Hardest Sonic Game?

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Hardest Sonic Game?

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Which game do you guys think is the toughest in the series?
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Playing Sonic '06 without using exploits. Game's so broken its sad :c
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Sonic 2 on the Game Gear. I played it for several weeks one time when my cousin was visiting. I couldn't beat the first boss...
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^Oh my lord, the first boss is stupidly hard. Beating it sounds so simple in theory, but actually succeeding is really tough D:
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the master system version is easier due to the expanded viewing range but yeah i would definitely go with 8-bit sonic 2 anyway because it's hard as balls
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I thought 8-bit Sonic 2 was suppose to be of fairly normal difficulty ignoring a ridiculously overpowered first boss(not have I ever managed to beat said boss).

Anyways, I'd like to vote for Tails Adventures even with a walk through that is one tough puzzle platformer.
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I think Sonic and the Secret Rings deserves mention as the hardest 3D Sonic game. I'm pretty sure it's harder than Next Gen.
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Huh! I can't believe no one thought of Sonic Heroes! :darkno: It is like playing four games in one! Also, not to mention, the stages that set me off were Bullet Station and the other sage like that, pretty much every stage after that I just hated, except for the haunted manor stages, those were like my favorites. oh, yeah, It took me at least 9000000000000000000000 tries to beat the Egg Emperor! I don't like you eggman :darkcry:
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^Sonic Heroes isn't that hard...

It's a whole lot easier than Sonic and the Secret Rings at the very least.

Sonic Adventure 2 can be pretty hard on a bad day when the homing attack and the light speed attack never want to do what their names imply...
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I suppose Team Dark can seem a bit harder than they actually are considering that Heroes effectively give you immediate access to a level's hard mode(whereas SA2 makes you work for it and you're already quite good at the level by the time you unlock its hard mode). Overall, I'd say Heroes is more tedious than anything else, what with it essentially having 8 missions per level that offer less variety than the 5 missions per level in SA2.
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Sonic 3D Blast

It's not hard hard

But it's hard to look at and play
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Sonic 2.
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The toughest to me would be Sonic 06. I can't beat Crisis City for some reason.

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Sonic 06 why? Gravity doesnt exist and walls are just ilussion
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Sonic '06, Sonic 2 GG, Shadow the Hedgehog's last stages like Cosmic Fall.

For "Being the Completionist", Sonic Adventure 2 Battle has it the hardest, since you have to play literally every stage 5+ times over, A-rank all of them, and beat Chao Race completely, which could be a full game in and of itself.
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^While all that is true about getting 100% in SA2B, Ranking based on performance is pretty much a staple of the Sonic series post SA2. If nothing else, 100% in Heroes requires getting 8 A-ranks per stage and A-ranking each boss 4 times. Then again, maybe getting A/S/Whatever the top rank is is easier in later Sonic games on average.
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Sonic Free Riders because I never figured out how to steer.

Sonic Heros actually made me rage quit and sell the game. I don't remember exactly why, but I couldn't get past a certain spot. Eventually I permanently quit trying. That was after I had beat both SADX and SA2B, so I can't say I was just bad at sonic games.

Sonic Riders gets an honorable mention for being challenging without making me hate it. I actually gold-ranked all the challenges and unlocked Super Sonic. That was like, my best non-chao related achievement in any Sonic game. And the payoff was so novel because I sucked at actually playing as Super Sonic.
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Sonic Heroes isn't hard, it's just the same game 4 times over, then 4 times over again if you didn't A-rank everything in the first run.
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Sanic "Free" Riders: The controller doesn't work.
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krzys2 wrote:Sonic 06 why? Gravity doesnt exist and walls are just ilussion
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Really depends on what we're talking about. Are we talking about beating the storyline? Are we talking about beating the game 100%?
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Guys havent we forgotten, sonic genesis. On the GBA. labyrinth zone is borderline impossible
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To add to what Tobi said, are we talking real difficulty, cheap difficulty, or difficulty due to broken game?

To clarify what I mean:
Real difficulty: Requires genuine skill.
Cheap Difficulty: Hard in a way that makes victory more a matter of luck or memorizing locations of death traps.
Difficulty due to broken gameplay: Possesses several game-breaking glitches that randomly screw over the player.

Real vs. Cheap might be a bit subjective, but it sounds like most of the votes for 2006 are based on it being broken.
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Well, sonic 06 isnt hard because of its exploits. And even if it wasnt broken, it'd be fairly easy.
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