Sonic: Then & Now

I decided to take a look at 2 games from the same series. I have played some Sonic games, but never the very first one for the Sega Genesis and haven't yet tried the newer one for the Xbox 360/PS3. The games were made 15 years apart, the first in 1991 and the other in 2006.

Anyways, you play as a blue hedgehog, Sonic, and have to save the animals, called Flicky, from an evil doctor, Robotnik/Eggman. You run across different levels getting rings and saving the Flicky, at the end of each world (set of levels) you get to fight Dr. Robotnik. It's a fun game but very hard since you only get a few lives to start (getting more is hard too) and if you run out off rings and get hurt you will die. When you run out of lives, its game over and you have to start from the beginning, there are no continues or save points it seems. For how old the games is the graphics really aren't too bad and wont keep you from being able to play it. This one may not be the best original Sonic game, but the next couple in the series are great offering more characters and more of a story to go on.

The newer Sonic game lets you again control the blue hedgehog, Sonic, but now its in a 3D world (like with most Sonic games after the Sega Genesis). This time you have to save a princess from Dr. Eggman/Robotnik. You also have Sonic's friend from the second genesis game, Tails, a two-tailed fox, helping you for some of the game. The cut scenes are well done graphically, but the story is strange (not to say the first one wasn't also). The mechanics for fighting enemies are really hard to use at first; its not like before where you just jump at them. Its pretty easy to get killed and a pain to have to start form the last checkpoint. The game overall is fun, just a bit to hard to control. I would stick to playing the original ones, for the ease of control alone.