Why Sonic Generations Is Almost A Masterpiece
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- Опубликовано: 3 авг 2024
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Intro: (0:00)
Story: (0:56)
Modern Sonic: (4:58)
Classic Sonic: (13:34)
Soundtrack: (15:49)
Side Content: (17:26)
Conclusion: (20:43)
Outro: (22:09)
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Outside of the lackluster story, and the atrocity known as the Time Eater fight, I really love Sonic Generations. The one Meta Era game (outside of Mania) that I truly enjoy.
ngl I think mania is meh
@@truechillboi2967 I highly disagree, but I respect your opinion.
@@truechillboi2967 The game just needs more original levels in my opinion. Too bad Lizuka hindered that from happening.
@@SilverSpireZ don't get me wrong I like it, but it just doesn't feel as good idk why
@@undeadbatman9762 exactly. I think there is only 3. studiopolis, press garden, and titanic monarch
*ALMOST* A Masterpiece.
*the twitter gods are here to take you to execution zone act 1.*
Wh-
Whats act 2...?
@@zetasann Hell.
@@BrassThunder981 actually that’s “political Twitter zone act 2”
@@makotoyuki345 Then act 3 is 'cancelled zone act 3'
@@blackcloudgd What is the boss then?
Definitely one of the best Sonic games. It’s the only Sonic game where I think the gameplay is nearly flawless.
9:45 Planet Wisp is the longest level in the game though. I think the minimum amount of time it takes for the average person to beat the stage and get an S rank is between 5 to 6 minutes. On my first time it took me 8 minutes to beat the stage and I got a B rank.
That being said, I agree that the ranking system in this game sucks.
Funny you mentioned that you got a B rank for 8 minutes cause I remember watching someone play the level and finish in under 8mins 46 secs and have only 18 rings after getting hit a lot and they still got an S.
At that point I was convinced that the ranking system is just broken.
I think cuphead handled the ranking system perfectly. I'm not going in detail but an S rank on a boss was a sign of extreme dedication.
who even cares about the ranking system is the gameplay and story and voice acting and engine and LITRALLY EVERYTHING ELSE that counts
It took me like 17 minutes on my first try and I still got a B
Sonic forces as an example. Bland story it's just a punching bag. So are colors. Sonic unleashed is always being praised for its story. So I think it matters(opinion btw and this is respectful disagreeing)
This game is one of the best birthday gifts I ever got
It's a great game you what to know why b/c its the combination of evry thing sonic 😏
😒Except for the story i cant defend that it just dosnt exist
@@aymenseyid797 who cares about it when u take a celebrations game that wants to make everything about Sonic the story empty and kinda intresting and It's better than the garbage stories we had for colors and lost world
@@aymenseyid797 better than adventure one story
@@goddessyamato5238 no
@@TheBlackSamurai2708 yes
Gens is the only one of the 2 meta era games where I really don’t mind the dialogue ,some jokes actually give me a chuckle
So.. Sonic Colors is the other Sonic game?
What's the other one?
Colors😔
@@slwoo7432 you expression matches well with your profile. While people generally have different opinions your opinions are still valuable to you. I can't tell you with a straight face Sonic Unleashed is my favorite Sonic game but I ain't gonna diss Colors for having the exact opposite of what I want from Sonic.
Anyway sorry for wasting your time, go play colors, actually play Gens more 😉.
Promise Ntsizi unleashed is in my top 5 sonic games
generations is a masterpiece in my eyes.
Same
I love the game it's just way too short
@@ExTurtletip tru
Same
Too short tho
Matt: “How do mess up a super sonic boss fight?”
Also Matt: remembers bad camera angles in unleashed “*ANYWAYS*”
Unleashed is my favorite, But as far as gameplay, generations does the best job at showing who Sonic as his Core. But that Story is dog water. And that final boss is shit
What story?
The only thing about Generations' gameplay i don't really get is the drift. It feels very inconsistent for me. Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. Still really fun though.
@@guiteshima if it doesn’t work, something’s wrong
@@guiteshima Funny because that is everyone's favorite drift, Unleashed was too wide and Colors was too tight, still better than Forces that has none lol
@@ayrtonjoga I feel like Generations' a little too tight, like, it makes a way too tight turn imo. Then again i'm not used to it....And i agree, at least Generations let's you do the drift by yourself.
This and Sonic Unleashed were the games that got me into Sonic. I love Sonic Generations and it is my favororite Sonic game of all time.
"Hold X or Square if you suck"
I feel offended....
I played this game For the first time 10 years ago and its still one of my favs the Story the gameplay its a Sonic game i will always go back to Any day its in my top ten for sure 💙
Damn, it really hits me when you say 10 years ago.
3:48
That transition was perfect
I hit this time stamp and got an ad. Thanks for putting an ad as a transition Matt.
nah it wasnt
I screamed of joy when I read the title thank you so much
Sonic generations is one of my favorite Sonic games of all time.
So unleashed is u favorite right
Generations is definitely imo the most replayable fun sonic game you can play
3:47 That transition was clean as hell
Adding Endless Possibilities to City Escape was Just Awesome bc idk both Unleashed and SA2 are just Epic and I love them both
Imagine being almost a masterpiece
Imagine all the people
Imagine liking sonic
Imagine using Twitter
Imagine imagining being almost a masterpiece.
Sonic generation is a masterpiece in my eyes.
I really loved playing this game, it was a lot of fun and a good trip down memory lane! Didn’t really pay attention to the story though, I probably couldn’t even really summarize it for you that well. But overall a fantastic experience.
In my opinion its 97% a masterpiece.
As awesome as this game is, I do wish there were more then just one zone representing each mainline game. Heck if "Sonic Colors Ultimate" does well (which I REALLY hope it does well) maybe we can get "Sonic Generations Deluxe" with more zones.
Fax I wanted to play windmill isle
@@frankleb4857 And I wouldn't mind seeing Starlight Carnival in HD.
@TheUigamer How so?
@TheUigamer Oh
Finally someone who doesn’t hate on 2D Sections in a boost game
this game's got some really good level design, some of the best out of the series and is my favourite sonic game, the moding community for this game makes it easily the best buy, if i had to pick one sonic game out all and i could only play one of them i'd pick this game, also with adventure sonic being planned for this game, during early-mid development, just makes me wonder how sonic team would've handled bringing back the adventure, how the level design would've been, controls etc, with this game's really good level design, modern and classic, i'm sure they probably would've handled it well, i reckon modern sonics levels would've been more like unleashed, if adventure was in the game, most of his levels are really open, especially seaside hill, but anyways this game is god-tier
Really insightful video. This game has been on my steam wish list for quite sometime now. Definitely gonna get it when it's on sale since it goes dummy cheap
"Just press X, or Square if you suck..." I laughed way to hard at this. Must be a Dreamcast fan thing.
One of your best vids for sure!
Hey Matt, the Elemental Shields aren’t just for those few missions! They are an upgrade you can select from the skills menu once you unlock them!
The thing that makes this game so good is seeing older lvls looking SOOOOOO good😊
hey this is the video that got me out of my insane classic sonic purism. thank you.
The start of the classic sonic analysis gave me a heart attack, please don't do it again 😅👍 Anyways you did my favourite game justice, even if I don't agree with everything. Great job as always!
This might be the best Sonic game I’ve ever played. I go into Sonic for the gameplay, and this game perfects both styles of Sonic’s gameplay.
But the final boss still sucks.
The boost games are most of the time good until forces
15:07 yeah I can’t blame you, Classic sonic is fun, and he doesn’t feel slow, he feels very fast compared to most classic sonic games.
That and the spin dash really helped make classic sonic feel like the trailers where he was keeping up with modern Sonic.
3:48 that is some really nice and clever editing, how you used that ramp to transition from generations to sa2.
I feel like they should have added 3 more Zones with brand new stages and representing every era that Generations represents. The first Zone would be focused on the things that you can find in the Classic Era, the second Zone would be focused on the things you can find in the Dreamcast Era like they could combine the setting of City Escape And Speed Highway with the level ending with Sonic going to the beach side of the city to represent Seaside Hill, and I guess for the Modern era it could take the crumbling buildings from Crisis City but using the building style of Rooftop Run is a place that looks pretty similar to Planet Wisp. Just to give Generations more levels and I guess an identity.
just take the s rank matt, you deserve it
Matt, you accidentally put an "Almost" in the title
But seriously, it was a good video. And as for your problem with the ranking system, I'd recommend playing the doppelganger missions for every stage. The races themselves are piss easy and they're a bit convoluted to get to, but the S ranks are MUCH more difficult and satisfying to achieve.
Generations was my first Modern Sonic game. It was a great intro into the 3D Sonic games while also having the classic gameplay that I had been introduced to with Mania.
Also I totally agree with you on the whole not comparing Sonic to other platformers because I made that mistake playing a Sonic game for the first time and it really threw me off. Tbf, I was also attempting to play with my laptop keyboard… I learned pretty quickly to use a controller. But like even with the controller, there is so much happening in Sonic games that you are having to push multiple buttons all at the same time and with perfect accuracy. It takes some serious hand eye coordination and quick thinking.
I’ve always thought that the various pathways could have been worth something if there had been a multiplayer mode. You race with up to 3 other players on randomly selected stages. This could have made the pathways a lot more important.
Really a masterpiece!
Being someone who’s usually intrinsically motivated in games, the ranking system never bothered me too much, but I did realize how bad it was after playing Adventure 2 and Unleashed.
I find those alternate routes to improve for myself and my own times, but the ranking system of Unleashed gives me more incentive to. Unleashed is hard, and I enjoy that about it.
Fun Fact:
There’s also another thing of content you can do, if you hold the back/select button in the little red collection room, it will drop you down into a golden trophy room to where u can enter codes to get cool 3d models of the characters and stuff (I got the codes by searching them up honestly lol)
At first i thought unleashed had tue best level design for the boost. Until i managed to speedrun Planet wisp act2. You feel so good when u manage to jump platform to platform using air boost and stomp. when u wait a little for the chainsaws so u can boost inbetween them. And it was the only level in the whole modern era were enemies could be a threat and not just things to give u boost
16:20 I literally did that! It's such an awesome song and it fits so well!
What pushes this game to Masterpiece status for me is the ability to play a ton of music from previous Sonic Games and being able to play them within the stages. Live And Learn, Metal Harbor, Kingdom Valley etc etc etc YES PLEASE!
One thing I will say about the Double Ganger races, is that they kind of act like a “master mode”. The races are still easy, but if you want that “S Rank”, you actually have to finally learn the stages. You have to learn the shortcuts, and the in and outs of the stages. Maybe that’s just me, but these races kind of replicate that “Sonic games are easy to play, but hard to master” formula you always speak of, which I LOVE how you speak about by the way. Thanks for the video!
It's funny because this was my first sonic game I got when I was a kid so to me the game has identity since I was introduced to all these sonic levels from generations. This is my equivalent of adventure. I see generations in a better light than I do adventure and vice versa for adventure kids.
my jaw dropped when i saw the seaside hill clip. i never new it existed.
I wouldn't say it is perfect by any means but it executed the goal it wants to achieve really well.
@FuckOuttaHere not every bad game is sonic forces. make up your brain, kid.
Edit: And also hating on generations will result in a VERY bad omen of people on twitter bashing you, so beware if this comment gets popular.
I think of the Boosting games like they were Rhythm games: I just go through them slowly, exploring and memorizing the paths, getting used to the timing and obstacles, them I start making my real attempts at perfect high speed runs, with as much badass spectacle as I can manage.
Generations is sooo good😁
Not as good as Unleashed lol
The only reason why i still play it is bc of the mods
Yeah, unleashed is amazing, but generations is really close or just as good in my opinion. Unleashed is really good.😎
What I think is that Classic Sonic is not trying to look like or control how he did in the 90's, but make it FEEL like how he played in the 90's and my big brother likes this change, he's obviously older than me and has played Sonic games before I even existed so I trust this opinion
great vid, even tho for me generations is top tier sonic game
btw. you could do sonic generations iceberg if there is one
Hey Matt hope your having an awesome day
Thanks man, you too!
Thanks Matt for answering my question on what Sonic game should someone new play first.
One of my favorite sonic games
13:34
Classic Sonic...This part of the game SU-
*ad plays*
Good video dude
I love the soundtrack feature, I'm always putting on different songs!
I love time travel stories most of the time
As a game in general I agree.As an Anniversary title and Celebration of Sonic I'd say it is.
I got this game on my 7 years old anniversary for my ps3. today i finished the game and its now my favorite sonic game.
14:17 wait. Did he just said that the PlayStation users suck?
Maybe 🤔
Sonic Unleashed, Sonic Colors, and Sonic Generations are not only my favorite 3D Sonic games, but they are among my favorite games of all time.
Dude Colors and Generations are not 3d games
@@iceman92211 Keep telling yourself that
@@superluigi018 wow that was really fast but anyways what I meant is that the 2d section in these games are way more than the 3d so technically they are 2d games with some 3d section
@@iceman92211 Unleashed’s day stages are more 3D, yes but it’s almost entirely linear quickstep sections. Colors and Generations by comparison, despite being less plentiful, the 3D sections are much larger with a higher emphasis on 3D platforming.
It was amazing to me knowing nothing about the franchise.
City Escape was my favourite.
"Time travel stories suck"
Avengers endgame: you sure about that?
“Hold x or square if you suck” 🙂
im flattered
im more of a unleashed guy but I LOVE THIS GAME SOOO MUCH
I see generations,
I click on video.
I'm a simple man
Matt has no cuts but he definitely spits facts
One of the best games of all time. Feels so futuristic. I beat this game maybe 5 times 💯
The boosting gameplay was at it's peak in Generations, in my opinion, of course.
14:19 man really just switched controller right there
3:48
That transition tho 👀
If you really want a challenge from Generations, try S-Ranking the Side Missions, some are REALLY hard. Moreover, since the Ghost Race is pretty much just playing the level again, that's where the Super Hard S Ranks are. Like, honestly, S-Ranking the Ghost Races is straight up impossible sometimes, it took Weeks to beat Planet Wisp like this
This is my favourite Sonic game
You can actually purchase the shield upgrades for classic sonic from the ability shop and take them to the proper zones instead of just finding them in the side missions
"Time travel stories suck!"
*Sad Chrono Trigger, Radiant Historia, Tales of Phantasia, Ocarina of Time, and Majora's Mask noises*
After playing this game for the first time last week, I see why it's so highly regarded. I had a blast.
I think the best way to describe the Classic Sonic gameplay in this game is "Chunky". I kinda compare it to peanut butter. The OG games are like creamy peanut butter, buttery smooth and always a delight. Generations is like crunchy peanut butter, it's very close to the other but has its slight differences. It's not for everyone, but it has its fans, like me.
Despite being different, the classic stages were awesome and I especially adore how the levels twist, loop, and wrap around as you play when you turn corners or jump into the background. They're an absolute delight and I legitimately want that to be the future of Classic Sonic. It feels like a proper evolution of how the levels are designed in presentation and I will take this games presentation over Superstars any day of the week.
Also, the modern remix of City Escape somehow goes even harder than the original. That guitar during the chorus is heavenly!!!
19:35 “We don’t get a cool song that makes us feel powerful."
Me: adds Knight of the Wind through options menu
0:51 Matthasnocuts: Lets begin with the story
Me: What story?
17:22 the fact that Speed Highway modern didn't appear is crazy
To me, this is one of my favorite games of all time
i honestly bought this game a couple days ago just to play the silver boss since hes my favorite character and im now sonic game fan
You should do a video of what is the best game to start out with worst to best
My 1st game was generations and it was and still is my favorite sonic game
The final boss for me was a piece of cake ;)
It needs more stages. A CD stage, an Advance 2 stage (that's Cream's debut game so...), a Shadow the Hedgehog stage and a Rush stage. They forgot about Big, Omega, Marine and the Babylon Rogues.
Great explained video. Dont blame the game if u dont try to learn the levels first !
Sonic Adventure 2 Battle is the goat of Sonic games
When I got sonic generations for the first time it was so much fun
19:34 but we were supposed to get a cool final boss song. It's called Sonic Youth look it up it's a fucking banger
Im starting my first game in years and the game im playing rn is sonic colors and i like it so far is that good for starters?
I also have played 06 and it feels more tough and adrenaline pumping especially running from Iblis in its Fire Tornado form, the music made the experience much more better but with Generations, it's not as thrilling or tough and OG Crisis City getting much harder with each area you enter makes the Goal more satisfying because I actually fought through and had a challenge, I can speed run Generations Crisis City way too easily and honestly ruins what made Crisis City an enjoyable Level.
"Generations is almost a masterpiece."
I agree with that entirely. Yes, it's one of Sonic's best games, but it's not the best. It has some flaws here and there. Other than that, I still think Colors is the best boost game in my opinion.
The 3DS one is the Masterpiece too
Unlesshed would always be the best for me.
Really curious on why you have Colors as #1. In my mind, Gens and Unleashed have a better sense of speed.
@@RyanTheDark Unleashed may be my favorite as well. The combo of fun boosting stages and cool werehog fights/ platforming puts it up there.
Most complain that only half the game is good, but in my mind, the werehog is fleshed out well enough, and is fun.
The animation and art style of the game is good so I'm pretty mad that lost world/froces ruind the art and animation for sonic hopefully Rangers gets it right along with other stuff.
Only discovered your channel now and really interesting video so far but this one I kinda hate cuz when I was little playing this game on my Xbox360 I had a couple A rank on some runs because I was really bad.
And you saying your really bad but still got S rank makes me feel like I was super trash at this back then T-T. It's unfortunate that my 360 passed away because I have no use for my Sonic games anymore so I sold them but I think I will buy Generation back on pc. (with the added bonus of mods which allows many things like playing Unleashed day levels with Modern Sonic because Unleashed isn't available on Steam and I really don't want to dowload an emulator to run the game with.)