Review: Sonic the Hedgehog

What’s up y'all, John here with a review of Sonic the Hedgehog for Xbox 360 and PS3. This review is a little more positive than the other reviews. For starters the controls, the controls for Sonic are the same as they have always been, in fact they have actually brought some elements back from the first 2 Sonic adventure games such as bouncing, and upgrading your character. Sonic can still do the homing attack and his other classic moves. However without a boost pad sonic doesn’t actually move very fast, it’s almost as if they focused so much on his moves that they forgot to make him fast. Which is why they threw in these unnecessary parts in a level where sonic will run really fast, he can’t stop, and the only thing you control is if he moves left or right and jumps. This is probably the most broken thing I have ever seen in a video game. When you’re jumping you can’t control which direction you go in so if you jump a little off the edge you die. As usual if you get hit by something you lose all of you rings , but since you can’t stop you can’t go back to get them so two hits and your dead. I had a lot more fun in the slower plat forming parts of the levels. In some levels a princess will be in your arms that you have to protect, usually in a video game escort missions are a pain in the ass because not only do you have to take care of yourself but this other person as well. That’s not the case here, she is in you arms the entire time so you don’t have to protect her, and she helps you with a force field that protects you from almost anything, it's actually fun. Some parts in this game are actually thrilling, the music helps, it fits the environment perfectly with its' fast beats and dramatic melody. In the hub world of Soleanna, there are little side missions you can do to earn rings, this would be fun if it wasn’t for the terrible loading time. There are a total of 4 loading screens for these missions and this lack of variation makes you want to avoid them as much as possible, this game has the worst loading time I have ever seen in any game, if you have played this game you know how bad the loading is, and if you listened to the first episode of average player, you know we don’t like loading on this show. The other characters have their own problems as well, Shadow plays just like Sonic accept that you can drive vehicles (which makes no sense since he can run faster than a vehicle), this slows down the game play and feels out of place, and the third hedgehog Silver isn’t fast at all, he’s telekinetic, the telekinesis works but it doesn’t need to be here. The frame rate slows down at random times and some parts of the game look like they still need to be worked on graphics wise, but there were parts where I did have fun. Therefore my final diagnoses is that this game should only be rented, BUT only by hardcore sonic fans, by this I mean if you have never played a sonic game in your life don’t make this one your first.