Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Sonic the Hedgehog (2006)















I didn't finish this game, I reached 93% done on Sonic and tried hard to have fun with this game and I barely found it. This game is really rushed, there are lots of technical issues like:

· The camera doing ninja moves.
· There's plenty of places to get stuck, I got stuck like 10 times meaning a level restart as It seems I couldn't restart to last checkpoint, sometimes way back if I didn't save the game.
· Nearly every-time I touched a button/joystick while on a "auto-pilot" running scenes ended up with a dead Sonic, it's better to not touch anything and just look until the game gives you the control back.
· Weirdly placed loading screens, let's say a loading takes 5 seconds, this is what it takes to start and retry a quest: Talk to the NPC -> accept the quest -> Loading Screen -> NPC 1 sentence speak -> Loading Screen -> Mission start -> Fail the mission -> Loading Screen -> NPC 1 sentence speak -> Loading Screen -> Talk to the npc again, accept the quest -> Loading Screen -> 1 sentence speak -> Loading Screen -> Mission Start. That's an awful lot of time.




Most of Sonic main levels were quite enjoyable, long and fast with many diferent paths to take and sub-objectives to do but closer to the end I got overwhelmed by the technical issues and quited. I tried to play with Shadow with his vehicle levels or Silver and his mental powers but I think it was too late, I lost my mood.
 Between main levels there's a little of clueless exploration to do around the city, there I could find hidden coins and quests, boring quests. I wouldn't have included this part in the game, I prefer direct action.

Did I like it? Sometimes, but no.
I think you will like it if you:
- Can ignore the technical issues
- Enjoy other playing styles like Shadow and Silver

I rate my experience with a 4 out of 10.

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