Somehow, Sonic character writing has improved everywhere EXCEPT the mainline titles. What you get is a solid hour with Sonic and the gang in an escape room, with plenty of continuity nods I wish the actual games had.
Sadly, it is held back by an unnecessary, mandatory minigame, lots of hand holding and the game sometimes freezing up / not responding to input, which I cannot excuse for a game that has no complex calculations or anything running under the hood.
Sadly, it is held back by an unnecessary, mandatory minigame, lots of hand holding and the game sometimes freezing up / not responding to input, which I cannot excuse for a game that has no complex calculations or anything running under the hood.
Baby's first visual novel
Love to see fan-made works be published by Sega, and it's lovingly made too
Although I really don't understand what the point of the Sonic mini games was, I mean isn't a crime solving game supposed to challenge your mind, I get Danganronpa did this but that was also my main problem with that game
Give me Phoenix Wright style, I have to figure it out myself dammit!
Love to see fan-made works be published by Sega, and it's lovingly made too
Although I really don't understand what the point of the Sonic mini games was, I mean isn't a crime solving game supposed to challenge your mind, I get Danganronpa did this but that was also my main problem with that game
Give me Phoenix Wright style, I have to figure it out myself dammit!
I was really surprised how much of a fleshed out experience this is. For an April Fools joke, it's got a solid ~2 hrs of content. It's a very cute and charming blend of visual novel and platformer sections, and they use the characters well. I wasn't ready for the ending to get kinda real, though, lol. I appreciated the simplicity of it, but the last like 20ish minutes push a bit farther than I think it really needed to. I really liked it a lot more than I thought I would!
I love when I cop the twist to a story right off the bat. Even if it's a kid's game and probably exceedingly obvious to everyone else as well.
Very cute. Lots of great references, the best presentation we've gotten for a lot of these characters... ever - in a game, that is - fun to look at, and the most I've been allowed to dig through trash cans outside of Pokémon.
This might just be because I'm tired and played this after getting off work, but man my eyes are ready to not look at things after having played this. The segments of actual gameplay that's somewhat like Sonic 3D Blast's special stages really started to bother my eyes. They were decent, but the angle being isometric instead of behind Sonic probably made me mess up more than usual.
Anyway, this was really charming and had some good laughs, I hope something else likes this happens again - maybe shift out some of the supporting characters for others of Sonic's friends?
Very cute. Lots of great references, the best presentation we've gotten for a lot of these characters... ever - in a game, that is - fun to look at, and the most I've been allowed to dig through trash cans outside of Pokémon.
This might just be because I'm tired and played this after getting off work, but man my eyes are ready to not look at things after having played this. The segments of actual gameplay that's somewhat like Sonic 3D Blast's special stages really started to bother my eyes. They were decent, but the angle being isometric instead of behind Sonic probably made me mess up more than usual.
Anyway, this was really charming and had some good laughs, I hope something else likes this happens again - maybe shift out some of the supporting characters for others of Sonic's friends?
what an absolute SLAM DUNK of a visual novel!!! this is so incredibly worth your time. it doesn't overstay its welcome, has charm in spades, is a lot of fun (adding a lot of new mechanics to the visual novel structure), and has a surprising amount of style and aesthetic vision.
got absolutely NOTHING bad to say about this lil number! super fun!
got absolutely NOTHING bad to say about this lil number! super fun!