On my journey though the Sonic series, this game is one I knew I had to cover. I sold my copy back a year or so back, so this is more of a reflecting thread on the title but once you experience this.......'masterpiece', you don't forget it. Hope you enjoy my ramble on what many consider one of the worst games ever made 
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I got this during the summer of 2011, two months or so before Generations came out. I wanted to experience this, as I never played this game. Everyone said it was horrible and now that I got the means to play this (owned a PS3) I said "Why not? What's the worse that could happen?"
Fast forward to when I got home and played through Wave Ocean and died a lot of times, losing all my lives. Started over again and the ride kept on going. I felt slightly annoyed but kept on going. Played through Sonic's Story in two days, played Shadow's story in a week, and beat Silver's story within another week and beat the Final Story after I got home from high school one day.....and the ride was over.
I came away with a game that I had more enjoyment then anger toward and I'm looking forward to shar.....
...ing my opinions of this game with you all.
Lets start with the Blue Blur himself, Sonic the Hedgehog.
His gameplay is a clone of his Adventure 2 self; he can homing attack, spindash, grind on rails and jump into...
(Using images from Sonic 1 here due to not finding images of this online)
I'm sorry, you can't jump into robots anymore. Guess Sonic got less spike...despite his spikes being really long here :l. Stupid game is stupid. Anyway, Sonic has most of his moves from SA2, including the Bounce and Light Speed Dash (though you have to buy those from a shop), so he should feel fun.
Nope, he has some major control issues that oddly enough, Shadow the Hedgehog fixed a YEAR EARILER. You had unique buttons for the light speed dash and rail switching. Something Sonic never bothered learning from his edgey friend, leading to rail grinding be far worse then in SA2 and 'accidentally' using a bounce instead of a lightspeed dash. Fun, oh how fun.
You also have the mach speed sections and they control like, mind my language, ass X(. Sonic can't move left/right in the air, his wall-jump animation is clearly unfinished and everything feels so stiff. I will say this though, my favorite moment in the game was this section of Sonic's story:
Kingdom Valley Water was such a breathtaking moment for me, with the music being soo good, the controls working for me for once and overall, this being a nice moment. Sonic running on water walls and flying all over the place was nice looking.
Then we come to Tails and Knuckles.....many how downgraded you are here guys.
Tails doesn't have his Tail Spin attack from SA1 but instead the 'great' dummy rings he got from Heroes...and they work worse here X(. You can aim them in First Person but the camera snaps back to you, making things really odd to control. His flying and speed feel gimped too, so overall, really bad to play as.
But our boy Knuckles is better, right? He felt great to play as in SA2 and his Heroes version was quite powerful, Sonic Team couldn't fuck his gam......
....eplay up? They do sadly. I will talk about another character, Rouge the Bat here too, as they play the same. Both attack differently (Rouge = Throws bombs that look like Pokeballs, Knuckles = Gimped punches with horrid input lag/delay) but they can climb walls.
But can they jump off of them? Nope XD! For something that was done right on the Dreamcast, they fuck it up on the PS3/360 :'). You have to mash the X button tons of times before they consider jumping off the wall of you have to get hit to get off. I would be more upset with this but I just laugh, more so thanks to this amazing moment from the Grumps playthrough of the game XD!
Sonic's levels are odd, as while the gameplay issues make them really bad to play, some of them have decent level design. Tropical Jungle, Wave Ocean, Kingdom Valley and Crisis City were enjoyable to me thanks to some decent level design at points.
Oh, how could I forget the last piece of Sonic's gameplay, the Snowboard.
You know how fun it is in SA1 and SA2? With the power of the PS3/360, it could only get better right?
Another check of the list :'). The controls are so bad, with Sonic having no momentum going down hill.....but can go..fast, up hill? Something is very wrong here XD! Jumping is really bad too, with you forcing the hold down X to charge your jump, then releasing the button to get off ramps. Sonic just....jumps, no tricks or fancy poses, just jumps.
Going to post latter about Shadow and Silver (along with the horrid story) but want to say one more thing about Sonic; he is not Sonic here. He has no personality, he isn't cracking one liners, just....being a robot here. Its like Sonic himself said to SEGA "Listen, I'm in this piece of crap because I have to be. Will do the job but I'm not going to care.....you still want me to be here despite that? Ugh....Tails, Knuckles, lets get this crap over with......"
Hope you all enjoy this thread and I will talk about.....
.....everything else latter.
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I got this during the summer of 2011, two months or so before Generations came out. I wanted to experience this, as I never played this game. Everyone said it was horrible and now that I got the means to play this (owned a PS3) I said "Why not? What's the worse that could happen
?"Fast forward to when I got home and played through Wave Ocean and died a lot of times, losing all my lives. Started over again and the ride kept on going. I felt slightly annoyed but kept on going. Played through Sonic's Story in two days, played Shadow's story in a week, and beat Silver's story within another week and beat the Final Story after I got home from high school one day.....and the ride was over.
I came away with a game that I had more enjoyment then anger toward and I'm looking forward to shar.....
...ing my opinions of this game with you all
.Lets start with the Blue Blur himself, Sonic the Hedgehog.
His gameplay is a clone of his Adventure 2 self; he can homing attack, spindash, grind on rails and jump into...
I'm sorry, you can't jump into robots anymore. Guess Sonic got less spike...despite his spikes being really long here :l. Stupid game is stupid. Anyway, Sonic has most of his moves from SA2, including the Bounce and Light Speed Dash (though you have to buy those from a shop), so he should feel fun
.Nope, he has some major control issues that oddly enough, Shadow the Hedgehog fixed a YEAR EARILER. You had unique buttons for the light speed dash and rail switching. Something Sonic never bothered learning from his edgey friend, leading to rail grinding be far worse then in SA2 and 'accidentally' using a bounce instead of a lightspeed dash. Fun, oh how fun
.You also have the mach speed sections and they control like, mind my language, ass X(. Sonic can't move left/right in the air, his wall-jump animation is clearly unfinished and everything feels so stiff. I will say this though, my favorite moment in the game was this section of Sonic's story:
Kingdom Valley Water was such a breathtaking moment for me, with the music being soo good, the controls working for me for once and overall, this being a nice moment. Sonic running on water walls and flying all over the place was nice looking.
Then we come to Tails and Knuckles.....many how downgraded you are here guys
.Tails doesn't have his Tail Spin attack from SA1 but instead the 'great' dummy rings he got from Heroes...and they work worse here X(. You can aim them in First Person but the camera snaps back to you, making things really odd to control. His flying and speed feel gimped too, so overall, really bad to play as.
But our boy Knuckles is better, right
? He felt great to play as in SA2 and his Heroes version was quite powerful, Sonic Team couldn't fuck his gam......
....eplay up? They do sadly
. I will talk about another character, Rouge the Bat here too, as they play the same. Both attack differently (Rouge = Throws bombs that look like Pokeballs, Knuckles = Gimped punches with horrid input lag/delay) but they can climb walls. But can they jump off of them
? Nope XD! For something that was done right on the Dreamcast, they fuck it up on the PS3/360 :'). You have to mash the X button tons of times before they consider jumping off the wall of you have to get hit to get off. I would be more upset with this but I just laugh, more so thanks to this amazing moment from the Grumps playthrough of the game XD!Sonic's levels are odd, as while the gameplay issues make them really bad to play, some of them have decent level design. Tropical Jungle, Wave Ocean, Kingdom Valley and Crisis City were enjoyable to me thanks to some decent level design at points.
Oh, how could I forget the last piece of Sonic's gameplay, the Snowboard.
You know how fun it is in SA1 and SA2
? With the power of the PS3/360, it could only get better right?
Another check of the list :'). The controls are so bad, with Sonic having no momentum going down hill.....but can go..fast, up hill? Something is very wrong here XD! Jumping is really bad too, with you forcing the hold down X to charge your jump, then releasing the button to get off ramps. Sonic just....jumps, no tricks or fancy poses, just jumps.
Going to post latter about Shadow and Silver (along with the horrid story) but want to say one more thing about Sonic; he is not Sonic here. He has no personality, he isn't cracking one liners, just....being a robot here. Its like Sonic himself said to SEGA "Listen, I'm in this piece of crap because I have to be. Will do the job but I'm not going to care.....you still want me to be here despite that? Ugh....Tails, Knuckles, lets get this crap over with......"
Hope you all enjoy this thread and I will talk about.....
.....everything else latter
.
