Sonic Unleashed is a very very good Sonic game. It had the potential to be the best and got so close at times, but unfortunately it gets held back by the night levels.
The day levels are unbelievably good, they're exhilarating beautifully designed and fast. You just wanna keep playing them and replaying them. So freaking good it's euphoric honestly. Literally Sonic 06 if it was good.
The night levels on the other hand are horrible, slow, and the gameplay is just so mindless and combos are not good and it's just too repetitive. The concept is cool but it needed a lot more work to make it work. Just yikes... way too slow, combat doesn't feel smooth, and just feels pointless for the most part. Why Sonic Team? Why?? I'm all for experimentation but come on. Very boring, spammy, and long for no reason. Stupid puzzles as well.
Great animations in both day and night, physics are awesome, controls are smooth.
Reused stages but its excusable they feel very different in both day and night.
Making medals mandatory to unlock levels is a stupid decision aswell.
The opening of this game was so good, the CGI cutscene is the best one since Shadow the Hedgehog, Super Sonic is the goat. So cool, but then... Furry Sonic... They could have done a better job on how he became a werewolf, all I could think of was that one Ben 10 episode of the og season where he becomes a werewolf and it was done so well but this he just becomes one through the machine somehow.
The story is somewhat interesting, but just ends up being a afterthought.
The game is beautiful, love the soundtrack (Sonic games never miss), art style and direction still holds up today.
The rpg mechanics are very meh, dialogue is good for the most part it's cute a little rough at times, Amy was funny LOL liked her and Sonics interactions alot.
Theres a odd doorbell sound they use a lot and it sucks and is annoying.
The open world aspect which kinda rips off Adventure is meh too. But it's more of a
hub world here which is kinda bad tbh it feels pointless.
Tornado missions are bad reminds me of some of the missions where u fly in Adventure 1 but way too linear, long, and just mindless it's boring.
So many good day stages honestly carried the game, cool edge, Dragon way, skyscraper scamper. But it still feels like half a game since night is horrible.
Final boss was good, all the bosses were for the most part and I really liked the enemy designs.
Overall, Sonic Unleashed is half a blast, but the half that is good is SO GOOD. And the half that is bad is just bad, but it makes playing the good worth it. I was gonna give it a 6 but the day levels carry the game, if only Sonic team polished this game some more and made the night levels more fun along the lines of a DMC Sonic game, it easily could've been the best Sonic game.
7/10
The day levels are unbelievably good, they're exhilarating beautifully designed and fast. You just wanna keep playing them and replaying them. So freaking good it's euphoric honestly. Literally Sonic 06 if it was good.
The night levels on the other hand are horrible, slow, and the gameplay is just so mindless and combos are not good and it's just too repetitive. The concept is cool but it needed a lot more work to make it work. Just yikes... way too slow, combat doesn't feel smooth, and just feels pointless for the most part. Why Sonic Team? Why?? I'm all for experimentation but come on. Very boring, spammy, and long for no reason. Stupid puzzles as well.
Great animations in both day and night, physics are awesome, controls are smooth.
Reused stages but its excusable they feel very different in both day and night.
Making medals mandatory to unlock levels is a stupid decision aswell.
The opening of this game was so good, the CGI cutscene is the best one since Shadow the Hedgehog, Super Sonic is the goat. So cool, but then... Furry Sonic... They could have done a better job on how he became a werewolf, all I could think of was that one Ben 10 episode of the og season where he becomes a werewolf and it was done so well but this he just becomes one through the machine somehow.
The story is somewhat interesting, but just ends up being a afterthought.
The game is beautiful, love the soundtrack (Sonic games never miss), art style and direction still holds up today.
The rpg mechanics are very meh, dialogue is good for the most part it's cute a little rough at times, Amy was funny LOL liked her and Sonics interactions alot.
Theres a odd doorbell sound they use a lot and it sucks and is annoying.
The open world aspect which kinda rips off Adventure is meh too. But it's more of a
hub world here which is kinda bad tbh it feels pointless.
Tornado missions are bad reminds me of some of the missions where u fly in Adventure 1 but way too linear, long, and just mindless it's boring.
So many good day stages honestly carried the game, cool edge, Dragon way, skyscraper scamper. But it still feels like half a game since night is horrible.
Final boss was good, all the bosses were for the most part and I really liked the enemy designs.
Overall, Sonic Unleashed is half a blast, but the half that is good is SO GOOD. And the half that is bad is just bad, but it makes playing the good worth it. I was gonna give it a 6 but the day levels carry the game, if only Sonic team polished this game some more and made the night levels more fun along the lines of a DMC Sonic game, it easily could've been the best Sonic game.
7/10