/vr/ - Retro Games

>>10152178
The time sink is all thanks to the Chao, without that A ranking all missions comes down to
>Unlocking all levels first via the story mode including the Last Story
>Hoping the game doesn't pull bullshit on you with bad RNG for Knuckles stages or jank in general (looking at you Tails and Rouge's god awful kart and space level)
>Grinding for days to get at least 3 different chao capable of beating all the races and karate
>All to unlock Green Hill Zone after years of fatigue from it in the year of our lord and savior 2023.

If it's somehow enjoyable then it's not really hard, just tedious.

>>10152178
A Ranks aren't worth it even for Green Hill Zone, though I'm hearing some of them are worse the GameCube version which is the one I played

>>10152404
Ah, I forgot the Chao Garden stuff gives emblems too. Yeah, fuck that. I remember spending hundreds of hours raising a Chao to beat all the races.

>>10152404
Why 3 different chaos? You know you can use hero chaos in dark races and viceversa, right? I just beated all of them with a neutral one.

>>10152484
Yeah you have a point, a neutral chao can do all of them, but the hero chao can only do the dark one and the dark one can only do the hero one, I was thinking all of them can only do a certain type exclusively, my bad.

>>10152178
>....it was the dumb racing levels wasn't it
Those are by far the worst offenders, and I still have PTSD over the zero crashes mission. One of my 'never agains' in gaming. I remember restarting Sonic and Shadow's final levels a metric fuckton too, since they're just giant open air pits.

I never had to deal with the Chao tedium since I just copied my buddy's garden data.

>>10152853
Those left me a blown out asshole

>>10152860
Nobody wants to hear about your prolapse, faggot.

I’ve done it multiple times. The Chao Race emblems are the most time-consuming even with the infinite animal glitch. The treasure-hunting stages are all RNG except the last mission, so you’ll need to carve out a path for each stage where you basically run around the stage over and over til you get a blimp on the radar. The Racing sub game is also hard, but you just need to know when to brake, the A-Rank is surprisingly forgiving. Finally the Dreamcast version has lower A-rank requirements for some levels like Cosmic Wall, so you might want to play that version instead

>>10152178
Getting the A ranks felt actually fun besides the 3rd mission to find the Chao, they're basically sorta skill based gotta do it fast but still rack up enough points, Cosmic Wall Hard Mode was my bane for a while. But I despise raising Chao, so when all was left was to do a million races and karate, I just downloaded a program and gave mine near infinite stats and just tuned out for like nearly 2 hours while doing every single race and karate.

Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck FUUUUUUUUUUCK Tails and Rouge's car missions. That shit's goddamn cancer.

>>10152178
It’s not fun, don’t bother. Just download a completed save online.

>>10152178
I did it years ago on GC. I didn't hate it and the Chao stuff was the only bad part for me.
Green Hill Zone is neat, but it's really not worth 100%ing the game.
It's only worth doing it if you absolutely just enjoy the game, which I do.

>>10152408
This one's a better analogy for the game.

>>10152178
It's pretty fun for the most part, since the game itself is fun and getting the A ranks is a very nice test of skill
The Chao stuff can take a long time if done legit, but there's no reason not to just speed up the process by doing the animal glitch and raising a single Chao (you need a Hero and Dark Chao to unlock all races, but you can beat everything with a single Neutral Chao).
The racing emblems are also massive pieces of shit, but there's not too many of them at least
Also if you're playing on Dreamcast you don't have to get all As on Cannon's Core, but it's still a fun challenge

>>10153801
Those are the first ones I got all A-ranks in.

Literally git gud at /vroom/ing.

>>10154124
>Those are the first ones I got all A-ranks in.
Nah I'm calling bullshit. There's no way you did Missions 3 and 4 without failing half a fucking million times.

>>10153152
>besides the 3rd mission to find the Chao
I can hardly find any of them on my own. Does everyone just use a guide for that shit?

>>10154173
I'm another anon and I did them first try as well. Unironically spent more time doing the Final chase/rush A ranks because they were the first ones I did.

>>10154173
Dropping in to give you a hot tip; activate the drift and keep steering to prevent deactivation which gives better maneuverability, don't miss any boosts, done deal

>>10152178
very fun actually
getting high-scores feels rewarding and actually encourages you to play "properly"