Hard to explain how I feel
The problems they mention are ridiculous, just playing the game for a few hours and you'll see thier scores were nothing more than prejudice/biased bashing perhaps because they didnt like the slower Werehog levels.Whatever the reason is just ignore them because they dont offer any valid information.
Now for the most part the game really feels like 2 diffrent games in one. While the Werehog levels heavly focus on platforming and beating up enemies your only real goal in the speed levels is to run through them as fast as you can being careful not slam into enemies or fall off cliffs.
I know alot of people complain about the Werehog levels and I wasnt too fond of them at first either, but I actually found them pretty enjoyable. Like I said they focus on platforming so if your a fan of plaformers you'll feel right at home with them.
The beat'em parts are nothing special and really just require some light button mashing but it is fun to use some of your unlockable attacks and sometimes you'll need them for a few of the really difficult parts. Just when you feel the Werehog levels might be getting old you're at the final level so they never become too boring if you don't particularly like them.
Which brings me to my first complaint. I feel like the game was kinda short. There are plenty of other side levels you can play but if you just play through the main quest it feels like they could have added a few more levels/Parts of the World, but its no biggie.
Now my biggest complaint are the Quick-Time-Event moments, when you are forced into punching in random button combinations to make it across gaps or to damage bosses. Sometimes they are made up of 4 or more buttons and they barely give you enough time to punch them in.
More often than not you'll end up dying because you accidently pressed the wrong button. If that wasnt bad enough there are two levels where you do nothing but these random button combos, each with the same boss at the end. Everything is happening so fast in these two levels that sometimes you cant tell whether you actually got it right or you just got lucky.
This whole punching in random buttons thing makes no sense for any platformer game, Sonic never needed them to get arcoss cliffs before so why now? I want to play Sonic...NOT Simon Says. Now I do have one more complaint but if you havent beaten the game don't read the following.
SPOILER-
I was quite disappointed with the final battle. Instead of it focusing compeletly on Super Sonic you first have to fight using this giant rock type monster thats made up of all the chaos emerald temples in the game. This thing is slow and clunky especially when you have to avoid the stuff being thrown at you. Seriously a snail would have a better reaction time than this thing.
In between all that you yet again have to punch in some more button combos (though not quite as hard this time) and you must run through some brief speed segments before your time runs out. When you actually do become Super Sonic all you do is fly around doing homing attacks on these tenticle like arms that dont even move. Your biggest threat is running into rocks that get in your way. After thats done all you do is a few more button combos and your done.
First of all the whole first part when you play as the rock monster is pointless and should never been added, as soon as you beat Eggman for the last time you should go straight to becoming Super Sonic. Second Super Sonic should have done something more exciting than just dodging rocks, plus its harder than you think.
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Like I said I only review games I felt were underrated or overrated so I dont really know why I reviewed this, maybe because I felt letdown with everything I mentioned about the length, button combos and ending.
Bottom Line, it is a very enjoyable game, even more so if the few problems I mentioned don't bother you.