I genuinely really like Unleashed, visually it's still the best looking Sonic game to this day somehow (which is crazy, Sega need to step it up) and the game in the franchise that feels the most 'triple A' in terms of presentation in general.

They started the boost formula era with one of its best implementations, day levels feel great and exciting, full of set pieces and banger tracks and solid designs.

The night time stages are honestly pretty fun as well on there own. The Werehog controls ok and has some fun combo animations.

My main 2 issues with Unleashed are pretty big complaints though. The game runs AWFULLY. Daytime stages are normally ok with moments of slowdown but Night-time stages feel like a slog with the framerate a lot of the time.

Second of all are the medals. I said that the Werehog levels are fun and they are...once. Having to replay werehog levels is not fun during a playthrough because you need to find medals, especially when the levels are SOOO long.

Reviewed on Nov 11, 2023


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