A new twist to 3-D Sonic that works well.
User Rating: 8.4 | Sonic and the Secret Rings WII
In the past couple years the Sonic series has been falling off and some think Sonic team should stop making Sonic games altogether. Sonic and the Secret Rings is not the case and it pushes Sonic in the right direction. The controls can get a little frustrating at times, but they are a great fit for this game (you feel more in control of Sonic), and the auto-camera is very good. If you’ve played a lot of Sonic in the past you’ll notice that this is a harder than they usually have been. The music would have been fine if they kept out the lyrics. I thought the plot was better than it has been in some of the past games, even though I didn’t really pay much attention to it. _ The main playable mode is Adventure the single player portion of the game. It is divided into eight "chapters" (including the tutorial world) and these chapters are subdivided into "paragraphs," or missions. The missions for each chapter will keep you busy for a while, after completing one you get experience points. A bronze, silver or gold metal can also be rewarded (this unlocks new skills). There are also 3 fire souls in almost all of the missions, which unlock characters for party mode and pages Story Book mode. The RPG element in this game is pretty cool, you have 4 rings to equip skills to (sadly you can only equip 1 ring at a time); your current level determines the capacity for the rings. Party mode was okay, it offers mini-games for up to four players (computer or human players), a little bit similar to Mario Party. There is also Story Book, which is a special feature where special pages are recovered during the game; the collected pages offer you the opportunity to look at game artwork, cut-scenes, videos or sound testing.
Sonic and the Secret Rings is an eye-opener for everyone who has grown tired of the Sonic series. Secret Rings offers enough progress in the gameplay to warrant some serious consideration and some great old-school platforming fun with good graphics. Anyone who owns the Wii right now should have this game, and it is a hopeful sign for the blue guy’s future.
