Wow I guess I am the first here to actually get the game. I suppose I shall give a few quick pros and cons of my first couple hours in the game (Im only in the second world.)
I'm going straight to cons
-Party games are STUPID boring and really lame, use wario ware or the upcoming mario party for your mini game needs
-I know people complain about shaking the controller for honing and attacking but I have no issue with this, its quite responsive to me. YET, the part I am frustrated with the most is the sensitivity of turning left and right. With Excite truck you barely had to move the controller to make a sharp turn, with Sonic its ridiculous how much i have to turn and not only that he moves left to right quite sluggish.
-Moving the controller back to move backwards is the most retarded thing ever~! Sometimes I will be in full speed and all of sudden find myself braking suddenly only to find myself walking backwards for no reason. Sega could of EASILY fixed this by making you HOLD down a BUTTON and perhaps THEN PULL the controller backwards. It really disrupts gameplay for me. . .
-Surprisingly its not the music OR the voice actors that bother me, its the horrible dialogue. The game's story is told through comic-like panels with a nice sketchy painterly look that actually goes well with the game. Voice overs are dubbed over these scenes but the writing is poor, very poor. Though I will make mention of one voice actor that was HORRIBLE and that would be the main bad guy of this game. Think of any Disney film villain, now imagine the auditions for that part, now imagine the worst of them, now multiply it by 10 and you pretty much have his voice. I am seriously thinking of switching the voices to Japanese just because of him.
-I have no clue where they explain the controls in the game, there is a tutorial world but half the missions for it never explained what to do I just remembered what buttons did what based on interviews and impressions I had read earlier.
Ok now for the good
-The angsty music actually does not bother me . . . . at all. I think it flows with the quirkiness of the game and is good.
-Missions can be nasty hard but there always seems to be enough easy missions to complete to at least get you to the next world.
-While some missions are unbelievably cheap, the load times are pretty nonexistant and to retry the mission is just a matter of simply clicking a button.
-The graphics to me are very polished gamecube to me, some of the effects are pretty and overall the game has good art direction.
-I dont care what everyone says, the missions really do shake up the enviornment. Each mission I have played thus far makes me feel like I am playing a different part of the stage, almost going back to classic Sonic acts. This really allows a lot of breathing room for level design and replayability.
-The exp system and the customizable ability rings are a great and welcome addition, I actually now want to play missions I skipped over because I want exp so I can level up.
-LOTS AND LOTS OF UNLOCKABLES
Realize I have only played a couple hours into this game but despite my somewhat negative impressions I really dont regret my purchase. I would reccomend it to anyone here who is willing to put up with Sonic again. I will post some further impressions after I play more of the game.
At this point I rate this game 74 out of 100, its average and pretty fun. Its a purchase if you are willing to try Sega's attempt at a unique semi-flawed idea, or a rental for anyone else.
If anyone has a question just post something and I will try to get to it.
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