/vr/ - Retro Games

>When landing, Sonic is sliding more than Luigi, either that or I am doing something wrong.

It sounds to me like you're trying to play Sonic like a Mario game when they control entirely differently. Sonic carries momentum when he jumps, unlike Mario. It's basically a physics engine before physics engines were a thing in video games.

Things like hills are taken into account. Sonic will go further the steeper the slope is.

Plus it's not like you can't stop on a dime anyway when you land, as shown here. The first sequence shows when you hold the opposite direction upon landing, the second sequence shows if you simply let go of the d-pad the moment you land on the ground.