[Wii] Sonic and the Secret Rings

Most of the reason I've seen for he Shadow hate is that he's pretty much a clone thats just ANGST ANGST ANGST EMO all the time. I must admit too that the guns and driving (Why do we need some kind of fake ass GTA style gameplay in a game where the characters RUN FAST) were just totally nonsensical and useless additions to the series. Shadow's game kind of struck me as fluff with no substance.

How ya doing, buddy?

After the disaster of the Sonic 1 port and either lukewarm or total UGH reactions to Sonic 360, it will take a lot more than pretty pictures to make this game worth bothering with.

The Wii Sonic is pretty much the LAST VESTIGE of whether any future Sonic games are even worth salvaging anything for quite a while. Cause as it stands - the current outcrop is pretty crap.

How ya doing, buddy?

I don't know why people are so hung up about the rails things. Personally I think this is a direction they should have tried a long time ago.

It's been what? Five games now and they've barely gotten free roaming 3D Sonic's correct? Sonic is the only series with time time that I've seen get progressively worse with each game instead of better. Perhaps it being on rails will force them to try it and approach/correct it from a simpler perspective. I say perhaps because this is Sonic Team and a lot of the talent from that place is obviously long gone and thier current track record doesnt give one much to go on... =\

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I'm guessing the soundtrack will have an arabic twang to it much like the game itself.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Because then we'd wind up with Sonic Heroes and everything would just be "adequate".

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They're saying "just Sonic", but they said "just Sonic" for 360 too and we all see how that turned out :P

I've seen Amy, Knuckles, and Tails in screenshots that looked like some kind of Mario Party/Sonic Shuffle-esque minigames but no in game shots of them being playable. Every screenshot so far has been just Sonic. I really hope it stays that way. Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't mind the other characters if maybe you can open them up later like in the Advances but just once it would REEEEEEEEEEAAAAAALLY be nice to just have Sonic and for once have his controls and everything else perfected. Let's get him right before we worry about the rest...

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by garthvadr3

Anyone check out the new videos of Sonic at IGN? I think I am officially sold on it. From their recent playtest, even IGN said it is the best sonic game since the 2d ones. It is supposed to have pretty much flawless motion controls too. Also, they stated that it is the first game that actually looks like it takes advantage of the Wii's hardware.

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That actually looked pretty damn fun.

FELIPE NO

I haven't said this in a long long time but DAMN this game is looking great. New pictures AHOY!...

1. Apparently the game thrusts Sonic into an alternatate universe based loosely on Arabian Nights. Knuckles plays the role of Sinbad, Tails as Ali-Baba, and Eggman as the king of Persia.

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v6...scan0001-3.jpg

2. The bottom right corner has some really pretty designs.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...scan0002-3.jpg

3. This is "The Erazor Djinn", whom I assume will be the big bad for this game along the lines of Mephilis/Iblis/Solaris, Biolizard, Liquid Metal Sonic, Chaos, etc. Looks to be a dark genie. Apparently another smaller female genie named Shaara (the same streak of light that follows Sonic in the IGN videos) who is "the spirit of rings" approaches Sonic for help in getting rid of this guy.

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v6...t=scan0003.jpg

4. BIG OL' DINOSAUR THANGS

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v6...t=scan0004.jpg

5. Boss monster thingy! Accompanying the main game will be 40 party minigames that can be unlocked. The rest of the cast will be available to play only in the Sonic Shuffle/Mario Party-ish minigames.

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v6...t=scan0005.jpg

Other pictures:

http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/...0115/whf18.jpg - Playtime!
http://img370.imageshack.us/img370/7...ings0829ad.jpg - Dinosaur Island Boss Battle
http://img370.imageshack.us/img370/5...ings0848wg.jpg - Dino Island Boss Battle: Bullet Time
http://www.dengekionline.com/news/20...whf_sega01.jpg - A picture of Shaara can be seen on the right side of the display

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

I dunno - I think the Advances handled the whole "Sonic VS Eggman only" thing really well. The only game that you didnt fight Eggman at the very end was Sonic Advance 3, and in a sense it was executed just as well since Gemel/Emerl was a "end monster" that directly involved Eggman right down to the very end (to the point that you actually wind up fighting with him).

I beat Sonic Rush just last night and found that it also handled the old school "Eggman as the final boss" concept amazingly well. Nega didn't betray him like every other side monster or character does and it was just executed perfectly IMO.

To be honest I find the "giant mutated monster goes horribly awry and attacks everybody at the end" storyline to be the staled out plotline. We've seen it with Chaos (which was awesome at the time), the Biolizard (who literally came out of nowhere), Liquid Metal Sonic (to the point that we don't even see the real Eggman until the end of the game), and now Solaris/Iblis/Mephilis. I don't think I'm missing anybody from the 3D era....

Its OK once in a while, but I think a lot of people would like something different, you know? Rattle it around or put a different spin on it like the handheld games did I think. Introduce a plot twist or three? That may be why no one talks disparagingly about the handhelds at least in that sense. Otherwise it just becomes very predictable.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I think the article is saying that the unlocking of various characters only factors into party mode and not the main game, which would make sense if you think about its context and all.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Am I the only one who liked the running bosses in Advance 2? I thought they introduced a pretty good challenge factor not seen in Sonic games before boss-wise and found myself impressed by them.

Of course some people hated them just because of said challenge, so.... **shrugs**

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.