2023
Not sure why they're charging £55 for this when it's a pretty bog standard 2D Sonic game, with no real identity of its own besides small little bits and pieces.
The game itself is fine, it controls well, looks nice enough and I really like Trip as a character, but it just has nothing over something like Mania which oozes style and personality, whilst Superstars honestly just feels like a new 2D Sonic game and not much else, with a lot of elements ripped straight out of Sonic Triple Trouble on the Gamegear.
The momentum is great, it's pretty much 1:1 with the original games, and the level design can be good... in the first half of the game. While not as bad as in the games developed by Dimps, the level design in the second half takes a nose dive and quickly becomes incredibly frustrating with a lot of questionable choices in how the layouts are approached.
There's a strong focus on 4-player co-op in Superstars and that's great, it could be the main thing carrying and excusing some of the lesser parts of the game, but I guess somebody at Sega decided online co-op would make too much sense for this game and threw it in the trash. Why? Why did they take the most defining element of the game, the thing they keep highlighting in the promotional material and relegate it to local only in a post-covid world? What was going through their mind when they made that decision? I'm just baffled by it.
With that said, probably the most disappointing aspect of the game would be the music. Some of it is genuinely nice to the ears but isn't all that memorable, and then there's the songs that sound as if they're ripped straight out of Sonic 4, that awful sound font and all. It isn't a great soundtrack, and that's probably the biggest sin you can commit in a Sonic The Hedgehog game.
Sonic Superstars can be easily described in one sentence and I mean this in the nicest of ways; This is the New Super Mario Bros of the Sonic franchise.
The game itself is fine, it controls well, looks nice enough and I really like Trip as a character, but it just has nothing over something like Mania which oozes style and personality, whilst Superstars honestly just feels like a new 2D Sonic game and not much else, with a lot of elements ripped straight out of Sonic Triple Trouble on the Gamegear.
The momentum is great, it's pretty much 1:1 with the original games, and the level design can be good... in the first half of the game. While not as bad as in the games developed by Dimps, the level design in the second half takes a nose dive and quickly becomes incredibly frustrating with a lot of questionable choices in how the layouts are approached.
There's a strong focus on 4-player co-op in Superstars and that's great, it could be the main thing carrying and excusing some of the lesser parts of the game, but I guess somebody at Sega decided online co-op would make too much sense for this game and threw it in the trash. Why? Why did they take the most defining element of the game, the thing they keep highlighting in the promotional material and relegate it to local only in a post-covid world? What was going through their mind when they made that decision? I'm just baffled by it.
With that said, probably the most disappointing aspect of the game would be the music. Some of it is genuinely nice to the ears but isn't all that memorable, and then there's the songs that sound as if they're ripped straight out of Sonic 4, that awful sound font and all. It isn't a great soundtrack, and that's probably the biggest sin you can commit in a Sonic The Hedgehog game.
Sonic Superstars can be easily described in one sentence and I mean this in the nicest of ways; This is the New Super Mario Bros of the Sonic franchise.
2019
The people who can play this game well and consistently ace Expect+ levels are NOT human fr
It feels like the playable characters in this game were picked out at random. Pretty good sequel though.
2014
I hardly remember if this version of Club Penguin was any good or not, buuuut I can't bring myself to dislike Club Penguin.
2021
lol minion funny banana XD
This app blows!
First time playing Mortal Kombat, I'm not a huge fan of this one, mostly due to how unfair and unfun to fight against the AI is. I can see why it was great for its time, but I couldn't imagine why anyone would want to play it today other than out of curiosity.
Out of all the versions of Minecraft that came out, this was certainly one of them.
2012
As a young kid, I had an almost unhealthy love for this game, I'd talk to Angela like it was a chatbot, and at the time the conversations we'd have felt kinda real and authentic.
Years later, THOSE rumors happened (you know the ones) and as a result, the chat feature was removed, rendering it as just another Talking Friends app, now lost without its main gimmick. What a tragedy.
Going back to older versions of the app after all these years, however... Ehhh? The chatting part of the app is a bit more basic than I remember, Angela hardly acknowledges what you're talking about and isn't all that smart, but as a kid you hardly really pick up on all that. Still, I have plenty of memories of being entertained and sucked into the app's ambience back when I was a kid, back when the world just seemed so much larger.
Years later, THOSE rumors happened (you know the ones) and as a result, the chat feature was removed, rendering it as just another Talking Friends app, now lost without its main gimmick. What a tragedy.
Going back to older versions of the app after all these years, however... Ehhh? The chatting part of the app is a bit more basic than I remember, Angela hardly acknowledges what you're talking about and isn't all that smart, but as a kid you hardly really pick up on all that. Still, I have plenty of memories of being entertained and sucked into the app's ambience back when I was a kid, back when the world just seemed so much larger.