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Posted: Apr 11 2007 05:22 am

This has been briefly discussed in a few other threads, but damned if I can find where. I picked this up the other day, what a great game. The big complaint about the game is that it's tedious until you start leveling up, and that's absolutely true. But once you get past the first set of prologue challenges and into the first level, it's great. The only other mild complaint I have thus far is that the storyline is incredibly corny, but hey, it's a platformer.

Posted: Apr 11 2007 05:26 am

A 3d sonic game that doesn't suck? I MUST BE DREAMING.

The thing I dislike about the direction sonic has taken is that it turned from a "run fast and explore things" game to a "RACE GAME" mentality. What's this starting line stuff all about? Why the 3 2 1 countdown shit? Sure, you CAN go fast, but half the fun of sonic games was exploring the levels, not just blazing through them.

I dunno though. As far as fast paced sonic games go, this one seemed like a good enough offering.

Posted: Apr 11 2007 05:37 am

While there's not a lot of exploring persay, there are alternate/hidden paths in some levels as well as those damn Fire Souls you have to find.

Posted: Apr 11 2007 08:15 am

My main complaint has been whizzing past something and then spending like 2 minutes to back up just right to whatever, like that damn dinosaur eggs mission in Dino Jungle.

Posted: Apr 11 2007 04:44 pm

Corny story, eh?

Part of me wants to ask how the mythology grows... but I think I stopped caring about the games continuity around Sonic Adventure.

Posted: Apr 11 2007 07:41 pm

Tebor wrote:

Corny story, eh?

Part of me wants to ask how the mythology grows... but I think I stopped caring about the games continuity around Sonic Adventure.

The game doesn't follow the regular mythology. It involves Sonic going into a copy of Arabian Nights to save the characters therein from a powerful Djinn who's erasing all the pages so that he can escape from the book. Along the way you meet classic Arabian Nights characters such as King Shahryar and Ali Baba who look suspiciously like Dr. Eggman and Tails.

So far, no sign of NiGHTS.

Posted: Apr 12 2007 08:25 am

And the Genie is of course played by Robin Williams.

2010 SLF Tag Champ Joined: Jun 07 2006 Posts: 12294

been there... done that.

http://www.tehinter.net/?p=172

Posted: Apr 13 2007 01:43 am

Nice to know the Wii one is good. I ordered the 360 one, hopefully it isn't as terrible as people say.

Posted: Apr 13 2007 03:05 am

Sorry Phre, but it was a real rush-job, stuff like doing loops around water and hitting one of the boosting panels sends you hurtling into the water and dying.

http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/xbox360/sonicthehedgehog?q=Sonic%20the%20Hedgehog

Read and weep.

Posted: Apr 13 2007 08:36 am

I played the 360 one. Fucking horrible. It's the bad movement of Sonic Heroes x100000.

Posted: Apr 13 2007 12:30 pm

I think I may have mentioned this before, but the main reason I hated the game was due to the load times, and the frequency of load times. You could be walking around on the map and talk to someone to find this:

Guy: "Hey! Find my dog!"

-30 seconds of loading-

Title of mission: "Find that guy's dog!"

-30 seconds of loading-

Guy: "Please find my dog!"

-Take 10 seconds out of your time to find dog.-

-30 seconds of loading-

Guy: "Thanks!"

-30 seconds of loading-

So you just wasted 2 minutes of load time for a 10 second quest. Hooray. I actually didn't mind the controls, as I expected them to be unresponsive and crappy, but the load times were the real killer.

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I liked sonic heroes.

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JEW wrote:

I liked sonic heroes.

Cool, but I think you're a minority of one. Wink

Posted: Apr 14 2007 10:21 pm

DarkMaze wrote:

JEW wrote:

I liked sonic heroes.

Cool, but I think you're a minority of one. Wink

Minority of two. ^^

Posted: Apr 14 2007 10:23 pm

I believe all three Lexias enjoyed it as well. Kris and I definitely did, can't remember if Jeebus liked it.

Posted: Apr 14 2007 10:24 pm

I liked it, some of the music was cool, but the PS2 and PC versions are terrible. Xbox and GCN are the good ones, specially Xbox cus of 480p.

Posted: Apr 15 2007 12:16 am

Once again SydLexia.com logic proves: The majority of the world liked "Sonic Heroes".

I'd like to thank ChildrenofSlayer for proving the theory that makes this fact possible.

Posted: Apr 15 2007 01:02 am

It's already been said, but I actually liked Sonic Heroes. Aside from Sonic and pals saying the phrase "Sonic Heroes" about 20 times during the game (over-exaggeration, I know), the game wasn't too shabby. I really liked the members of Chaotix being in there, although I wish they would have replaced Vector with Mighty (even though Mighty is only shown as being strong in the comics).