GOTTA GO FAST

>GOTTA GO FAST
be punished

>GOTTA GO SLOW
be rewarded

I really don't get it

The reward is GOING FAST.

you're allowed to go fast in the designated fasting street of the zones

most of the time you go slow though, going fast is just the reward for putting upp with going slow for awhile

You can go fast without being punished, people call it speedrunning.

>GOTTA GO CRAZY
be punished

>GOTTA GO CAREFULLY
be rewarded

What's point of going super fast if it's only a reward for mastering the stages?
I can go fast in Mario or any other platformer too if I've mastered them. Doesn't that make Sonic's 'gimmick' pointless?

the point is getting good enough to go fast. pic related

>wanna go fast
>gotta git gud for it

who the fuck designed this shit? i bet they also made it so metroid can't crawl

Sonic 1 struggled to find a clear design philosophy. They tried a bunch of shit to see what stuck.

But you can get good at any game and go fast
If you're good at Mario 1 you can zoom across the stage not touching the ground at all

???
what's your point

Sonic's entire gimmick is "wow, you can go fast"
But in order to go fast you need to master it
But you could just master any platformer and go fast, making Sonic's gimmick pretty pointless when it's a gimmick in any videogame

What games available in 1991 gave you the capability for fast that Sonic did?

Mario

>I want to go fast without trying at all, maybe the game can compliment me too!

There's games for people like you. It's called boost shit.

The sanic meme was a mistake.

Also, Sonic 1 was still trying to figure out what to do with the gameplay so of course it's weird and stilted, Sonic 2 and 3 are much better because they learned what worked and what didn't, what's so hard about this? Why do people review Sonic 1, notice it has flaws, and then go "HEH. Checkmate Sonicfags." You're not saying anything new or insightful. You just look like a massive tool.

>game expects you to put in effort

Wooow

CD was ass in level design. There, I said it.

It's more about learning when you can go fast and when not to, desu the level design of sonic is really great and teaches you how to anticipate obstacles and hazards

Gotta git gud, faggot.

Shut up with this meme already

>There, I said it.

Every sub-30-year old autist on the planet agrees with you. Not exactly a hot take.

ITT boosty boost fags

Oh look it's the Barneyfag of Sonic games

Sonic 1 wasn't meant for pampered Playstation babbys born after 1989. It was designed for hardened gamers who grew up with difficult-ass NES and Genesis games. You should probably just stick to your 3D Sonic games.

If I can go fast and beat sonics 1 - 3 and knuckles as a fucking child, you can do it as an adult without whining.

none of the platformers had sonic's physics and speed

I was born in 1989 and I still loved it.

user, are you saying that people over 30 are STILL playing Sonic games?

>Argues with memes
>Bitches by calling things memes
>In fact calling things memes that aren't memes are a meme.

It's a pretty common meme to see people saying "Going fast is the reward" without knowing jack shit about the game

I doubt too many 30+ year olds play modern Sonic games, no. Sonic Mania is the only exception.

You could always just watch a YouTube video of somebody competent playing through Sonic 1 while holding a controller in your hand. Just keep your thumb on the 'right' button and press 'A' occasionally. It'll feel exactly like you're playing one of your favorite modern Sonic games.

>Sonic's all about going fast
>Robotnik, realizing this, sets up traps so Sonic's speed will be a detriment

I can't believe Robotnik was able to troll between dimensions as far back as 1991.

Are you retarded? No other platformer lets you go anywhere near as fast as Sonic. Compare a Mario speedrun to a Sonic speedrun.