Sonic the Hedgehog 2

I have a reputation where people think I don't like Sonic the Hedgehog.

I lo- I grew up with Sonic the Hedgehog and I, Sonic 2 is, like, a top five favorite video game of all time for me.

Uh, I lo- I love the guy, I'm always rooting for the guy.

Even when I don't like some of his games, I'm always rooting for the guy.

Like it, it, they started with Green Hill Zone, and then it was, uh...

God, what was the other one? Emerald Zone? Isn't that from S- Sonic 2, I wanna say? Yeah.

Uh, and then they went into some other stuff.

But yeah, it was really good.

Since he got the ps1.

I think he was all done with his Sega Genesis So I think it was like for my birthday or something he I Opened a box from him and it had his Sega Genesis in it, and I think it had Sonic 2 I'm not sure if it had any other games, but it was definitely Sonic 2 and You know that was awesome and Genesis ended up being like one of my favorite consoles and that was like my first actual console I believe the the Genesis ended up buying a bunch of games for it.

Um, shout out to Hollywood video, the little, uh, their little budget box section with a bunch of games.

You can go swimming for, um, renting games.

And that was the kind of stuff that went on at Sega of America to change, uh, things that were initiated in J- in Japan and then, then, uh uh, develop them further here.

Of course, we did Sonic 2 out of the Sega Technical Institute here in the United States, and the team was, uh, [clears throat] some, some of the Japanese guys came over that had originated the concept, Naka, Nishima, and worked with other guys here, uh, who were US-based.

And I've...

In my opinion, Sonic 2 is one of the best games we ever did.

So, um, uh, I, I still love that product.

But anyway, I'm not sure I answered your question completely, but it gives you an idea or a taste of-

That's like the, that's the best question ever.

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But anything that's, like, top-down or side-scroller or anything where you can have multiple characters on at the same time, even if the characters can go off-screen.

Like, you remember Sonic the Hedgehog 2? If you played as Tails...

You don't know where the fuck you were.

If you went off the screen, you'd be

And it goes in increasing annoyance levels.

So Sonic 2...

It's doable, but they're still annoying.

And then Sonic 3 with the fucking blue spheres, I just can't.

So anyway, so it's a huge deal that you can just spend a coin that you've earned and try it again on the spot until you get it right.

And so it just attenuated a lot of frustration over the Sonic game design.

And so probably for the first time, I managed to get all the emeralds in Sonic 2 and 3.

So that allowed me to enjoy them a lot more.

You lost it.

He made Sonic 2, Sonic 3, Sonic and Knuckles, Sonic and the Ball Sack Gang, all the Sonics.

Ball Sack Gang.

Yeah, that was

of stuff that really sparked my imagination back then.

After being inspired by the Super Mario World map, I used to draw out maps of entire video game worlds, like Sonic 2, Mega Man X, and Super Castlevania 4, to try and figure out how the biomes must have connected to one another.

So I was ecstatic when I first laid eyes on this game because it really felt like a thoroughly thought out world with different ecosystems that made perfect sense back when this game came out.

The island is made up of the face of Donkey Kong carved into the mountain itself with what looks to be DK's house and the jungle on the left, desert beach on the right, forests top right, snowy mountain peaks up top, and a factory planted right on DK's head.