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I had a different experience. I hadn't played the games since I was a kid (and even then, I only played Heroes as a kid and later Colors and Generations when I was a teenager) and spent a lot of time playing other games in the meantime. I came back to the games like 2-3 years ago expecting them to age poorly, and instead it made me appreciate the games a lot more than expected.
Pretty much liked all the classics, no doubt about it. Nothing to add or say otherwise.
SA1 was genuinely a little disappointing (which is odd since it was the one I expected to be the most decent one) because I felt too much was halfbaked, the hub world needed more RPG elements and I feel every character needed unique levels to shine instead of repeating levels.
I went into SA2 expecting to not like it (I never played it before), surprisingly it became my favorite and it's the one that I felt had the most enjoyable replay value and probably remains the most content-packed Sonic game to this day
Heroes (ironically my childhood game) was an absolute disaster for me. I genuinely think the core gameplay and level design is great, but the repeated playthroughs + some of the unfair level design near the end + the bugginess made the game an actual chore to play through.
I already said what I said about Shadow 05 and how it surprised me in how good it was with the Reloaded mod. Sonic 06 was still ass. I am still on the DIMPS games so haven't touched Unleashed just yet.
So ironically, I wouldn't say it takes repeated playthroughs to enjoy the games, I ended up enjoying most of them on my first playthrough (barring Sonic 06 which I genuinely loathed and Heroes which was kind of a chore to play through).
>It's almost embarassing to have an opinion about sonic games before you do time attacks because the game is soooo much different
Interesting to say, I've yet to actually try the time attacks barring SA2, maybe I should try them. It was pretty fun for SA2, I will admit that.
