Oh god the platforming. I’d seriously like to be a fly on the wall for when many developers in the early to late aughts were designing these janky platforming challenges and sequences in their heavily combat-focused video games.
The game works fine with with its combat and story, and the cinematics shook me for a 2005 era ps2 game, but everything else here is real rough and boring after a long while.
Side note, but I can definitely see why Sonic Team was so influenced by this game and the second to create their own spin on it with Sonic Unleashed. The werehog combat is almost as good as the 2005 original here but really not by much or as fun.
The game works fine with with its combat and story, and the cinematics shook me for a 2005 era ps2 game, but everything else here is real rough and boring after a long while.
Side note, but I can definitely see why Sonic Team was so influenced by this game and the second to create their own spin on it with Sonic Unleashed. The werehog combat is almost as good as the 2005 original here but really not by much or as fun.