Sonic Unleashed: Will it help save Sonic or not?

[TylerC]

Sonic should have died at the top of it's game, it's too late for that.

Now he NEEDS to die while I still have an ounce of respect for these games. I have fond memories of sonic (The original was the first game I ever played) but they really need to stop making these silly games.

 

[SecretTacoNinja]

I'm not optimistic about it, in any case I'm hoping they'll kill the bastard after it (OR let Nintendo see if they can beat some life into him), he's been on life support for years now .

Sonic died with the Genesis IMO, all that's left is his lame, big-headed clone...

 

[ElArabDeMagnifico]

Well, it's coming this week.

Place your bets!

 

[dnv2]

I'm not too sure, personally I'd like to see the original games remade with better graphics and more features.

I didn't mind Sonic Adventure though.

 

[gmer412]

I'm not too sure, personally I'd like to see the original games remade with better graphics and more features.

I didn't mind Sonic Adventure though.

That'd be kinda cool. Sorta like BC: Rearmed.

 

[51gunner]

I'm not too sure, personally I'd like to see the original games remade with better graphics and more features.

I didn't mind Sonic Adventure though.

That'd be kinda cool. Sorta like BC: Rearmed.

At the very least, re-releasing some of the old ones, say, across the Xbox Live Arcade (and whatever its PS3 analogue is) would help wash the taste of failure out of our collective mouth and let us have a 'good' sonic game.

 

[Crais]

This game may not be any good, but BioWare just got the rights to Sonic and are coming out with a game on the DS that looks like it could be an end to Sonic's mistreatment.

 

[Dasvaun]

To quote Yahtzee
"Short answer: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO....."

 

[insertusernamehere2]

Werehog. Because Link did it?

Because Sonic is now doing EVERYTHING that huge Nintendo franchises have done, interestingly enough, Mario in particular. Think about it: sports game (Sega superstar tennis)? Mario did it. Racing game (Super Sonic racing)? Mario did it. Werewolf idea? Link did it. RPG game? Mario did it and pulled it off nicely. I've heard about and seen screenshots of a game coming up with sonic getting, and I'm serious here, a talking sword that gives him advice. Do I even need to tell you that Link did that from day one? Sega needs to realize that Sonic needs to die. He had his run in 2-D.

 

[insertusernamehere2]

This game may not be any good, but BioWare just got the rights to Sonic and are coming out with a game on the DS that looks like it could be an end to Sonic's mistreatment.

That is the RPG I spoke about. And according to critics who matter, "The result was a resounding meh."
-Yahtzee Croshaw (Man, he's awesome!)

 

[randomman]

The design of sonic games so far has remained somewhat consistent, although after SA 1 they almost removed the need for it to be 3d. The games are pretty much a racing game against nothing. There's no clock, and there's no one to race against, although I suppose the "get to the end" is the basic recipe for a platformer, then again there's not much else they do well in that respect. What I mean is in other 3d platformers you usually have more freedom in where you can go, but in most sonic games it seems 100% linear. Also, the controls in heroes were confusing and I haven't played next gen, but I've heard bad things about it. I suppose the werehog thing could make it fun, but it's certainly not going to have that "follow the line and jump or fall every once in awhile" aspect that other sonics have, so most hardcore fans probably won't enjoy it, not to mention the fact that the story will probably be rediculous. I think that if SEGA really wants to "save" sonic, they should sit down and re-invent how the games work in 3d, so in conclusion, this probably won't "save" the series.

 

[MorsePacific]

I like to think it's going to be good, but I have a feeling I'm going to be very disappointed.

 

[Arcyde]

this will probably make sonic crash and burn or it could give him life once more... but probably crash and burn... either way i still think sonic is awesome and will still play his good previous games

 

[gmer412]

Well... I've seen a review, and I am very disappointed in the games's designers. From what I read, the TRUE Sonic stages are pretty awesome. The review described them as nearly flawless. The game fails on an epic scale when the sun goes down. The werehog stages completely undermine the point of Sonic: SPEED. It doesn't help that these levels are badly designed. What's wrong with Sega? All the bad Sonic games have had a gimmick to them: Heroes, Shadow(ugh), Secret Rings... Why can't they just make a purely classic 3D sonic game? What's so hard about having a game like they used to? Do they think that we'll be bored by it? Ugh. I had high hopes for it, but I just can't see the series rebounding after this. Maybe they should try to imitate Capcom and make a game like Megaman 9.

 

[weirdaljedifan2]

Werehog. Because Link did it?

Because Sonic is now doing EVERYTHING that huge Nintendo franchises have done, interestingly enough, Mario in particular. Think about it: sports game (Sega superstar tennis)? Mario did it. Racing game (Super Sonic racing)? Mario did it. Werewolf idea? Link did it. RPG game? Mario did it and pulled it off nicely. I've heard about and seen screenshots of a game coming up with sonic getting, and I'm serious here, a talking sword that gives him advice. Do I even need to tell you that Link did that from day one? Sega needs to realize that Sonic needs to die. He had his run in 2-D.

Saying that Nintendo did EVERYTHING is narrow-minded. It makes people sound like the kid on South Park who in one episode kept saying, "Simpsons did it." Very annoying. And the Werehog idea, I like this idea. And by the way, Link was NOT the first Werewolf!

 

[ranger19]

Ugh, I hate to say that I've given up on Sonic 3-D as a whole since Sonic Adventure 2: Battle.

It's a shame. I absolutely loved the original Sonic Adventure, every last bit of it, even more than the original Genesis games. I always thought Chaos was the coolest boss, and while losing the emeralds to Robotnik after working to find them was really annoying and predictable after the first time, I still had a lot of fun. Oh and the chaos could be addicting, too.

But then SA2:B had similar design, except without character choice. When playing the story, I could only choose light or dark, and not which specific character I wanted to play, which really hurt the game IMO. Each character had a distinct style of play, and if I was in the mood to fly down levels, I'd play as sonic; if I wanted to go hunting, I'd play as Knuckles. In 2 I was forced into those levels. (Not too mention I liked the way they pulled off the story in the original, even if it meant seeing the same scenes an extra time or two.)

I think from there, when they stopped giving people choice, was when the franchise started going downhill. Shadow, Sonic Heroes.. I just lost respect for them. Oh, and my friends tried playing through Sonic the Hedgehog 2006 or w/e over the summer.. it was a very masochistic experience.

The handheld 2d sonics (Sonic Rush at least) have been great - it's just the 3D ones that are going crazy! If Sonic Team would just make a 3d sonic game like Sonic Adventure or even SA2:B, I would pick it up in no time.