Sonic Lost World Lost the Fans | Retrospective in Reverse 

Looking forward to that Generations video!! Some of my favorite 2.5/3D Sonic gameplay for sure in that one (and not to mention plenty of extra content I can enjoy for it including basically the only way to see Unleashed's daytime levels on PC). This was an interesting retrospective, it's definitely a more 'Classic' game than the other 3D titles. Wondering what your thoughts on Sonic Mania are? In spite of being fully in 2D I still think that is true peak Classic Sonic for the post-Genesis era and even competing with Sonic's 2/3K. It nails the physics, had so many routes to be replayable, and added an extra layer of beauty to the Genesis visuals. (Oh, and music too.) While I slightly lament having just four brand new zones and another two or three Acts with completely new level design (like Act 2's of Chemical Plant and Oil Ocean mainly), I also found it always satisfying to see what was added or changed in older returning levels.

Oof, this right there officer, Sonic Colors and Sonic Lost World (3DS) made me abandon the franchise (played these around the same time). Then Forces made me realize that I am a Sonic fan, hahahah Your analysis is great as always, I just want to share something personal: From my point of view, people were praising Colors and Lost World, and honestly that didn't feel good. Sonic will get criticized all the time, by fans and by random people, but talking seriously, I don't think the problem is that the story is too simple or too serious, the problem is that it's just bad writing. The jokes didn't land, the serious moments didn't land, and the characters were just unbearable to hear. I can understand your positive perspective of this game as a Mario fan, the problem is, that if I wanted a Mario game, I would buy a Mario game, and even if I want Sonic to succeed, what's the point of it if he loses his identity? Mario is definitely a great source of inspiration (I hope they take into account the Wonder mechanic), but around that time it felt that this inspiration was just taking over the identity of the franchise itself. And even then, at least Mario didn't have these petty discussions that Sonic and Tails were having. I mean, f*ck, imagine that in Oddyssey Mario was constantly making jokes and then having petty discussions about who is more useful if him or the hat, like c'mon bro. It lost its edge and it focused more on blocky platforming, it just wasn't it. This comes from someone who enjoyed the 2D games, the adventure games, the dark era, and the boost games, maybe not Heroes nor Secret Rings, but Sonic's identity was still there, here, it felt like it was lost because the general audience would like him more that way. The final boss was dope tho.

This was an awesome video. I love Sonic. Keep up the amazing work.

I meant to show Mario 3D Land footage at 10:10 not 3D World 😅😅

I like your take on how the Sonic Games aren't meant to e taken as being too connected, I actually think it makes sense since most of the Games don't really mention events that have happened or explore them further, it's mainly one adventure to the other.

Another Comment went over it REALLY WELL & U saw it alr so I jus wanna add that in the case of the criticisms u HEAR from ppl while it can sound incoherent & overly-nitpicky(& in many cases that is actually the case) the main thing is that most ppl(at least back then) couldn't fully explain or identify WUT made the thing "bad" so they pointed at things it was or wasn't tryin to do so they could say "AHA, this is the missin piece of the puzzle" when in actuality while some things they point out MAY have merit to some degree dependin on the game or point in time the main issue was that it wasn't executed in an enjoyable fashion for many, but it was hard for ppl to go in depth as to Y so they simplified it to more external things. In this case we got "bad mario rip-off wit some oddly placed nostalgia" to grab the nintendo crowd cus "THAT'S TOTALLY WUT MADE COLORS SELL SO WELL & SCORE SO HIGH"(not the idea that it was jus a "good" game that didn't overdue things at the time). Lost world was a sudden departure that turned out poorly for many, Forces was not "too serious" but was lambasted for SAYIN it was guna be serious & not followin through on that while jus bein "INCREDIBLY MEDIOCRE"(at BEST) & jus a massive LIE, & BOOM!?...................................................................................................................................blugggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhdhrjevneiverujnfewinecjvniverjiwjcnvikeefdjjvmjvnikhhhuugghghgh

Sweet game!

A note about the Sonic series and continuity: I think that the series is meant to be further analyzed and connected, because Sonic Frontiers goes out of its way to mention moments from past games. Yeah, that game came after this, but it was your choice to play these games in reverse

I'm seeing that nobody is commenting in these Sonic retrospectives. Since I never played a 3D Sonic game, I have basically nothing to comment as well, but I hope you don't get frustrated if it seems that nobody is watching and engaging with your recent videos.

Mp?