Sonic Colors, which was released less then a year ago, is definitely one of the best Sonic games I've played in a long time.

It takes what we loved about 2D Sonic and also the 3D day levels from Sonic Unleashed and mashes them together. Honestly I could not ask for much more from a Sonic game.

In addition to this the game also has "alien powers", which vary up the gameplay by giving Sonic the ability to either move through a stage differently or manipulate part of the stage to open new possibilities. Because of these powers it is possible to go through each level in a plethora of different ways.

The game is moderately short, but the different ways to play through each stage on top of collecting red coins and getting an "S" rank in each stage really helps the replay value. 

There are some difficult and admittedly unfair parts in the game, but not enough to justify calling the game hard. For the most part the stage design is great and keeps Sonic moving at high speed. 

I cannot recommend this game enough to Wii owners; it is definitely worth the money, especially now that it's a little cheaper. BUY IT!!!

Here's a clip from the game. I would embed it but I can't seem to figure out how; if anyone wants to teach me that's be great!

http://youtu.be/JMLrpnjwyTU?t=15s

Little late!! Got the game day 1 and its the best console Sonic game made this gen. I still think Sonic is a little to floaty in the 2d sections and i do love the powers. Nothing in the game that really pissed me off havent said that about a Sonic title since all stars racing and the handheld games. The 2d sections in Generations i like if they take the 3d parts from Colors and inject them in Generations then that will be 2 good SOnics in a row

A little more 3D would be great in the next Sonic installment (Sonic Generations?), but like you pointed out the fact that Sonic Colors doesn't have any major flaws that all of the other 3D Sonic games have makes the 2D-3D imbalance forgivable.

Was it the wisps themselves or was it the powers the brought Sonic that you could live without? Because I thought the powers were a nice touch to vary the gameplay.

I am late haha but better late than never no?

I agree that Sonic was a little floaty but what made me very glad about the 2D parts was the fact that when you home onto an enemy and hit them, Sonic doesn't fly forward afterwards but stays put. I think this gameplay variant was very smart to add because without it I would have died much more than I did.

I will be so happy if Sonic Generations is even close to the same quality as Sonic Colors, and as things stand it should be which makes me very excited.

As true as that is, I don't think a little variety is a bad thing. For instance, I thought the drill power was a nice addition during the 2D parts.

I will admit that some of the powers weren't entirely interesting to use, especially when the level was themed to make you repeat their use over and over.

Maybe if "powers" were limited to 2D and 3D was left alone with the exception of boost?

oh hell yeah!!! the floaty thing was a minor nuisance but everything else was fine. If only Generations wasnt dropping same day as Uncharted 3. Oh hell ill get both

you might be happy to know that Generations has none of these powers

But, I want to play as a warehog!!!

Yea the game is great but short as well.

it looks very good with the speed and stuff but it bothers me that it has to slow down that much sometimes. playing fast makes slow gameplay even slower :P

i might pick it up later though, long time since i played a sonic game