Well I like it anyway, partly because I remember just sitting in Chemical Plant Zone doing this
the first time I played Sonic 2. Also for a lot of other things that I (you) remember that apparently someone else also remembers and made into a little webcomic project with one strip per act. Actually the first time I played this part of Marble Zone as a little kid
I almost gave up and had to get my dad to help me get past it--it was the first and last time he ever did something for me in a video game but I really needed it because it was my Very First Video Game and stupid batbots what the heck dad hellllllp. I guess the artist has some other dumb comic about anthropomorphic cats but I don't really care because
This is awesome. I actually saw the first one of these a long time ago and apparently never followed up on it.
I love how everything appears to be hand-drawn, it adds considerably to the nostalgic feel, like the sort of coloring you'd see in an old Howard and Nester strip.
This reminds me of stuff I used to do in Sonic games:
Spend stretches of time in Sping Yard in those half pipes to see how high I could get
Intentionally misspell Eggman in the Egg Carrier puzzle for stretches of time because it took a while for the get-hit-by-a-wash-bin gag to wear off
You know how Marble Zone is filled with platforms that move up and down, and how the whole level has this brick aesthetic? Well sometimes I would spam pause until the bricks on the platform were perfectly aligned with the level bricks, and I would marvel at how perfectly aligned I got them. Same for the swinging platforms
I always hear in my head "Star Light Zone" to the first three notes of the Star Light Zone bgm
Sometimes lava would escalate those green lava proof floating blocks, right? Whenever they did, I would look up or down and marvel at how the camera wouldn't catch up to Sonic if I looked up or down in this state
You know those purple spherical teleporters in Sky Sanctuary? My sisters and I for some reason dubbed it the pepepe, pronounced "peh peh peh" and would always say pepepe whenever we used one of those
There's a badnik called Bubbles in the Marble Garden zone. Whenever one popped up, we would always exclaim "Bubbles!!!" in a happy surprised tone.
In the background of the Spring Yard Zone, there's all these green bushes or tree tops or something. There's a certain pattern or shading that looks like a guy with his arms raised that I can't unsee.
There's an area in Carnival Night where the level is filled with water but the water eventually recedes as you're going through the level. I would always try to race the receding water to see who could get to the bottom of the level first.
There's an area in Mushroom Hill where Knuckles could get tangled up in these 2 vines, and the only way to escape these vines is to spin dash. For whatever reason I loved to try to escape them without spindashing (which I think is impossible), but I would try to glide away these 2 vines as Knuckles, and since the longer you glide the faster you go, it would eventually glitch to where Knuckles goes at this exceedingly fast speed and some glitch occurs but I forgot what
When will I get to the end of Get Blue Spheres?!?!?!?!
I always try to race the water in Carnival Night too. Sometimes Sonic gets stuck on the surface and goes down along with the water. Fun!
The Knuckles glitch in Mushroom Hill you're referring to is that the two vines eventually stretch so much that they become invisible. Knucklehead appears to be frozen in mid-air.
While we're at it, I always try to get Sonic stuck inside walls in the first Master System game, because I can make him go where I want much faster. There are only two spots where I know this is possible; one in Green Hill's act 2 and another one in the first act of Labyrinth. Speaking of the former, I always get all the rings in that level because they're so few: only 98, which isn't enough to reset the counter and miss your chance at the Special Stage.
Similarly, I used to love getting as many rings in Sonic Adventure's Final Egg as possible for some reason. I remember my record being over 800.
I don't know if it's because I got older, but I don't seem to have the same kind of goofy memories with any modern games, even though they're much more complex and prone to provide ampler experiences. It's kind of ironic.
Weirdly enough I have been doing a run of Sonic 3 and Knuckles lately, for the first time in years. I've discovered that I'm a lot better at Sonic 3 than I am at & Knuckles.
The game is a lot buggier than I remembered. I had to do a hard reset at the end of Ice Cap Act 2 because I turned Super at the wrong time during the boss fight. I've also had Tails get stuck in a single frame of animation for quite a while, and I got the vines in Mushroom Hill to stretch to the point that they caused graphical glitches as Sonic, completely unintentionally.
Gratifyingly, though, I'm still skilled at Get(ting) Blue Spheres. I got perfects on all 7 regular Emeralds on my first try, although as soon as I hit Mushroom Hill Zone my performance plummeted. As of writing I'm in Sandopolis Zone with 26 lives and I guess a whole bunch of continues too.
Sonic's sprite in Sonic 3 looks slightly off. I can't quite put my finger on why. Is the colour different? Maybe it's just the shading. Is he a different size?
Has anyone else done the glitch with Tails at the end of Angel Island Act 2? The one where you fly on top the capsule, then fly over the invisible wall to meet Knuckles? I figured that out on my own when I was a kid and thought it was the cleverest thing ever.
There are a LOT of rings in Marble Garden, aren't there? I think I had over 300 at one point.
Also, it turns out that the authors of the comic seems to be the same Taeshi that created the "rules" comic for the #Lemonade chat room, and former(?) GHZ poster Suitcase. That basically makes it official GHZ material, right?
Taeshi (Veronica) is SuitCase's fiancee/partner/girlfriend/whatever. Her more popular work is Bittersweet Candy Bowl, for which Popcorn and I have both done some editing.
I have to admit that at a glance, BCB is not something I would ever expect you or Popcorn to have anything to do with. What side of Segaholic is being revealed here?
See I am learning all sorts of things here. Pretty sure most webcomic authors don't hire editors (they certainly don't talk about them), so that's kind of surprising! Also I didn't know you that was your job.
Well he mainly wanted Popcorn and me to generally copy edit the website and store and whatnot. He also had me read through volume 2 of the book and offer suggestions on the dialog and content.
I'm working as a technical writer at a software company and try to do writing and editing on the side in what little spare time I have. For example, I copy edited the entirety (around 90,000 words or so) of a friend's website in the first half of this year.
And just to complete the round of small-world syndrome, that friend of Segaholic's who made the Canada guide is coming over to my house for dinner tomorrow.
Esrever wrote:And just to complete the round of small-world syndrome, that friend of Segaholic's who made the Canada guide is coming over to my house for dinner tomorrow.
Hah, AND you introduced me to that friend at the Emerald City Comic Con (this?) last year! We talked for like an hour next to your booth! (Tell him hello from me!)
