I seriously have no idea why people like Sonic Rush, no matter how much I think about it or try playing it, I always get to the same conclusion: It's terrible in almost every relevant aspect of a Sonic game.
The level design here is downright repetitive, mediocre at best and frustrating at worst. When a stage isn't on autopilot it just throws you into a bottomless pit out of nowhere, or throw in precision platforming sections that don't complement the loose controls, positioned over bottomless pits, of course, or maybe you'll get thrown into those dull "combat" sections where you have to kill all enemies in the room to proceed, none of which present any real challenge. People always complain when the 3D games do that shit, so why is it okay when this one does the exact same thing?
And Jesus fucking Christ the bosses are unironically the worst fights in the entire series. I know Sonic games were never known for having great bosses, but for the most part they didn't stand out in a negative way either. Not in Sonic Rush, though, because every boss fight in this shit drags on for what seems to be an eternity, even the first boss takes roughly 2 minutes to beat, they always repeat the same long attack patterns and you're forced to just dodge and wait until they finally reveal their weak point so you can finally hit it, now repeat that for seven more times. They're not challenging, I didn't have a hard time beating them, they were just boring and repetitive, much like the regular stages.
Sonic Rush epitomizes everything that's wrong with 2D Sonic games made by Dimps, it might not be the worst of the bunch, after all we still have Sonic 4 Episode I, but it's like they took the worst aspects of Sonic Advance 2 and 3, then proceeded to take the worst aspects of Heroes and made an entire game out of that. I hardly see what's the difference between this and something like Sonic Forces, which is rightfully criticized for having shallow style-over-substance level design and platforming sections that don't complement the character's movements. Did I play the same game I always see other people raving about? Because it definitely doesn't feel like I did.
The level design here is downright repetitive, mediocre at best and frustrating at worst. When a stage isn't on autopilot it just throws you into a bottomless pit out of nowhere, or throw in precision platforming sections that don't complement the loose controls, positioned over bottomless pits, of course, or maybe you'll get thrown into those dull "combat" sections where you have to kill all enemies in the room to proceed, none of which present any real challenge. People always complain when the 3D games do that shit, so why is it okay when this one does the exact same thing?
And Jesus fucking Christ the bosses are unironically the worst fights in the entire series. I know Sonic games were never known for having great bosses, but for the most part they didn't stand out in a negative way either. Not in Sonic Rush, though, because every boss fight in this shit drags on for what seems to be an eternity, even the first boss takes roughly 2 minutes to beat, they always repeat the same long attack patterns and you're forced to just dodge and wait until they finally reveal their weak point so you can finally hit it, now repeat that for seven more times. They're not challenging, I didn't have a hard time beating them, they were just boring and repetitive, much like the regular stages.
Sonic Rush epitomizes everything that's wrong with 2D Sonic games made by Dimps, it might not be the worst of the bunch, after all we still have Sonic 4 Episode I, but it's like they took the worst aspects of Sonic Advance 2 and 3, then proceeded to take the worst aspects of Heroes and made an entire game out of that. I hardly see what's the difference between this and something like Sonic Forces, which is rightfully criticized for having shallow style-over-substance level design and platforming sections that don't complement the character's movements. Did I play the same game I always see other people raving about? Because it definitely doesn't feel like I did.