u/BluBlurDevil

"Slicing a B2 Super Battle Droid in half" ✌️😭🥀

Hey y'all! I'm planning to get myself a Christmas gift when Christmas arrives by the end of this year.

And as a Sonic fan, I am stuck between the Dreamcast and the New Nintendo 3DS. From y'all opinions, which game devices are best fit for a hardcore Sonikku fan if only one can be chosen?

I saw a reddit post about CPZ, which I never heard of, and immediately got interested when the person mentioned it having a DAY/NIGHT cycle which is what I always wanted for Club Penguin.

First impression on CPZ is that I love their take on the game. The Day/Night cycle is actually mesmerizing when you seeing it happening. The game is barren as of now, (Literally managed to only meet 1 other penguin in the whole island when I played) and there is not much going on in terms of places you can go to and stuff. You cannot make money from mining yet as well sadly. The game's audio setting is also very flawed since it seems to reset itself every time you hop from one place to another. That itself is a problem since the audio is VERY loud haha. But I know the devs will fix it up as the player base grows. It is also a bit laggy with its load time but that will be patched as time moves forward I believe.

However, I really would recommend you all to give it a try since their take on the game is nothing but very interesting and cool so far. THEY EVEN ADDED FOOTSTEPS! You can actually hear your goofy chubby penguin waddling around the island XD. And when you click on your inventory, your penguin is actually alive and breathing in a sense that his/her eyes will move around and bing chilling while you are dressing him/her up.

I hope CPZ will flourish!

I'm writing this to let it off my chest....

I grew up playing Sonic DX's DEMO over and over again when I was 10 years old. Didn't know about Steam, didn't know how to get the full game either. So I just kept replaying the Orca level stage. 12 years later, got Sonic DX on Steam and started playin it for real for the very first time to see what's so good about it to the point majority of the Sonic Fandom agree that SA1 and SA2 are the GREATEST Sonic game in history.

My first impression playing DX was a gradual feeling of uneasiness? Idk how to explain it but the atmosphere felt so barren, abandoned. Kind off like a zombie apocalypse had happened almost. Yes, Sonic is still there full of energy, and yes the music is superb as ever (100/10). But visual wise, I can't help but feel down? Like the game somehow managed to put me in a depressed state. It is the EXACT feeling I and many people get when playing Project Zomboid or any creepy, eerie, gray genre of video games like Half Life/Black Mesa, Silent Hill, Resident Evil etcetera.

Especially when the game is playing upbeat, cheery, cool songs and have awesome characters in a world that looks out of place. So it gave off that fan made creepy pasta game/animation kind of energy to it. That unsettling, ill-feeling it gave me when I was playing SADX.

I am 1000% confident a lot of people feel the same way when they play DX. Central City, Ice Cap, all the map looks so barren, and washed out when I play it to the point it literally altered my emotion and make me feel down. I did thought I might be too extra and dramatic. But then one day, a random person on a Sonic Discord server recommended me to play SADX with the Dreamcast mod (Which I was completely clueless about even as a long time Sonic fan due to lack of information research).

I told him it don't make sense cause ain't SADX supposed to be the improved, remastered version of SA1? And he said while yes it is a remaster, it is a sloppy and straight out inferior version compared to the original. I decided to give it a shot and download the Dreamcast mod and wow....Central City became so atmospheric and ALIVE. The game immediately became so much more vibrant and it now makes perfect sense why the Adventure series are praised non stop lol. No longer it was the bleak, washed out, dystopian-esque aura I felt when playing SADX.

The comparison is VERY shocking to me. Maps where it was supposed to be alive and vibrant looks washed out and barren. Maps where it is supposed to look intimidating and bleak instead looks completely washed out, flat and soulless which is NOT the same thing at all. THE DIFFERENCE IS EXCESSIVE. No idea how they failed so bad. And thank you to that one discord user that told me about the existence of the Dreamcast version of SA1!

Screenshot on the comparisons are taken by: Cybershell on YouTube (Awesome Video btw check it out if you can)