Context to the review bombing.
THE GAME DOES NOT INSTALL THE EPIC GAMES LAUNCHER. This is MISINFORMATION by review bombers.
It seems everyone is pissed that the game has Epic online integration and Denuvo.
I'll play Devil's advocate and say that this is insanely overblown. Denuvo causes no performance issues to Superstars, both because the game is generally low spec and because there aren't really many Denuvo triggers put into it. It's a nothing burger of a complaint. As for the Epic integration, a bit of an inconvenience at best, you really only need to register or link your account once. It's not the only game on Steam to do have a service connected to a different client. Baldur's Gate 3 and Divinity 2 OS also force you to use Larian's own launcher but this game doesn't. It's legit just a single time account link and it's all through Steam afterwards.
Is it the ''Epic = CHINA THEFT OMG'' fear mongering that's pretty much built on nothing but baseless paranoia lol.
The actual game review
Classic Sonic like always is wildly more consistent than Modern.
The controls feel really good, the soundtrack is mostly great (safe for the Jun Senoue tracks that sound a lot like Sonic 4, keep this man away from the Genesis soundfont please...) and the level design while it doesn't have the heights that the likes of Sonic 2 and 3&K have, it also doesn't have any of their lows either. Making it the most consistent 2D Sonic title as of now which definitely puts it ahead of Sonic 1 and Sonic CD for me.
The general aesthetic of the game is very pleasing and colorful, with some of the most expressive animation the series has seen in a long while, or well, since Mania.
As far as the physics go, this ain't no Sonic 4, it's very much in line with the Classic games, maybe with some microscopic differences but the controls are overall great.
THE GAME DOES NOT INSTALL THE EPIC GAMES LAUNCHER. This is MISINFORMATION by review bombers.
It seems everyone is pissed that the game has Epic online integration and Denuvo.
I'll play Devil's advocate and say that this is insanely overblown. Denuvo causes no performance issues to Superstars, both because the game is generally low spec and because there aren't really many Denuvo triggers put into it. It's a nothing burger of a complaint. As for the Epic integration, a bit of an inconvenience at best, you really only need to register or link your account once. It's not the only game on Steam to do have a service connected to a different client. Baldur's Gate 3 and Divinity 2 OS also force you to use Larian's own launcher but this game doesn't. It's legit just a single time account link and it's all through Steam afterwards.
Is it the ''Epic = CHINA THEFT OMG'' fear mongering that's pretty much built on nothing but baseless paranoia lol.
The actual game review
Classic Sonic like always is wildly more consistent than Modern.
The controls feel really good, the soundtrack is mostly great (safe for the Jun Senoue tracks that sound a lot like Sonic 4, keep this man away from the Genesis soundfont please...) and the level design while it doesn't have the heights that the likes of Sonic 2 and 3&K have, it also doesn't have any of their lows either. Making it the most consistent 2D Sonic title as of now which definitely puts it ahead of Sonic 1 and Sonic CD for me.
The general aesthetic of the game is very pleasing and colorful, with some of the most expressive animation the series has seen in a long while, or well, since Mania.
As far as the physics go, this ain't no Sonic 4, it's very much in line with the Classic games, maybe with some microscopic differences but the controls are overall great.