Hello everyone
! I decided to make a poll on Twitter for which game I was going to tackle next and it was 50/50 between this and 3D Blast, so making those threads back-to-back!
This game is interesting as its more or less Sega's first licensed game based of the Sonic IP. I'm serious when I say that, as this game uses Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog characters.
Scratch, Grounder and Robotnik are all based on their AoStH versions and its odd seeing this comedic take on the franchise get its own video game!
But one must ask, how do you make a game with Robotnik. Are you making robots and taking over the world? Fighting the Blue Blur by making traps that halt his progress? Blowing stuff up with a walker mech.....wait a minute, we DID get that latter though....
Anyway, so what is this game with Robotnik about
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Puyo Puyo clone, that's what!
Where did the Werehog come from?! Jeez, calm down man....but yes, its a puzzle game and its a fun one at that!
If you played Puyo Puyo before, you know how this works already; you match colorful beans by color and you have to defeat the opposing Badnink on the right side of the screen.
So this repeats with new fights and things getting much, much harder over time.
See the black rock objects in the above screen? They block you're path of other beans landing (so no more chains and matching colors). This can happen to you're foes too if you get chain after chain as well.
But the thing is, this game gets hard. VERY hard over time, with the fight with Robotnik himself being quite the 'fun' experience.
You see that image? Where you're beans become angels/flying things while good ol' Robotnik laughs in your face? That will happen over and over and over and over and..................over and over again :'(.
I honestly didn't beat this when doing this for the retrospective, as I could never beat this boss despite getting to level 10-11 despite some mild frustrations. This is a hard puzzle game and if you want a great challenge, this is the game for you.
But, like every Sonic game, the music here rocks
.Intro Screen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8iWKIUouPo&list=PL8FE74949CBBC8CBD
Levels 1-4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHDVpFj-5rM&list=PL8FE74949CBBC8CBD&index=3
Levels 9-12: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5_0_MUxSqE&index=7&list=PL8FE74949CBBC8CBD
Level 13 (Final Boss): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hscV8q0zi5g&index=9&list=PL8FE74949CBBC8CBD
Staff Roll: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v69DP58qpuA&list=PL8FE74949CBBC8CBD&index=11
Continue?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn1l7LfN730&list=PL8FE74949CBBC8CBD&index=15
2-Player: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjEyI6Pqnfk&list=PL8FE74949CBBC8CBD&index=18
We even have some unused themes hidden away in the game!
Brave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W06TBgz01-M&index=19&list=PL8FE74949CBBC8CBD
Puyo Puyo Theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obNbqDwR5PY&list=PL8FE74949CBBC8CBD&index=20
Unused Sound Code: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiJmx9Fte2k&list=PL8FE74949CBBC8CBD&index=21
The music in the game rocks and helps push you through the tough puzzles.
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I'm sorry this OP isn't as long as say, my Sonic 3&K, Knuckles Chaotix or Colors threads but its hard to talk about a puzzle game when you aren't an avid puzzle gamer at heart. I love them though, with Tetris being a favorite
! I enjoyed my time revisiting this one and its always nice spending time with the Eggm.....I mean Robotnik Empire for a bit .Going to close the thread with images with this amazing foe based off the cartoon.
Super Robotnik Man:
Award Robotnik:
Umm......Psycho Robotnik?:
Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog was strange man :l.
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Join me next time when we help Sonic save the some critters in one blast of a game
. (Yes, will be talking about the Saturn version too!)
