Good enough as a multiplayer runner, matches are quick and it's basically the equivalent of Mario Kart Tour for Sonic games. I like the character designs here a lot and basically every major Sonic character is playable, including some unique redesigns.

Unfortunately, Speed Battle falls into the same trap as Clash Royale or similar games, gating character unlocks and even their respective upgrades behind lootboxes, which take several real-life hours to open up. Even then, you don't just get characters like that, they're locked behind a card system, so you could get like 20 out of 90 cards for Knuckles out of a chest, and it'd still take you some time to get him. Or you could pay, and buy something like this advertised 4X VALUE pack in the shop to get 1000 cards for Chaos instantly and you even get 75k coins on top - if that isn't a good deal, then what is. All for the low price of 60€. Not to mention that those deals are so good, the game has to constantly remind you of them through pop-ups whenever you just browse through the main menu. Also, you're forced to watch ads after every match. Awesome.

"Bir zaman beni baya götürdü, tuvalet arkadaşım oldu."

Diğer dash serisi oyunların çevrimiçi oynanabilir hali olduğu apaçık ortada zaten, ama geliştirmişler bu sefer, çevrimiçi bazı güçlendirmelerle yolları sabote ederek ilk önce bitirmeye çalışmak eğlenceliydi. Oyunun mobil oyun olmasından dolayı zaten reklam cehenemine de dönüyor olması sizi şaşırtmaz.

Oyunda çok fazla karakter vardı, sürekli de getirmeye devam ediyorlar, hatta yeşil nadirlik dedikleri özel karakterler özel zamanlarda sadece alınabiliyordu, alması da geliştirmesi de binbir türlü dertti onları, neyse o zamanları da geçtik, servis oyunu oynadım ve hayatımı tekrar ellerime aldım, gerçi bu da telefonumu kırdığım için gerçekleşmişti...

Yedi tane daha bu formatta oyun yaparlarsa en iyi oyunlardan birini yapmış olurlar diye düşünüyorum.

Another sequel to Sonic Dash, kind of. This takes the autorunning gameplay and put it onto specially designed courses, where the object is to race to be the first to the finish line, avoiding obstacles and using power ups to battle other racers.

For a while, I wasn’t sure if I was racing real people or not. They have names of other people, but I know from other mobile games (like Mario Kart World Tour), that these are often fake and you’re just racing AI using random people’s names. The lack of any ability to play with friends is also usually a sign that there’s no actual online multiplayer, and none of the racers seemed to act like real people, and were really easy (to the point I even did one race while cooking, occasionally swiping and hitting loads of obstacles…and still won).

That was until I got to around 1000 points into the ranking system (1st place gets you around 27ish points), all of a sudden the game got much more challenging, and the opponents moved around more, used similar tactics to what I had been doing, used power ups more and just acted more human. I suspect that initially I was paired with AI disguised as players before it started pairing me with real people. If the racers were balanced and it didn’t have horribly aggressive microtransactions and loot boxes…it could be a pretty fun mobile game.

But it’s not balanced at all. In order to facilitate the many kinds of microtransactions, the game is based around unlocking and upgrading characters, so you’ll just face opponents with outright better (or worse) characters. This is done by collecting “cards”, you need X amount to unlock them and then Y more to upgrade them. It varies between characters and some cards are a lot rarer (with others only available in special time limited events). I did end up getting quite a few characters within a few days: Sonic, Classic Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy, Silver (I got so, so many Silver cards), Charmy, Omega, Vector, and Tangle (a character from the comics). One interesting omission is Infinite, the character introduced in Sonic Forces.

However, once you’ve got most of the “common” characters, progression is probably extremely slow to get more. Unless you pay for them multiple types of premium currency, loot boxes or (some some characters) deals that unlock a specific character (Shadow was available when I played for £4.49, which is quite a lot).

I think it would be nice if the final patch of the game let you play against AI and choose the level you want to play, but ultimately, I think that the servers will just be shut down at some point and the game will be unplayable.

Sonic Forces: Speed Battle really captived me with its simple yet engaging gameplay. The matches are quick and short and great to play on mobile, even though the gameplay is a simple runner, competing against 3 other players online really adds to the experience. Using items is fun, and the variety of characters pleases me a lot as a Sonic fan. I just wish it had a little more depth with its mechanics, maybe by adding more systems outside of battle. I really like to play a couple matches every day to get some cards, and more characters are added frequently, even my GOAT Gamma got in, I hope they keep supporting this game, its simplicity impresses me.