#Sonic cd soundtrack reason Pc

I wish I could say it was an instant transition. Each stage has three versions, a past, present and future version that Sonic can access by passing appropriately labeled signposts and then running fast enough and long enough that he breaks through the time barrier to emerge in the alternative stage. While Sonic CD might feel like a backwards step from Sonic 2 in these respects, it feels like a giant loop forwards in others, most notably in its time travel theme. It’s almost as if the team in Japan heard about this new innovation their counterparts in the US were developing, but weren’t allowed to see it, so had to just guess how it would work. Nevertheless, this is a solo mission for Sonic, which makes the game feel distinctly closer in spirit to the original Sonic The Hedgehog than any of its sequels.įurthermore, there’s the spin dash, which is animated completely differently to the one in Sonic 2 and doesn’t feel quite as slick or responsive to use. In fact, there’s no attempt to give Sonic a partner character at all, although the cast is expanded with some neat in-level story scenes featuring new characters Amy Rose and Metal Sonic. Tails is nowhere to be seen, for example. This team not only took advantage of the CD medium to introduce new ideas, they also took the design and story in a different direction, branching off from the original game to make Sonic CD feel like an alternative sequel to the substantially more popular Sonic 2. While Yuji Naka worked on Sonic 2 over in the US with the Sega Technical Institute, an entirely separate team was back at HQ in Japan making a totally different Sonic game for Mega CD. Sonic CD seems to be made with a different philosophy, its designers taking the “CD” part of the title to heart and really taking inspiration from the new technology. I don’t think I even understood what an RPG was until Final Fantasy VII.

#Sonic cd soundtrack reason Pc

I’d later learn that in the USA and Japan the Mega CD and PC Engine CD were graced with these huge RPGs with vast worlds and early examples of voice acting, but such luxuries rarely crossed our line of sight here in the UK. Maybe you’d get an enhanced soundtrack if you were really lucky, or grainy FMV games that were an acquired taste at best. The former was littered with ports of regular Amiga games that were rarely any different to the floppy disk versions, and Mega CD games tended to be similar variations on existing Mega Drive carts. The first CD console I owned was the Amiga CD32, while a mate had a Mega CD.