There’s actually some more info on Sonic Colors out.
this blog poston Sonic Stadium links to 3 youtube gameplay vids one with footage of the ‘sonic simulator’ co-op mode that I’m no completely sure of what’s going on and the 2 others have more direct feed footage of a couple stages and you can hear the music from the stages more clearly as well. Apparently you can hear Tails’ new voice
more multiplayer footage
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So far it seems this game is catching a lot of reviewers off guard considering they’re expecting a horrible game when they pick it up.
score was a 3.5 and basically to sum up the review it said ‘This game did not age well and completely ShinSho’ed my nostalgia goggles’. By ‘not age well’ he’s talking about Graphics, gameplay mechanics, and of course…camera issues. There was more hate on the hubworld saying the trying to find the action stages was difficult…especially if you didn’t want to pay attention to the horrible cutscenes and story. Of course it’s all opinion and stuff but a lot of things said in his review have been said at some point in this thread when looking back on this game.
Sega could have at least gone back and not made the mouth movements so exagerated maybe but I’m sure they just wanted to port it and then that be that…in fact they could have gone back and fixed a lot of things if they had wanted too.
It’s no big surprise Sonic Adventure is getting shat on. Despite the relatively positive reception when first released, it was a pile of shit back then too. The camera issues and gameplay problems (hold UP lol) have been around since day one and were never addressed in remakes or sequels. Ever. Sonic Adventure got praise… why? Because it was the first “actual” Sonic game since Sonic and Knuckles umpteen years prior. That’s it. Sonic Adventure is probably the best of the 3D Sonics and it still was never really good. Decent at best. At best.
And this is coming from a guy who bought a Dreamcast just for the game.
I still don’t expect anything good out of Sonic Colors. Sonic 4, maybe. Will still get the trial. It looks like a pumped-up Sonic Advance 1, which, if true, is perfect. Well, not perfect, but good enough for me.
Maybe Bungie will take over Sonic games now that they’re done with Halo. One can only dream.
The B in Dr. B doesn’t stand for Bungie but that’s the best I got because I have to go write now. Bad pun.
I guess this would be the first true all Sonic game if you count Werehog as a seperate entity and Secret Rings having the other characters to play in multiplayer.
The main thing I don’t like about colors is the constant zooming in and out. It just comes off as unnecessary. Like Uniracers zooming in and out was. That and the game play just seems…not good.
And my main gripe with 4 is that its like 14 years too late and they’re only doing it because of how well MM9 and 10 did. And from what I have read its going to be split up into chapters? Sounds like Sega is seriously trying to make a quick buck. I bet if they release it in chapters they’ll be $5-10 a pop and it will end up being the price of a normal game.
I’ve been bitter with Sega for along time. Outside of Virtua Fighter they haven’t made a game I’ve cared about or deemed good since S3+K. And even with virtua fighter I hate sega because they refuse to port the VF upgrades. IMO Dreamcast killed Sonic. That’s when all the 3d highspeed nonsense started and where all the stupid gimmicks started.
They [Sega] just needs to stick to publishing games and stay the fuck away from making them.
Sonic Colors just looks like Sonic Unleashed without the bad (read: Werehog) parts, but the digging is totally unnecessary aspect of the game that should be omitted, much like the Werehog part of Sonic Unleashed.
colors looks boring…its like unleashed with more colors and gimmicks
game is gonna tank…it may beat secret rings and black knight
but then again you all are missing the point…look at its target audience…kids…kids love different colors…im sorry but you genesis era sonic fans are done
man, idc what anybody say. imo sonic unleash day stages was modern sonic near perfection. now if sonic team just expanded on the fomula from sonic unleash (day stages obvious) it would truly be the best 3d sonic game.
EDIT:sonic colors look good enough for me. it looks like unleash without the werehog. although i will miss the soundbreaking speed thing that unleash had.
I played the demo of unleashed, which was the first day stage, and remember thinking “wow, what an awesome game this is where I either hold up or right and jump occasionally,” before promptly deleting the demo.
Dr. B could make Uniracers work. Sonic Team can’t.