Sonic 4 Episode 2 wraps up the saga by bringing back Metal Sonic and Little Planet from Sonic CD. Dr Eggman has managed to capture little planet inside of his Death Egg Mk 2, and plans to do… something with it. But after they are stopped Sonic and Tails escape.. and the planet is still trapped. To this day an Episode 3 never saw the light of day, and this cliffhanger was never resolved.
Well Sonic 4 Ep 2 definitely brings some improvements to the table. Firstly the presentation, this game looks gorgeous and is a much better artistic direction than Ep1. Music took a hit though which is a shame, some acts really suffer from the instruments used and just all round bad compositions.
Gameplay is better here, Sonic has more natural flow to his movements and rolling actually does naturally increase Sonic’s speed through momentum. Tails is here but you can’t play as him, instead by pressing the tag button, Sonic and Tails can team up to perform a few moves. They can fly in the air, swim underwater and perform a super Spindash to destroy anything in their path. I like this, it’s a great evolution of the classic sonic gameplay that feels totally natural and doesn’t cut the speed in half.
It’s a shame the level design is pretty poor, it starts okay with Slyvania Castle, but White Park is an incredible boring rollercoaster level and Oil Desert is everything I hated about Oil Ocean times 10. After the awful act 1, sky fortress is a decent zone, but again that’s it, 4 zones with 3 acts.
Bosses are passable, I know people hate how you have to wait to hit them, but I don’t think these bosses take that long, and are a decent challenge. I agree they could go a bit faster, but it’s not the worst thing ever.
Special stages are the halfpipe, and it’s a decent version of it, nothing special but they work. You once again get Super Sonic who is great, but he gets cancelled when you use a tag action so his effectiveness is cut in half.
This is another.. okay game, but there’s so much missed potential, like why can’t we play episode 1 levels here. There’s episode Metal where metal sonic can run through one act of each zone from ep1, but it’s over in about 15 minutes.
I don’t think this is a bad game, but again it’s just underwhelming.
Well Sonic 4 Ep 2 definitely brings some improvements to the table. Firstly the presentation, this game looks gorgeous and is a much better artistic direction than Ep1. Music took a hit though which is a shame, some acts really suffer from the instruments used and just all round bad compositions.
Gameplay is better here, Sonic has more natural flow to his movements and rolling actually does naturally increase Sonic’s speed through momentum. Tails is here but you can’t play as him, instead by pressing the tag button, Sonic and Tails can team up to perform a few moves. They can fly in the air, swim underwater and perform a super Spindash to destroy anything in their path. I like this, it’s a great evolution of the classic sonic gameplay that feels totally natural and doesn’t cut the speed in half.
It’s a shame the level design is pretty poor, it starts okay with Slyvania Castle, but White Park is an incredible boring rollercoaster level and Oil Desert is everything I hated about Oil Ocean times 10. After the awful act 1, sky fortress is a decent zone, but again that’s it, 4 zones with 3 acts.
Bosses are passable, I know people hate how you have to wait to hit them, but I don’t think these bosses take that long, and are a decent challenge. I agree they could go a bit faster, but it’s not the worst thing ever.
Special stages are the halfpipe, and it’s a decent version of it, nothing special but they work. You once again get Super Sonic who is great, but he gets cancelled when you use a tag action so his effectiveness is cut in half.
This is another.. okay game, but there’s so much missed potential, like why can’t we play episode 1 levels here. There’s episode Metal where metal sonic can run through one act of each zone from ep1, but it’s over in about 15 minutes.
I don’t think this is a bad game, but again it’s just underwhelming.