had fun with this game, and the story was okay, but.... wow, yeah, its definitely unfinished. characters clip through buildings and enemies can walk off paths and onto places that the player cant walk on and a lot of places that look like doorways youre supposed to go through have no purpose. the music is bad 75% of the time and the battle music never changes, making important bosses feel like nothing. speaking of the final boss, i dont understand why he wasnt just alone when his little sidekick dudes just stood there and didnt attack?? i feel like if theres gonna be an enemy it should at least do damage... or, like, NOT die as soon as you beat Ix. just a thought. i feel like the game was insanely easy, too, but that might just be because i hardly fled so i didnt need to grind constantly. i didnt wipe out a single time during my playthrough. the most frustrating part of the game was fighting the big robots that you could only get like a few hp off of them at a time... went on way too long and there were way too many of them. and i feel like... the types/elements or whatever didnt really play into effect very much? i think they shouldve included it more, but thats just me i think. its not like this is pokemon or denpa men, type advantages arent super important. i feel like they shouldve just stuck with the chao effects because those are fun and unique and a really nice aspect of the game.

one of my favorite parts were the cutscenes. even though they werent super cinematic or whatever and probably couldve been done better, i really admire the comic book style art. another thing i loved about the game was the pirate side quest! i love the little one-off character they used. he was very likeable and i kinda wish he wasnt only used once and i wish he had a name, but if he was used more he probably wouldve been ruined. his dialogue was really funny and some of my favorite in the game! "yarr, it be a speech impediment" or whatever he said made me laugh so much. on the topic of humor, sonic chronicles really nails it in that field! i found myself laughing at a lot of the jokes said by the characters and how real they felt in certain situations. rouge probably made me laugh the most! i think the humor probably saved the game- i totally wouldve been bored out of my mind if there wasnt so much dialogue. i guess the battles were pretty engaging (i really liked the patterns you had to follow!), but the dialogue makes up for some of the boring exploration parts and the backtracking to find eggs...... not too big of a gripe from me, though. i just wanted to mention how much i loved the humor :3

the ending was...... really annoying, to be honest. i hated how eggman took over and then sonic and tails just started talking about nothing and then said the credits in normal conversation 😭 it was funny but ....please just roll the credits...... also the music that was playing there was so awful and boring and did not fit the mood and it made me so upset. despite everything i kinda want to replay it one day to try and 100% it with the equipment and leveling i had when i beat it! i think thats a nice reward for completing the game.

im bad at ending reviews, so ill just say i really didnt hate the story. it felt weird sometimes, especially considering the whole... echidna part ...and the copyrights..... but i found myself enjoying it! i feel like even if the story kinda sucked its sorta fitting for sonic. its rare to find a sonic story that really doesnt fit with the wacky world and multiple universes and the whole "everything is canon" thing, so ...ill say the story was alright. the game itself wasnt even terrible, just not good. the music was foul though i have no idea who thought some of those tracks would be a good idea. the underwater part sucked too brah do not ever do that in an rpg again its so unfitting okay i was stressing i thought if you die in sonic chronicles you die in real life i hated that part the most