Good morning everyone,
Last year was the 30th Anniversary of Sonic the Hedgehog, but with Covid-19, the celebration was a quite one as the big game that was supposed to be for it, Sonic Frontiers, was delayed. Still, back in 2011, for the 20th Anniversary of the Blue Blur, Sonic Generations was released, highlighting every major Sonic the Hedgehog game up to that point... yes even Sonic '06, with some passing references to lesser known titles.
Sure it's a story that revolves around time travel that sees Sonic and Tails from the early 90s meet their modern day counter parts while on a quest to stop the Time Eater from ripping up all of time and space, rescue their friends and celebrate Sonic's birthday... but what matters is the game play, which is about as straight forward as possible.
Admittedly, I have played this game twice before, briefly for the PlayStation 3 before my original PS3 broke down in 2013, while also playing the Steam version back in 2018. While I was streaming at that time, Sonic Generations wasn't a game I could stream because it did not support a Windowed mode, or even a border-less Windowed mode ... and since I only had one monitor at the time, I couldn't really go all in in splaying games that had a fixed full-screen display.
So playing the Xbox 360 version last night saw me slowly remembering a number of details, and my absolute hatred for the Planet Wisp stage, and I think I did alright got a few S ranks, didn't really have any major trouble until open pits were a lot more frequent in the latter stages. Hell the Egg-Dragon and Perfect Chaos fights were a lot easier than I remembered... while I did struggle against the Time Eater... it took me 5 attempts.
In terms of achievements I knocked out 29 out of 49 in about 5 hours, which is one more than I managed to do on the Steam version... in nearly 14 hours. I certainly had fun with it.
Sonic Generations Achievements
- The Opening Act: Completed the first stage.
- Bright Star: Got Rank S in an Act.
- GREEN HILL Restored!: Restored the GREEN HILL Stage Gate.
- CHEMICAL PLANT Restored!: Restored the CHEMICAL PLANT Stage Gate.
- Walk on Air: Cleared SKY SANCTUARY Act 1 without falling and losing a life.
- Shooting Star: Got Rank S in three Acts.
- Eradicator: Defeated 100 enemies.
- SKY SANCTUARY Restored!: Restored the SKY SANCTUARY Stage Gate.
- Scrap Metal: Defeated Metal Sonic.
- Sunny Side Up: Defeated Death Egg Robot.
- SPEED HIGHWAY Restored!: Restored the SPEED HIGHWAY Stage Gate.
- CITY ESCAPE Restored!: Restored the CITY ESCAPE Stage Gate.
- Action Hero: Performed all of Sonic's actions in Act 2.
- SEASIDE HILL Restored!: Restored the SEASIDE HILL Stage Gate.
- Shadow Boxing: Defeated Shadow.
- Perfect Punisher: Defeated Perfect Chaos.
- A 30-Second Test: Participated in a 30 Second Trial.
- Ring King: Reached the goal without dropping any of the rings you collected in GREEN HILL Act 1.
- Join the Ranks: Joined the rankings.
- Look Both Ways: Reached the goal in CRISIS CITY Act 2 without being hit by a tornado-carried cars or rocks.
- CRISIS CITY Restored!: Restored the CRISIS CITY Stage Gate.
- Trickstar: Pulled off a seven or more trick combo or six trick combo ending in a finishing trick.
- ROOFTOP RUN Restored!: Restored the ROOFTOP RUN Stage Gate.
- PLANET WISP Restored!: Restored the PLANET WISP Stage Gate.
- Silver Got Served: Defeated Silver.
- Boom Boom Dragoon: Defeated Egg Dragoon.
- Treasure Hunter: Collected all the Chaos Emeralds.
- All Stages Cleared!: Cleared Sonic Generations.
- Walkie Talkie: Chatted with all of Sonic's friends you saved.
Twitch Clip Links
During the stream we had a big raid from Kalenal who was playing Pokemon: Brilliant Diamond, and cleared victory road! Hopefully they will have an easier time getting through the elite four and Cynthia than I did! Kalenal streams over at twitch.tv/kalenal!
For our raid, we dropped in on RoseMaryShorn who was playing Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance over at twitch.tv/rosemaryshorn!
Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Straight Combo #1, Weaving Combo #2 and Beginner Combo #2.
Wrestling icon Scott Hall passed away yesterday at the age of 63, dude certainly had a lot of good matches, and was probably one of the bigger big guys in pro wrestling when his head was on right. Most say that ladder match at WrestleMania X was his best match, but I'd say it was the match he had with Rick Martel on RAW for the Intercontinental title.
Cheesed out the remaining achievements in the SNK 40th Anniversary Collection, now most people do this all in like 25 minutes, but I did try to play some of these so my completion time is way off on comparison to everyone else. Completing this achievements also extended my streak through today
SNK 40th Anniversary Collection Achievements
- Athena, I Will Go: Beat Psycho Soldier.
- Street Smarts: Beat Street Smart.
- A Full Tank: Beat TNK III.
- On Guard: Finished the second level of Vanguard.
For tonight's stream we're going to feature the SNK 40th Anniversary Collection, so we'll give the collection it's due. This should be a night of many deaths and game hoping! But there is a slight problem the collection itself is not listed on Twitch, so we'll open with Just Chatting and then manual select each game we play. Chances are the entire stream won't be focused around this, and we'll work in some other things I have on the Xbox One as well.
So on that note we'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!
