Sonic Unleashed Wii Version Gameplay

[Words Of Wisdom]

Gamerace said:

Words Of Wisdom said:

Gamerace said:
Looks lovely but as others have said - do you ever control him?? Seems like nothing but running forward, no thinking or skill involved. Where's the fun in that?

Did you watch the videos?  Did you see the points where the person stopped, walked left and right, ran into things?

Did you ever play the original games?

I have Sonic and Sonic 3 on VC so yes and while I've never been a big Sonic fan it seems to me that a lot of the gameplay involved backtracting to other parts of the level you didn't/couldn't reach before, and a bit of thought at times in how to get there.   This looks like one straight direct route.   But I admit, I'm no Sonic expert.

No, no , no!

Sonic was about as little back-tracking as possible.  You run through the level fast, get to the end fast, fight the boss fast!  You don't stop to explore every inch of the level on a single run-through or you run out of time and die.  The goal in the original games was to get to the end before you ran out of time and get a lot of rings.

The reason Sonic games were fun to replay though is because there were usually half a dozen different ways to get through the level, secrets to find, mini-games/stages to run into, etc.  Unlike a Mario game where you might stop and explore the entire level before going on, Sonic was made to be replayed over and over.  ^_^