Hello everyone I'm Jack Red, today I decided to do a weird concept. What if I would've done a comparison between Sega Genesis Mini & Rare Replay instead of Sega Genesis Classics? If you think about it, parts of that would in a way make more sense. I will do a quick comparison blog to help give those who want both of them, which is the better bang for your buck?
Both of them represents 30 years but in different ways. Sega Genesis Mini was meant to tie to the fact it's been thirty years since it originally got released in 1989. Rare Replay is representing thirty years in the game industry. Sure, the first seven games in the compilation came from Ultimate Play the Game. Along with Rare were both founded by the Stampers.
Both of these will work on modern televisions. Keep in mind, I'm comparing a console exclusive game compilation to a mini console. Nintendo started the tread of classic game consoles with a preloaded selection of games. Rare Replay has thirty games while Sega Genesis Mini actually has forty two games. Two of them are exclusive made for this mini game console.
Rare Replay by itself is cheaper to buy but you still need to own an Xbox One. Where it stands will cost you a few hundred dollars. Which is more expansive than getting Sega Genesis Mini for eighty bucks. This will be difficult to decide which is better? I can safely tell you if I were comparing any AtGames Genesis model to Rare Replay, hands down Rare Replay easily wins.
Sega Genesis Mini comes with two Sega Genesis controllers that are perfect recreations of an actual one. Rare Replay has videos you can watch or listen to some songs. There's one new song within the menu of Sega Genesis Mini. Now Rare Replay does have the rewind feature. Both of them you can use save states/load states.
There's more actual codes within Sega Genesis Mini. Both of them have a solid line up of games even with those not as great. Most games in Rare Replay are made by Rare with some original members in the first couple games. A lot of games in Sega Genesis Mini are made by Sega. But a couple of them are made by thirty party companies like Capcom or Konami.
There's no achievement in Sega Genesis Mini while there's silly too many of them in Rare Replay. One awesome feature Sega Genesis Mini has is you can change which region your mini console uses. This effects the texts, all game covers & in some cases like Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine becomes a different game.
Which means you technically own multiple language versions of these games free at charge. I know some Rare fans won't like this but Sega Genesis Classics allows you to switch between every game. You can't fully do that in Rare Replay because nine of them have to be played separately. Both of them did an amazing job celebrating thirty years.
Personally, the line up of games in Sega Genesis Mini is very good. I said it for Sega Genesis Classics, I'll said it here. Even the worst among these is more playable than the worst games within Rare Replay. Both of these cover a couple game genres. At the same time, both of them are virtually showing you this is them at their finest.
Sega Genesis Mini also a much smaller game console having more options where to put it. Also, I know I'm about to compare a game case to a console box. Both of them looks absolutely amazing. The fact, Sega went out of their way to making two bonus games alone is a nice touch. It also tells us they do care about us fans.
Honestly, it comes down to personal taste. Would you rather play Sega, Capcom, Konami and Disney or would you rather play Rare, Nintendo and Microsoft? Both of these are so good you'll be playing em for hours I'm not kidding. If I had to choose one over the other, I own both of them. It has to be Sega Genesis Mini.
I'll tell you why I grew up heavily around Sega Genesis. I actually had a lot of these games growing up. Sega was the first game company I ever liked. Hooking up an Sega Genesis Mini is slightly easier than an Xbox One console. The mini console itself is a nice size giving you more options where to place it.
The controls I know are different for both these. Although this requires internet, there's a website to see Genesis game manuals. I didn't actually get a manual for Rare Replay. Not including that, Sega Genesis Mini put a few games I am still surprised made it. Such as Mega Man: The Wily Wars, Castlevania: Bloodlines, Contra: Hard Corps and Earthworm Jim.
So the line up of games pops out more to because simply due to the fact those games are in it. I'm not done yet, being able to change your region within your mini game console is a cool feature. Now this doesn't mine you automatically get games in other region's line up of games like Japan's version. So you aren't getting an Yu Yu Hakusho game.
Both of these showcases every game beautifully in different ways. Sega shows off the game covers while Rare uses interesting original picture representing those games. Another cool feature both Sega Genesis Mini & Classics has is you can change how the games are ordered. You can have them alphabetically or by year.
Another surprise in Sega Genesis Mini is you get a few choices for the background pictures or not have any. Now it's true Rare Replay can do that with some games. But Sega made sure every game has that feature. Both of these are packed with great soundtracks for their times. For fun, you could order the add on pieces for your Sega Genesis Mini.
They are just there to showcase what it looked like with all three consoles combined. It's meant to be a joke of sorts. I will say that's a nice touch they went for it. You do have to buy extra if you want the six button Genesis controllers that actually works for your mini console. It's too small for the actual controllers to work.
Rare Replay does have better presentation with everything considered. You got rewards for playing their games. Sure, Sega didn't do that yet the controllers work perfectly. Some games using the NES controller set up can be frustrating. Also, Sega Genesis Mini made up for it in other ways. Neither from the games themselves is missing anything critical enough to complain about.
Honestly, I just felt as good Rare Replay is. Sega Genesis Mini blew me away more. You got Mega Man: The Wily Wars, three remakes of the original three Mega Man games plus a bonus game. The fact we get a compilation within a compilation is mind blowing. We also get some amazing third party games considering Sega usually doesn't use third party companies for stuff like this.
To me, it's more worth simply going for an Sega Genesis Mini. You got some nice surprises that will appeal to the right people like myself. Everything about the actual mini console is done perfectly. I strongly felt the few things one falls short in the other has an upper hand. You probably notice I did that a few times during this comparison.
This is surprisingly a difficult decision. Rare Replay does take longer to set up if you haven't installed it before. You need to kill some time while waiting. You don't need to wait at all setting up your Sega Genesis Mini. You also get easier to access when it comes to save states/load states feature. Both the bonus games are worth talking about in their own right too.
No comments:
Post a Comment