Growing up I heard how Sonic CD was the best Sonic ever, and since my parents refused to buy me the CD add-on, I could only wish I played it. When I finally did it a few years later, I couldn’t believe how bad it was. The focus on exploration did not work at all for Sonic, the time traveling mechanic sounds interesting on paper but was badly implemented, and even the graphics felt weird to me, it seemed like Sonic sprites were put in a different game, like a ROM-hack, even the background was too visually aggressive in most stages, making it hard to even see what was happening..
I truly think Sega CD owners didn’t have much to boast, so they created this legend of “the best Sonic game you can’t play because you don’t know anybody who has a Sega CD”. I was a Sega fanboy, so I did my fair share of this kind of stuff.
