I probably won't get this game until early next year because I have Skyrim and MW3 to get first. I'm so looking forward to this one though.
Agreed. If I have enough money I may get this, but might as well wait for a price drop as supposedly it is quite short.
I join the choir, the demo is really fun which is quite surprising considering few last Sonic games. Price drop = I take it.
I picked this up a few days ago for £20 and it is really good. It feels like the old school Sonic we know and love but with a big lick of paint. Impressed with it. Looking forward to seeing what Sonic is next. I see that you are playing it too, Grim, how far have you got in it?
O dear, where to start. When I started playing it I was quite impressed with what they had done. The first classic sonic level (green hill) was fun and I enjoyed it. Then came the modern sonic level and I pretty quickly found that it still has horrible 3D sonic controls. I really don't like the modern sonic 3D segments at all, the controls are horrible at times and you end up all over the place. The challenge levels, which in my opinion are on there to pad out the length of the game are dull. With the first 3 worlds I finished them all (15 for each sonic) but it took ages and bored me to death so I am giving up on that now, I don't care enough to go for the trophy. Its bad enough that they force you to finish 3 of them to get the keys to fight the bosses. Which brings me on to my next point, there are not enough bosses. I have finished 9 zones and have just opened up the third boss, its not enough, sonic should have a boss at the end of each zone! Yes you could count the Metal Sonic, Shadow etc battles for the emeralds but they are too easy and not much fun, just run and jump a lot. Crisis city was a horrible zone, no fun at all and full of cheap pits and traps, not hard to explain when you see it comes from Sonic 06! Overall I think this game isn't that great which is a shame. The classic sonic levels are fun enough but modern sonic is hard to control and still they can't get rid of the bugs. The amount of times I have boosted through a wall or got stuck when the game goes the wrong way off of a spring I couldn't count. Too many bad points and to be honest I am now just trying to get it finished so that I can move on to another game. No idea how Arma even dared to put this in the best game of the year thread. 3.33333333333333333333333/10 because 1/3 of the game, classic sonic, is good but the other 2/3's, modern sonic and the challenges, are bad. EDIT: O yeah, I fucking hated the Sonic Colors zone too, stupid.
All three zones from Sonic 06 onward have been horrible and lasted ages too. The rest I have enjoyed. I like the Modern Sonic levels. I find them easy too. The platinum is going to be a bastard though getting S ranks and the red rings in each zone.
By bastard, I mean time consuming. No matter as I already have about half of the trophies and I just completed the story mode a few minutes ago. The two Robotniks together was really funny. Great game.
I don't like the fact that they've totally nerfed Super Sonic. The whole point of Super SOnic is that he runs faster and jumps higher than normal Sonic, he does neither here. Also the fact that you have to stop and go through the animation is a bit jarring. You know something's not right when you can do Modern Green Hill Zone in 1:51.38 with regular Sonic but do it in 1:55.22 with Super Sonic. I do like the way he flies when you boost though, it's good fun.
I don't know if I can be arsed to platinum this game. Getting all of those red star rings, s ranking all levels twice is going to take aggggges.
If you can do it with final fantasy you can do it with this game. I also do t see the point in having lives either. I was trying to do the first level as fast as I could and every time I made a mistake I'd restart, losing a life in the process. After 5 attempts I can no longer restart so I have to go out of my way to kill myself and choose yes to continue and get 5 more lives. Annoying. See if you can beat my time on modem green hill zone
That puts me 166th in the world (at least on the PS3 leaderboards). I used this video as a guide but can't seen to come close to his time. He does it in 1:42.50 The current world record is 1:37.22! Impossible I say. Just learned that you don't have to get S ranks in the challenges to get the trophy for getting all S ranks, that'll save a lot of time, just finishing the challenges should be enough.
I will platinum this game yes. If like me you hate looking for collectibles this will help, it has videos of every red ring. http://www.ps3trophies.org/game/sonic-generations/guide/
I'm not a member but I've used it quite a bit on my trophy hunting missions. I also used the Xbox equivalent a load too.