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I like this one better than the Wii U version and I think that's because the controls are actually half decent. It's still not a great game however and a lot of levels are not that fun to play through. The 2D ones are especially rough with the camera being so zoomed in, and I hate the focus on combat some of the 3D levels have for some reason.

-Second beaten game of 2024
Far better than expected!

We're talking the 3DS version specifically. Good game to me.

Sighs ....
I only played this game because my sister had it and even then it was majorly disappointing every time I picked it up
It just wasn't fun most of the time

Este juego en particular siempre he visto y leído que hablan mal de el, y pese a ir con cierta desconfianza siento que el juego me dejó bastante satisfecho.

La historia no es especialmente buena, aparte de que los villanos en este caso aparte de parecerse a los aliens de space jam cuentan con personalidades muy marcadas, pero para mí (y para cualquiera) no llega al nivel de carisma de robotnik. Además, un punto que me desagrada es que aquí Sonic se siente como un imbecil, vendiendo prácticamente a Tails en más de una ocasión.

Jugablemente me parece súper interesante que cada nivel es completamente distinto, presenta sus propios gimmicks, y trabaja sobre ellos durante todo el nivel al cual está asignado, sin embargo hay algunos que son insufribles (el del desierto que hay plataformas que te mueven a una dirección específica o el de hielo que te persigue hostigosamente una bola de nieve y no te deja jugar), aparte de haber unas mecánicas que no funcionan del todo bien, sobretodo en los jefes.

En gráfico no puedo agregar mucho en cuanto a mi Review de Generations, es bonito el juego, de repente de laguea, sobre todo cuando te hacen daño y tienes muchos anillos, más allá los biomas son super variopintos y se ven bastante bien.

Musicalmente me dejó gusto a poco, hay varias canciones que no me terminaron de gustar, a pesar de que hay otras son buenísimas, en cierto modo es bastante irregular.

Finalmente, he de decir que el juego es bastante bueno dentro de todo, hay niveles que se alargan un poco deas pero no me puedo quejar mucho, al menos para darle una pasada está bastante bien y cumple con si función principal que es entretener.

Canción favorita: https://youtu.be/r11BM3PdGiw?si=VsYQa14mjaCLOdn9


Wouldn't really call this "bad", the gameplay can be fun from time to time, but it's just dragged down by repudiative drawn out level design requiring you to fight enemies with way too much health.
This formula has potential, but this ain't it.

Al menos es mejor que el de Wii U.

As a portable 3D sonic game, it could have been better. Graphics are good for what it's on, story is the same as the other version, and the level design is a bit bland.

This was the first game I replayed as a kid and realized that I can be wrong about enjoying a game

nossa mas tem que ser muito fã de sonic pra gostar dessa bosta

From what I played this game would have been alright, if it wasn't for two things.

One, the targeting of the auto-homing attack is far too wide and it will target things off-screen. Causing Sonic to get flung around the screen and into a hazard or pit because of how disorientating it is.

Two, it is far too easy to start doing parkour when you don't want to. Causing Sonic to get flung around the screen and into a hazard or pit because of how disorientating it is.

No eh jugado la versión de sobremesa de dicho juego, pero eh de admitir que este juego esta curioso y raro, no diría que es algo malo, seria mas una curiosidad de port y no esta mal

Pero creo que este juego esta OK, no seria algo que volvería a jugar o algo asi, es una curiosidad y ya

Sonic Lost World on 3DS has always been such a fascinating release to me. I’ve never played this game until recently, but I always found it a kinda neat novelty just for being a 3D platformer release on the Nintendo 3DS, which surprisingly has actually very few proper 3D platformers, despite the large amount of 2D ones on the system. The reputation of this game too is also something that's kinda been interesting to me, as I’ve heard a lot of people say its a legitimately way better game than the console game (which I absolutely despised LOL) but also, I’ve heard other people call this one of the worst 3D Sonics, being even worse than the console version somehow, which had me really curious on what this game would be like for me.

After playing through a decent amount of it, my thoughts are pretty much a mixture of these two opinions. When the level doesn’t have anything in the way of dumb gimmicks, or moments where the game suddenly stops you to fight enemies or do puzzles, then yeah! I think it's honestly pretty fun, and honestly way more interesting than the console game! I like the more compact level design in these sections, and I feel like this game uses the parkour system much more effectively and interestingly, as in the console version, the parkour was pretty much optional most of the time, and the general level design was overall just not really as fun. The bosses are also way more interesting too, as they actually have strategies behind them as opposed to dying in 10 seconds! But then, when you get to a level where the game introduces some sort of gimmick, forcing some obnoxious, hard to control wisp power, stopping you to complete some really dumb and slow paced puzzles, or has you needing to beat waves and waves of enemies on end (sometimes not even telling you HOW to beat these enemies), the game drags so fucking much. These gimmicks are the most pace breaking things ever, and as the game goes on for longer and longer these gimmicks creep in more and more. I think the worst aspect though, is the special stages. These stages are so fucking bad, as for some reason, in order to play them, you need to use the 3DS gyroscope??? What??? Why??? It controls so awfully, there’s no real way to calibrate the controls if it feels off sync, and since it requires full 360 movement, you need to constantly be moving the 3DS and your face around. This always get so annoying, especially if I’m playing the game in public as I pretty much have to close my 3DS and wait till I get home because no fucking way am I doing that in public lmao. By far the worst special stages in the entire franchise bar none lmao.

Also beyond this, even if the level design was more consistent, at the end of the day, this is still Sonic Lost World at its core. This game still has some of the worst story and character writing in the series, the level environments are just the most generic NSMB esque environments ever, the deadly six are still my least favorite villains in the entire series, just being one dimensional archetypes with nothing else behind them, and I’ll never understand why, after finally finding a gameplay formula that people actually liked and enjoyed, they decided to abandon it in favor of this style, which people didn’t enjoy nearly as much as Generations, Colors, or even Unleashed nowadays.

If the game didn’t have these awful gimmicks, I’d probably rank this higher than console Lost World and give this a D-Tier ranking, as again, with levels not using those gimmicks I did legitimately enjoy myself with the game. But god those awful gimmicks drag this game down so much, and honestly has me considering placing this game lower than Forces. Forces is one of my least favorite Sonic games, but at least that game was consistent in its quick and shitty pace lmao. At least Forces didn’t have moments where the game would suddenly stop and have you defeat waves and waves of enemies, or require you to complete some really slow paced and obnoxious puzzles, the levels were way too short for something like that to happen lmao. By far one of my least favorite sonic games, really only being just barely better than stuff like Rise of Lyric or Free Riders cause I mean like. At least this game isn’t a buggy and boring mess? Idk.

https://www.backloggd.com/u/Zaylok/list/unfinished-franchise-ranking-sonic-the-hedgehog/
(My personal Sonic Franchise ranking. Everything after ROL on this list is something I haven't played yet)

The dark age of sonic was all over the place. This game simply lacks identity and it's just a mediocre sonic game. I never finished it on my 3ds 11 years ago. Lowkey, I remember Boom more than this.

Buried deep within, there is real fun to be had in this game. Unfortunately, the developers did everything they could to make you have no fun at all. These levels suck ASS dude. I don't wanna push snowballs around for 16 minutes. I don't wanna use your stupid gyro control gimmicks every other level. I don't wanna fight all the same unfun bosses over again at the end of the game. There was real potential with this game, but clearly they didn't want to meet that potential.

I FUCKING HATE WISPS!!!!!!

WHY HAVE THEY BEEN A MAJOR GIMMICK IN EVERY SONIC GAME FOR THE PAST DECADE??
I CAN'T ESCAPE THESE CHICKEN LITTLE ALIEN REJECTS EVEN BY PLAYING HANDHELD VERSIONS OF THE CONSOLE GAMES!!

WHO TF AT SEGA THOUGHT WISPS WERE THE THING PEOPLE LOVED ABOUT COLORS?? WHO CARES ABOUT THESE THINGS??? HAHA YEA YUJI NAKA SIR DA WISPS NEED TO STAY!

[YUJI NAKA PRISON VOICE] WELL SHUCKS, MAYBE THIS IS WHAT I DESERVE FOR HAVING A WISP FETISH 😓

WHY WERE THEY LAZILY INSERTED INTO EVERY GAME SINCE, MAKING COLORS HAVE EVEN LESS IDENTITY THAN IT ALREADY DID??
WHY DO THEY ALL SUCK ASS TO USE AAGGSHHD THE AWFUL STONE GYRO CONTROLS ONE IN THIS GAME IS ESPECIALLY ASS!! THIS GAME REALLY THINKS UNLOCKING WISPS FOR EARLIER STAGES IS GONNA ENCOURAGE ME TO REPLAY THEM🤮

MAYBE SONIC BOOM IS SECRETLY THE BEST MODERN GAME CUZ IT DOESN'T HAVE FUCKING WISPS!!!

Also maybe the worst special stages in the franchise? I can't recall ever getting motion sickness from playing a game but these almost did it good lord. But more importantly, actually playing them makes me look like a complete retard.



This game had 9 game designers and I'm convinced only 2 of them had a healthy relationship with their mother. The rest made a snowball that molested you

It’s better than the Wii U version,

But, like, who tf even cares?

I'm genuinely fucking pissed off

This game is confusing. It's both worse and better than the Wii U/PC version of the game. Some of the levels are fun at the beginning, however the game slowly devolves and the level design gets worse and worse and the bosses hit a low that the Wii U version never hits. Despite the Wii U version being likely worse overall, the lows this game hits are so much worse that it's not at all worth playing.

I only played the battle mode
It sucked but I could maybe see the special stages being fun if they didn't use gyro controls and make you repeatedly snap your neck


this version is just worse and the wii u game is already messy as fuck and not very good

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It's bad

I’d rather be viciously tortured for all of eternity than boot this up again

better than the real one? maybe? I sincerely do not know