
Shadow the Hedgehog is back with Classic and Modern Sonic in SONIC X SHADOW GENERATIONS, an all-new collection featuring two unique experiences!
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Shadow the Hedgehog is back with Classic and Modern Sonic in SONIC X SHADOW GENERATIONS, an all-new collection featuring two unique experiences!
Play as Shadow in a brand-new story campaign featuring never-before-seen abilities that prove why he’s known as the Ultimate Life Form! Speed through iconic stages from Shadow’s history, discover hidden secrets in an expansive hub world, and unlock new powers to take on Black Doom and save the world.
SONIC X SHADOW GENERATIONS also includes a complete remaster of the highly acclaimed SONIC GENERATIONS, a time-traveling adventure featuring a greatest-hits collection of 3D and 2D Sonic stages, now with upgraded visuals and new bonus content.
In a new standalone campaign, Shadow’s nemesis, Black Doom, has reemerged and threatens to take over the world once again. Shadow must journey into his past, confront his painful memories, and unlock new dark powers to save the world.
Relive signature levels from Shadow’s previous adventures and accelerate through mind-bending stages in both 3D and 2D, warped by Black Doom’s influence as Shadow works to piece together the timeline and thwart his evil plans.
Harness Shadow’s 5 new Doom Powers to battle hordes of enemies and tackle platforming challenges like never before. Surf on water, fly over obstacles, and stop time with the return of Chaos Control!
Explore the White Space, an all-new hub world inspired by the open-zone gameplay of Sonic Frontiers. As Shadow gains new powers, he can explore further and uncover the secrets hidden throughout!
Past meets present in SONIC GENERATIONS! When Dr. Eggman teams up with his past self and the mysterious Time Eater to erase their past defeats and rewrite history, they scatter Sonic and his friends across space and time. Now, Modern and Classic Sonic will have to team up to defeat this dastardly trio and restore their timeline to normal!
Spin dash through a greatest-hits collection of 3D and 2D versions of iconic stages from past Sonic games, now with updated visuals and reworked cinematics.
Rescue Chao hiding in every level, rack up the highest pinball score in the Casino Nights Zone, and check out the museum for behind-the-scenes art, music, and more!
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Its pretty short. Maybe sonic just isn't for me, but the fights are just long repetitive sequences that really aren't enjoyable. A lot of the levels feel like the game is on autopilot and what you can interact with is minimal.
Sad that this game is somewhat of a REVAMP of a previous Sonic Anniversary game. Now the current anniversary celebrates SEGA supporting the death of its customers.
I really enjoy the s3xual tension between the 2 hedgehogs. Very engaging gameplay.
Another Sonic single-player game that you can't play at all if internet goes out for just a few days. On top of that, the Shadow Generations part, while the levels are some of the best in the series, is exceedingly short, and mostly consists of filler missions that you are forced to play in order to progress. A letdown
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Who wants to play as Shadow in 2D? JUST MAKE A SOLID 3D PLATFORMER THAT ISN"T PRESS FORWARD TO WIN!!! Make a 2D game or a 3D game don't combine them shadow was never 2D. I won't buy another game until you figure out why sonic adventure was good.
Mon tout premier jeu Sonic, et belle surprise ! J'ai fini par franchir le pas, grandement influencé par Jim Carrey (qui est en roue libre bordel) et surtout par le 3ème film qui est vraiment super. J'étais un peu réticent avant d'acheter le pack (Sonic X Shadow + Sonic Frontiers à 40 euros) car les trailers ne me donnaient pas forcément envie. Mais bordel, j'ai bien fait de me lancer ! Le titre se divise en deux parties : Sonic Generations (un remaster) et Shadow Generations (le nouveau jeu). J'ai d'abord lancé la campagne de Shadow avant de faire la partie Sonic (même si, pour le coup, les deux étaient 100 % nouveaux pour moi). Ce que j'ai adoré : - Le Level Design : Les niveaux sont super bien foutus. Chaque zone propose deux actes (un en 2D et un en 3D), et ils regorgent d'embranchements. C'est incroyablement jouissif d'enchaîner parfaitement ses mouvements pour réussir à atteindre un passage secret. - La Bande-Son : Les musiques sont vraiment excellentes et mettent direct dans l'ambiance. Pour l'Histoire (Un peu en deçà de mes attentes) : Je ne sais pas comment sont construits les jeux précédents, mais j'ai trouvé le lore un peu léger. En venant des films, je m'attendais à une narration plus poussée avec des niveaux qui justifient vraiment l'histoire. J'ai été un peu déçu sur ce point, j'aurais aimé en apprendre beaucoup plus sur le passé de Shadow, sonic, tails, knucklers (osef des autres ♥♥♥♥♥♥ friends et notamment de rouge qui doit pas sucer que du sang). Les points négatifs : - Le DLC du film à 6 euros : Petite frustration, j'aurais vraiment kiffé utiliser le skin du film dans tout le jeu, mais il est bloqué sur le SEUL niveau (+2 défis) de Tokyo. Malheureusement, c'est impossible de contourner ça, même avec des mods (ou alors j'ai pas trouvé). Dommage. - La mission de Vector : Ce p*tain de niveau avec le crocodile qui fait le DJ... un enfer. - Crisis City (les niveaux dans la ville en tempête de feu) : Je les ai trouvés super durs, avec des chemins qui ne sont pas du tout intuitifs. J'ai détesté (mais surement skill issue) En résumé : Un excellent point d'entrée dans la franchise si vous venez des films, avec un gameplay super satisfaisant malgré quelques petits défauts et frustrations ! Prochaine étape : Sonic Frontiers (en plus on peut jouer Tails !)
Para mí me parece un juego excelente el de los mejores juegos de Sonic en 3D a pesar de que hay gente p**** que diga que Sonic nunca tuvo buenos juegos cuando son una Clara mentira hablando del rendimiento del juego la versión original de Sonic generation salida en su momento iba bastante mal tenías que meterle mods para que pudiera cargar bien pero gracias a la optimización esta versión del juego está bastante mejor optimizada y hasta incluso mi computadora con gráficos integrados corre al juego a 60 fps y su versión de Shadow generation también lo cual es excelente recomiendo primero jugar son ingenieros y luego la parte echado porque si no se sentirá la mejora ya que el otro es un juego más antiguo que el otro
Shadow generations is such a damn refreshing form of content from the regular sonic generations and its way of movement is so much more reactable and smooth compared to sonic generations where if i boost once i go off the entire ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ map for existing. Shadow dashes and you can actually like not go flying its amazing😭 10/10 dlc, loved playing sonic generations for childhood purposes so its a 7/10 for me but it has its bad boss fights time to time.
Two awesome games in one, yeah, what can you say, just look at the reviews. And when the discount drops, ooh la la. They are very polished and all and I really like them, but I have a personal gripe with them - most of the time it's too easy to take the best route in most of the levels, unless you are using speedrun techniques. Yeah, they are just easier than some of the Sonic games - so it depends on the player. Also, they are not that fullfilling to finish like some of the other Sonic games - small stories, underwhelming endings (Sonic portion of the game - the last level is not very epic and the final boss is just meh) (Shadow portion - the theme of the final level act 1 and very boring credits) And, of course - they don't have that much of their own personality, it's a celebration of the previous games reusing the themes and music. You can always argue that classic Sonic does not control like the classics and it's means it's bad - well, the levels are designed with the different control in mind, so it's fiiiine. Disappointing I guess, but fine. For me the stupid thing is that classic gets the drop dash in this version as a skill, and modern have it all the time. Come oooon, i want to use it when speedrunning in the leaderboards... On the other hand, it's a little too weak for classic. Still useful tho! So yeah, it's not that replayable for me like other games. I think it can be a good starting point for newcomers, but at the same time... references, small stories based on previous adventures... idk... Okay, so is the version of Sonic Generations better here, or is the previous PC version the preferable way to play? You can argue all you want, but for me it's clear - this version just works out of the box, and that's what counts in the end. It has many PC oversights fixed, like missing sound effects for quick stepping, misalligned effects, some glitches fixed... It has crispy 4K cutscenes now, and it's great! It has proper bloom working! The most important thing about this version: You don't have to jump around the old launcher to just work, and it doesn't change it's mood when changing monitors. It supports hot plug for controllers, it has now 3 slots for saving the game, which is AWESOME. You can change the graphic settings in the game, come oooon, this version clears. It's not perfect tho. The OG version has great modding community, so yeah, if you are a Sonic fan - you have the old version already, let's be fair. If not - you can buy it in the Steam bundle. Sucks. They re-recorded the voice lines and changed the dialogues for some reason. Personally - it's just a liiiiitle bit jarring sometimes, but this game had barely any story, so it's fine. The Metal Sonic boss fight has mixed up music - now it doesn't sync with the cutscene, because it plays the version with short intro, and when you die - it plays the version with the cutscene intro. It's such an easy fix and they didn't patch it up, come oooon When using any monitor with more than 60 Hz the frame pacing is broken in Sonic Generations and the loading times for some reason are very long - cap it to 60 FPS in your Nvidias, AMDs, RTSSs or something. Shadow Generations can be played at 120 FPS, it's a life changer tbh. Also pro-tip for EVERY SONIC GAME and some other games - force in your graphic card program Anisotropic filtering to 16x. The textures will look MUUUUUCH BETTER. It pisses me off every time when the game doesn't have that option. On Steam deck - make a dxvk.conf file in the directory of the game and paste this in it: d3d11.samplerAnisotropy = 16 d3d9.samplerAnisotropy = 16 The screen is smaller, so it doesn't look that bad without it, but you can't unsee it after changing this setting. Okay, so for the MODS: Biolizard Dialogue Order Fix Fixed Aspect Ratios Biolizard OST Version (it has a cool intro and LYRICS) Higher Quality TAA (optional) Higher Quality Boost Motion Blur (optional) There is a mod for changed music for the credits, but it breaks the Biolizard music Codes: Smooth Camera Fix Grind Step Magnetism (kinda whatever, but looks smoother. Some PCs now have a little stuttering when changing rails, probably because of Denuvo. The fix is to disable the hyper threading in bios or downgrading the version, but I don't think it's worth it. Shoutout to dreamsyntax) Force 4K Video Playback And, of course, for the Sonic Generations: Fixed Metal Sonic Intro also, white space version of Knuckles doens't have a mouth in this version lmao, I never noticed that. You can't fix it with any mod right now unfortunately
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