I'm not even gunna follow my usual format, I'll just cut straight to the case.
Sonic Free Riders is the worst game I have every beaten by a very wide margin. This game brought me quite literally to tears when I played it for the first time.
I'll skip to the only redeeming factor of this game: the soundtrack. And even then, it's at a lower point for Sonic standards. Other than the intro song, which is okay, nothing stands out.
The presentation is lazy. I wouldn't be surprised if the cutscenes were legitimately made in Microsoft PowerPoint. This would be excusable if it were on the DS or an early Wii title, but this game released on the Xbox 360 in 2010, halfway through the console generation! Sonic Unleashed had been out for 2 years, and hell, Sonic Colors came out not long before, on inferior hardware, no less! The cutscenes wouldn't even be hard to make, as it's mostly the characters just standing around anyway!
The writing is just kinda there. There aren't any particularly noteworthy parts, but considering Sonic Colors exists, it could be much worse. However, because there isn't much memorable, there isn't much to take out of it, which is a bad thing in my eyes.
All that, though, are nothing. The gameplay itself is why I despise this game so much. This game is the only game I have ever played that was physically painful to play. You need to bend your back backwards to turn, which already isn't very comfortable. What makes it worse is how the controls were both delayed and inconsistent. So you could be bending your back and jack diddly is happening. Or the Kinect forgets your foot exists and doesn't register your boost. Or the fact you did a trick. Or the fact that you're crouching. These shitty controls wouldn't be an issue if you could use a controller and this was only a side game, but no, Kinect only, bitch.
I forced myself through the entire game. Please, for the love of god, don't. This game makes Sonic 06 look like goddamn The Last of Us, and makes Sonic Chronicles look like Mother 3.
1/10. I very rarely even dislike a game. I enjoy games even when they're factually terrible. When a game makes me genuinely tell you to avoid even owning it, you know it fucked up badly.
Sonic Free Riders is the worst game I have every beaten by a very wide margin. This game brought me quite literally to tears when I played it for the first time.
I'll skip to the only redeeming factor of this game: the soundtrack. And even then, it's at a lower point for Sonic standards. Other than the intro song, which is okay, nothing stands out.
The presentation is lazy. I wouldn't be surprised if the cutscenes were legitimately made in Microsoft PowerPoint. This would be excusable if it were on the DS or an early Wii title, but this game released on the Xbox 360 in 2010, halfway through the console generation! Sonic Unleashed had been out for 2 years, and hell, Sonic Colors came out not long before, on inferior hardware, no less! The cutscenes wouldn't even be hard to make, as it's mostly the characters just standing around anyway!
The writing is just kinda there. There aren't any particularly noteworthy parts, but considering Sonic Colors exists, it could be much worse. However, because there isn't much memorable, there isn't much to take out of it, which is a bad thing in my eyes.
All that, though, are nothing. The gameplay itself is why I despise this game so much. This game is the only game I have ever played that was physically painful to play. You need to bend your back backwards to turn, which already isn't very comfortable. What makes it worse is how the controls were both delayed and inconsistent. So you could be bending your back and jack diddly is happening. Or the Kinect forgets your foot exists and doesn't register your boost. Or the fact you did a trick. Or the fact that you're crouching. These shitty controls wouldn't be an issue if you could use a controller and this was only a side game, but no, Kinect only, bitch.
I forced myself through the entire game. Please, for the love of god, don't. This game makes Sonic 06 look like goddamn The Last of Us, and makes Sonic Chronicles look like Mother 3.
1/10. I very rarely even dislike a game. I enjoy games even when they're factually terrible. When a game makes me genuinely tell you to avoid even owning it, you know it fucked up badly.
Josh_The_Fourth
2 years ago