Comments on: Great Games I Almost Missed

By: duckofindeed

duckofindeed — Thu, 20 Feb 2014 15:14:53 +0000

“Sonic Adventure 2: Battle” was simply awesome. I have a really awesome Chao, too, that has really high stats. I named it Nayru, and it wins everything. Sometimes I just have it enter races and battles just to watch it annihilate the competition. In the races, it just speeds ahead of everyone else. In the battles, one punch, and its opponent is defeated. (It makes me a little said watching a Chao get punched in the face like that, though….) I also like to put it somewhere high so that, when it falls off, I can watch it fly. It’s quite good at flying, too. It’s a shame your save file got corrupted. Those Chao can take a long time to make strong. I don’t know what I’d do if I lost Nayru or my favorite, Rocky. Rocky is the world’s cutest Chao.

My dad actually bought home a SNES, too. He won it at work or something, and my mom thought it was a silly thing to bring home, but we all ended up loving it. We had great times with games like “Donkey Kong Country” and “A Link to the Past”, as well. Still fantastic games.

By: Hatm0nster

Hatm0nster — Thu, 20 Feb 2014 02:00:07 +0000

Sonic Adventure 2: Battle is grossly underrated in my opinion. Sure the Knuckles/Rouge stages and the driving is awkward. But the sheer variety in gameplay and the wonderful sensation of speed in the Sonic/Shadow stages was simply the best! (also, CHAO!!!) This is my favorite Sonic game (even after having grown up with the Sega Genesis classics) and fully completing it with a friend of mine remains my greatest triumph and gaming tragedies: First I lost my championship chao (It won all the races AND could not be beaten in chao battle), and then the memory card my perfect save was on got corrupted.

Great post! Good times were had here! Also, in regard to the actual topic of the post. I sometimes wonder what would have happened if I had never played A Link to the Past on SNES. I was only ever introduced to video games because my dad (on a whim) brought home a SNES (w/ ALttP packed-in) because he thought my brother and I might like it…long story-short, he was right. :D

By: duckofindeed

duckofindeed — Wed, 19 Feb 2014 15:36:24 +0000

I have indeed played the older “Sonic” games. I bought “Sonic’s Ultimate Genesis Collection” for the Xbox 360, which had a bunch of “Sonic” games, including “Sonic the Hedgehog” 1-3 and “Sonic and Knuckles”. As many old games are, they were quite difficult for me, and I usually was unable to get super far into them. I was, however, able to reach the final boss (but not beat it) in “Sonic the Hedgehog 2”, so I believe that one’s my favorite, as I got to experience more of it than the other games.

And playing as Knuckles in “Sonic and Knuckles” was pretty fun, too.

By: Mercury

Mercury — Wed, 19 Feb 2014 05:02:10 +0000

You and my fiancé have eerily similar taste in games!

I was a Sega kid so my intro to Sonic was much earlier in the series than your first game; so I was just curious, have you gone back and played older Sonic games and do you have a favourite?