I am excited now that I learned that Sonic Team finally listened to its audience and made a game "without any gimmicks". Finally nothing silly like a werewolf form, swordfighting, or robot fighting to slow the game down. Sonic games are supposed to be about speed!
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Currently making synth music as treehann
I make 2d games too at: treehann.itch.io thank you jdl for archiving this art from Pauline and Janet!
To be fair, Unleashed was one of the best 3D Sonic games so far. Colors is basically Unleashed 2 - Werehog. Sonic and the Black Knight was... intriguing and worth checking out, but not worth a purchase for me.
As for Sonic 4... Shouldn't have called it Sonic 4. It just isn't. Like, at all.
Okay, having played through this for a few hours, I'd easily say this is my favorite 3D Sonic game and even my second-favorite Sonic game of all time.
That's a really big accomplishment in my eyes, because A) I'm a retro gamer at heart, B) I'm rather disappointed with almost every modern Sonic game released, and C) My all-time favorite Sonic game is Sonic 3 & Knuckles (held by some as the best Sonic game ever).
It's a pretty incredible game, and it harks back to some of the series' greatest moments. Also, the cutscenes are pretty hilarious:
Tails: "He says his name is 'Talks-a-lot' and he's from a far away soda where flowers water them with dances..."
Sonic: "Yeaaaah, uh... I think your machine still has some bugs."
Sonic: "NO COPYRIGHT LAW IN THE UNIVERSE IS GOING TO STOP ME"
Tails: "Oh, there you are [Sonic]. Where'd you run off to?"
Sonic: "Oh, did some shopping, grabbed a bite to eat, and trashed a giant killer robot."
Tails: "Oh? They have shopping here too?"