Sonic Team has been putting out a lot of mindless trash recently:
We all know about the glitchy Sonic Adventure and the fun-but-no-replay-value Sonic Advance 2 .. this rant will comprise mostly my venting about the 'games' (hahahaha!) since then.
Sonic Pinball Party - A bad pinball game with awful music. Sonic's not the ball this time around either. His only role in the game is a bunch of stolen art from other games slapped in as backgrounds and borders. Hell, Pokemon Pinball had more Pokemon in it than this does Sonic. And the ending looks like it was saved as a GIF with 16 colors-- it's dithered and contains random nuclear-pink and yellow pixels scattered everywhere.
Sonic Battle - A lame fighting game with a stupid 3D gimmick-- the level is a rocking giant polygon with sprites haphazardly attached. 3D looked better on the NES. The music again sucks, the sprites are jacked from the previous Advance titles, and it has NO replay value. I got sick of it after 3 minutes.
Sonic Advance 3 - Sonic Advance 2 with new levels that get as far from fun as possible while still classifying it as a game. More terrible music (this is a DISGRACE to their previous work.)
Sega Smash Pack - Sonic Spinball (which most people hated), and Golden Axe and Ecco 1 ported to the GBA and violated in the most wrong ways possible. Made slower by them doing a TERRIBLE job of porting it (actually, they got CodeFire to do it and slapped their name on it).
- Ecco has NO MUSIC. It's the Time Travel sound effect from the SEQUEL looped over and over. It's 6 seconds. I take it something went wrong with the porting and this had to be filler.
- Ecco is distorted and cannot swim diagnolly properly-- you can only move in 4 directions.
- Controls lag worse than the SMS/Game Gear version.
- Text screens are terribly warped and nearly unreadable. REALLY bad because the story in this game is great ..
I can't rip into Golden Axe because I haven't played the original. But it lagged, looked HORRIBLE at that resolution and wasn't even slightly fun.
Why you ask? To save time and effort for Sonic Heroes, the festival of shit that Sonic Team worked up to be the BEST GAME TO EVER HEARKEN BACK TO THOSE ON THE MEGADRIVE!!! .. TOTAL LIE. It's NOTHING like the old games, not fun at all.. the sound is a disgrace to Jun Senoue, the graphics are NOTHING NEAR what the NGC can produce. They promised in-game graphics just like those from the CG Video on Sonic Adventure 1 (nowhere close.) The voice acting is even WORSE and your 'team''s AI is horrific. They follow you like drones and get in the way.
If Sonic Team EVER pulls itself out of the gutter NOW I'd really be impressed.
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