Chosen Game : Sonic 2

Did linear storytelling in your chosen game(s) engage and excite you as a player? Explain why or why not.

I am a huge fan of old school games like Super Mario, Mega Man and Sonic. The linear storytelling of Sonic really engaged me as a player, it made me realize that Sonic is most of the time running super fast around a nature like environment with lots of trees and vegetation that is easy to recognize, which for me it seems like Sonic’s natural habitat, and I feel like the wide side view shot in which I’m playing the game is trying to tell me that this is Sonic’s home habitat, every time I think of Sonic one of the first things that come to my mind are the colors blue, green and brown which are colors that I used to use a lot as a child to draw an environment with lots of vegetation and sea (happy environment) and I believe that it makes kids and most people be more engaged in the game.

In one of the levels the game is no longer a wide side view shot but a back view of Sonic and we can see the highway type of environment that he’s running on, this change of shot makes it more interesting for me because it gives me more variety in the game which is something that I like.

One of the levels in Sonic 2 is really industrialized, this makes me think of how humans are slowly getting rid of nature for concrete, Doctor Eggman is us, the humans, and sonic is nature.

The only thing I didn’t like about the game is its game design, it becomes too repetitive and sometimes you don’t have as much control over the character as you’d like, sometimes Sonic just runs and you just sit there without really doing much.