by Senor Hugo » Mon Jan 12, 2009 12:01 pm
Sonic used to be awesome.
I remember when the Sonic games first came out.
They were amazing, I would stand in line at Sears waiting to try the Genesis just so I could play Sonic.
The cartoon was plain awesome, and by cartoon I mean Sonic Adventures or whatever the first one was called. Not the terrible poopy XTREME remake in Sonic Underground, or the sub-par anime that is Sonic X.
But Sonic really has passed his prime. Sega doomed Sonic when Sonic Adventure came out for the dreamcast.
Sega tried to do what Nintendo did to save Mario, they tried to give Sonic the Mario 64 look but take on more RPG elements than Mario 64 had.
But they took Sonic away from what he does best. Run.
While Sonic adventure was awesome, it was one of the first games I got for Dreamcast, and Sonic Adventure was popular. It was really the downward spiral for Sonic.
By taking away the thing that made Sonic who he is, they gave us a good rpg.
However when they tried to reintroduce speed into the 3d RPG element, with Sonic Adventure 2, they failed to bring the same charm of the first game by forcing people to play as certain characters which took away the appeal. Combined with pretty bad controls, the game kinda failed.
Of course the Dreamcast failing didn't help things at all.
But Sonic wasn't also helped with the fact that Nintendo gave us Sonic Adventure 2:Battles, which brings us to a topic as to why I'm starting to hate Nintendo as a company, but that is a different story.
A crappy port with slightly changed whatever-the-hell-Nintendo-made-different-in-the-game.
Following that we got the mass amounts of crappy sonic games, that again tried to make Sonic something different than what he was. Like the Snowboarding game, sure snowboarding was XTREME at the time, but honestly who gives a @#$% about snowboarding games?
Nobody that's who.
Sure you had the 2d platforming games for Sonic that game out on the GBA, DS and PSP, but those got little to no attention compared to the console games, and the console games for Sonic have, like I said all sucked since Sonic Adventure.
Sonic Unleashed is no different. The controls suck, moving at that speed in a 3d environment, you need precise controls, and the game doesn't have it. The dual-world gameplay really is pointless, and would have been better suited for a released around the time Nintendo was releasing all their dual-world games. Not to mention the combat sucks, God of War combat ≠ Good Game.
The GoW style combat worked for God of War because of the nature of the game combined with the epic setting, the writing, and the stunning graphics.
Sonic Unleashed just had the combat and non of those other aspects.
Sonic is a dead almost 30 year old franchise. Let him rest in peace.
we have a crap load of sonic games.
=WIN
BTW, can you go super in unleashed (not counting were form)
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