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Passagem Secreta Presents
Sonic CD

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♪ Ten, ten!

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♪ Y' can go again!

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♪ Nine, nine!

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♪ Don't fall behind!

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♪ Eight, eight!

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♪ Say, don't be late!

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♪ Seven, seven!

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♪ Destination heaven!

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♪ Six, five!

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♪ So, stay alive!

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♪ Four, three!

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♪ Now it's you and me!

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♪ Two, one!

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♪ We're gonna have fun

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♪ Say, blast off!

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♪ It's Sonic Boom!

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♪ Toot, toot, Sonic Warrior!
♪ Toot, toot, Sonic Warrior!

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♪ The power is in your mind,

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♪ to shake the planets and conquer time

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♪ Yay!

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♪ Toot, toot, Sonic Warrior

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♪ Always takes a chance

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♪ Toot, toot, Sonic Warrior

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♪ Never says he can't

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♪ Nothing can survive the will to stay alive

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♪ 'cause if your try, you can do anything!

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Sonic CD Video Review

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>>Rafael Fernandes: The year was 1991, twenty years ago.

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Sonic the Hedgehog, released on June 21,

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became a huge success with the audiences and critics.

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Tom Kalinske decision to sell the game along with the Mega Drive also proved to be very important

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to remove Nintendo from the supreme leadership of the market, which they already had for many years.

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All this happened thanks to the charisma of the character created by Naoto Oshima and the impeccable programming of Yuji Naka,

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responsible for one of the fastest and fluid games so far.

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However, Naka felt wronged by not receiving from Sega the proper credit that he thought he deserved by the success of the game,

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and after failing to reach an agreement with the company's management,

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he decided to quit and pursue other work.

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At the same time, Sega of America branch was inaugurating the Sega Technical Institute,

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that hire inexperienced programmers and artists to teach them and thus

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develop new games on their own.

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One of Sonic the Hedgehog directors, Hirokazu Yasuhara,

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was invited to the United States to instruct new employees and as soon as heard about the resignation of Yuji Naka,

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invited him to work with him offering greater executive power,

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a decent salary and also a Ferrari, which the developer was an aficionado.

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The temptation was too great, and Naka soon found himself working in the United States and,

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consequently, producing Sonic the Hedgehog 2,

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released for the Mega Drive in November 1992 and became a huge success,

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with over 6 million copies sold.

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At the same time, Naoto Oshima was in Japan with the difficult task of commanding the remains of the original Sonic Team

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for the production of a hedgehog game for the Sega CD.

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The project, which was initially called CD Sonic,

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incorporated several ideas discarded by Americans during the development of Sonic 2,

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and also brought some own innovations…

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So, in September 1993,

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almost a year after the second Mega Drive game, Sonic CD was released,

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being a parallel sequel of the first Sonic adding other game mechanics and a new story.

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In the last month of each year, a place called Little Planet arises,

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where Sonic and Amy go and find the place completely covered with machinery and metals,

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indicating that Robotnik was there too.

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Thus, the hedgehog's mission is to recover all Time Stones,

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which would be equivalent to the emeralds that we know well,

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destroy all the facilities of the villain, and rescue Amy,

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who was kidnapped by a mechanical version of the hero, here called Metal Sonic.

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Sonic CD brings something new with multiple versions of each stage.

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In specific parts of the map, some posts are installed indicating the past or the future.

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After going through one, Sonic must run at high speed for at least two seconds,

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in order to be teleported to the other space-time.

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The stage changes its appearance and layout, introducing new obstacles and enemies,

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that vary according to the time where the player is.

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Each stage in the present has a variation to the past and two for the future,

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being one good and one bad, and what defines this is if the player manages to destroy these generators that are on the map of the past.

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Translating for those who did not understand, the mission is to go to the the past of the stage,

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search for the generator and destroy it, and finish the stage.

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If the player can destroy the generator of the first two stages of the entire zone, the third,

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that is a battle against the boss, will be in the good future, which does not directly affect the confrontation with Robotnik,

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but changes interestingly the design of the stage and the bosses, like this version a bit LGBT of the villain.

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>>Dan Forden: Toasty!

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>>Rafael Fernandes: The best ending of Sonic CD can then be achieved in two ways:

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one is following this scheme I explained, and the other is in the traditional way,

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through the Special Stage, which consists of destroying all the objects flying in this plane in 3D.

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Is worth remembering that both tasks are very difficult,

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making the game as one of the most challenging of the series.

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The graphics take advantage of the special effects of the Sega CD hardware,

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with rotation and scale effects, parallax,

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and well detailed and colorful scenarios than any other Sonic game for the Mega Drive.

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Unfortunately, at certain times, the stages have too much detail,

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causing a certain visual pollution and disorientation, which hinders somewhat during the game.

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Not to mention the slow motion that occurs at different times of the game and that is unacceptable in a Sonic game,

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because, in addition to breaking the rhythm, it ends up confusing even more the navigation during the stage.

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Speaking on them, another problem relates to the themes used to portray the universe of Little Planet in the game.

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There is a certain exaggeration in depicting the stages with a certain metallic look,

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which becomes quite repetitive in the latter stages, with excess of sobriety and few variations in design.

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Still, Sonic CD is one of the most beautiful Sega CD games but,

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if you think about it, this does not mean much, unfortunately.

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The soundtrack is one of the best in the series, using the CD storage capacity

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to produce music with arrangements of the highest sound and melodic quality.

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Produced by Naofumi Hataya and Masafumi Ogata, the compositions follow the electronic style of the time,

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with the right to the use samples of voices and other songs in the game music.

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The most recognized is the one that plays during the fight against the bosses,

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being a re-recording of an excerpt to Work That Sucker To Death, a disco song released in 1981. Check it out.

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♪ Work that sucker to death, c'mon now
♪ Work that sucker to death

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♪ Work that sucker to death, c'mon now
♪ Work that sucker to death

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♪ Work that sucker to death, c'mon now
♪ Work that sucker to death

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♪ Work that sucker to death, c'mon now
♪ Work that sucker to death

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♪ Work that sucker to death, c'mon now
♪ Work that sucker to death

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♪ Work that sucker to death, c'mon now
♪ Work that sucker to death

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>>Rafael Fernandes: It is worth remembering that the songs related to the last version of each stage are not in the Red Book CD format,

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being generated by the PCM sound chip of the Sega CD, similar to what we hear on the Super Nintendo.

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It is not known why these compositions were produced in this format,

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but they give a look let's say, more old-school and simple, which serve to well represent the past of each zone.

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But the real highlight of the soundtrack goes to the main theme of the game.

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♪ Toot, toot, Sonic Warrior!

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♪ Deep in space and time

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♪ Toot, toot, Sonic Warrior!

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♪ Forever in your mind

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>>Rafael Fernandes: The song You Can Do Anything, sung by Keiko Utoku,

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is based on the music of Green Hills Zone of Sonic 2 for the Master System, which was composed by the same guys from Sonic CD.

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Overall, the soundtrack is not as bright and memorable as those Masato Nakamura wrote for the Mega Drive games (even because this is a very difficult task),

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but it can still be considered an excellent and consistent work,

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since each stage of the game had at least four variations of the same theme, one for each time.

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But as soon as the Sega of America heard the songs,

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they concluded that the Americans would not welcome a track inspired by Techno,

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style which at that time was already established.

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Even so, the company gave Spencer Nielsen the difficult task of producing a completely new soundtrack for the game.

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The musician, who had done the songs of other Sega CD games, such as the conversions of Batman Returns and Ecco the Dolphin,

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had only a month to compose and arrange all the songs there, including a new theme song.

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Called Sonic Boom and sung by the band Pastiche, the song is something like this.

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♪ Sonic Boom, Sonic Boom, Sonic Boom
(trouble keeps you runnin' faster)

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♪ Sonic Boom, Sonic Boom, Sonic Boom
(save the planet from disaster)

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>>Rafael Fernandes: The final theme of the game was replaced by a variation of the same music,

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which serves to illustrate well the American soundtrack of Sonic CD: generic, uninspired and just a little exciting.

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With a similar style to progressive rock, the tracks unfortunately doesn't even come near the Japanese soundtrack,

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and even the tracks generated by the Sega CD's PCM chip were not replaced, in other words,

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when you go to the past time of the stage, what plays is the Japanese original composition, whose melody has nothing to do with the new American music.

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Although not something so important, it only shows how the American version of Sonic CD has a very mediocre soundtrack

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and lacks cohesion between itself, generating an unprecedented mistake from Sega to the point of even an American magazine called GameFan,

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after rating 10 for the Japanese version, they rated it 7 for the American game only because of the change in the soundtrack.

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Not that it is so bad to be radical as the magazine was, but,

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compared to the original compositions, Spencer Nielsen's work leaves much to be desired.

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With so much controversy, at least one thing was kept: the gameplay, right?

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Well, sort of.

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Sonic CD is very much a platform game than all others, and in fact,

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there are few of those moments from previous games like when the hedgehog passed in a faster speed than the screen itself, sometimes.

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The stages were built in order the player has to explore them in detail,

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if they want to complete the game with the best ending, of course.

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The pace of play is not as fast as before,

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which can bring quite a letdown for those who really like the sequels on the Mega Drive,

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and then decided to go back and get Sonic CD to play.

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It can be said that this game needs to be understood before being played,

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then much of the strangeness on the first impression may lead to the fun that the game can provide.

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However, not everything is perfect, since there are several design and construction of the stages flaws,

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like meaningless parts, different game situations that are not entirely intuitive, bugs and very strange places,

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at last, several things that indicate that the game was not well polished or poorly executed its ideas.

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The controls are virtually the same from the first Sonic, with the addition of the Spindash, unveiled in Sonic 2,

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and another movement, called Super Peel-out, faster but vulnerable to attacks.

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The big problem is that, unlike Sonic 2, both movements require a certain loading time,

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which is a big problem in certain situations that require quick reflexes, as in the race against Metal Sonic, near the end of the game.

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But with all these flaws I mentioned above, the game can be considered a failure?

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Of course not!

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Far from being the best game in the series, Sonic CD is still a fun game,

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being a great alternative for those who are a fan of Mega Drive games and are looking for a different experience.

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Unfortunately, the game is loaded with experimental ideas that were not very well executed,

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perhaps by the absence of Yuji Naka in the production.

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Incidentally, it is worth remembering that the game has some very strange secrets,

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like these hideous screens that are enabled after playing some specific songs in the Sound Test.

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Fear.

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After the Sega CD version, the game was ported to Windows 95,

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where it has based this version in Sonic Gems collection,

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launched in 2005 for the consoles of the time, like the PlayStation 2.

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In this conversion, the slowdowns were eliminated,

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but the sound effects and the general sounds of the game, except for the songs, are in 22 kHz, which, for those who did not understand,

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means that they are below the quality of the original.

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Other than that, there are rumors going around that the game will be re-released soon on Steam,

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what is another opportunity to check out a challenging game, beautiful to look and,

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as we know well, much better than many of Sonic's latest games.

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>>Sonic: I'm outta here!
♪ Believe in yourself

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♪ Yourself, yourself! Hey!

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♪ Extraordinary things can happen if you believe in yourself

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Produced by Rafael Fernandes
♪ Extraordinary things can happen if you believe in yourself

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Produced by Rafael Fernandes

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Produced by Rafael Fernandes
♪ You've got to have some faith in yourself

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♪ You've got to have some faith in yourself

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♪ If you want respect from your friends

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Thanks
Sonic Retro
♪ If you want respect from your friends

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Sonic Retro
♪ When you feel tight, look at yourself!

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♪ When you feel tight, look at yourself!

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♪ Inside your heart you will find a special place to unwind

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♪ Inside your heart you will find a special place to unwind

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Video Game Ephemera
♪ Inside your heart you will find a special place to unwind

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Video Game Ephemera
♪ When you feel right, look at yourself!

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♪ Inside your mind you will see

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♪ Inside your mind you will see

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♪ Cosmic eternity

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♪ Cosmic eternity

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To all who watched this far :)
♪ Cosmic eternity

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To all who watched this far :)

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♪ When you feel tight, look at yourself!

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♪ Inside your heart you will find a special place to unwind

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♪ When you feel right, look at yourself!

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♪ Inside your mind you will see

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♪ Cosmic eternity

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