Sonic unleashed music11/8/2022 ![]() ![]() If you can put up with its rubbish physics, do yourself a favour and try to get the Untouchable trophy for beating the boss rush mode without taking a hit - I promise, it salvages the game just a little. Leaving aside the nonchalant sacrilege of Sega’s title choice, it does bear mentioning that Sonic 4 isn’t a downright terrible game - it’s slight, ugly, and jank as all hell, but not terrible. Then Sega of America slapped the name Sonic the Hedgehog 4 on a third-party mobile phone title with gimmick-riddled gyroscopic controls, and that bright future was quickly snuffed out. For many, it seemed a harbinger of positive change for the future of classic mascot heroes after years of trendy reboots and reimaginings that saw Sonic get tall and Bomberman turned into a gritty, edgy post-apocalyptic version of itself in Act Zero. Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode I - PS3In 2008, Mega Man 9 was released on Nintendo’s WiiWare channel and was a bitesize return to glory for Capcom’s long-stagnant mascot - one that thrived purely for having brought Mega Man back to its basics. It’s just simply not a fun Sonic game - nothing particularly interesting is done with bringing the Sonic roster to the Virtua Fighter format, and you know that’s true because if these exact same characters, spin dashes and all, were reskinned to look like the Super Mario roster, you know not a single kid would play it and cry aloud “why is Mario in this Sonic game?” That’s not to say Sonic the Fighters isn’t a fun game - it's a solid if shallow brawler whose highlights just so happen to fall well below the standards of our best PlayStation fighting games list. ![]() Thus, the job of ‘list divider’ falls to Sonic the Fighters - which is absolutely not a Sonic game. Heartbreakingly, Sonic Forces is 100% a Sonic game, which is why its failings must be made abundantly clear and separate from the rest of the list. Sonic the Fighters - PS3Look, let’s not linger here - while some games do have the word Sonic in their title, and maybe even the character Sonic the Hedgehog in the roster, that does not make all such games genuine Sonic games. Throw in a custom character on the belief that players would rather be some dude who knows Sonic than Sonic himself, then make sure that character’s playstyle utterly kills fluid momentum, and for the first time even the most unblinking of Sonic’s fans might start to agree with all the uncharitable things said about Sonic Team as game designers. Reduce environment design to the question: “what if x, but y?” (i.e “what if Green Hill Zone, but sand?”). Reduce level designs to kill pits and straight lines. Reduce movement and player input to single inputs and instant win buttons. The worst thing you can say about Sonic Forces is that it shows a fundamental lack of understanding on every conceivable level regarding what Sonic games are or why people play them. The best thing you can say about Sonic Forces is that its story, peppered generously with moments of Sonic characters bathing your mute freak of a custom character in unearned praise, is that it’s genuinely and consistently hilarious. While Sonic ‘06 failed to deliver on its design ambitions, at least it had ambitions - Sonic Forces failed to deliver on the discarded McDonald’s pencil maze it calls a design, or even muster the willpower to finish pencil-sketching the maze. #Sonic unleashed music ps3#Sonic Forces - PS4Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) for the PS3 is not on this list because it doesn’t have a trophy list, but despite what you may have heard about its famously unfinished design, it would not have taken last place. The best Sonic the Hedgehog games on PS5, PS4, and PS3 So let's get into it - the top 21 Sonic games on PS5, PS4, and PS3! Don't get me wrong, I would talk about all of them if I could, but my contract with TrueTrophies is very particular about the length and frequency of my Sonic the Hedgehog essays. So that means no Game Gear titles, no Sonic '06 (it still makes an appearance), no Sonic Heroes, Shadow the Hedgehog, etc. To help narrow this list down (yes this is a shortened list), we decided to exclude any Sonic games that you cannot earn trophies for on a PlayStation console. While some say SOAP shoes are the best, others won’t budge on their love for Big the Cat, and I respect these positions equally - hopefully you’ll extend my wordy adoration the same courtesy. Excited to see where Frontiers lands on the list!Īiring public opinions on Sonic the Hedgehog can be a dangerous game - the Sega mascot's fan community have the power to perpetuate debates over games that don't even exist, like Sonic Adventure 3, so imagine how they feel about games that do exist. ![]()
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