2014/5/10: Sega CD: Robo Aleste, Silpheed, Sonic CD

[Vexer1]

I would give Sonic CD at least a B+, I remember getting that game on the PC for Christmas and playing the hell out of it, those 3-D special stages were one of the coolest things I had ever seen at the time. I loved the time travel aspects, the bonus levels aren't hard once you figure out the best order to destroy the UFOs in. I did find Wacky Workbench a bit frustrating as a kid admittedly, but now I like that level.

[PSX1]

I read these reviews a few days back, and one of them got a delayed LOL just last night.  Completely inadvertent and coincidental. .... A couple weeks ago, I took my Sega CD out of storage with the intention of finally playing my copy of Snatcher that has also been wasting away in storage.  The stuff has been in there for like 3 years or more, so I had long since forgotten many of the games I had for it.  Anyways.. I finally hooked it up last night.  I thought the disc tray was empty, but when I booted it up a game started.  And suddenly the lamest, most boring intro scene ever began playing -- the narrator could not possibly have been more boring and monotone, as he slowly rambled on and on about feudal Japan.  So the whole time I'm thinking it's some weird "historic" strategy or RTS game, maybe something along the lines of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms series.  So when I finally skipped the intro and the Robo Aleste screen popped up, I instantly thought back to your review of the game making fun of that intro, and got a good laugh from it.  Mainly because it just caught me by such surpise, because a shmup was the last thing I was expecting to see at that title screen.  Such an awful intro that doesn't belong with that game at all, and, to me at least, a pretty interesting coincidence to come across it that way.

[PiE1]

[QUOTE=Captain_Crunch]I'd rate Sonic CD C+ instead of B-. I'm a huge fan of the Sega Genesis Sonic games, but Sonic CD is my least favorite. I find the levels just too confusing, I don't like the time travel aspect and some levels have a bit too many frustrating parts in them. I also find it impossible to successfully complete a bonus level. Not really bad, but in comparison with Sonic 1/2/3/Knuckles it pales.[/QUOTE] 

I kinda get you there. I remember getting lost quite a few times in the stages, although I seemed to enjoy it for some strange reason. I kinda don't get how the special stages are impossible to beat. I beat them without any trouble, although once you get pass the first few ones, things get complicated. Personally, I'd give this one a B. About as good as the Sonic and Knuckles Collection on PC (Sonic & Knuckles, Sonic 3, and Sonic 3 and Knuckles).

On a side note, I was wondering which soundtrack was being heard when the game was reviewed. I kinda like the Japanese/European one better, but the US one is ok.