If you mistime a jump, you often won't be able to grab a nearby ledge to save yourself, resulting in a quick death. First of all, you can only grab onto certain surfaces. This should come in handy when venturing around these stages, but a few arbitrary restrictions have been tossed in to make even simple navigation annoying. You’ll be given a few checkpoints in each level, but these are awkwardly placed, so you'll have to repeatedly mash through the same battalion of enemies if you can't properly navigate the woeful platforming sections.Īs a werehog you're equipped with stretchable arms and the ability to grab onto ledges. The enemies are stupid, blithely standing around until you take the fight to them, and their lack of variety becomes oppressively obvious after just a few hours. You're given a shield for when things get too hectic, but it's hardly ever necessary. Even though you can unlock more combos as you progress through the journey, your combat strategy never evolves beyond mindlessly tapping two attack buttons with an occasional jump thrown in for good measure. The levels are evenly divided between platforming and fighting, but both elements offer more frustration than excitement. The werehog levels are extremely tedious.
Even though there are an equal number of hedgehog and werehog stages, most of your time in Sonic Unleashed will be spent at night, since the arduous combat levels take far longer to complete than the sprint-to-the-finish-line hedgehog races. This abomination emerges only when the sun goes down, and the game allows you to play stages during the day and at night to make full use of your dual personalities. Innocuous Sonic gets transformed into a giant, mean-looking creature called a werehog. Predictably, the planet breaks apart, but there is an unexpected side effect as well. Eggman shooting the world with a giant ray gun. Put simply, there is no reason to play Sonic Unleashed.įlaming punches and stretchy arms aren't as cool as they sound. The imprecise platforming, absentminded camera, and poor level design make Sonic's levels an unplayable mess, while his baffling transformation into lumbering werehog comes with a whole new slew of problems. Unfortunately, even with Sonic's trademark speed finally on full display, Unleashed lacks one very important element: fun. Sonic Unleashed was supposed to provide the unrelenting speed fans have been clamoring for, and it does finally offer a healthy dose of turbo-charged levels to burn through. And most every venture into the third dimension has resulted in various degrees of failure. Every new Sonic release carries a hope that Sega's blue hedgehog will be able to regain the form that made him a star in the early '90s.
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