Does /v/ like the Advance series?

Advance 3 sucks

2 > 1 > 3

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Advance 1 is okay.
Advance 2 is bad, not horrible, but bad.
Advance 3 is actually a pretty good game.

BONUS:

Rush is a mediocre game, but I absolutely adore Blaze and the OST and even the corny ass story. It's my go-to example for explaining my belief about how a game can be not particularly good but you can still like it and vice versa.
Rush Adventure is shit because it's just like Rush with none of the charm.
Sonic 4 is just... Why?

>>377743730
Did you even play 2 you moron?

>>377743440
Fuck you, my 13 year old self shit himself at the concept of mixing/matching the combos beyond sonic & tails. Both final bosses were hype as fuck too

>>377743730
Yikes. You have that all wrong. It's 1>2>3.
Well actually, you can switch 1 and 2 depending on your tastes.

And you don't like Rush? Please do me a favor and commit sudoku

>>377743185
I am not /v/ but I like it a lot. More than most 3D Sonic games.

3>1>2

The first one has the best gameplay a music.
The second has good music.
The third one is pure trash.

>>377743185
I played the first one ages ago. I liked it playable Amy in a 2D Sonic was a nice addition playing through as her was much more difficult. Will probably emulate the others eventually.

3 is the worst who the fuck wants shitty ass confusing hub worlds in a 2D goddamn sonic game

>>377743730
Why is Bark a star?

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>>377743185
1 is great all-around.
2 is holdrighttowin shit, but with the best bosses.
3 is okay, bonus for neat buddy-system.

All have great music and visuals. Overall I liked these a lot more than their era's console Sanic games.

reminder that Sonic has never had a bad gameboy game

>>377746242
Sonic Genesis

3 would be the better one if it didn't completely fuck up physics and level design.
Take off your nostalgia googles or even better, play a better platformer.

>>377746418
3 has way better level design than 2's obstacle courses.

>>377745865

he's going to be on tv

1st was great and tons of fun (except I played Sonic N on my Nokia N72, let it soul rest forever in heaven for good phones).
2nd was eh and start of "let's just slap boost pads everywhere" trand.
3rd had cool idea, but levels were ass. Story was nice though, I like Emerl/Gizoid.
Battle was also really fun, especially when I unlocked ultimate air-ground kick which smacked everyone few times in quick succession. Fun stopped in the end.

>>377746332
Fuck you

>>377743652
This

>>377743185
1 is too slow. 2 is too fast. 3 is too shitty. All three had terrible-ass special stages.

I enjoyed all three (even 3 with it's stupid special stages, worse physics and horrible level design) but it felt like all three were parts of a great game without being the whole thing.

>>377746842
I'll add on Rush games after all.

I don't really understand why /v/ likes them so much. Only thing Rush had going for it was excellent soundtrack. Bosses were lazy as fuck, levels were boring and boost stuff I just didn't like. Same as SAdv2, I felt levels were made of bullshit traps.
Rush Adventure, on other hand, was more fun, even if it still had it's share of bullshit. Bosses got MUCH better, for example - even though they still were clinging to two basic shapes of level, this time around they at least bothered to make distinct environments and patters. Sailing sequences were fun too, and even Marine whom people hate literally everywhere wasn't annoying for me. Finally, I liked last level boss against Johnny and Whesker (what was fat one's name? Something like this) and Big Swell.

>>377746597
who said 2 is better

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Let's bump it one time.

I have literally only finished Advance 3.
I replayed that shit constantly. Even I can't tell you why.

>>377748515
I just like to go fast dude

I like them all okay. Advance 1 is like Pocket Adventure, it's just pieces of genesis sonic games put together randomly. 2 and 3 do their own things, some work some don't. 2's tricks are cool but mostly unnecessary. 3 does the Adventure thing of hub stage - game stage switch, I wasn't a huge fan of finding the proper item or whatever to unlock next stage to go to. The stages themselves were fine. It also has a bit of Heroes thing with team combos which is whatever. Had a lot of playable characters and they're all a clone of sonic which is the best way to handle sonic 'friends' business.

I think they are all worth playing.

1 is the best Sonic game this century

>>377744260
Your 13 year old self was blinded by (admittedly pretty cool) gimmicks

Yeah, the character mixing gimmick was pretty damn cool, the levels looked and sounded nice and the final bosses were admittedly cool. I'll even give the game credit for mixing up the zone tropes (starting in a city a la Adventure 2, last level is temple-esque instead of eggman base). All of the good parts of Advance 3 however are nearly completely negated by poor level design, cheaply positioned obstacles, some odd choices for some of the character combos (Tails and Cream together actually worsens the overall utility of flying, what the fuck) and various other small but incredibly frustrating quirks.

Conceptually speaking, I feel as though Advance 3 had the most potential as it wasn't just trying to ride on Genesis nostalgia (as Advance 1 did) and tried quite a few cool new things. When it comes to execution however, I think the Advance games go in order of release:

1 > 2 > 3. Simple as that.

Also the Special Stages and their entry methods suck dick in all three of them which is one of the reasons why this trilogy falls short to the 90s classics

>>377743652
This is the only possible order.
1 was good, 2 was great, 3 threw everything that made the previous ones fun out the window.

They all need the camera to zoom the fuck out.

>>377752974
The GBA naturally does suffer from a pretty small screen resolution but I'd argue the real problem with the Advance games was Dimps' layouts, not screen size. Even if the screen were bigger or more zoomed out, Dimps still has a natural talent for putting spikes, death pits and crushing blocks in completely inappropriate and tough to avoid places.

But yeah, it'd be pretty sweet if the Advance games ever got made in a bigger resolution a la the Taxman remakes

>>377743185

Gameplay:

2>1>3

Music:

2>3>1

2's overall the best but I don't know what SEGA was smoking when they came up with their idea for special stages.

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I like all of them a lot, but 1 > 3 > 2 for me.
>>377743730
Cute picture, I wish Sonic had stuck to the style of that and pic related.

>>377753843
Having tough to avoid obstacles is not a bad thing. If anything that's the entire point of them. Also none of them are in unreasonable places, and the games were designed around the screen space so that's not an actual issue in play.

3's level design was good considering it takes advantage of every team combination while not making one feel like the only choice and still keeping the Sonic principles in play (unlike 1 which is too straightforward), the only issue is that it feels like it was designed for 1/2's physics, and the changes feel unnecessary especially coming from those, making control seem odd and require getting used to while still not behaving like you'd expect after that. Fix that, give every combo 2's tricks and it'd be fantastic.

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>>377743652
>collecting 2's special stage rings
>random pitfalls you have 1 or 0 chances to get over
1>2

>>377755902
>"random" pitfalls that are always set up in places with clear run ups and visual queues which have platforms you can accidentally run onto anyway unless you're totally adamant on holding forward
>all it does is kill you once, compared to 1 where you're more likely to die by timeout than any part of the level and most levels are more Mario than Sonic
I ain't gonna defend the special rings but at least their heart was in the right place with them.

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Step aside

>>377756862
Unironically the best Sonic GBA game. I would love for it to be the base for a new console-quality fighting game.

The other good trilogy of Sonic games. Advance 1 felt most like the Mega Drive games while 2 and 3 experimented a bit more. It and the Rush games were the only good Sonic games Dimps made.

>>377743185
If they fix the drawing distance I might give these games a chance. No real reason to though since I can just play castlevania instead

>>377756862
>Sonic is the objectively worst character in the game
>Forced to use him for the final boss
This game made me rage so hard as a kid

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>>377756862
*blocks your path*

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>>377757797
Best version of the game by far

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>Playing Sky Canyon as sonic in advance 2.


>>377756862
Shadow and gamma was too OP in this.

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>>377757879
>He didn't know about tricks

>>377757879
Techno Base was the zone that was most of a bitch.
Bitchin' music though.

>>377757698
>not maining Sonic
He's straightforward but not the worst in the game at all. That'd probably go to Knuckles, who has to really abuse the one hit kills.
>>377757472
Advance 1 isn't really like the original games at all in level design though, at least not any more than the other games. It's just not as in your face about it.

Sonic 4 was better than all of them. Yeah it shouldn't been called Sonic 4 but it still is better

>>377757854
Are you stupid or are you just trying to meme?

>>377758418
The fuck do you think

>>377756862

Sonic was so bad, it hurt me. The game was too slow as well.

Use that artstyle in every game though jesus christ its so good. Or Riders 1 art style that works too

>>377758308

Sonic 4 II was pretty good, but momentum was so fucked in 4 I it dragged the what would have otherwise decent levels down.

>>377758058
Its nice, but I like this one better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqVrFznJZS4&ytbChannel=BrawlBRSTMs3%20X

>>377757962
It doesn't ring a bell.

>>377758734
At least 4 Episode 2 felt like it had a bit more soul to it instead of just ravaging Sonic 2 level designs/themes really soullessly.

>>377757698
Sonic's a bit weak, but he's fast, reliable and easy to use. His dash skill and air action also gives him great maneuverability if you time them both in the air. Gamma is by far the worst character

>slow as hell
>shit moves with too much windup before and after the attack making him hard to even land his attacks
>despite being a power character, his Aim attack doesn't do too much more damage compared to the others
>Special moves are one of the worst set in the game, his bombs are useless since they shoot too far out and take a while to detonate, and he needs to stand still to use his laser move, you also need to charge it for it to travel any distance and that also takes too much time; the less said about his self destruct power move, the better

His only saving grace are his healing, and his "recovery mode" move, but you can easily defend against it as soon as you get the timing down.

>>377756862
i always used to do sonic vs shadow single battles with myself, and i used to listen to some of the bgm in the settings while falling asleep. i feel like it was a bit of a chore to play through when i got older and played it again.

i also swear to god, those cheat codes for emerl to do those super combo attacks, a lot of them did not fucking work. i would input sonics and i would get it, i would input shadows and it would never fucking work for some reason.

I loved advanced one.

I remember going to Toys R Us when I was like 6 as it had just come out. The guy working the video game section (some 20-something autist) got it out of the case for me, got down right by my face and in the most condescending way said "now this game is really difficult, are you sure you can play it?"

I beat it by the end of the week, and that's just because of homework. If that guy is reading this, fuck you, I was good at games when I was younger.

>>377759216
Maybe you got mixed up by the l/i/I part.
The code is an anagram of Maria.

>>377759873
Oh okay, my bad

>>377760732
Thanks

>>377743185
1 is good. It's a real Sonic game. 2 is where it all started to go wrong.

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>tfw playing Sonic Adventure 2 and keep fucking up doing Radical Highway under 3 minutes

yeah i loved the advanced series i think the second is the best tho

Yeah I love Advance, but 2 is shit and feels like a flash game

>>377762145
I've seen Spawn and I don't even know what emotion this image is meant to convey.

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3 was a clusterfuck but damn it had the coolest zones.

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>>377743185
Advance is literal indieshit like every other 2D sonic game. GET THE FUCK OUT!

>>377762728
>all 2d
>bad
you need to be 18 to post here

>>377762701
>everyone expecting a space zone like the first 2
>Surprise bitch! it's fucking angel island in chaos

I loved chaos angel zone. crazy amount of pits and all. Also that music.

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>>377762701
Best (and most) music, too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6Gv100AUG8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtGxsGydN-M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN5wjsVMiDU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDYqdxqKNwo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFjCgmH0KSc

>>377762728

>Sonic 06
>S Rank

b8/10

>>377762728
sa2 sucks

>>377763219
Its because it's Adventurefag posting
He hates all games that aren't Adventure style gameplay, which Sonic 06 has.

He especislly hates the Boost games.

You shouldn't have responded to it because now you probably summoned him.

>>377762728
An hero yourself.

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biggest crime is not even a single one of them let you play as super sonic outside of a dumb gimmick level

>>377763717
I greatly appreciate robotnick apparing as a surprise partner in advance 3 though