The perfect blend of exploration and speed, great character usage for puzzles & bosses, and the fire & ice mechanic to challenge the player through a surprisingly great campaign.
Definitely an Improvement over Shattered Crystal. It's very okay. Not the best portable sonic has ever been, but it does the job.
Sonic Boom: Fire and Ice is a huge improvement over its predecessor.
This game's main gameplay is at its core the same as the previous game, but there have been some changes made. First of all, Amy is now playable, using her hammer to break things and move platforms. The characters have modified movesets, the most significant change that comes from this is that Sonic is now a lot faster due to a heavily buffed spindash and the air dash carrying momentum. The spindash also has slope momentum which is huge for the cool shortcuts and tricks Sonic can do.
The main addition to the game are the fire & ice powers. Characters when they or one of their attacks collide with certain objects, will be able to freeze them into solid ice, or melt ice into water, allowing you to pass through them. It's a fun mechanic that spices up the game.
The level design is really good. The only complaint I have is that the levels could all stand to be a little bit longer. Other than that, the levels are faster, feel less tedious, and include less slow bits.
The game now has boss fights, they're all pretty cool, there's nothing special about them. Graphics wise, the game now has a lot of CGI cutscenes that look almost on-par with the show (which is relatively quite bad for Sonic standards, but not an issue at all), plus we now have fully animated and voiced cutscenes, which is a first for a 2D Sonic game. The music is a huge step up, while it's not quite as good as most Sonic OSTs, I still enjoy it.
Overall, I recommend this game to any fan of platformers or Sonic games.
This game's main gameplay is at its core the same as the previous game, but there have been some changes made. First of all, Amy is now playable, using her hammer to break things and move platforms. The characters have modified movesets, the most significant change that comes from this is that Sonic is now a lot faster due to a heavily buffed spindash and the air dash carrying momentum. The spindash also has slope momentum which is huge for the cool shortcuts and tricks Sonic can do.
The main addition to the game are the fire & ice powers. Characters when they or one of their attacks collide with certain objects, will be able to freeze them into solid ice, or melt ice into water, allowing you to pass through them. It's a fun mechanic that spices up the game.
The level design is really good. The only complaint I have is that the levels could all stand to be a little bit longer. Other than that, the levels are faster, feel less tedious, and include less slow bits.
The game now has boss fights, they're all pretty cool, there's nothing special about them. Graphics wise, the game now has a lot of CGI cutscenes that look almost on-par with the show (which is relatively quite bad for Sonic standards, but not an issue at all), plus we now have fully animated and voiced cutscenes, which is a first for a 2D Sonic game. The music is a huge step up, while it's not quite as good as most Sonic OSTs, I still enjoy it.
Overall, I recommend this game to any fan of platformers or Sonic games.
It’s better than rise of lyric atleast
Better than the last two
surprisingly very fun! i feel like this game is overlooked due to how bad the other two boom games are. i like the fire and ice mechanic, it's actually super fun!
It's okay, just really average. I'll play this over Shattered Crystal any day, but I can say that for most games