Summary
The beginning of one of the most influential platformers
The Good
In Sonic The Hedgehog you play as the now famous Sonic the blue hedgehog and must save your animal friends who are being turned into evil robots for the mad scientist Dr. Ivo Robotnik and was Sega’s major and successful competition for Mario and helped boost sales for the Sega Genesis and also contributed to it’s overthrowing of the Super Nintendo and also evolved the modern platformer now mascots always are portrayed with a attitude and usually the gameplay mimics this game’s speaking of which.
Gameplay in this game has Sonic running through the level destroying robots at top speed and jumping on platforms and avoiding various obstacles like spike beds and lava in order to keep sonic alive you have to keep collecting rings and if you reach the end of the level with 50 or more rings you enter a special stage where you go through a maze to find the chaos emerald if you get all six in the sequels 7 when you beat the game you get a better ending with adds replay which otherwise a game like this doesn’t have there are three acts per stage at the end of the third act you face robotnik and have to defeat him.
The graphics are very impressive some of the best visuals for ‘91 for console games anyway cause at this point arcade looked much better and computer games anyway with the bright visuals and well designed characters and lush backgrounds.
The Bad
There are some problems this game has some stupid hard levels like labyrinth zone and scrap brain zone and why is the final boss the easiest boss in the game? Getting all the emeralds can be quite a chore considering how it hardly changes the ending its more so you can say you’ve done it and no spin dash makes some obstacles difficult to get past but its more forgivable since it’s the first one.
The Bottom Line
All in all this game is a fun one with some fantastic music particularly Starlight Zone and if you played the other ones first it will be hard to get used to the lack of spin dash but an instant classic.
