Sonic X Shadow Generations Continues To Show Love For Sonic 06

Second best level of the game besides Crisis City. Wave Ocean could be a third choice.

Sonic 06 remake/remaster on the way due to new remix

@scottdevine48 Play P-06

Man, Kingdom Valley in the 2006 game was the most frustrating one for me. Especially when you play as Rouge & Knuckles, there was a glitch that caused you to get stuck when climbing.

Overall, only Silver's playthrough of this level was tolerable...for me at least...

Anyways, this remix is certainly bangers, as expected from a Sonic game.

The game has its fans, and many of them are absolutely delusional.
@DanijoEX-the-Pierrot
There’s that first section as Sonic that vaguely resembles the level design of SA 1&2 but it’s hilariously short and it all goes downhill from there. That fan game doesn’t fix any of this all it does is make the control function, the boring level design and forced gimmicks Ike characters switching and princess carrying stages remain.

One of the things I found refreshing about the original release of Generations after the franchise been so self deprecating and irony-poisoned throughout the 2010s was the sincerity to it's source materials regardless of perceived quality. Sonic 2006 sucked, but instead of making jokes about it and forgetting it, they worked with what they got and took the most iconic elements of crisis city and created a new level and an entirely new Silver boss fight out of it. I'm glad that mindset still seems to be there for Shadow Generations.

P-06 turned me around on the potential of this game. Yeah, it’s utter sh*t, but clearly there was something there for it to be salvaged. Just release that officially, Sega have form.

@SalvorHardin Well Sonic06 is certainly no fav of mine. I was dumb enough to buy this game & Unleashed for XBOX360 back in 2009. But after playing Sonic 06 & Unleashed back-2-back...well...let's just say that Unleashed was a much better game in comparison. Basically the former made the latter look like a WELL-polished game.

@SalvorHardin People love 06 for what it was trying to do. But you'd hardly find people who say this game is amazing.
I think respect is the more proper term. Since 06 does have it's distant fans who only really experienced everything through P-06

@MirrorFate2 agreed, though i wouldve taken radical train for the remix alone

I wouldn't be surprised if Sonic hits a new low so the fandom starts stanning 06. Like how Forces helped the memory of Unleashed.

As long as its just the music. Ha.

@Samalik why don't you ask Sega to approve P-06.

I can't stand multiverse stuff. Having 2 Sonics in these Generations games makes them instant passes for me. I'm sure I'm in the minority on this, but, yea....

And acknowledging Sonic '06 does NOT help the cause!! LOL

@scottdevine48 SEGA wouldn't pick it up, and I doubt the dev would want that.

@Chocobo_Shepherd This is more time paradox than multiversal

@LikelySatan people like 06 now because of the fan remake that fixes pretty much all of its glaring issues

I wanted 06 to be good, and I think that's why I have such a soft spot for it despite the undeniable trash fire mingled with nuclear waste it was. It tried to go just a step further with a serious storyline, almost JRPG tier... and besides a questionable cutscene at the end, was at least interesting plot wise.

But, still. All the best intentions in the world don't mean much when the game was so rotten to the core like 06 was. It was one of my first xbox 360 games, so I vividly remember the frustration of playing it.

So long as fate doesn't repeat itself, I hope the new 06 segments in Shadow Generations do the level themes justice. So weird to think nearly 20 years later they're revisiting it again.

@epicgamner

I just got my 360 last year, got it running this year, and played through 06. Despite how awful it is, I can't help but love it - I have a lot of nostalgia for the 4Kids cast, having played all of the Wii games with them in it and watching a lot of Sonic X. And it plays similarly to Adventure 2 rather than boost-style. And the plot is just so over-the-top, the cutscenes are hilariously bad, the loading and glitches are comical, and the music is incredible (except that old-timey side mission theme).

I had a great time with it, so the more references to it with a solid game engine, the better.

@LikelySatan i dunno what you tried to send but im just gonna assume it was awesome so cool pic

@Elbow it should be fine, given that crisis city made it over to generations without any issues

Oh man, here we go again, I know it's no use to say this since people here are either pro-P-06 or hate 06 in general. But here goes...

I think the people who are truly delusional are the ones that block off this game just for dumb things like Princess Elise, or loading screens, the frustrating ball puzzle, or memes. This game has nowhere near the same rep as it has in Japan for a reason.

It had a budget, impressive visuals (compared to previous games), challenging levels, it is brimming with content and I would much rather side with this game than the low effort Sonic Colors/Lost World/Forces --all these titles that have 1 minute levels, no challenge, levels that are 2.5D, it's ridiculous that people have preferred this junk for more than a decade over what was offered to us back in just 2006.

My take on P-06:
I was super disappointed with P-06 because it removes the stuff that I liked about the original — precise platforming, every character accelerates too quickly, especially Silver. In the original the mach speed stages exist for a reason: -going fast- the rest of the game is about destroying enemies, timing your jumps correctly, collecting rings, all under a decent enough time to get an S rank.

People need to invite frustration into their gameplay experience a little bit more. What's the point of paying $60 on a game you can finish in a day without breaking a sweat?

@Mz3player This is the attitude I wish more people had, I played it for the first time last year through Xenia, and the only thing that truly made me go "why is this like this???" was the ball puzzle.

Everything else was so enjoyable, though. 4Kids obviously seals the deal for me.

So many iconic lines in this thing. I'm definitely the kind of guy that triggers the hint marker just to hear the voices.

If you die like 3 times in the Egg Wyvern boss you get Sonic going: "it looks like Eggman's cockpit is located inside the mouth' line which is gold, yet delivered with such sincerity that is just too good for words.

@epicgamner strange. The pic was posted for a minute then got busted. Or, I posted a pic of a busted pic...you'll never know.
It was a drag queen rolling her eyes, lol.

@LikelySatan sounds about right LMAO

What's the deal with Sega making '06 fan service while ignoring their actual good games like CD or Colours?

And sorry people but if Sonic 2006 was actually "fixed" (less glitches and shorter loading time) and released in 2007 instead I think it has various fundamental flaws that would make it a mediocre platformer from the 7th gen while others like Ratchet & Clank, Super Mario Bros and even Jak & Daxter are actually good games.

Maybe the mascot platformer genre overstayed its welcome and the actually mature games of the era (like Mass Effect, Metal Gear Solid and Gran Theft Auto) were what people wanted back in the late 2000's.

@Samalik I'm open to listening if you feel like explaining it further.

@G_and_Thomas CD and Colors aren't about Shadow, and Shadow's just not been in very many good games

@Chocobo_Shepherd I mean, it's tutorial level plot layout. Not much to explain.
But will say, that in the sonic universe (and ours too in a less fantastical way) time is a separate dimension tied to the main universe. So really Sonic is just time traveling in an area without time, hence why he's teaming up with his younger self.

@epicgamner yup, drag queens are awesome! Drag/gender play goes back past Shakespeare. People only get upset when it's not misogynistic/played for laughs. Or when a politician tells them to get upset. I personally thought Cloud was fierce in FFVII.

@LikelySatan honestly im a little envious of drag queens. I can't go out in public as myself without feeling somewhat overly self-conscious! Its just really nice and kind of inspiring to see people with the confidence to present themselves as they truly want to be, without the dissenting voices within themselves and out in the world stopping them from doing so.

@Mz3player Shadow himself was merely a plot point for Sonic Adventure 2 that wasn't meant to comeback ever again.

It's just that fan demand asked to bring him back in but since his personal story arc has been finished he's just... there.

I don't understand why people really like him when he does not have the aura of a Metal Sonic (which has been treated worse by Sega nowadays) nor the coolness of characters like Vegeta nor Akuma.

He's mostly there being an emo, crossing his arms or being overly edgy like in his eponymous game.

I think Shadow overstayed his welcome and got flanderized post-SA2 and is basically a parody of himself.

@G_and_Thomas Colors was amazing .... so they obviously ignore it lol