Taking the first boss (a tentacle robot) as an example, it seems utterly arbitrary when its tentacles can hit you or not. Now, I know bosses are meant to be a challenge, but I’d like to at least know when I’m going to get hit and why. I’m referring in particular to the bosses. There are several areas in the game where you just have to wonder if anyone from Sonic Team or SEGA actually picked up a pad and played them at all. There’s always something that should’ve been highlighted in playtesting, like a camera that frequently gets stuck, silly or unresponsive controls, cheap deaths, boring cutscenes, bugs, or areas that are frustrating and not fun at all.Įpisode II hits the last one there like a brick. I love Sonic The Hedgehog, and I love the original ideas that come out of the developer now and again ( NiGHTS, Burning Rangers, Billy Hatcher & The Giant Egg), but every game they develop feels like no-one’s played it before release. I don’t know what it is with Sonic Team, but they always manage to screw things up. There are no 3D levels, there’s no dialogue at all, the story’s kept very basic, there are no overly long unskippable cutscenes, the physics have been sorted out, Tails is the only extra character (and he also keeps quiet, phew), and the whole thing is a homage to the best two Sonic games – Sonic 2 and Sonic CD. Previous to that Sonic 4: Episode I certainly wasn’t bad but had a few issues – now that Episode II’s finally here, will Sonic Team sort them out and continue their winning streak?įirst impressions are certainly good, at least I got the impression that lessons are being learned after a decade of repeating mistakes. It’s only been a few months since Sonic Generations proved that SEGA were still capable of producing a decent Sonic game, something the world once thought impossible.

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