LogFAQs > #914033928

Its just too bad the rest of Sonic 1 isnt even remotely as fun as Green Hill. I played this game as a kid, but I never owned it and therefore never really got through more than the first few zones. I was more accustomed to Sonic 2 and 3, so that made Sonic 1 particularly jarring to play 20 years later. The game is janky, cheap, and punishes speed--the very element that makes Green Hill so amazing. The lack of a spin-dash is really a massive deterrent to enjoying the experience, since any time you get hit (often by cheap offscreen enemies) you have to s.l.o.w.l.y. regain momentum to get things going again--until you smash into the next enemy.

AGREED

There are so many levels where

you

have to

stop and wait

for these slow

moving

platforms

And it is like whoever made the first zone was different from the team that made the rest. Like you said, Green Hill is awesome and it is designed with speed in mind. There others are just these generic reject levels from bad games where so much time is spent waiting around.

I remember liking it as a kid, but I played it again five years ago and it was terrible. Sequels are much, much better.
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