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Sonic: Lost Cause?

VideoGamer: "The speedy rodent is reduced to playing catch up nowadays. How do you solve a problem like Sonic?"

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ritsuka6664578d ago

This review does the game no justice, I Just played this game and i actually felt emotional through it.

Activemessiah4578d ago (Edited 4578d ago )

Not sure about "Emotional" but game looks quite good.. best one in a good while actually.

-Foxtrot4578d ago

Have you played Generations, in my opinion thats the best one in years.

I kind of thought "Maybe if they add more stages like the classic Sonic ones then they would be on the right path" but no. I feel like every time they nearly get onto the right track they change things up and totally go off the rail.

Brother just got this today for his Wii U and it's kind of bad. I feel like they were trying too hard to copy Super Mario Galaxy. Oh and the enemies (in the background of the pic) are so lame. Boweser has been a part of Mario for years and no one complains Eggman is all you really need, that, Chaos or Metal Sonic

ChickeyCantor4577d ago (Edited 4577d ago )

"Boweser has been a part of Mario for years and no one complains Eggman is all you really need, that, Chaos or Metal Sonic "

Yeah condemn Sega for trying a different approach for enemies and simple storytelling. Damn them all to hell!

/s

dkgshiz4577d ago

"Emotional"? Like you were going to cry? Its just a sonic game. You run and grab those rings as quick as you can. Gotta go fast.

3-4-54577d ago

Tropical Zone 3 has beautiful music....some of the best I've ever heard in a video game...

The gameplay looked kind of boring in some parts though...like on rails watching a movie

Blastoise4578d ago (Edited 4578d ago )

Generations was good, the 3D levels were actually fun. Do that again, with original levels, no weird Sonic colours powerups, better voice actors for the cast, better villains, add the cool characters like Metal knuckles and Metal Sonic and you're pretty much good to go

The mix of both 2D and 3D was good, would be cool if they kept that

Sonic has tons of potential

-Foxtrot4578d ago (Edited 4578d ago )

As I was saying above the class Sonic levels in generations were a blast.

I don't know why they keep adding gimmicks or other things to their games when they could just keep to the simple formula people love.

Sonic Colours: The powerups
Sonic Unleashed: The Warehog
Sonic and the Black Knight: A Sword
Sonic and Secret Rings: Lot of on rail gameplay
Sonic Lost World: Similarity to Super Mario Galaxy

There always has to be something

Maybe they should replay the old Sonic games and figure out why people like them. Oh and less characters...less characters is always better. Sonic, Knuckles, Tails and Amy with the villain, thats all they need

Blastoise4578d ago

Sonic advance 1 and 2 were both reaaally good games too. Pure classic Sonic gameplay, totally cool bosses and worlds. Plus you could choose between 5 characters.

dcj05244577d ago (Edited 4577d ago )

Um. How does it look like galaxy. Looks like a modernized Sonoc X-TREME. So they copied themselves.

-Foxtrot4577d ago (Edited 4577d ago )

@dcj0524

Sonic X-treme back then didn't look like Galaxy but the way they've modernised the idea for this game it looks something like Galaxy. I mean you can't say it doesn't because it really does.

_QQ_4577d ago

I feel bad for Sonic fans most of all, they never get a break.

Goku7814577d ago (Edited 4577d ago )

Sega has sonic, and they have Platinum. Why not let Platinum make a Sonic game? Sure fire hit that just makes too much sense to not do. Unless they don't anymore, perhaps I missed what happened between them?

dcj05244577d ago

I don't see it. Someone explain to me what's so bad about the game. I'm having a blast!

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Sonic Game Writers Had ‘Very Little Say’ On Story Scripts

The writing duo behind Sonic games like Sonic Colors and Sonic Lost World reveal they have little creative control over their game scripts.

-Foxtrot835d ago

They need to start letting people take inspiration from the comics, there's a ton of great stuff to take inspiration from.

phoenixwing834d ago

My beef is why even hire writers if you're just going to control the whole process. I'd be very upset as a writer if someone did that. A job is a job though.

DarXyde834d ago

Performative for optics, I would think.

It's like the US Congress holding a vote to "denounce the evils of socialism." It literally did absolutely nothing about anything and was a complete waste of everyone's time (and tax dollars—which is its own irony, by the way)

Dumbest thing in the world, but if you hire writers, it looks like you made a serious effort to make something great.

Do you remember when the original Suicide Squad movie was coming out? How much did we hear about Killer Croc's actor watching cannibal videos to get into character? Or even the "incredible lengths" Jared Leto went through to personify Joker on and off set?

It looks better when people think you're taking it seriously.

XiNatsuDragnel835d ago

Pretty much confirmed that SEGA controls everything about sonic no derivations fr

Profchaos834d ago

Nothing new sonic forces was meant to be far darker then sega got cold feet and they did the same old power of friendship ending

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How Sonic Lost World Paved the Way for Sonic Frontiers

While a number of the games before it help influence Sonic Frontiers, Sonic Lost World acts as the blueprint for the game's open-zone design.

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Top 10 Worst Sonic Games

Alex DS. from Link Cable Gaming writes: "I’m a huge fan of the series and love to talk about its best games… but its hard to argue that it’s all been great for the blue blur. From games that were loaded with glitches, slow-paced gameplay, and visuals that look more like a blue blur of… pixels and polygons. So, take this as a warning to avoid these 10 worst Sonic games of all time."

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Fntastic1698d ago

Never played any of these on this list, surprised Sonic R isn't there, but then i played that on my first PC and didn't think it was that bad, got some mild enjoyment out of it at least.

-Hermit-1698d ago

Lost World, Black Knight, Forces and Chronicles should not be on that list, I can easily think of worse.

Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal, Sonic Drift, Sonic Drift 2, Sonic Labyrinth, Sonic Eraser, Sonic R, these are all way worse than the games on this list. Knuckles Chaotix was terrible as well, I hated the way you had to control the players, it was a pain in the ass. Even games like Sonic 3D Blast, Sonic Spinball and Rivals 1 and 2 which I thought were decent were worse than some of the games on this list.

To be brutally honest, most of the Game Gear and Master System Sonic games are pretty awful too. Sonic Chaos on the Game Gear for example, you can't even see what you are doing because the field of view is so bad.

I would rather play Sonic 06 than any of the games I listed above, and that game is classed as the worst Sonic game of the lot.

People have nostalgia glasses on when they think about old 2D Sonic games. Outside of the mainline games on the Mega Drive, most of them were worse than the modern day 3D games.

Rebel_Scum1697d ago

Sonic 1 & 2 on the MS2 and GG were great games. Perfect blend of speed, secrets and challenge.

Sonic Chaos was shite. Too easy and gross looking sprites and backgrounds.

imo 1-10 for worst Sonic games would just be all the 3D one's and Sonic Fighters.

lellkay1697d ago (Edited 1697d ago )

There is definitely some worse games than Lost World,

The guy who wrote this definitely didn't dig enough into the franchise history haha

Pyrofire951697d ago

General question.
Is your favorite Sonic game the first one you played?
If not, is you favorite the same style as your first? (3D, 2D, some other distinction?)

lellkay1697d ago

My favorite game is not the first one I played. (First one I played was Sonic The Hedgehog on Megadrive/Genesis)

My favorite one is probably 3&K or Mania, so yes it is in the same style as the first game I played.

-Hermit-1697d ago

My favourite Sonic game is not the first one I played or same style.

The first Sonic game I played was Sonic 1 on the Mega Drive, my favourite is Sonic Adventure 2.

DFresh1697d ago

I disagree with Sonic Forces on that list but the others are correct.
Sonic Forces is hella under rated.