PSU takes a good look at the Sonic franchise and talks about the problems and mis-steps Sega took that is bringing Sonic to a shadowy fate. PSU talks about what Sega can do to revive this poor mascot and how to bring it back to the glimmering franchise it once was.
WTMG's Leo Faria: "Sonic Heroes is an enigma of a game. It is bad, in every technical aspect you can imagine. Upon replaying it for the first time in more than a decade, I did noticed how poorly it aged. Yet… I really don’t care. It’s the bizarre kind of charm featured in every single Sega game from this era. Call it nostalgia, call it game feel, Sonic Heroes is the kind of game you know you shouldn’t like as much as you do, but you couldn’t care less about that. It just takes a few seconds of listening to that adorable Crush 40 theme song for you to basically shut off the logical parts of your brain and proceed to enjoy this adorable jankfest with the biggest of smiles."
The popular Sega franchise, Sonic the Hedgehog, has been really successful in recent years, forging paths for the recent upcoming titles.
These sales surged by 150 million compared to last year.
we need a new sonic pinball, with boss battles / hidden stages / 1 sec load times
Definitely agreed. I loved Sonic Spinball back on Genesis. I want a new Mean Bean Machine too, while we're at it!
Still need to check out Frontiers at some point. Just waiting on a really good Steam sale for it.
they never did transform well from 2D and 3D....and they never try to fix it afterwards...
I think its because they tried to add a story to it while playing.
the 3d versions had dialogs that were corny..most of the time.
the 2d games never had dialogs whatso ever it was just about running and collecting those emeralds.
You can only have so many 2D side scrollers, doing the exact same thing (collecting rings,destroy bad guy, repeat), before they start to get monotonous. You gotta think, Sega pumped out 3 Sonic games, a Sonic and Knuckles game and a couple of other Sonic ripoffs (Sonic Pinball), all of which were 2d side scrollers. Then they got progressively worse as they went to 3d, though I still back Sonic Adventure for Dreamcast as a pretty solid game.
Sega went wrong with sonic when they took his speed away all sonic games of the past have been about fast gameplay and that what works now they added guns cars and all that extra not needed crap
Sonic was awesome. I even bought Sonic Adventure on the dreamcast. I haven't bought or rented one since then but they do need to make him faster. SEGA should just make a new Sonic game with Blast Processing. Now that would be sweet.