Ever since I started marathoning this franchise earlier this month, I’ve always been interested in playing Lost World seeing as how it was considered one of the most divisive entries in the entire Sonic franchise, and now that I actually have played it, I came out of my gaming experience with underwhelm and a really big headache.
Seriously, this was such a chore to play… it wasn’t fun in the slightest after you finish the first world (each world is 3 levels and a boss btw), since none of the other worlds were consistently good, they had decent levels sometimes but in every world following the first there would be at least 1 Zone that would be hell to play. Controls wise it was ok I guess, I came out of it still seeing some features underutilized. Like why are the wisps here? Didn’t they say goodbye to sonic in Colors? There is 0 reason for them to exist in this game.
The Deadly Six are such boring and pathetic villains, Zavok and Zazz are well designed but the rest look horrible, and for a group with “Deadly” in the title, these guys honestly have the easiest boss battles in the entire franchise that I’ve played so far, and the fact that Sega gave them almost as much mainline appearances as Silver in the games in 7 less years is just sad to me.
The writing of Sonic Lost World is absolutely horrible, they played off Sonic himself as such an annoying and dumb character. He’s so rude to tails for no reason, he’s dumb enough to trust Eggman after 23 years of hating him constantly, I just felt like the writers did not know what they were doing with Sonic at all, Amy and Knuckles get 1 minute of screentime in this and it’s in the same spot, and other than Tails none of the other side characters are there.
If I had to list some positives, it looks really good and runs really smoothly on the 3DS (other than that annoying thing in both platforms where it doesn’t load stuff that’s far away from you), the first world is really good, some other levels are decent, when it’s not reused the score is also really good, it’s somewhat fun to control at times, and that’s it really.
Overall Sonic Lost World could’ve been something great but it wasted all its potential on trying to be a Mario Galaxy x 3D World clone that’s been forgotten by I’m pretty sure everyone. I don’t think I’ll ever revisit it nor do I recommend it.
Seriously, this was such a chore to play… it wasn’t fun in the slightest after you finish the first world (each world is 3 levels and a boss btw), since none of the other worlds were consistently good, they had decent levels sometimes but in every world following the first there would be at least 1 Zone that would be hell to play. Controls wise it was ok I guess, I came out of it still seeing some features underutilized. Like why are the wisps here? Didn’t they say goodbye to sonic in Colors? There is 0 reason for them to exist in this game.
The Deadly Six are such boring and pathetic villains, Zavok and Zazz are well designed but the rest look horrible, and for a group with “Deadly” in the title, these guys honestly have the easiest boss battles in the entire franchise that I’ve played so far, and the fact that Sega gave them almost as much mainline appearances as Silver in the games in 7 less years is just sad to me.
The writing of Sonic Lost World is absolutely horrible, they played off Sonic himself as such an annoying and dumb character. He’s so rude to tails for no reason, he’s dumb enough to trust Eggman after 23 years of hating him constantly, I just felt like the writers did not know what they were doing with Sonic at all, Amy and Knuckles get 1 minute of screentime in this and it’s in the same spot, and other than Tails none of the other side characters are there.
If I had to list some positives, it looks really good and runs really smoothly on the 3DS (other than that annoying thing in both platforms where it doesn’t load stuff that’s far away from you), the first world is really good, some other levels are decent, when it’s not reused the score is also really good, it’s somewhat fun to control at times, and that’s it really.
Overall Sonic Lost World could’ve been something great but it wasted all its potential on trying to be a Mario Galaxy x 3D World clone that’s been forgotten by I’m pretty sure everyone. I don’t think I’ll ever revisit it nor do I recommend it.