Those games stand out today and have occasionally served as a reminder of the glory SEGA was once able to achieve with the series. Nintendo gamers, aside from the home console version of Generations, have been able to play most of the Blue Blur adventures, with a handful of exclusives to boot. SEGA and Sonic Team have taken their pet on some wild rides over the past 20 years, getting into ‘modern’ Sonic 3D, attempting a return to 2D with Sonic the Hedgehog 4 and dividing opinions, and blurring the lines (with some success ) in Sonic Generations. It’s a masterclass in pure, unadulterated action game design, where its incredible visuals blend effortlessly with some of the The sharpest, most joyous combat ever to appear in a video game. Sure, you can feel the influence of characters like Devil May Cry and Ninja Gaiden in Bayonetta 2’s combat, and see it in their wonderfully wacky visuals.īut none of those games, nor the many that followed in his footsteps, come close to the brilliance of Bayonetta 2. It was revolutionary for the time.īayonetta 2 never strives to be less than the purest and rarest kind of action game experience, one that values skill, reaction times, and sheer spectacle above all else – realism and storytelling.
Players can also stack “Sonic 2” and “Sonic & Knuckles” to make Knuckles playable in “Sonic 2”. The game allowed players to stack two existing games, “Sonic the Hedgehog 3” and “Sonic & Knuckles.” This made Knuckles a playable character in “Sonic 3”, a game that was released eight months before its debut. “Sonic 3 & Knuckles” was also quite an impressive tech job at the time.