One of the worst Sonic titles
This game honestly feels like SEGA trying to push the Sonic the Hedgehog series in everyone’s face instead of focusing on some of their other gorgeous and well-developed series. SEGA needs to admit that Sonic is a dying franchise and has lost its potential in 2011, with Sonic Generations being its last good Sonic game (excluding Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed). This game ultimately and unintentionally admitted that Sonic is a dead franchise.
There were so many things I just didn’t like about this game in general. First, what’s up with SEGA over-hyping Shadow, a dying character in the franchise? Don’t they realize there are other characters in the series that are better written than him and should be receiving the attention they deserve? Secondly, I didn’t like how all the levels felt exactly the same, they felt overly repetitive. Lastly, it feels like SEGA shoved E-123 Omega, Classic Sonic, and Shadow right into this game because they needed some more characters and “better gameplay,” whilst not realizing that it just didn’t work. It felt like they were trying to remake Sonic Generations by adding Classic Sonic, who was probably the most random and most pointless character in the game, you could have erased him entirely and the story itself would have been fine.
However, I’m not going to deny the fact that the one thing I loved about this game was that SEGA and Sonic Team gave the players the option to customize and create their own characters. It’s something the Sonic community has been waiting patiently waiting for, and SEGA practically mastered it.
