Sonic Generations/Awesome

• How about for starters the first level. The Return of Green Hill Zone. Classic and Modern flavors.
• The glorious return of the song E.G.G.M.A.N. in the Mirror cutscene, and then again outside the Boss gate for Egg Dragoon.
• The return of the GUN truck. With huge buzzsaws and jet engines.
• The Reveal
  • Right afterwards: "He had a little help."
• Defeating the Time Eater and both Eggmans, proves both Sonics to be Badass.
• Shadow's rival boss fight, in which you race for possession of power cores floating around the ARK. If Shadow gets two cores, he attacks you with multiple Chaos Spears and a blast of Chaos Control, accompanied by All Hail Shadow. If Sonic gets two, you need to smash meteors into Shadow whilst Live and Learn plays. The game appears to make a point of showing that Shadow matches Sonic point-for-point, too; he runs at almost exactly the same speed, and both characters will deflect away from each other if they get too close in Boost mode.
  • The fight with Silver does a much better job of putting across how powerful he is than any other game so far has. He throws multiple vehicles and various hunks of debris at you for most of the duration of the fight, fires the occasional psychic energy knife, and then tops it all off by chasing you down with a massive ball of twisted metal and debris, which Sonic can just barely keep ahead of. And he still throws other stuff at you during this!
    • What's more awesome than that though? After the first time you beat him, any time you go back to the fight, the two are just doing this for fun.
• The new version of the Perfect Chaos fight is this in general, as well as specifically for Sonic himself. He no longer needs to be Super to defeat the creature, and rather than fly across the flood-water, he simply hydroplanes across it by running at supersonic speeds. There's also that pretty sweet mix of Open Your Heart that plays for most of the battle.
• Seeing both Sonics go Super Sonic at the same time, set to the insanely upbeat music from Sonic 4, like a happier DBZ.
  • The Badass Boast Sonic gives is a nice touch on top of that. "Time to scramble some Eggmen, SUPER SONIC STYLE!"
• Classic Sonic punting Metal Sonic into the sky at the end of their duel.
• Rooftop Run Act 2. Off the heels of a really hard level, check. Glorious music, check. Fast pace with enough challenges to remain fun, check. Rail grind that gives a view from hundreds of feet in air and then has you dive back into the town... check.
• Crisis City. Given how the game it came from gets a ton of crap due to how rushed and buggy it was, it's awesome to see something from that game redeemed by having a fully developed and awesome game take a crack at it.
• And an oft-overlooked one from the 3DS version. Right after both Sonic's and Tails' find the Time Eater, what to the Tailses do? They attack him head on, no questions asked! Sure, they failed, but their efforts caused the Chaos Emeralds to radiate with energy so the Sonics could transform into Super Sonic!
  • And they fare better than the two Sonics did before going Super anyway!
• Modern Sonic is more of a Badass than ever, as the ending cutscene/clip to the Egg Dragoon boss fight will show you.
• Played with after beating the Death Egg Robot. Classic Sonic does a Badass pose after landing but gets scared by the ensuing explosion.
• The Death Egg Robot's entrance is pretty awesome.
• Sonic running down a REALLY tall building in Speed Highway, complete with a herd of Speeders chasing after him, and accompanied with the "Goin' Down" music playing.