Sonic Unleashed and Generations are banger games that I can probably replay at a drop of a hat and still have a great time, I'm not the biggest fan of Colors but the series did kind of need it at the time and I can understand why many people love it, I'm just more of a fan of the DS version.
Sonic Forces is a different story on the other hand, for Generations, they were able to improve upon the already incredible foundation Unleashed had. Forces feels like a FUCKING MASSIVE step down in comparison, Sonic and Classic Sonic actually somehow control like shit, same goes for the avatar, and the levels feel so underbaked, short, and don't even leave an impression on you unlike the other three boost games. And Mania came out the same year which makes this game look worse in comparison. The game is short as hell but so is Generations and that game was able to be fun as hell and leave a great impression. The soundtrack is kinda good but some of the songs are funny to me, especially since they come from this game. The story also sucks and is missed potential as well, they reuse some stages from past games but it had the potential to do something cool with it but instead its just feels thrown together. The story needed better writers in order for the story to reach its potential, there's this video I listened to at work call Sonic Forces Rewritten and its a very interesting watch and it shows how story and gameplay styles could have been handled, even being back the alternate perspectives formula from the Adventure games into play with some elements from Heroes generally could have been interesting, even expanding upon bringing back more past locations from other games but with them being taken over by Dr. Eggman could be very interesting to see. But instead we get this half baked, piece of shit that is worthless and straight up fundamentally flawed. At least '06, for as shit as that was, there was some great ideas and it would later give us Project '06, which slaps. At least Sonic and the Secret Rings gave us this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0k7tCxylWo . At least I can make fun of Shadow the Hedgehog for how fucking stupid nearly every aspect of that game is and it at least controls fine. At least Sonic 4 Episode I.... uh....emm....uh.. I honestly don't know.
I actually never want to touch this shit ever again.
Sonic Forces is a different story on the other hand, for Generations, they were able to improve upon the already incredible foundation Unleashed had. Forces feels like a FUCKING MASSIVE step down in comparison, Sonic and Classic Sonic actually somehow control like shit, same goes for the avatar, and the levels feel so underbaked, short, and don't even leave an impression on you unlike the other three boost games. And Mania came out the same year which makes this game look worse in comparison. The game is short as hell but so is Generations and that game was able to be fun as hell and leave a great impression. The soundtrack is kinda good but some of the songs are funny to me, especially since they come from this game. The story also sucks and is missed potential as well, they reuse some stages from past games but it had the potential to do something cool with it but instead its just feels thrown together. The story needed better writers in order for the story to reach its potential, there's this video I listened to at work call Sonic Forces Rewritten and its a very interesting watch and it shows how story and gameplay styles could have been handled, even being back the alternate perspectives formula from the Adventure games into play with some elements from Heroes generally could have been interesting, even expanding upon bringing back more past locations from other games but with them being taken over by Dr. Eggman could be very interesting to see. But instead we get this half baked, piece of shit that is worthless and straight up fundamentally flawed. At least '06, for as shit as that was, there was some great ideas and it would later give us Project '06, which slaps. At least Sonic and the Secret Rings gave us this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0k7tCxylWo . At least I can make fun of Shadow the Hedgehog for how fucking stupid nearly every aspect of that game is and it at least controls fine. At least Sonic 4 Episode I.... uh....emm....uh.. I honestly don't know.
I actually never want to touch this shit ever again.