17th March 2005, 11:43 PM
Indeed, this is a... game I haven't played yet...
I will admit, since I had the most fun with the sonic/shadow parts of the past two games (yes, I know Shadow wasn't in the first one, that's still a technically correct statement though), and this game seems to JUST have Shadow, one would assume it would actually be MORE fun than the past two Sonic games. They seem to have added the gun in there... maybe because they wanted the gameplay you got in the mechs and with that robot in the past two games combined with the speed of the sonic levels. I guess that, since Shadow himself is supposed to be an extreme and also dark version of an already extreme but merely rebelious Sonic, they figured that instead of the lasers they gave Tails, they had to come up with something darker for Shadow, so a handgun that shot bullets seemed the natural choice... Eh, I dunno... I already said my opinion on the artistic direction, and also the reason I don't exactly care how bad it's gone. I'm just saying I see how it got to this point.
But, and this is the thing, if the entire 3rd game is nothing but fast paced speeding action, but with the added twist of being able to use long range attacks, then assuming the twist is pulled off correctly, then this may very well be a VERY fun game, despite whatever one may think of the art.
I will admit, since I had the most fun with the sonic/shadow parts of the past two games (yes, I know Shadow wasn't in the first one, that's still a technically correct statement though), and this game seems to JUST have Shadow, one would assume it would actually be MORE fun than the past two Sonic games. They seem to have added the gun in there... maybe because they wanted the gameplay you got in the mechs and with that robot in the past two games combined with the speed of the sonic levels. I guess that, since Shadow himself is supposed to be an extreme and also dark version of an already extreme but merely rebelious Sonic, they figured that instead of the lasers they gave Tails, they had to come up with something darker for Shadow, so a handgun that shot bullets seemed the natural choice... Eh, I dunno... I already said my opinion on the artistic direction, and also the reason I don't exactly care how bad it's gone. I'm just saying I see how it got to this point.
But, and this is the thing, if the entire 3rd game is nothing but fast paced speeding action, but with the added twist of being able to use long range attacks, then assuming the twist is pulled off correctly, then this may very well be a VERY fun game, despite whatever one may think of the art.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)