Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric Gets a 4.3 on IGN

[SirFortesque]

PenguinZ said:

SirFortesque said:
Most "Nintendo consoles only" Sonic games are terrible, I honestly don't believe this is a coincidence.

This statement is actually false...  Sonic Colors for Wii and DS and Sonic Rush also comes to mind for the DS. Those respectively are some of the highest rated Sonic games in the past decade. Of course Sonic Generations was released for PC, Xbox, and PS3... though I'd still give the edge to Colors.

Actually, the DS is a handheld not a console, and not being games that Sega had to make because of a contract with Nintendo, they doesn't count in my theory... Sonic Advance series on GBA was also pretty good anyway.

Anyway okay, they're not "terrible", but sure most (not all) of them were not that awesome, they were games that felt (at least to me) designed to be just "enjoyable", with the exception of Colors.

it's not a coincidence that the only game that really showed up the potential of a good Sonic game in modern days is Generations (PS3/360) in my opinion, and I honestly think that Sonic 2006 for PS3/360, even if it was unfinished, frustrating and sometimes even embarrassing, was way more ambicious that most of the exclusive Sonic games released for Wii and Wii U.... and Sonic Unleashed is pretty much the main game that gave us a clear vision of how "Modern Sonic" levels should look like (even if Night levels were really boring), and that one was available for all consoles.

I think just that Sega care a lot more about releasing good multiplatform games instead of making good exclusives for Nintendo, that's it.