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The controls were not designed for intricate platforming, and the piss-poor design of the stage doesn’t help matters. Spagonia’s Rooftop Run Act II, for example, is probably the most broken bit of “gameplay” I have played all year, if not ever. Worst of all are Sonic Team’s attempts at completely 2.5D stages. Considering how difficult it is to gather the rings with such a fast, hard-to-steer hedgehog, you’ll be swallowing a lot of water. Holaska is not much better, with an entire section where Sonic must gather rings while speed boosting across water to avoid drowning. For instance, a vast majority of the Chu-Nan stage is terrible, with dodgy homing attack sections and a huge amount of trial-and-error gameplay. There are a few poor design choices that hold the speed stages back. Sonic will smash through enemies, jump from rail to rail, home in on airborne enemies to cross chasms, and like never before, it all actually works. Seamlessly switching from a 3D to a 2.5D perspective, quite a few of these daylight stages are incredible. The difference here is that these ones aren’t complete rubbish. The speed runs are what you will be familiar with if you’ve played most of the post-Genesis console games. There are also other gameplay modes and some ridiculous faux RPG stuff, but we’ll get to that in a moment. Gameplay is roughly split in two halves, with Sonic the Hedgehog performing speed runs through daylight stages, and Sonic the Werehog tackling Gaia monsters in a platform brawler style at night. While not exactly engaging, it is mostly inoffensive, save for yet another sidekick in Chip, whose singular gimmick of perpetual hunger is almost as grating as his voice. It’s as absurd as any other recent Sonic plot, but the difference with Unleashed is that it never takes itself too seriously, using some childish slapstick and a more cartoon-like approach overall.

He traps Sonic, corrupts the Chaos Emeralds, turns him into a werewolf and wakes up yet another Sonic Team-created Final Fantasy monster, The Dark Gaia.

As Sonic corners Eggman and is about to bring him to justice, it turns out that the whole thing was a scam by the good doctor. Eggman/Robotnik are busy having their final showdown. The game begins with an astoundingly beautiful opening cinematic in which Sonic and Dr. Sonic Unleashed (360, PS3, Wii, PS2)Īs with all new Sonic games, this latest title attempts to adhere to a plot, although unlike Sonic 2006, this one actually doesn’t make me want to eat my own fists in confused rage.

What is the final verdict? Read on to find out … Now the time of judgement is at hand, both Sonic and his Werehog counterpart having been rigorously put through their paces. However, it was under closer scrutiny that the cracks started to show, and now it’s become one of the most bipolar games I’ve ever had to play. Later hands-on sessions seemed to confirm that, while by no means perfect, Sonic Unleashed was definitely a fun little videogame. I’d been looking forward to this game for a long time, ever since I played it at the Tokyo Game Show and found myself having quite a bit of fun with it. On the one hand, Sonic Unleashed is a fantastic experience, but for everything it does right, there is something it does atrociously wrong. Sonic Unleashed is a bizarre paradox of a game, because never before have I played a game that is at once both jawdroppingly exhilarating and unbelievably frustrating.