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I will have more to say about CD again eventually
but if you haven’t tried it before, and you’ve been wanting to, I really think you should
And if you played it and didn’t like it, give it another try 👍
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Whereas if you neglect the tasks needed to make a good future, the game will spit you into the bad future. And it will throw your face completely into the mud with all of it’s details in its own way
The levels get harder, the colors are dingy and mute, and the music becomes super hostile
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I LOVE that the game rewards you for doing the right thing, if you act in favor of a good future, the time period you travel to will display such an exuberant level of happiness to you. And that fact is conveyed through so many ways in-game. The colors, the music, and even the level itself
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And being fully honest, the gameplay is only a small part of why I love CD as much as I do
a huge part of the game that shines the most is just how vivid it is just as a piece of art
A game that can display THIS level of understanding of environmental storytelling is high art to me
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the game kinda silently asks you to change your approach when you play it.
If you just charge into it with the typical classic sonic philosophy, it will feel like a bad game. That’s why, largely, if you’re looking for a more linear Sonic experience, Sonic CD is INEVITABLY going to feel worse to you
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But the part of that rhetoric that bugs me is that a lot of the time, people don’t give it the time of day simply because the game won’t explain that to you, and because of that, a lot of players think it’s just “messy” because they are trying to play it like the other classic games
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If you approach CD thinking it’s going to be like the other classic games, you’re already kind of missing it
Which tbf, isn’t a fault of your own. One of the big things that CD struggles with is being able to tell the player what to even do, so I really don’t blame people for not understanding
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A lot of the conversation that has followed the game since the port came out in 2011 is that its level design is “messy” or things are just “thrown in your face to screw you up”
And I think purely describing the whole game as such is a complete misunderstanding of it’s design
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The other classic games are full of instances that while stylistic and exciting in their own right, they are baked into the game, and you have little control over those outcomes
In CD, the actions you make Sonic take ARE those instances, and in doing so, the game will almost speak to you in a way
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Most of the ideas that CD put into practice have sat pretty much dead in the water in games OTHER than CD
one of the biggest ones that got left behind was the approach of playground esque levels that are full of instances to pull of crazy shit as opposed to just “holding right, the game”
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I legitimately have yet to come across a piece of media that feels more tailor made for me than CD
And on that note, I was talking to my brother the other day about how upsetting it is to me that CD really does kind of represent a large conceptual dead end for the franchise as a whole
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recent lab reports have shown otherwise I fear
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terminally in paradise it sounds like
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this one I kind of just woke up to like this the morning after I got stoned
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this one is dumb as fuck
idk how much i took when i made this one
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im not even joking when i say this might have been the first time i was ever exposed to queer people as a concept and i straight up didn’t even know it
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this alone is a big reason why ai is in such a boom with the average person rn
people are so quick to give up their ability to think that they would rather feed an algorithm designed to tell them the most recycled and more often than not flat out wrong information rather than just being curious
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uuuuummm
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idk