An enjoyable Sonic game, if not exactly a Super one.
Most Sonic games put the pedal to the metal, having you travel at blindingly fast speeds while avoiding hazards on your way to the goal. Unlike its predecessors, however, Sonic Superstars trades that traditional breakneck pace for new abilities, more exploration, multiple mini-games, and slightly more challenging bosses
Sega claims Super Mario Bros. Wonder's launch overshadowed Sonic Superstars, affecting sales. Sega remains hopeful for a turnaround.
SEGA in victim mode for many years.. blaming others for doing good never questioning themselves.. no need to be marketing effort to know that releasing a bit of the same sonic at the same time as a very creative and perfectly executed 2D mario would hurt the sales.. well SEGA have one of the most amateur marketing people in the industry
Even when Sega were still in the console business Sonic couldn't compete in terms of sales with Mario. Sonic is hot ragain and Sega still managed to fuck up. Quite the accomplishment.
A lot of bad Sonic games over the years. After Sonic Adventure 2, although Sonic Adventure was better, Sonic died. Apart from the Sonic Racing, that's pretty much it. Sonic Frontiers, SEGA should've knocked out Sonic Adventure 3. These SEGA collections have been knocking around for too long. There's been too much dumbness at SEGA.
Sonic is great but he is nothing when compared to Mario. Nintendo just knows how to utilize Mario better like Mario Maker, Super Smash, Mario Kart, Mario RPG, Mario Paint. Sonic is not a utilizable enough like Mario. Mario can be adapted to different games. Sonic is pretty much run, run, run. Sure Sonic has his own other games but again he is nothing when compared to Mario.
Sega published its financial results for the 9 months that ended on December 31, 2023, and at least part of them wasn't really great.
Lets pretend that Sega didn't have it's largest number of games release on game pass ever during this quarter by not even mentioning it in your article about how their games underperformed in sales.
Hmm CTRL F ah zero mentions of game pass at all.
I would have blamed their pricing scheme ($115/$120 for a new game? Charging out the butt for the Etrain HD Remasters? Charging extra for New Game Plus?), but some of those games did well anyway. None of the titles mentioned in Q3 exactly set my world on fire, I didn't purchase any of them, maybe no one else did either?
VGChartz's Evan Norris: "2023 was an eclectic year for platformers. No matter your platforming taste or proclivity, there was something in the last 12 months to satisfy you. For fans of the off-beat humor and ingenuity of the Wario Land series, Pizza Tower appeared as a proper spiritual successor. For those craving the speed and style of Jet Set Radio, Bomb Rush Cyberfunk delivered an amazing urban playground in which to vibe. And for old-school platform aficionados raised in the 1990s, there was plenty of nostalgic goodness, including a new Sonic game, Sonic Superstars, and the first new 2D Super Mario adventure in over a decade, Super Mario Wonder."
As a long time fan from back in the mega drive days I had higher hopes than i had why right to have I can still see this being a good time but not a memorable one like mania.
My main concern was all the footage I saw looked like the gameplay was slowed down on purpose and level design was intended for 4 players. Seeing some of the reviews this seems to be the case.
I appreciate the thought process behind why they transitioned to 3d models mainly they can't be doing pixel art forever but I don't think they nailed it in the same way Mario has been able to when translationing to 3d models I feel that's simply because sonics 3d middling has never really worked as well or been able to convey the same attitude as it's pixel art iterations.
I've also given up hope for mania 2 for the 2d iterations they release biannually while frontiers was actually a huge improvement over forced I think we will see a new 3d sonic in that vein in roughly 3 years with a sonic adventure remake thrown in next year but I could be dreaming
C'mon! It's a 10!
Feels like they tried to focus on co-op and multiplayer yet it just doesn't work how they hoped
STICK...TO WHAT...YOU KNOW
We should have just had Sonic Mania 2
yeh, i cancelled my preorder weeks ago.
i knew its not gonna be what i personally want. guess i was right lol
the 3d just doesnt work for me. its also heavily co op focused which .. u know.