SONIC 4????

Does anyone have it? Is it good? I've heard it is good.

I never liked the homing attack (I love the insta-shield).

So how is it?

Fucking. Awful. Seriously. Taken by themselves, the elements should be fun. The level design is decent, the bosses are decent, the graphics are mostly pretty good. Even more surprising, the homing attack isn't even that bad. But the controls are too stiff, and the physics are terrible.

How terrible?


This terrible:



And it all comes together to form a game that plays fine if you shut your brain off, but any comparisons to the original games (or, for that matter, the original Sonic Advance) makes you realize just how bad it is.

It would be so easy to make a good 2D Sonic game (extend Sonic 3K or Sonic 2)... I'm so surprised that they continue to fail.

Also, the episodic format is so lame and doesn't fit with the Sonic genre.

I'll have to try it out for myself.

Make sure you try out one of the console versions, preferably for the PS360. The iPhone version quite inferior, and the Wii version has crappier music. I played the iPhone and the 360 version.

I don't have Live and only have a Wii instead... So, damn.

Its just... the waste. I don't like the game. I don't think it is that bad, to be honest, (no better or worse than Sonic Rush Adventure) but I don't like it for exactly that reason. I think it is average. Middling. Decent. Inoffensive. It isn't the physics. It isn't the uncurling. It isn't the slopes. It isn't the rehash. As major as those were to me going into the game, they were secondary by the time I had actually finished playing through it. No, my real problem is that they took the best chance they've ever had to do something outstanding, and they turned out something so "meh."

Uncurling? You mean Sonic doesn't stay in the ball?

WHAT?

Any time Sonic leaves the surface, like if he launches off of a ramp, he uncurls.

NO WAY.

It's because of the homing attack... Really... I can't wait to see how much this game sucks.

You are going to love how the aerial momentum works, then.