With the release of the new Sonic Mania, the game that brings us back to our favorite blue hedgehog, I think it's a good time to make a Retro Review from the first game of Sonic the Hedgehog.
It was the year 1991 when SEGA brought to life this much appreciated character. Character that was born like the direct competition to the giant Mario Bros, thing that I achieve for at least a good time, since Sonic has been one of the great personages of the time of the videojuegos that more has been forgotten, since many of their games did not give enough size to meet the expectations of the players, but do not focus on the bad if not on the good experiences and memories of our childhood playing this much appreciated and iconic video game.
And without further details to begin this review.
Mobius is the planet where the story of Sonic the Hedgehog, this planet is in harmony until a man appears that breaks with this peace, it is the Doctor Robotnik, a Doctor who has as its plan world domination, something quite typical, but what varies is his method since he plans to do it through the use of animals, for that his plan is to capture the animals and turn them into an army of robots that can be controlled for him.
Here is where our protagonist, named after Sonic is a blue-haired hedgehog and if the blue hair seems strange enough, this friendly and charismatic animal, has the ability to run at incredible speeds, his mission And our mission is to rescue the animals that have been captured by this crazy scientist and thus be able to stop their evil plans.
As you can notice the story is quite simple: A protagonist who has to save the world from the evil plans of a mad scientist, but by that time we did not need anything else to keep us entertained, instead Sonic offered us something Totally new and addictive.
If we were in the year of launching this game and appreciated its art, we could easily say that it was the games with better graphics that year, because Sonic the Hedgehog had a graphically unbeatable quality, both in Its scenes where the good design of funds abounded and a palette of colors that gave life both to the mentioned scenarios as to the personages of the surroundings,
especially our protagonist who had a very well designed design with appropriate blue tone to give the right visual tone for this type of game, is sprite made in this game is high quality.
The game has 6 scenarios of which each one is different to the other, demonstrating the variety of design and drawing that we liked so much in this game.
We just listen to the soundtrack Green Hill Zone and we automatically know that it is the music of the most famous stage of Hedgehog, as this melody is so catchy and emblematic that years will pass but we will never forget it and this can easily happen with the other songs that we can find throughout the game.
Sonic the Hedgehog has a soundtrack that despite being simple do not stop being good enough so that with the simple fact of hearing the first seconds of these we associate it immediately with the Hedgehog, soundtrack that fit perfectly With the fast and precise gameplay that we want to present and in the same way with the scenarios in which we develop.
Speed is the correct word to define the gameplay of this game, because our protagonist is a hedgehog capable of running at great speeds, giving us the opportunity to travel the stages fast enough to overcome them in time limits.
But it offers us more, the game gave us the option of collecting golden rings that were watered throughout the stage, these rings serve to increase the score during the game and also serve so that the hedgehog does not die, While we have one or two rings of these and one we receive an attack of the enemy we lose rings but we do not die, but then we can pick them up again.
A rather simple but addictive jugalibity, which made Sonic the Hedgehog one of the basic games in the history of video games, only below its great rival Mario Bros, although to my opinion simple , Sonic has nothing to envy the plumber, at least in his old games and more recognized.
Sonic may never pass, but never cease to be one of the pillars that laid the foundations of what are current video games, thanks to its original and difficult but addictive gameplay, good soundtrack, characters and scenarios graphically Well elaborated, showed that if you want you can one of the most representative games of an era and the world of video games.
