To Sleep: Perchance to Dream…
HIGH The sense of "flow" the flying sections encourage.
LOW Being forced to take human form and walk around levels.
WTF Trial and error boss encounters.
Tag: Yuji Naka
The Bossness of Sonic’s Bosses
Due to a slight tug of nostalgia that the recently released Sonic the Hedgehog 4 was unable to satisfy, I went back and played through all of the games that comprised Sonic's glory days. You know how it feels when you watch 10-year-old highlight reels of some sports team you care about? How you're reminded of how good they used to be? It was kind of like that. Between Sonic 1-3/Knuckles and Sonic CD I truly felt like they held up after all this time.
Ivy the Kiwi? Second Opinion
Run Kiwi Run
HIGH When you get going in a level.
LOW Fighting through the massive difficulty spike in the last third of the game.
WTF Why isn't the lovely storybook art part of the levels?
Ivy the Kiwi? Review
Not Quite Cracking
HIGH An extremely cute main character.
LOW The controls and central mechanic never come together.
WTF The colors make it difficult to see except under optimal conditions.
Let’s Tap! Review
Ok, but just for a Little While
HIGH As with any mini-game collection, having a great time with my loved ones.
LOW Well that got boring quick.
WTF Does Sega really think us Americans are such trashy slobs that we have empty tissue boxes just piled up around the house?
Sonic Gems Collection – Review
Sonic Gems Collection basically dares its audience to ask one question: does merely being old qualify a game for 'classic' status, or did the game have to be good in the first place? Sonic Gems offers three previously unrereleased Sonic games, as well as eight other 'bonus' titles, bringing the grand total up to 11. This shotgun approach is actually the secret of the title's success, because while the three marquee titles are a bit of a letdown, a few of the lesser titles are interesting and fun enough to make the game worthy of a look.
Sonic Gems Collection – Consumer Guide
According to ESRB, this game contains: Cartoon Violence
Sonic Heroes – Second Opinion
As a critic, I don't like to admit that I'm wrong but I can, and do. Still, that doesn't mean I like it. Naturally, I try to be wrong as little as possible—but today, I need to 'fess up big-time. See, I used to think Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg was a bad Sega game, but that was only until I played Sonic Heroes. Now, I see lil' Billy as a virtual masterpiece by comparison, practically the digital equivalent of a Guernica, or Starry Night. Why? Because Sonic Heroes has so much wrong with it, that three lefts couldn't make it right.
Sonic Heroes – Consumer Guide
According to ESRB, this game contains: Mild Fantasy Violence
Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg – Review
That torturous, fickle experience I just alluded to combines with a lack of engaging play mechanics to create Billy Hatcher And The Giant Egg. A simplistic, by-the-numbers 3D platformer with inspiration taken from Sonic The Hedgehog, Billy Hatcher ends up lagging behind the genre's top games by a wide margin despite its novel concept.
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