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The Most Unfair Sonic Game Review Scores...
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Sonic 06 Review Score: (1:43)
Sonic Frontiers Review Score: (4:35)
Sonic Adventure Games Review Score: (5:58)
Sonic Lost World Review Score: (7:36)
Sonic Unleashed Review Score: (9:19)
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First
Second
Third aswell
will they be the fourth
that Pocket Champs game reminds me of something on sonic adventure 1 & 2 that chaomix really want it back
being a sonic fan was the first step toward learning that review scores dont really matter
also thank you for being a lost world defender, glad to know theres more
Lost world is so fun idk why people despise it@@omar__swag
@@silentlore2458 ikr its really not that bad, just came out at a bad time i guess
@@silentlore2458because you can't boost or run fast in lost world
@@silentlore2458 Cuz it has stiff controls, very bad art direction, terrible story and half of the stages aren't that good.
I feel like if Unleashed came out recently then the outlook would be much more different since it would show people that “Oh Shoot, Sonic can have polish and high budget gameplay.” It’s just sad knowing in an alternate timeline, Sonic Unleashed could have been Critically Acclaimed.
It still baffles my mind that Sonic Unleashed got a lower score than Sonic 06 on Gamespot back in the day ...
And what I still can't understand is how Unwiished got much higher score and sales despite being a 10 times worse than x360/ps3 version
@@BobbyProductions287It became the cool thing to hate Sonic, so they went all in on it.
@GMP1isReal Yeah Sonic 2006 unfortunately seemed to tarnish not only Sonics reputation at the time but the view on all games after it so that even improvements were seen as "eh Sega got lucky because we've already seen how bad Sonic can be" as if that one game is representative of the entire franchise (and I understand it's not the only bad Sonic game but that's when the hating bandwagon seems to have started)
In an alternate timeline, Unleashed wouldn’t exist.
If Sonic ‘06 fared well they would have never dropped the “Adventure Gameplay” concept and built more stories centered around fantasies/epics just like ‘06 did.
Never forget ‘06 was supposed to be a reboot of the series.
That Sonic Unleashed review is the reason why so many Sonic fans never take reviewers seriously. Interesting that the guy who did that review no longer works for IGN, according to a fairly recent video they did.
Most of IGN's employees who were there in the mid-late 2000s-early 2010s have left the company.
WHAT!? You mean to tell me that a company with thousands of employees doesn't have the same people stay forever?! Almost like people move on and find different job opportunities. THAT'S WEIRD!
I think Fadel put it best, to paraphrase he essentially said "When it comes to review scores, people just look at the score instead of actually watching the review and seeing what is and isn't wrong with the game. They could like everything that's considered good and not care about playing what's considered bad so to them it won't matter, but they just see a 6/10 and think "bad" instead of forming their own opinion"
@@KCGamingBuddiessuperstars is scoring fine. Not as good as mania but it's got a solid 76 on metacritic.
I blame IGN and GameSpot for that.
Game Journalists vs Sonic will always be an endless drama
The Days of our lives and The young and the restless of the topic.
Because they’re very mediocre and get mediocre scores, but for some reason this really offends weirdly obsessed Sonic fans. It’s okay to enjoy something that is mediocre.
Which is why review scores from critics don't matter.
Superstars is currently sitting around the 70s. The fact that its lower than Sonic 4 epI is baffling
This is so tragic sonic 4 episode 1 is dog water episode /2 was in my opinion pretty alright
@@Grim-death You mean episode "I am in the 60s"?
@@Grim-death I havent played ep 1, but ep 2 was shockingly fun. I like it more than CD actually
What is sad is that Superstars is the real Sonic 4. It got a good level design, lots of playable characters, good and some extremely hard bosses, unique abilities, story, new special stages and one of the best final boss fight in Sonic franchise.
I'm sure that most of the reviewers haven't even finished the game properly.
@@NeonChannel Sonic 4 is the real Sonic 4 because EP2 was made with the expectation of being Sonic 4. That is like saying SA2 is not the real SA2 because people don't like it.
Even I who is somewhat mixed about frontiers thinks it deserves an 8/10. The game was amazing despite how tired I got with the main gameplay loop at the end of the game. Especially with update 3 turning up the challenge all they way and giving those who thought frontiers was easy a challenge
I feel the exact same way man. Despite the game being janky at times with cyberspace and a lot of 2D segments people complain about and the pop in, it still had more positives than negatives imo and it’s the most fun I’ve had with Sonic since Mania.
I love sonic frontiers yeah cyberspace level kinda sucked but they where not to bad and the updates made it even better like the spin dash and update 3 made sonic frontiers better
Honstley the only thing that bugs me with reviews is that some guys cant go 5 minutes without mentioning 06 or boom rise of lyric even when the game has nothing to do with them
I never care about the reviews.
I like what I like and those critics can like what they want.
Thanks for putting me in the vid!
“Put that subscribe button to sleep”
Sonic Frontiers being my second favorite Sonic game, the rating kinda caught me off guard, but I get that it has uncountable issues in the form of glitches, the story, and the gameplay. I even didn’t like Frontiers until my second Playthrough, and now I love it. But I still understand the rating
Wasn't the reason for Unleashed's initial slander mainly due to optimization issues AND the Werehog? I remember begging my friend to play unleashed on their 360 and that thing CHUGGED.
If Sega actually made a Steam port like they did for Lost World, Unleashed would pop off.
You're right about Sonic Lost World.
We'll just have to wait until the rest of the world catches up on that one.
Completely biased, it's my favorite Sonic game
Sonic fans when someone gives their game a 7/10: 😡
I've been anticipating this video, and you definitely delivered! Great one! :D
I honestly think that Sonic Fans that are Twitter people there probably the people who just said the score is just unfair.
"The gameplay itself is very enjoyable"
*proceeds to show us snowball footage*
That worse example of Lost world gameplay for sure😅
@@reecegaming418 exactly my point 😂
Snowball is possibly the worst part of LW and still better than Colors' highlights.
I dont think anyone that's played lost world has ever enjoyed that level.
@@Yoshistar238 I mean, I found it alright.
Man there’s too many to count lol. Unleashed got it the worst imo.
Wow. Pocket Champs is literally just the Chao Garden and specifically the Chao Racing.
Unleashed was done dirty for no reason when it released, but SONIC 4 GETS GOOD REVIEWS??? GIVE ME A BREAK!!!
The logic is “werehog bad, 2D platforming good”. I don’t even like unleashed and I think it’s 50x better than sonic 4. So that shows you how dumb the critics are.
@tima3004 I don't like Unleashed either. Personally I think the game is way too overrated. But even I can agree that Unleashed is better than Sonic 4 epilog.
While I can totally understand being upset that a game got a lower score than it deserves, but I don't agree with the backlash when it's MORE than it "deserves".
Like how people get upset that Sonic 4 Episode I was well-received, when it was a fairly decent game, and plenty of fans liked it too. Just because you don't like the game personally doesn't mean that it did better than it deserved.
IGN is NOTORIOUS for being unfair to Sonic games and giving them undeserving review scores. I no longer trust IGN with Sonic
Remember "sonic is never good"
@@adriandzikon797They literally forgot that sa1 and 2, generations, unleashed, frontiers, etc, exist. most of these games are pretty decent or good. And are usually a fun time. (I didn’t include the classics but you should count those aswell because they really said that sonic was never good)
Honestly with their most recent review of Superstars which completely misunderstands 2D Sonic and how it functions I'm convinced that they just hire writers who suck at playing Sonic games just to make them look bad on purpose.
I don’t trust ign, period.
Sonic after seeing the first review for unleashed.
"Big oof"
One of my first encounters with Sonic reviews as a kid was when I would look up lists for best and worse Sonic games and see 06 as one of the worst and be jumping around questioning why everyone thought 06 was bad cause I had thought it was one of the best games ever 😂
Tbh sonic frontiers right now deserves AT LEAST a 8/10 or 8.5/10
9 imo
No it doesn't, that game is trash.
7/10 for me
@@felixdaniels37 have you played it?
@@Blue007prime (he hasn't)
Its wild how every sonic review always has to contain some variation of "why does sonic have obstacles? Its about going fast"
Probably the reason the reviewers actually liked forces
The werehog stages were goated
Keep in mind, most “professional” reviewers aren’t sonic fans and don’t know anything. The people who reviewed sonic 4 were like “oh a 2D platformer this is good I guess” and likely never even played the classics longer than 5 minutes.
To call them professional is a bit insulting to actual reviewers who aren't even professional yet seem to have a better grasp on reviewing than most mainstream review sites.
"Show your rizzy gyatt to that subscribe button" fr tho great video
Also also - that part about Sonic 4, what you said is so true. I was still a kid when it came out, and it was logical to me that I SHOULD play Sonic 4 and I SHOULD like it because apparently it's even better than Colors and Unleashed which I liked alot. And guess what, I was forcing myself to beat stupid Sonic 4 and it was so not fun, I remember I was so annoyed by all of this, it felt like beating this game and getting all emeralds took forever to do. But in the end that was a lesson to remember, lol.
You are very correct on sonic lost world
Honestly I have always not liked critics scores because I would always love the sonic games where on the cretic scores the game would be like a 50 or less where my experience and my enjoyment out of the games are usually pretty high with like most of the sonic games being 80-99 score on them. For example: The cretic score for sonic unleashed is 60, for me its a 90-99. I dont follow nor do I look at the cretic scores because i know im going to love the sonic games no matter what because thats just me and because I usually love the sonic games lol and because I genuinely love the sonic games and always have fun with them.
Always remember, the critics scores do not dictate your experience and how you will like it. Love this video and honestly I loved talking about my love for sonic games :)
Always love your videos and cant wait for more! :)
‘’Boost into that subscribe button’’
People gotta recognize scores LITERALLY don't matter, their actual CRITICISMS do. What is a 7/10 for you might be lower or higher for someone else. The number doesn't mean anything it's subjective. No media "deserves" a specific score from anyone. Listen to the actual criticisms and arguments for or against it. That's what is being argued and agreed/disagreed with, not the score.
a good way to view reviews
Problem is that these reviews are completely undermined by the review score itself. IGN has become a meme for how many games they hand out 7s to yet the review itself doesn't reflect the reasoning for even deserving it. And not just their video game reviews. The review of the Halo TV show was just so god awful cause if you're a Halo fan you can see how much they butchered the lore and characters. Yet despite all the problems it they still gave the show a 7/10.
@@e1iteyoshi998 The problem is with people saying "THEY" imo. There's different people working there and they all have different experiences. Every single person has a bias and that's what the number truly reflects. How good the individual thought it was to THEM. It's why when people are expressing their own takes like saying Sonic Superstars for example is a 10/10 or 5/10, it's just measuring their PERSONAL enjoyment and issues of it. If you keep thinking like "reviews only matter if they solely have the same takes as me" you're just being closed minded and thinking you're right and other people are wrong or vice versa. Once you let go of the score and listen to what they're really saying then it becomes easier to understand someone. And i'm not saying everyone is good at expressing their thoughts, but it becomes easier to listen to someone when you just let the score go.
@@ItsAK9 The only issue with IGN/Gamespot reviews and regardless of who reviews it's the score that gets the attention. IGN reviews have been known to be inconsistent like i said with the Halo TV show review. It pointed all the problems that the show as a whole had but yet at the end of the it's a bold direction for the Halo series that fans will like... yet it's a 7/10. If the score half the time actually reflected the review and didn't feel tacked on then it would be another review that would just slip under the radar. But every single review has been like this with almost every AAA game that comes out nowadays. It's not so hard to ask for consistency in a review and yet RUclipsrs seem to do a much better job at reviewing than the "professionals."
I have a cousin who was an playing SA2B demo of City Escape at at store. People were surprised by how cool and fun it looked.
He chatted with a few and told me those people did think sonic games could be good. Watching him play it changed their minds that Sonic might not be as bad as they were told
>most unfair sonic game review scores
>ctrl + f sonic shuffle
>no results
Matt u forgot one of the goat games.
Honestly in an ironic twist the "bad reviews" of Sonic games made me learn not to take any reviews of the franchise whether positive or negative seriously. At this point I've learned it's just better to play the games themselves cause if there is another thing I've learned is that neither Sega or the fandom seems to know what it wants in order for a Sonic game to be good.
Matthasnocuts looks to have had a haircut this is false advertising, your name is no cuts. also great vid
I keep waiting for a Sonictuber to talk about the IGN review of Sonic Adventure XD where the writer who clearly didn't play the game talks about boosting and 2D sections
Lmfao being a sonic fan is soo crazy
Ngl it kinda is
I totally agree with lost world
Sega should rerelease Sonic 4 just so critics can give it a lower score lol
Lmfao the denial is gonna be on repeat the rest of the year lmfao
The only employee at IGN I remember the name of is Jeffrey Goldstein.
That man's name will forever be edged into my brain because of his atrocious Sonic Unleashed review.
Still gives me nightmares till this day.
“The controls can be fatally unresponsive”
*proceeds to jump over the boost ramp and into a pit*
i'm just watching the college dropout album in background lmao
I love that you have been posting a-lot more lately
“Phantom Rush that subscribe button”
People also got upset at frontiers’ review scores bc there were 2 people who gave a 2/10 and 1/10, which was the reason the game went from a 76-78/100 to a 71. And the thing is that DIGITAL TRENDS REVIEWS TECH LIKE TV, BUT REVIEWED FRONTIERS FOR SOME REASON. The other critic I don’t know abt but digital trends should’ve left this game alone and review their TVs and such
Well let's be honest Digital Trends was just horrible when it came to reviewing the game not to mention their responses to the criticism just made them even worse. I mean it's pretty bad when you're compared to the early IGN reviews that they did of Sonic Unleashed and The Black Knight back in the day.
I grew up with Unwiished, Sonic 2, Secret Rings, and Sonic 4 Episode 1
And I loved those games to death. My brother and I used to play the party mode in secret rings all the time together. And I loved Sonic 4 and Sonic 2. Sonic Unwiished though, was my first game I ever played. And I will always love it even though I enjoy the HD version much more now.
I'm tempted to try out Pocket Champs just because it looks like it's straight out of SA2 chao racing but with more factors mixed in/more depth. 😂
Also because it would support Matt and his based take on critic reviews.
Just seeing Sonic 4 getting a HIGHER scote than *Da G.O.A.T* , just makes me question IGN as a whole
I don't think that was an ign score
Pardon, metacritic
Sonic Boom Fire and Ice is underrated. Way better than Forces or Sonic 4
Sonic Fan: "Ehh I don't care about the critic reviews :D"
SEGA: "Well I do, so fuck you! We changing everything and lower the budget again!"
For the longest time i thought your username was matthascoconuts
i think the video editor did a good job good job video editor
yes correct perfect editing
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Interesting video! You have good points. At the end of the day we shouldn’t let these scores influence us since they’re a joke 50% of the time and we should have our own subjective opinion. (I would have a hot take that Free Riders is overhated lol)
Well for an average gamer that score might convince someone not to try a game out for themselves so I certainly understand getting irritated with it. However these days most people are smart enough to not just let Rotten Tomatoes or Metacritic be the deciding factor for how they feel about a movie or game. And the Sonic movies help alot with getting fresh eyes to try the games out for themselves.
Don't forget about Sonic Free Riders, which barely isn't the lowest rated Sonic game of all time, being only 1 point higher than Sonic 06. That game is physically painful to play, it should be lower if you ask me
How the hell is Sonic 4 above Sonic Frontiers,Colors,Generations,Unleashed and even Adventures
Like what
7:57 Finally someone said it! Lost World is in my top 5 Sonic games
9:06 that scream from eggman
Here's some reasons why some of these games got the scores they got:
Sonic Lost World's Controls are downright bad. Simply maneuvering Sonic is unwieldy and not in a fun '06 way turning in 3D makes you slow down to a near stop. All the moves feel sluggish, the homing attack is unreliable, the best part of the parkour system which is wall-running in 3D, is barely utilized.
Sonic Unleashed gets praised in retrospect because we now know how long and frequent the Werehog stages are. Nowadays if you boot up Sonic Unleashed you know there's X amount of Werehog stages and they each take about 10-15 minutes to beat and if you didn't know, you can just look it up. But if you're a first-time player from 2008, you have no idea how many Werehog stages there are, nor how long they are. And whenever the Werehog to Sonic ratio is as lopsided as it is the game can become a total slog if you prefer the Sonic stages (as most people do).
The Sonic Adventure games are similar to Sonic Unleashed where you have no idea how long nor frequent the stages that you don't like are going to be. And as a reviewer you can't just look at the Sonic portions and give the game an 85 for being "short but sweet" because there's a whole other 5/6 of the game that needs to be played and reviewed. When you factor that in, the score is appropriate because the general public doesn't like the non-Sonic portions of the game. Also back when the reviews were written, the reviewers didn't know what parts of the game were mandatory (or fun) so they played all of it and formed an opinion.
And speaking of the time period, think about this: Why play the Mech shooting in SA2 when you could play Halo instead? Why play the Amy and Knuckles portions in SA1 when you could play Jak and Daxter? The competition was steep back then and Sonic was behind the curve in a lot of areas. I'm glad people enjoy these games, but there's a real reason why they got the scores they received at the time.
Exactly
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1:44 How did Matt not burned?!
Other unfair Sonic Metacritic scores include Secret Rings, Black Knight, Fire & Ice, 06, Shadow the Hedgehog, Sonic 4: Episode II, Sonic Forces and I'd even argue for Rise of Lyric. Basically misunderstood or overhated games, Sonic fandom can be the most close minded type of extremists.
How is Secret Rings unfairly judged(In the bad-direction at least)? It got the 69 which is basically a 7. A 7 for a game that didn't become good until Dolphin was able to play it flawlessly(Because playing it on Wii-mote is a lost cause, you definitly need a controller)
@@lpfan4491 Critics score is indeed 6.9, players score however is 5.5. Secret Rings ain't a 5/10 in any universe out in the multiverse.
I don't think we should be dog piling people for bad reviews but I still believe that Sonic would be a much more stable series if Unleashed got good reviews. To make the worst game ever (Sonic 06) then follow up by fixing the mistakes and creating a banger game (Unleashed) only to have that banger game sell a similar amount to the bad game and get even worse reviews from certain game outlets must've really messed Sonic Team up. Every game from then on became a budget title and I got bullied at school for liking Sonic :(
I think review scores matter at least a little bit because they do still get reactions out of everybody. Like if the game I really loved got an underwhelming score sure it’s not gonna change how I feel about it but a little part of me would still be bummed that everyone else didn’t feel the same way.
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I think Sonic Lost World deserves a 6/10. Sure it works, plays nice, but the level design is so dull.
Frontiers 7/10 is a very valid score. Imo, it deserves it.
7/10 pre-update for me. But after the final update it's a 8.5/10 for me.
god damn the sponsor takes up a fifth of the fucking video
0:37 very rodrick face
Sonic has been in a similar situation as the anime "Sword Art Online" where it just became a meme to clown on it.
For me it doesn't matter what so ever But i think if sega is going to remaster sonic unleashed and generations and maybe lost world and if they handle it well in a game collection these games would get better review scores, same with the adventure games and heroes but these games should be remade not remastered and if they handle it right sonic would get back his reputation that he once had in the 90s , and thats my opinion
7:37 sonic lost world should be at a 70, no more no less. It’s not a bad game but it’s not overwhelmingly good either, in my opinion it’s just solid
Well if we're talking about the console or PC versions then yes. But the 3DS version is honestly the worst Sonic handheld game I've ever played.
@@e1iteyoshi998the 3DS version was the first version I played and I honestly don’t know how I beat it as a kid, i played it again recently and it was actually awful
@@ItzGlitchyy It's worse the second time i played through it.
I do think Lost World deserves its 63 overall score, to be honest. It demonstrates that, just like Unleashed, the context surrounding the game's launch is so important. Viewed in a vacuum, Lost World is a polished, decent experience, but the issue is that it was the next mainline Sonic game after Generations, a game that refined the boost formula and introduced the reasonably fun Classic Sonic gameplay. All Sonic Team had to do was take those two gameplay styles and put them in original levels with a more fleshed out story, but instead they threw that all away and produced a highly experimental mish-mash of ideas with a severe lack of focus and poorly explained (though decently implemented) parkour mechanics. That is the core issue with Lost World, I think.
9:10 lack of ambition
growing up is by realising that reviewer scores doesn't matter
If ever listened to review scores I'd only play handful of Sonic games Lmao. I'm pretty open minded with Sonic games, s9 most of different directions the franchise has taken doesn't bother me.
So*
1:36 Nah i'm Going Beyond that I"m going "Hyper"
And what about Sonic Origins? Critics gave good scores despite the glitches,Sonic 3's music being replaced in some stages and in lesser,the DLC.
It could be the later updates like in Sonic Origins Plus
what do you have to say for your self ign?
I agree with you about Sonic Lost World. I really enjoyed playing through the game, even if the story was bad.
Is it me but pocket champs looks like the SA1 SA2 chao races
I like Sonic 4, but I understand that a lot of people don't
I never played lost world all the way through, I have it on the 3ds but unfortunately it has issues so I can't really finish it. But my only issue with it was the run button, not that big a deal I know, but growing up on the adventure and heroes, among the classic mega collection, momentum based game play always just felt right. And when I had seen that lost world took that away, I was a bit disappointed. The game was fun from what I can remember, but for me that was one of the flaws I sincerely didn't like.
That's just me though
Sonic peaked with mania. They won't top that because they can't focus on what made it good
For any game I never look at reviews so I literally yelled when you said sonic 4 got an 81
Now, for Sonic 4's defense, a short game isn't bad like S3K is pretty short, but its still an AWESOME game, difference is, S3K was made with lots of love passion and care, Sonic 4 is a hot dumpster fire shat out by an over-milked cow.
I've been plaing sonic since the Genesis days and Lost World is probably my favourite Sonic Game.
Sonic and the black knight is super unfair
Sonic Frontiers ain't even a Sonic game in my eyes.
People praising it and saying it is the right step in the right direction don't know what Sonic is all about.
Pocket Champs? More like CHAO RACE!
honestly i think both unleashed and frontiers should have 80+ for scores and honestly i kinda find both to be the gold standard for 3d sonic also i LOVE the wearhog gameplay in unleashed like man it made unleashed bearable for me and thats honestly a complement since i find 3d sonic janky.... meanwhile as for sonic and the black knight loved it and beat the secret bos rematch vs lancelot despite NOT knowing how to deal with him so... yea honestly think they should have better scores than other games
To those who want to play a sonic game after reading an IGN review PLEASE don’t go to IGN.
If you want to know why, before sonic forces released they did a little event discussing sonics history and here’s 4 things to why they are immature adults.
1. Apparently, Sonic was never good. Yeah, sonic has has some downs but also some VERY good ups like sonic 2, 3, Mania, generations etc. Even Mario fans respect sonics fans to some degree and that’s saying something.
2. They said that green hill zone was from sonic 2. Yeah that shows a lot about your reviews. Maybe do some research on your games first.
3. Worst one. Apparently we all want to have sex with big the cat. Yep you read that right.
4. They were extremely nitpicky. Apparently spikes, bottomless pits, loops and enemies make a sonic game boring. What’s next the blue sky, the green grass, the animals, the sea.
So if you want to start playing sonic games based on IGN reviews PLEASE ask somebody else or read other peoples reviews other then IGN.
Sonic Frontiers deserves between 75-80. Lost World deserves a 70-75. And Sonic 4 isn’t a bad game when you ignore the name and every other 2D sonic game to exist. At the end of the day, it’s still kinda fun to play. It’s not bad, but not good either so a fair score is between a 50-55 or maybe 60
8:35 Lost World required you to hold a button to run. That's what was wrong with it. Practically every single negative review mentions it. A parkour button is a fine idea for a Sonic game, but the idea that Sonic requires granular control over his speed so much that it's divided into two tiers you switch between manually was an idea already handled to chef's-kiss-perfection in the boost titles. Honestly, if they'd just upped his base walk speed and made the parkour button more overtly a "boost" button we wouldn't even be having this conversation. Lost World was good but let's not pretend gamers were making a conscious choice not to like it, they just got rubbed the wrong way once again at SEGA's insistence on fixing what was never broken and breaking what was already fixed ten times over. I don't hear a lot of people talking shit about Lost World's chain honing attack and god-tier character animation because those were things they did right. The refrain you generally hear is "less Mario in my Sonic game please" and "don't force me to hold a button to go fast if you're just going to cap my speed at a jog anyway," which I think you'll agree aren't unreasonable requests
Really, what you are talking about is Frontiers and Frontiers highlights why the critisism of Lost World is bunk. Yes, the default speed is too low, but you are going to stay running 95% of the game anyways, the same way you are going to boost for 95% of the game in Frontiers. Either way, you are going to hold down a button the majority of the game, the speed of the walk-mode barely matters in practice.
@@lpfan4491 You could have left it at "yes the default speed is too low." That's the problem, my dude. You shouldn't be walking when the stick is tilted all the way forward. It feels like shit in a Mario game, much less a Sonic one
@@normalgraham Lmao.
It's been like this for years now: only 8, 9, and 10 are considered "good" scores. 7 and 6 are "mediocre and meh" and everything below might as well not exist because it means "bad". Of course in case of x/5 scores just divide the above by 2. So any rating below 3/5 is essentially "bad". I learned to watch detailed reviews and then decide for my own if I want to play or not, or just straight try a game by myself completely blind and then decide what I think of it.
Blame IGN and GameSpot for that.
You know, despite my varying thoughts on the other games, I think we can all agree that giving Sonic 4: Episode 1 a score of 81 is just straight up absurd. I have a strong hatred toward Sonic 4, especially the first episode, and part of it goes back to when I forced myself to get every achievement in both games.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog has a Score of 82.😅