So, this is less a revisit of Sonic Generations and more a welcome return to City Escape.

While Sonic X Shadow Generations is a remaster, it’s also more than that.

And there’s no classic Sonic level I love more than City Escape.

Sonic in Adventure 2 running away from a GUN Truck in San Francisco as cars and taxis fly everywhere

Why not an entire City Escape game?"

Now, that’s a likely thing for me to say.

This is a thing I care about, maybe way too much.

The party in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 stand together while underwater.

A City Escape-set Sonic gamecouldbe an open-world game, but that isn’t the best solution.

Cities are better video game options than organic spaces.

A forest is the product of nature, and grows organically.

A woman glowing purple with bat wings in Borderlands 4

A city is made by people and reflects their needs, wants, interests, and preoccupations.

A big tree can teach you other things, but that isn’t one of them.

Sonic Adventure 2 is more tedious than classic.

Ugly Sonic pointing to the City Escape level from Sonic Adventure 2.

Sonic skating through City Escape in Sonic Adventure 2.

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