so the Origins bundle is the only way to play by delisting the games on all the platforms (though sounds like mobile versions which are free, or 2$ without ads, are still available, and they're the exact same versions... so still a rip off paying 40$ for what would equate to 8 on mobile platforms (granted that is only 6 since 3&K isn't on them, but I know you got other ways to play it)). There is so much you missed out on because you missed your chance thanks to the delisting, it's a shame you never got around to playing this sooner.
Heck I swear you did have a video on this game already, at the very least before Mania came out 6 years ago. Sonic CD is one of my favorite not just Sonic games, but games in general of all time, I'd even go so far as to say I like it more than 3&K, but that's just personally, I know 3&K did a lot for the franchise, I think it's a result of me playing that too much when I was a kid, on top of being longer than Sonic 2 and CD which I never got tired of replaying, it just hasn't held up, but again that's just me I won't deny it being an amazing game.
Well anyways again super surprised you haven't covered it Jirard, but glad you finally are, just unfortunate you got on the band wagon too soon, nothing against oyu Jirard, hopefully I don't sound like I'm blaming you or anything, I'm really happy you are covering it... just like you're disappointed with Jeremy and his dick jokes, I'm just disappointed in Sega.
Having played CD 100% a few days ago, it’s a refreshing change of pace. Exploration instead of going fast. Still a lot of glitchy stuff and cheap deaths, but fun overall.
the glitches are likely in Origins rather than CD, its based on the 2011 port's mobile version, aka the buggier/older version of the game
but the cheap deaths maaaaybe cd itself, unless its from glitches like you said
@@innocentzbat it generally is from glitches. the crushers in metallic madness and wacky workbench have bugged collisions in the remake.
a lot of baby complaints about collision chaos are also remake jank, since the bumpers in that have twice the hitbox for some reason which breaks the level design a bit
Scooby Doo: night of 100 frights for the Halloween season???
PLEASE! Don't necessarily feel 100% is worth it for that game from personal experience, but it's TOO damn good of a love letter to the franchise not to get showcased. One of many criminally underrated gems of the Gamecube/PS2 era! :)
@@christmashake8968 definitely. Fun fact: there’s code for it in battle for bikini bottom bc that’s what they worked on after it!
Sonic CD was my first game on the gamecube when i was 5, i may not have know what i was doing but i had fun and loved the hell out of the opening cinematic along with its song. I'm glad its getting some love it deserves because it introduced me to sonic before i played the adventure games on gamecube.
I liked the idea that classic games have been brought to modern hardware, never played sonic 3& knuckles before so I finally got the chance.
I hope that the classic games aren't the only ones getting this treatment, would absolutely love a early 3D sonic collection. Sonic adventure 1-2 and heroes. (A man could dream.)
I'm shocked how much you enjoy this game, but I'm happy for you - especially since most people I've watched review this game do not like it generally.
Still my favorite intro on RUclips.
If you played Sonic Gems that came out on the ps2 and Gamecube, it was in the collection.
I was fortunate enough to to be able to play Sonic CD when it first came out in the 90s on CD ROM; I absolutely loved it and the “Sonic Boom” song and all but one of my friends knew why I was so obsessed with it
Problems aside I’m just happy to have a modernized official re-release of sonic 3 plus I enjoyed playing it in origins just as much as I did any other version of the game that I played
Jirard, it's often overlooked, but using the level select cheats for Sonic 1 and 2 also gets you access to gameplay options not openly presented.
Sonic 1 wins the lottery here, as it gets options for playing as Sonic WITH Tails, as well as changing the aesthetics of the shield and invincibility to look like Sonic 2 versions.
And, most importantly, adding Sonic 3's eelmental shields and the insta flash for Sonic.
THESE REALLY NEED POINTING OUT MORE OFTEN.
I think the video that introduced me to The Completionist was Jirard completing a Sonic game on Game Grumps, so it kind of feels like it's coming full-circle with this video. Big ups. 👍
Finally some sonic cd love
BASED JIRARD.
CD plays different but is great. My favorite next to 3&K.
Love the Eggman face in the thumbnail!
Capcom did it more gracefully with the Onimusha Warlords Remastered. They changed the ENTIRE soundtrack with new one that has the same quality or even better.
Maybe I'm not as much of a music guy, but I feel like people are making the music change in Sonic 3 to be a much bigger deal than it actually is. It's just a few songs, if the game itself is good, that should be the main thing.
Not that you shouldn't complain, but I wouldn't by any means call this "something to be mad about". You're right about the glitches though.
Agreed it's not like we are missing the boss themes or anything just a few tracks. Though it is unfortunate that the best versions of the prototype tracks are the original's not the sonic origin versions.