Sonic R is an on foot racing game released in 1997 for the SEGA Saturn and rereleased for the GameCube on the Sonic Gems Collection.
while a fun little game for what it is I feel like it suffers from two major issues, the controls feel very weird, like when your racing I feel there's a delay between moving around, granted it's only about a second but its still pretty annoying, and the turning feels fucking awful, like if your trying to get a Chaos Emerald and your unfortunate enough to miss it you have to turn yourself to the proper position to get it, it can take a good 3-5 seconds to try and do and get going to the finish line.
controls aside my second issue is the lack of content, granted it was a racing game released in 1997 so I can't really complain considering the time period but it still felt very short, with only 5 tracks (the final one unlocking after you clear the other 4 stages), but I will admit it does have a good amount of characters to choose from, that being 9.
but I will say if you can get used to the controls I'd say what is here can be a very fun time, even if the game itself only lasts for about 2-3 hours at most, and even though the music gets made fun of I like it quite a lot, my favorite Tracks being "Diamonds In The Sky", "Back In Time", and "Living In The City".
the game itself also has two other modes like Time Attack, and a 1 VS 2 Player Mode, but I doubt you'll find anyone willing to play this with you, the modes are in my opinion quite shallow, while Time Attack is a fun little distraction I doubt it will with keep you around.
but with all of my complaints (aside from also being the corner stone of shitty internet horror stories) aside Sonic R was a fun time for me, but it wasn't good enough for me to rate in any higher than a 3.5/5 stars, I'd say half and half is fair, if you play this game be very cautious cause Sonic Gems can fetch high prices now adays, but yeah with that being said Sonic R is in my eyes just a fun little distraction, nothing more nothing less,
while a fun little game for what it is I feel like it suffers from two major issues, the controls feel very weird, like when your racing I feel there's a delay between moving around, granted it's only about a second but its still pretty annoying, and the turning feels fucking awful, like if your trying to get a Chaos Emerald and your unfortunate enough to miss it you have to turn yourself to the proper position to get it, it can take a good 3-5 seconds to try and do and get going to the finish line.
controls aside my second issue is the lack of content, granted it was a racing game released in 1997 so I can't really complain considering the time period but it still felt very short, with only 5 tracks (the final one unlocking after you clear the other 4 stages), but I will admit it does have a good amount of characters to choose from, that being 9.
but I will say if you can get used to the controls I'd say what is here can be a very fun time, even if the game itself only lasts for about 2-3 hours at most, and even though the music gets made fun of I like it quite a lot, my favorite Tracks being "Diamonds In The Sky", "Back In Time", and "Living In The City".
the game itself also has two other modes like Time Attack, and a 1 VS 2 Player Mode, but I doubt you'll find anyone willing to play this with you, the modes are in my opinion quite shallow, while Time Attack is a fun little distraction I doubt it will with keep you around.
but with all of my complaints (aside from also being the corner stone of shitty internet horror stories) aside Sonic R was a fun time for me, but it wasn't good enough for me to rate in any higher than a 3.5/5 stars, I'd say half and half is fair, if you play this game be very cautious cause Sonic Gems can fetch high prices now adays, but yeah with that being said Sonic R is in my eyes just a fun little distraction, nothing more nothing less,