For every good thing this game does a bad thing just comes in and ruins that good thing entirely. This has gotta be one of Sonic's worst adventures, the overly demanding and unforgiving level design, the excessively tough bosses, and the overall replayability is what made this one hard to finish. The game starts off very promising and then by the later levels it nose dives into the worst bit of platforming and level design you've seen in a 2D Sonic game. The amount of bottomless pits is similar to Mega Man and Bass with the number of spikes that are on each level. It's borderline insanity. You know with a game called Sonic Rush you often are forced to wait and do some awkward platforming and wait a lot with some zones. Some zones have you stop entirely just to fight the stupidly easy enemies on the screen, why? why do that? What's the point of stopping the player's progression just to attack very easy and common enemies. Why did this game think bringing in these segments from Sonic Heroes would be fun, they're just an overall pace breaker.
I'm gonna say right now these are the WORST Sonic bosses in the entire franchise, everything about them is completely against the whole "rush" this game wants to stand for. You wait for an attack, hit it in the very small frame window, wait again, the attack window opens, miss, have to wait for another hit, miss that one again, you see the problem here?
The problem is if you miss the attack window you're forced to wait for another invincibility attack before the boss decides to open up its hit point. Which drags these bosses on when they have no reason to be. And let me tell you there is nothing more frustrating than having the boss be at its lowest point only to miss that very small window of opportunity and then you end up dying having to reset that whole 5-6 minute boss fight.
It sucks that I didn't have fun with this one, because I love the style and ost this game has, this is one of the funkiest original soundtracks I've seen in a Sonic game, and in that regard, it stands out from the rest of the titles. But what does good music and style mean when my gameplay experience was awful.
As it is, I'd recommend you skip this one, look up the music online, and don't bother with the headache that is Sonic Rush.
I'm gonna say right now these are the WORST Sonic bosses in the entire franchise, everything about them is completely against the whole "rush" this game wants to stand for. You wait for an attack, hit it in the very small frame window, wait again, the attack window opens, miss, have to wait for another hit, miss that one again, you see the problem here?
The problem is if you miss the attack window you're forced to wait for another invincibility attack before the boss decides to open up its hit point. Which drags these bosses on when they have no reason to be. And let me tell you there is nothing more frustrating than having the boss be at its lowest point only to miss that very small window of opportunity and then you end up dying having to reset that whole 5-6 minute boss fight.
It sucks that I didn't have fun with this one, because I love the style and ost this game has, this is one of the funkiest original soundtracks I've seen in a Sonic game, and in that regard, it stands out from the rest of the titles. But what does good music and style mean when my gameplay experience was awful.
As it is, I'd recommend you skip this one, look up the music online, and don't bother with the headache that is Sonic Rush.