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This is the background from Sonic the Hedgehog 2.

How does this picture make you feel? what do you experience when watching this background?

>> No.7079910

it's giving me negative emotional aura

>> No.7079913

it's got an odd feel/atmosphere about it

>> No.7079923

>>7079905
Feeling compelled to catch small animals and place them inside aggressive animal themed robots.

>> No.7079924

Feels like wanting to play Jazz Jackrabbit again.

>> No.7079935

>>7079905
place looks kinda sinister, not gonna lie

>> No.7079942

makes me feel uneasy

>> No.7079946

>>7079905
It makes me feel like every follow-up to Sonic 1 was just more of the same, or a misguided desire for 3D. And that's why Sonic is dead beyond the autistic fanboy/retro market.

The closest spiritual sucessors are probably the high speed and gorgeous environments of arcade racers.

>> No.7079952

>>7079905
I always loved Hill Top, don't know why it gets hate

>> No.7079958

Makes me feel happy because it's great pixel art and I remember Sonic is one of the most stylish games in the mega drive

>> No.7079993

>>7079952
Ikr, it’s like the best stage

>> No.7079995

>>7079905
It was a better time

>> No.7080007

>Yep, that's sure Hill Top

>> No.7080060

>>7079905
Shitty zone. Hard Yogi Bear vibes

>> No.7080067

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzeZGGfsJwo

>> No.7080069

>>7079905
It puts me in an early 90s mindset

>> No.7080079

>>7079905
People thought this looked good? Yikes.

>> No.7080086

>>7080079
It didn't look that flat on a CRT or in motion.

>> No.7080087

Literally shaking right now

>> No.7080124
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7080124

>>7079905
PTSD

>> No.7080209

>>7079905
Ba-da don don don don don do-don
Weeeeeeeeeee-weh

>> No.7080280

I like it a lot. It's peaceful and pretty. Obviously brings to mind memories of playing Hill Top Zone, one of my favorite levels from my favorite video game.

>> No.7080345

>>7079905
i hate the god damn kazoo or whatever the fuck it is in the music

sounds like you're raping a cat while simultaneously stretching its body out

>> No.7080364

>>7079905
DUDADUHDUHDUHDUDA WEAAAOOOOOOWWWW WEAAAAAOOOOOOOOW WEAOW

>> No.7080369 [DELETED] 

>>7079905
It makes me angry jews exist in positions of power who flood my country with third worlders and destroy the family.

>> No.7080426

I wanna play Sonic 2 again. Hilltop zone was comfy

>> No.7080437

>>7080209
Ba-don don don don-don do-don...
Do-don!
wrlwrwrwrwrWRWRWRWRWR!

>> No.7080464

>>7079905
> How does this picture make you feel? what do you experience when watching this background?

*farts*

>> No.7080476

>>7080369
Can you not

>> No.7080547
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7080547

why are zoomers überemotional faggots?

>> No.7080560

>>7079905
It looks amazing.

>> No.7080590

>>7079905
>it makes me feel like... I'm gonna go....
>INSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANE

>> No.7080594

>>7080547
estrogen

>> No.7080619

>>7080547
Raised by women. Divorce rate is over 50% in America, mang. Has been for a decade or more. That's a fuckload of single mothers.

>> No.7080707

>>7079905
As with all things Sonic, it makes me want to coom.

>> No.7081497
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7081497

>>7079905
>saturated primary colours

>> No.7081501

>>7079905
horror but also relief that I didn't grow up playing such ugly shit

>> No.7082767

>>7079905
It makes me feel like I was back in 1997 again being a 7 year old. Grew up poor and I got a Genesis when the 5th gen gaming was out. I loves Sonic so much as a kid. I was the first wave Sonic fan minus the sexual fetish. I liked the Hill Top Zone music too.

Tl;dr nostalgic

>> No.7082807

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKUcIaGvSmw

i grew up with this stage being the 3rd "legit" (without going to other unfinished levels through sound test) stage. my sonic 2 cartridge was a beta one
the stage had no boss. and just like all the stages in the beta (except emerald hill, which was called "green hill") it had no enemies

good old days~

>> No.7082835

>>7080067
lol nice

>> No.7082978
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7082978

I always wished some sort of world map existed in Sonic games so I could envision how these worlds were linked together. I used to like to think the mountains in the background of Emerald Hill Zone were where Hill Top Zone was.

>> No.7082989

>>7082978
Sonic 1 for the master system does have that

>> No.7082994

>>7082978
Same.

>> No.7083008

>>7079905
>Palette-swapped Emerald Hill, now with lava
>Too many stalling points with the seesaws and carts
>One of the most unexciting Eggman fights in the game
It makes me want to turn off the game now that all the momentum from the previous four zones has been brought to a crashing halt. This is the one zone that could be removed completely to zero impact on the game.

>> No.7083017
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>>7079905
For a lot of 2D games with parallax-scrolling detailed backgrounds, especially sonic, I always had a desire to go off the 'beaten path' of the level and explore those parts of the world. I want to see what's happening in those mountains, in the city of pic related. Even if nothing interesting is happening there, I want to see it for all its mundanity. This somewhat translated to 3D games where I'd always be trying to get out of bounds and 'peak behind the curtain'. I especially enjoyed that in WoW

>> No.7083020

>>7079905
Makes me feel glad I had a SNES, as always

>> No.7083027

>>7083017
I know what you mean. I've always wanted, like, wallpaper-sized screenies of all the zone backgrounds. That would be badass. There's a lot of little details they put in 'em that you'd never notice with the playable portion of the stage in the way.

>> No.7083086

>>7079905
You know what zoomers are feeling when they try to express their feelings about seeing shit like that? It's called nostalgic regret. They see something that makes them feel nostalgic for a past they never experienced, it happens to a lot of people. You see something that makes you long for the old times because it connects you to some sort of childlike wonder you feel you've lost, only to become doubly sad that you didn't actually experience this particular thing as a child. This triggers some level of ego death and makes you feel lonely/stripped for a confusing reason. I've done studies about this.

>> No.7083120

>>7079905
Wow that's a really ugly game. I'm glad Sonic 1 was a pack in so I never felt the need to waste money on a second one.

>> No.7083123
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>>7083086
That actually makes a lot of sense. Since I was born in 89 I'm actually nostalgic for 90s stuff but I do feel what you've mentioned regarding the 80s.

>> No.7083695

>>7079905
My most disliked level in Sonic 2. Music sucked too.

>> No.7083702

>>7079905
It feels strange and eerie to see it without Sonic in it.

>> No.7083735

I hear the hill top zone music because this is hill top zone.

>> No.7084110
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>>7079905
I experience a surge of blood flow to my penis.

I pine for the pines, logging to thrust my timber into their hollows. I don't care if I get splinters. The hellish lust inside my brain urges me to get high off that thin mountain air and do unspeakably depraved things while lying naked on the grassy knolls of Hill Top Zone. To masturbate while lying on the flower beds, to grope my genitals high above the clouds, wiping my ass with every leaf of every tree, to ejaculate from the cliffs onto unsuspecting Badniks and innocent woodland creatures down below.

I feel horny.

>> No.7084685

>>7083695
Thanks for your shit opinion, anon.

>> No.7084819

>>7079905
DO DE DOOT DOOT DOOT DO DO DO
DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWW WE WE WAMP
DEEDEDEDDEEDEDEDEDDE

>> No.7084936

I can literally hear the starting bass line

>> No.7085732

>>7079905
make me wanna cry and die and hug myself all at once

>> No.7085859

>>7083695
agree

>> No.7085895

It makes me feel how well Sonics depiction of civilisation, whether it be the masonic intro of Sonic 1, or the marble ruins, that have SOnic moving from a natural enviroment towards fallen atlantis structures into ultimately a modern setting, contextualises hill top zone as a way of life that is vanishing, the timber gathering industry of the States.

Robotnik is killing that zone by using technology to harvest timber in a more modern way, and he delves deeper into the mystic cave zone, possibly making mine shafts under stone henge like archeological spaces.

Sonic 3 is a getaway, where Robotnik is making a stopgap to space. Initiated in Sonic 2. Sonic is trying to stop him.

And of course, this image reminds me of an earlier time before my enjoyment of art was unobserved, before people insisted on looking at WHO was running through the zone.

>> No.7085923

>>7085895
Mental illness seems really hard to live with.

>> No.7085996

>>7084685
Hidden Palace is a better zone and that was dummied out.

>> No.7086105

>>7085895
Is this a pasta?

>> No.7086491

>>7079905
just makes me think of the goofy level theme

>> No.7086503

>>7079952
Lava tiles are jank. The top routes are cool, but still linear as fuck. The music isn't even that good.

Also because I fell into the game crash glitch on my first playthrough some fucking how.

>> No.7086831

this is my spirit kingdom
this is my land of plenty