This one is frustrating, even moreso because it’s often seen as the sort of unofficial end of the classic Sonic era. This gets mentioned in the same breath as Sonic CD in terms of classic era games people can’t stand, and yeah, I super get that.
I started out this game pretty optimistically. How bad could it be? And you have all these different characters you can play, and you can do stuff like throw your partner around! I think theoretically you could have like, Charmy the Bee chucking Vector the Crocodile all over the place? Yeah! That rules, right?
The problem is when you get to the actual, uh... game part of the game. The levels are very repetitive, boring, and unchallenging. You just kinda wander around aimlessly until you get to the goal and are like, "Sure, cool." There's no sense of accomplishment or progression.
Then there's the whole level roulette thing. Which is clearly just there to break up the repetitive levels so it feels like there's more variety to them, but mostly just keeps the game from having any feeling of coherence to it. AND the levels still feel repetitive. So, yeah.
And then you get to fight Metal Sonic and a bigger, powered-up Metal Sonic and it's still the most boring, unchallenging thing ever?
Ugh I hate being this negative about a Sonic game but I just don't get much out of this other than an excuse to stare at Knuckles and some other cuties a bunch. I'm sorry, this one needed longer to cook.
Anyway I’m not gonna bother with rankings because the zones are so repetitive and samey and the bosses are a joke, so just assume they all get D-Ranks. And as for the soundtrack, they don’t list the tracks by zone etc (even Sonic Adventure and such do that!) so it won’t really fit into my ratings system anyway, soooo yeah. As with a lot of things about this game... shrug!
I started out this game pretty optimistically. How bad could it be? And you have all these different characters you can play, and you can do stuff like throw your partner around! I think theoretically you could have like, Charmy the Bee chucking Vector the Crocodile all over the place? Yeah! That rules, right?
The problem is when you get to the actual, uh... game part of the game. The levels are very repetitive, boring, and unchallenging. You just kinda wander around aimlessly until you get to the goal and are like, "Sure, cool." There's no sense of accomplishment or progression.
Then there's the whole level roulette thing. Which is clearly just there to break up the repetitive levels so it feels like there's more variety to them, but mostly just keeps the game from having any feeling of coherence to it. AND the levels still feel repetitive. So, yeah.
And then you get to fight Metal Sonic and a bigger, powered-up Metal Sonic and it's still the most boring, unchallenging thing ever?
Ugh I hate being this negative about a Sonic game but I just don't get much out of this other than an excuse to stare at Knuckles and some other cuties a bunch. I'm sorry, this one needed longer to cook.
Anyway I’m not gonna bother with rankings because the zones are so repetitive and samey and the bosses are a joke, so just assume they all get D-Ranks. And as for the soundtrack, they don’t list the tracks by zone etc (even Sonic Adventure and such do that!) so it won’t really fit into my ratings system anyway, soooo yeah. As with a lot of things about this game... shrug!