When comparing Shu's Garden vs Sonic The Hedgehog 2, the Slant community recommends Shu's Garden for most people. In the question“What are the best Android games without in-app purchases/paywalls?” Shu's Garden is ranked 50th while Sonic The Hedgehog 2 is ranked 53rd. The most important reason people chose Shu's Garden is:
The soft cartoony graphics, docile animals and no set goals playing Shu's garden is a relaxing world to play around in.
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Pros
Pro Relaxing
The soft cartoony graphics, docile animals and no set goals playing Shu's garden is a relaxing world to play around in.
Pro Pure sandbox
There are no goals or objectives to be found.
Pro Living breathing world to play around in
Shu's Garden provides a small world that has 90 different plants that grow and seed as well as places to explore such as space or oceans.
Pro Hidden Palace Zone
The developers reconstructed Hidden Palace Zone - an area previously unfinished and only available in early betas of the original console game - specifically for this release.
Pro Built by prominent members of the Sonic reverse engineering community
The developers, Stealth and Taxman are not just passionate fans of the franchise, but prominent members of the reverse engineering community surrounding it. In particular, Taxman is known for having built a very accurate remake of the classic Sonic engine, and Stealth is known for building a wide range of tools and hacks, as well as building a better port of Sonic for the Gameboy Advance, with no access to the original source code.
Pro Classic platforming gameplay
Sonic the hedgehog 2 still offers on of the best plaformer gameplay experiences ever made.
Pro Has online real time multiplayer
Players can compete in online multiplayer races with their friends where they are tasked with being the first to get to the end of a chosen level.
Pro MOGA controller support
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 has built in MOGA controllers support.
Cons
Con May become boring
Considering there are no real goals to the game some may find that there is not much to do after seeing all there is to see.
Con Not free
Con Touch screen controls not as accurate as using a controller.
While the touch screen controls are good compared to other games they are still not as accurate as using a controller.