trying this out for the first time and it's...not very good.
all the levels feel samey. they have this claustrophobic feeling to them. i think that's because it was designed for a mobile platform vs. playing on an emulator on a desktop but still. and what's with all the sounds? they sound garbled and underwater, from the ring sound to the music tracks. i thought the GBA was supposed to be stronger than the SNES?
it's disappointing because i'm a superfan of the MD/DC games.

If you think that Advance is not very good then don't even bother with any of the 2D Sonic games that aren't 1, 2 and 3&K. Well you can give Pocket Adventure a go too I guess but Advance 1 is genuinely the best Sonic game after the Mega Drive trilogy

its got a wider screen than 4:3 original sonic and it's still shit
i got to maybe level 6~ with sonic, tails, and knuckles. couldn't beat the ice level with amy

>>11886729
>the GBA screen pixel width is 3/4 that of the Genesis games
>Sonic moves at around 3/4 the speed in pixels
So effectively nothing has changed

>>11887298
Why do GBA games always look so horribly pixelated? It's always turned me off from checking it out. What's its internal resolution?

>>11886389 (OP)
I played the shit out of Advance and Advance 2 growing up, but that was just because they were the only Sonic games I could play out of the house. They aren't very good. Advance 2 especially is just frustrating to play.
There's an Advance 2 decompilation project and PC port on the way which will have a much larger viewing area. At last, we'll finally get to know if Advance 2 was actually a good game ruined by the GBA screen, or if it was shit all along.
>>11887831
I don't understand why you didn't just type "GBA resolution" into google yourself, but i did and it has a 240x160 resolution.

>>11886389 (OP)
Throw this game in the garbage and play Sonic Battle.

I mean it's okay. The sequels on the portable are okay also (well, 2 has too many bottomless pits for me)
I actually prefer the Master System games and Pocket

>>11886389 (OP)
It has a crap level design where every other spring shoots you into spikes, and the small screen makes it hard because combined with the shit LCD screens it is simply not possible to see incoming objects in time to react.

>>11887978
>it is simply not possible to see incoming objects in time to react.

It's a Sonic game that you can complete without ever curling into a ball. I like it for that reason alone.

>>11888319
It's literally every Sonic thread now... why is Sonic the only franchise where the people, mostly ones getting filtered by it, act like they're smart regarding video game design because they suck? It's odd.

>>11886389 (OP)
i used to not get bothered by the GBA shitty soundchip but these days i'm so used to arcade games i can't but notice

>>11888319
Have you played the fucking game? It has crap like a diagonal spring that shoot you DIRECTLY INTO SPIKES. You have no way to dodge once the spring launches you. These are the same springs that act as helpful boosters for the entire game, except for the few times they don't. The only way to know this is to memorize the levels.

>>11888480
Oh no...you have to...memorize the levels? Oh god whatever will you do zoomie???

>>11886389 (OP)
thats because youre supposed to play amy because shes the best

>>11888480
you sound fucking retarded dude
this is maybe one of the easiest 2D sonics, and has probably the least gotchas out of all the old 2D games. you also have several characters whos unique moves/movement options allow you to go along completely different routes, and sometimes even skip whole parts.
that "bad game design" youre alluding to is literally just you being retarded and not realizing that, at any point in any sanic lvl, theres always several other ways around if you just git gud, or even just look/try

>>11888480
>You have no way to dodge once the spring launches you
can't you steer in midair

>>11887831
>>11887298

>>11890101
>amy vs cosmic angel boss

>>11890086
t. bullethell fag

>>11890101
I think the only game where Amy isn't more fun to play than Sonic is the original Sonic Adventure.
She should be pet.

>>11886389 (OP)
Just play Sonic Rush.

>>11890086
There's not a single point in any of the 16-bit Sonic games where the levels purposefully use a mechanic, designed to aid you by giving a speed boost, to instead purposefully damage you by shooting you into spikes or enemies. That's bad design because it uses a helpful object to instead damage you.

The closest example to bad design the old games had is the sonic 3 barrel, maybe the sandopolis act 1 boss, and that's two things across at least five games. Sonic Advance has it like once each level (could be more, I haven't played it in a long time).

>>11890117
we are talking about Sonic Advance here, not Sonic 3&K.

>>11890307
Not in Advance 1. Advance 2 added a mid-air dash with the shoulder buttons to offset the fact that SA1 had fucked level design that always threw you into damage on purpose.

>>11887298
so it wasn't even because of the screen, dimps really just sucks at level design

>>11890540
>There's not a single point in any of the 16-bit Sonic games where the levels purposefully use a mechanic, designed to aid you by giving a speed boost, to instead purposefully damage you by shooting you into spikes or enemies.
obligatory

Not /vr/ (even though it's a game from 2005) but if you want to experience quintessential Dimps then play Sonic Rush, this game is straight up infuriating, it's the hardest Sonic game and it's not even close

>>11890403
Explain what's wrong with memorization without resorting to insults

>>11888426
It was the hip thing to hate in the 00s and 2010s, and since most people here don't actually play games (or if they do, they're shitters) it's the easy out

>>11887885
Battle is dogshit, quit glazing this piece of shit just because Smash is also trash.

>>11887831
>why is game boy pixelated
this is gonna blow your mind zoomie, but it turns out gameboys had smaller screens than tvs.

>>11890403
Sounds like you're bad at shmups, they're all bullet hell/danmaku

>>11890508
Not retro

>>11890583
>most baby Dimps game
>hard
Also not retro

>>11886390
Anon, the master system games

>>11887978
>it is simply not possible to see incoming objects in time to react
The Advance trilogy is infamous for putting traps you cannot dodge without prior knowledgde of the levels.

>>11887885
Why would you play an even worse game? The campaign and grind is horrendous.

>>11888426
Blame YouTube analyst for convincing a generation that hard games are bad

>>11890845
Wat

>>11890827
master(game gear) games aren't cannon and frankly just shouldn't exist

>>11890827
are all worse than Advance

>>11892019
NTA but why not? Who cares about Sonic's canon? The Game Gear and Master System titles stand on their own and play quite well, I can even see some preferring them over the Genesis titles depending on one's preference, why shouldn't they exist then?

>>11890827
None of them are particularly great. They're good for the master system but that's not a very high bar.

>>11890827
Only the first one is good
>>11890809
Nope, it really is the hardest one
>not retro
Neither is 6th gen so who cares

>>11893336
>Nope
Actually, yes. You actually fucking suck. It's a boostbaby game and the first Dimps Sonic that clicked to hood zoomers with DSes and ipods.
>f-fuck the rulez
Cry about it and go back to /v/ if you want to talk about DS games.

>>11893325
Game Gear versions have worse screen crunch and the framerate for both games is horrendous compared to their Genesis brothers.
Pocket Adventure clears the hell out of all the GG/MD games and that says a lot

>>11892085
Unlike the advance shits, this are actually games.