On level variety...

[Marcello]

Well Speed highway was a better pick than emerald coast for me. I mean It would have looked good in hd but it's another beginning level. Twinkle park or Lost world would have been cool. But this seems to be focusing on the highway aspect from the screens(with going inside some buildings). That's very different compared to city escape.

The list for me (HD) I was to sceptic but now that i've seen it all I am now fine with it. There all good looking and amazing. Visual and gameplay wise. They all are very diverse from each other. The 3ds version is meh imo.

Quite the opposite.

[Neon]

Sonic Generations is very diverse, what with the city, futuristic city, flooded city, burning city, powerplant city, city at night, and city parade.

Edited October 21, 2011 by Neon

[Indigo Rush]

Sonic Generations is very diverse, what with the city, futuristic city, sky city, flooded city, burning city, powerplant city, city at night, and city parade.

Oh, come on, Neon!

You forgot grass city!

Edited October 21, 2011 by Indigo Rush

[crush40rocks]

I never really got why Rooftop Run has so much hype. It never really stood out for me in Unleashed and here... eh, I guess it stands out a little more if only due to the egg ship floating overhead and the celebratory atmosphere given off by all the colorful confetti and balloons. Other than that, After seeing all the bright, colorful, imaginative levels in this game, any level that looks really down to earth just seems bland compared to the rest to me.

Edited October 21, 2011 by crush40rocks

[Neon]

You forgot grass city!

Those are all cities, though. Although yeah, i took out sky city. SS is ruins.

Edited October 21, 2011 by Neon

[Big Boss (legendsneverdie)]

Am I the only person who honestly can't see what appeal Twinkle Park has as a potential SG level? More or less every other level in Sonic Adventure would make a better stage.

But yeah, level selection is boss, though I would have swapped out Crisis City and Sky Sanctuary for Lava Reef and Dusty Desert, more for some Lava Reef remixes than anything else.

[Phos]

They did a facebook poll. That's basically where these levels come from.

Did they actually put Mushroom Hill in this game? Great, they got the most notably unnotable level off that cart. The most interesting discussion I've ever seen about it was that one video that guy made and a discussion about where it would have gone had Sonic Team finished Sonic 3 as planned. My bet is that it would have gone after Ice Cap Zone and lead into Launch Base Zone.

If you want the real best level list, you play Green Hill Zone until you beat the boss boss, then you load a Sonic 3 save and start at Flying Battery Zone.

Ok, really, the problem with a best of level list is that I couldn't really go in chronological order because my favorite levels tend to be the easiest and hardest levels in each game, leading to one of the weirdest difficulty curves imaginable, like going from Star Light Zone to Scrap Brain Zone and then to Casino Night Zone. Maybe do an "All Good Things..." style story where you have three timelines going on at once.