Sonic Generations Is Not Good, But Shadow Might Be 

For what I love SG(Sonic Generations)? They give us two versions of City Escape song and man, they're goated.

Sonic:🗣️ CSonic:😐 Tails:🧑‍🔬 CTails:🧑‍🔬 Every other character:⚪️

Nice to see Sonic Team continue their ongoing tradition of giving Shadow the most interesting story in their games

The background gameplay oh my god 😭

This is basically when the Sonic equivalent of Barbenheimer.

i wish that the shadow expansion was broken off to be a different game.but we'll see how this turn out to be.

As a counter argument. Those things dont hurt the experience for generations for me. Are the level deisngs spectacle? Sure i dont really care though cause the design still gives optional pathways to optimize routes for speed which i still personally prefer over fronteirs. Its still exhilarating to have burst through things while having reactionary gameplay that's what overall carries the game for me

Still waiting for more of the "What if Sonic died" series

WHERE DID ALL THIS SONIC GENERATIONS HATRED COME FROM!!!

The Shadow the Hedgehog portion of the game probably won't be too long unfortunately since it is being packaged with the original Generations. I'm hoping for six hours, but in reality it will probably be something closer to three hours. Regardless I have hope that the story will be good, I'm pretty much open to any type of gameplay for the series, the story and character interactions are what's important to me.

Thank you for your honest opinion. I think this is generally a really fun game with the best version of the boost (although I do prefer the adventure formula), it is quite polished and has a lot of charm and consistency, but my main problems with it are that it is a celebration game, so it doesn’t really add anything new to the ballpark, and it has no story. All the levels are remixed from previous games, and while I can appreciate that as it reimagines these levels quite well, that is not something that I am personally excited to play. This also started the modern and classic timeline split, which I am also not a fan not because of continuity, but because it simply complicates things for many characters and introduced some stupid rules for the franchise going forward. It was a interesting idea, but I think it had missed potential and wasn’t executed the best. I’m not saying sonic games should also have a story as the gameplay is ultimately the most important. In fact, I think it’s lack of story and ambition are what elevates its overall status in the community, as most other sonic stories are not executed well, and usually it is ambition that makes Sonic Team flop with their ideas. It is also kinda short. I have similar feelings for 4, Mania and Forces. Also that’s a really unfortunate bug you encountered, not sure what happened there.

I can understand your opinion, I honestly think that recent 3D Sonic games are guilty for 2D sections and just stick to 3D.

i think that part of the reason why people love sonic generations so much might have to do with it has a completely different approach to level design when it comes to 3d boosting , which has to do with having far more complexity and platforming , along with many branching paths , especially in sky sanctuary , city escape , roof top , speed highway , and specifically in seasidee hill , which some argue has the best level design in 3d sonic boost stages, which is why people love that game so much , it pushes for a skill mastery type level design , and not a memorisation type level design which is what sonic unleashed do , but i have a question , when you take into account that sonic generations has a skill mastery type level design , if that game had other qualities like having completely original stages , with same length of unleashed stages , same difficulty as unleashed stages , and a great story that is even better than that of unleashed stoy , would this game had been considered a better game than sonic unleashed ? i hope you answer that question

I feel like with the boost games you need to like arcade racers (NFS, midnight club etc.) to really get and appreciate what the design of boost sonic is going for

Do you think gun will make an appearance here because they were after shadow in SA2 and Shadow’s game, just a theory

It's nice to hear you excited for once.

i too still want shadow the hedgehog 2 to this day.

It's not a bad game, but i'll agree that in reality it's really not all that good. It's incredibly short, story is half-assed, super linear and very limiting in gameplay. That said, it is fun, and does have some genuinely great aspects to it, but it is highly overrated. If they added in a few more levels, brought in the ones from the DS, and then we get a decent sized Shadow DLC to top it off? That could actually make for a pretty solid game. It will still likely be a short game, but at least with all that content, it could actually seem like a complete game.

4:57 no, only in the classics, adventure you can just spindash and for boost, that is what the slide is for 6:37 well it was always like that, what use was light dashing any other trail of rings other than the intended one, none, the light dash was a boring mechanic from the start also though, I will give it props to its use in the Mach speed sections of project 06, it is really fun to use there 7:50 these have always been apart of the 3d games, these spectacles are based and the ones from the adventure games

I appreciate your points about Generations’ controls since I have the same issues with Modern Sonic’s stiff and tank like controls in this game compared to Frontiers and Dream Team. Platforming with Modern Sonic was also annoying since he felt clunky to control when trying to be precise with his movements. The “Acceleration” skill doesn’t help much either in terms of his overall control, since he still feels stiff to control but now picks up speed quicker, which can make him slippery at times. It’s a ridiculous feeling of control and it’s very much why I hate the boost formula in general and how it restricts how much control I have over Sonic, especially in what’s supposed to be a platformer. That’s why I hope that the Generations remaster improves on the original’s controls and physics. I’d even take Frontiers’ controls from the cyberspace levels over the original Generations’ controls since Sonic was more bearable to control in the cyberspace levels when platforming. Above all else, I’m most excited for Shadow Generations and how the story and presentation are going to be. These days, I just find Generations to be very mediocre. Now that there’s Shadow Generations though, which is going to add a lot more to the overall package, I’m interested in revisiting Generations.

There’s a hidden pathway behind the loop de loop if you run on the water at 12:08

While I don’t agree with some of your points, I do understand that Generations might not be everyone’s cup of tea. If you ask me, it’s the best of the boost games (gameplay wise). Tho seems like with Generations it gets better if you know how it plays, using skills, and if you practice the stages like I have since I’ve been playing the game for the longest time.

Hello Mighty Emperor. I just came across your channel and I must say.... I really like it! I agree with a lot of your points. To me Generations is a bit divisive. Both Sonics control weird to me. Not Forces weird, but in a laggy kind of way when he jumps. The way he moves don't compliment the level design at times. I kinda wish modern Sonic controlled the way he did in the adventure games however; Generations does have that fun factor to it and that's coming from someone who has played the PS3 release. Lol. I really enjoyed your video. Like the upcoming X Shadow generations, I look forward to more of your content!

In my eyes Sonic Generations is an S- Tier game sure it perfected the boost formula, Classic Sonic was super fun to play, they made every single game level from every game made into a boost styled game or classic styled game, the soundtrack is a banger and the bosses were really fun to beat! but the problem is that there is no story and the ending blows, I really hope that Sonic X Shadow Generations fixes these 2 problems make a in depth good story and fix the final boss in Sonic’s story in generations.

I'll be honest I never had any of these issues in Generations, aside from the light dash and key collections. I still enjoyed the game. I get what you mean, and I understand, I just don't really feel the same way. I don’t mind the 2D, just don’t have it for so long and on every level, that's the issue people had with Colors.

Nah you're opinion is valid! I was actually talking to one of my EX friend about the Gens remaster and unfortunately we had a fallout. Because he makes funny of me because I was taking to seriously to a trivial topic...

Me personally I love generations. It unleashed and SA2 are my favorites and I’ve put the most hours in generations. But the story is ass and I hope Shadow will add to that

3:28 Tbh, at the very least, the jump's weight is so inconsequential in its differences to other games that I didn't notice it, and if I ever did, it doesn't matter to me. I think the jumps in Gens works fine as I never struggled with the level design. Like this isn't Forces bad. I also don't have a problem with the short hop. This isn't like Colors where managing your boost is the name of the game. You are almost all of the time boosting, so there is never a moment where the short hop is needed. I guess if you just so happen to not have the boost, it probably be faster than a homing attack. But I still not affected.

I can agree with you on one thing the The physics aren’t the best they aren’t the worst but the fact sonic turning has sonic basically walk around a circle is just questionable??? Another thing that’s annoying is sonic in some cases feels tankish in some cases but honestly modern sonic’s levels especially are good and classic sonic atleast is ok especially with the OP spindash granted it’s not right but it’s better then forces Plus I think your abit wrong with the heavier based on 2D especially with seaside hill and I’ll say this again you can’t have a boost game with no 2D sections otherwise you get no breathing room for platforming plus mario also does 2D sections in his games as well so I don’t see the problem??? Also another bug with classic sonic is since he can look all around despite being 2D if you try doing that while doing a spin dash and something else on one of those spinning plateforms you can actually make Classic sonic walk around like if he was in 3D which I don’t even know how this was possible how physically could end up with this especially since he’s supposed to be mainly 2D?????

I do agree that Sonic Generations is overrated, its the best of the Meta Era but thats a very low bar. However while gameplay talks never really interest me that much because as long as I'm having fun I don't really care, like Roger I will always disagree and rail against when someone says the spectacle is a problem in any Sonic game period, its a staple of the series due to SEGA's arcadey game design. City Escape in any form wouldn't be as fondly remembered if it wasn't for that GUN truck. As for Shadow Generations, Ian did his knowing smile so that bodes well. I know its a pipe dream but maybe Sonic Generations story can be reworked as well. After all the new story would clash with old one if left as is due to Shadow's rival fight.

While it's cool to see some focus on Shadow again after one miss potential to another from the past several games like the Boom titles, Sonic Forces, Team Sonic Racing, Sonic Free Riders (Sonic Prime for streaming to an extent but that's a another topic), but my one big question is that why is it in Generations of all games? Generation's narrative is complete garbage, which I can bet many Sonic fans will agree on. The gameplay styles, particular Modern Sonic, is very limiting and resource insensitive because it's trying to appeal to both 2D and 3D players. Classic Sonic fans got that with Classic Sonic, but what about Modern Sonic? It's 2.5D not entirely 3D. Yes I can understand Generations being a popular game even in the modding community, but I think it's time we move on from the Boost formula and return to the Adventure style routes, like with Sonic 06 for example giving the praise on Project 06 (and a game I REALLY wanna play). And I understand wanting to release older popular titles as remasters, but look at Colors Ultimate it's very buggy and not that great to play from what I heard. Anyway getting back on topic with Shadow, I'm just baffled that Sonic Team decided to bring Black Doom back into the games, considering that Shadow's spin off game is completely bad, due to Shadow's awful characterization and how the story was executed. It would've been better if there was a remaster game on Sonic Adventure 2 given how Shadow's being the focus and with the 3rd Sonic movie coming soon. Having time travel in the mix to is probably gonna be a bit of a messy one for me if Black Doom ends up surviving it. If it's Shadow going through his own travels in the Time Space rift, it be interesting, but we don't need another mess with the story with time travel screwing it up by making another timeline and creating more problems as is.

Weather you think sonic generations is good or bad the new shadow game looks promising as hell

I like the base game a lot I actually just beat it again for the second time Last week, first time I played was in like 2013 as Teen...A part of me agree's though I hope they have more level's besides the Shadow content.

Favourite sonic games 1. Dr Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine 2. Sonic The hedgehog 2 3. Sonic The Hedgehog 4. Sonic The Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles 5. Sonic Mania 6. Sonic CD 7. Sonic Generations. 8. Sonic Adventure 9. Sonic Frontiers 10. Sonic Boom Rise Of Lyric!

My biggest gripe with Generations, besides from the story (or rather almost complete lack their of), is the very limited amount of main content. 9 stages split between 2 levels that take 2 1/2 minute max to beat (except for Planet Wisp) is criminally short given the initial retail price. Getting to play as the characters you save and there being 1 more proper stage per era would’ve made it a lot more replay-able, and frankly it should’ve had proper stage DLC for past titles initially un-represented, but sadly that’s not the case. The Shadow side-story in SXSG is a good start, but I’m very concerned that’s the only added major content when it releases and there’s nothing afterwards.

Gens could've been so much better especially the story and Time Eater is genuinely the worst Final Boss especially with just reaching the goshdang Core and having characters repeat the same lines without end, Solaris and Devil Doom never did that and they come from games considered worse than Gens.

Just play Sonic Robo Blast 2 instead. It's the greatest Sonic game of all-time. As for Generations, well story shouldn't matter in a Sonic game.

7:27 Ah, yes. This is a Generations only issue, and no other Sonic game relies on spectacle. I smell bias

What if the pull a sonic frontiers for generations remaster

I hope this game gets revamped and new levels and better control and nore of a grittier story.

Story wise yea generations lacks but not liking the gameplay is just trying to be different and it's funny

its not perfect, but what sonic game is?

Here is the thing. Sonic Generations' quality is judged in comparison to other 3D Sonic games. Thats why casual gamers like this game alot. Its not Mario quality, but by Sonic standards, Generations is pretty good. There aren't that many quality Sonic games to choose from thats better than Generations. So casuals prefer Sonic Generations

And so it begins where generations is now either overrated or just mediocre while forces is now one of the most underrated and misunderstood games.

Here come all the boost defenders. Boost is mid compared to classic and adventure gameplay, literally the xy sword and shield of sonic games

What’s wrong with sonic generations? It’s my favorite boost game.

Sonic generations is awesome what are you talking about

Why are you plying generations like an ign reviewer

Shadow doesn’t look good to me.

Wow this vídeo was bad as I expected You're judging the game for what it isn't

Why do Sonic fans hate on good games and then turn around to call games like Shadow 05 and 06 masterpieces

Wrong and wrong

Sonic Generations is good though