» [Mega-CD] Want to start a fight between Sonic fans? Bring up the topic of Sonic CD’s region-exclusive soundtracks.
Theaudio of the Sonic series has been consistently excellent over the last 30 years, to the point that even those games that are less celebrated in their totality are praised for their music. The fact that we can pick out favourite tracks from Shadow The Hedgehog and Sonic Unleashed as easily as we can Sonic 3 or Sonic Colours has to say something (and no, it’s not “you’re a bunch of Sonic nerds”, you sarcastic lot). Much of the groundwork for this excellence can be traced back to an unusual approach to videogame music, by the standards of the early Nineties.