9th November 2015, 6:55 AM
Jasmine: I can't believe he would lie about who he is with magic to try and woo me. Can you believe that?
Cinderella & Ariel: Shhhuuut uuuup...
Anyway, I've been trying to get more Genesis classics, and it's been surprising to find out just how many so-called "multiplatform" games were actually completely different between SNES and Genesis. I LOVE Aladdin on SNES, but I've seen a lot about the Genesis version, and now feel obligated to pick that one up. It's odd to me that Lion King never got a Capcom release (Lion King being my favorite Disney movie from that era), but at least with that one you're comparing the same basic game between consoles. (I prefer the SNES one, I just prefer the MIDI style music over the digital SFX.) It's become clear I'll need to pick up both the SNES and Genesis Rocket Knight games as well. (I've got the first Genesis one, and it's good.)
I have to agree with you that Sonic 3 & Knuckles is the best of the Sonic games. Many prefer Sonic 2, and I can't fault that, because it is a very solid game (which thanks to S&K has the same 3 characters to pick from as Sonic 3), but Sonic 3's got my favorite bonus level design, and some of my favorite level mechanics. I will concede that a few of Sonic 2's levels simply have some of the best "speed run" designs though (such as the oil plant). There's also the small matter of the additional moves each character has. Mainly, Tails can actually fly. Sonic 1, well, it's a classic, and a decent platformer, but that game's level design gets in the way of it's own "speed" premise, constantly forcing you to slow down to a crawl for large sections of every single level.
Have you tried Scooby Doo Mystery on Genesis? I understand that game's a surprisingly good Lucasarts style adventure game, although without mouse support so you're dragging that cursor around using a d-pad (which, as I can attest to from the NES game Nightshade, is pretty tedious, but workable on a slow paced game like that so long as the rest of the design is good). The SNES game is a more traditional platformer and isn't nearly as good. That's a shame, considering the SNES mouse existed and all it should have been the other way around.
Cinderella & Ariel: Shhhuuut uuuup...
Anyway, I've been trying to get more Genesis classics, and it's been surprising to find out just how many so-called "multiplatform" games were actually completely different between SNES and Genesis. I LOVE Aladdin on SNES, but I've seen a lot about the Genesis version, and now feel obligated to pick that one up. It's odd to me that Lion King never got a Capcom release (Lion King being my favorite Disney movie from that era), but at least with that one you're comparing the same basic game between consoles. (I prefer the SNES one, I just prefer the MIDI style music over the digital SFX.) It's become clear I'll need to pick up both the SNES and Genesis Rocket Knight games as well. (I've got the first Genesis one, and it's good.)
I have to agree with you that Sonic 3 & Knuckles is the best of the Sonic games. Many prefer Sonic 2, and I can't fault that, because it is a very solid game (which thanks to S&K has the same 3 characters to pick from as Sonic 3), but Sonic 3's got my favorite bonus level design, and some of my favorite level mechanics. I will concede that a few of Sonic 2's levels simply have some of the best "speed run" designs though (such as the oil plant). There's also the small matter of the additional moves each character has. Mainly, Tails can actually fly. Sonic 1, well, it's a classic, and a decent platformer, but that game's level design gets in the way of it's own "speed" premise, constantly forcing you to slow down to a crawl for large sections of every single level.
Have you tried Scooby Doo Mystery on Genesis? I understand that game's a surprisingly good Lucasarts style adventure game, although without mouse support so you're dragging that cursor around using a d-pad (which, as I can attest to from the NES game Nightshade, is pretty tedious, but workable on a slow paced game like that so long as the rest of the design is good). The SNES game is a more traditional platformer and isn't nearly as good. That's a shame, considering the SNES mouse existed and all it should have been the other way around.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)