Why do Sonic games always have dogshit combat?

>>716260207 (OP)
thats what sonic fans want, just like 1 button gameplay

Combat in my speed platformer should only serve to make me go faster I.E. bouncing or homing targets. If you removed all the combat in Frontiers outside of the Super Sonic segments, nothing would change. In fact the last time I replayed the game, I skipped as much combat as possible because it really is just that lame.

>>716260207 (OP)
The problem with being faster than light is that you always live in darkness.
It's the best combat system ever made, /v/ just isn't ready for that conversation

>>716261750
>It's the best combat system ever made
How so?

>>716260207 (OP)
why does this shit look so overdetailed
It's a cartoon hedgehog, make it look cartoony. I thought this was Elden Ring until I saw the thread name and zoomed in on the picture. As for what you said about combat, combat was never good in these games, and Modern Sonic has especially terrible gameplay because you just press the boost button to win. Sonic peaked with 3&K and it was downhill ever since.

It's a platformer. It's hardly supposed to have combat at all.

>>716262096
I dunno

>>716260207 (OP)
>Why do Sonic games [...] have [...] combat?
That's the question you should be asking. The series was never the same once they gave enemies a health bar in Heroes

>>716264370
How else were they supposed to make Power characters feel powerful?

>>716260207 (OP)
Superstars was the goddamn worse every boss took fucking forever even if you weren't constantly hit with cheap insta-kill moves

>>716260207 (OP)
because it's a blue cartoon hedgehog
what fucking combat is there supposed to be?

>>716264559
nothing you do in heroes feels good or impactful so they failed regardless

>>716265361
punching robots and eggman mechs?

>>716264559
Have them open alternate paths by punching through weak walls instead.
You know, like how S3K did it nearly a decade beforehand.

>>716260207 (OP)
Because they're almost always made by dogshit devs.