Sonic X Shadow Generations is so slick it does the impossible – makes me nostalgic for a game I hated | Gaming

Bit-by-bit, Sega is revealing the levels on offer in Shadow Generations, the new game-within-a-game that is shipping as part of the wider Sonic X Shadow Generations package. The latest info drop features a highlight from one of Shadow’s least auspicious outings.

As well as being a previously-deadly google search, Sonic X Shadow Generations is basically a supercharged remaster. The majority of the package is a tight, nice-looking remaster of 2011’s Sonic Generations, a game which offered a barn-storming journey through Sonic’s entire history at the time.

Included in the package as a new bonus is the same for Shadow – a selection of levels that retell the antihero’s story over the years, from his 2001 debut in Sonic Adventure (still the gold standard 3D Sonic…