You know, so far, the main Sonic series has been pretty consistent so far with 7 games with 2 of them only being just OK, that's a pretty good track record, I wonder what's next ohhhhh.
damn
Back in 2022, I logged this after finishing 3 levels and rated it a 3/10 because I played it for the memes, I then didn't touch it until I decided to do this marathon since I couldn't stand Other M (which I will get back to eventually). It was mainly because those levels are horribly designed and are only made to hunt down some stuff which is tedious and boring, even natural runs can be tedious at times, how the hell do you even accomplish that? There are better ways to do this like racing and beating Sonic in a hero mission in a level that's actually designed like a sane human being made it. It could have been interesting and fun but instead they went with this shit.
The diverging story pathways is a pretty interesting idea but the fact that its not fun to go through and you have to get ALL TEN ENDINGS is stupid, I only did five since I couldn't stand it any longer and used a completed save file in order to do the last story. This is basically a worse version of the progression system from Star Fox 64.
Oh yeah due to the execution of the format and the awful stages with no good ones shockingly in my opinion, this game is just boring to play. It starts out like a normal bad game at first but after each playthrough it gets worse and worse until I'm exhausted at the THIRD FUCKING PLAYTHROUGH. At least base 06, for as dogshit as it is, had decent level design even though a bunch of shit drowns that out unfortunately.
For Positives: Uhm, I like the opening and the songs, I like the true ending for Shadow, it brings closure to his arc even though he isn't portrayed as well as he was in Adventure 2. And its ironically funny at certain moments and at first like with the swearing and the fact Shadow uses guns in this game but it loses its hilarity at the end of the second playthrough and then it becomes miserable. That's it really.
This game deserves its status as a meme and nothing more. If you want to play this game, only do one playthrough, the other levels aren't worth your time or sanity. There is a lot more I can say but I'll save that if I make a Sonic Ranking Video.
damn
Back in 2022, I logged this after finishing 3 levels and rated it a 3/10 because I played it for the memes, I then didn't touch it until I decided to do this marathon since I couldn't stand Other M (which I will get back to eventually). It was mainly because those levels are horribly designed and are only made to hunt down some stuff which is tedious and boring, even natural runs can be tedious at times, how the hell do you even accomplish that? There are better ways to do this like racing and beating Sonic in a hero mission in a level that's actually designed like a sane human being made it. It could have been interesting and fun but instead they went with this shit.
The diverging story pathways is a pretty interesting idea but the fact that its not fun to go through and you have to get ALL TEN ENDINGS is stupid, I only did five since I couldn't stand it any longer and used a completed save file in order to do the last story. This is basically a worse version of the progression system from Star Fox 64.
Oh yeah due to the execution of the format and the awful stages with no good ones shockingly in my opinion, this game is just boring to play. It starts out like a normal bad game at first but after each playthrough it gets worse and worse until I'm exhausted at the THIRD FUCKING PLAYTHROUGH. At least base 06, for as dogshit as it is, had decent level design even though a bunch of shit drowns that out unfortunately.
For Positives: Uhm, I like the opening and the songs, I like the true ending for Shadow, it brings closure to his arc even though he isn't portrayed as well as he was in Adventure 2. And its ironically funny at certain moments and at first like with the swearing and the fact Shadow uses guns in this game but it loses its hilarity at the end of the second playthrough and then it becomes miserable. That's it really.
This game deserves its status as a meme and nothing more. If you want to play this game, only do one playthrough, the other levels aren't worth your time or sanity. There is a lot more I can say but I'll save that if I make a Sonic Ranking Video.