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524: Sonic 3 + Knuckles, Pt. 1

Retronauts

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Revelation: A Tour De Force of Storytelling

Angel Island is like this tour de force of storytelling and it is of silent storytelling in video games. There are so many levels and layers to everything in this game. It's got different paths but generally speaking, the one that I find myself going in the most,It's sort of underground with a cave ceiling just above it. And that just adds to this feeling of denseness. The escalation is you've got two loops followed by... You run around the inside of a tree. That's a completely new gimmick that they've never used before. Then it has it as you run up it and you look to the left, you see the extra life that you missed and now you copy that

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