Saturday, July 23, 2016

Sonic 25th Anniversary game reviews: Project Sonic and Sonic Mania

If you did not know, they released 2 NEW SONIC GAMES: Sonic Mania and Project Sonic. Let us first talk about Project Sonic. First off, Project Sonic is NOT a sequel to Sonic Generations! This is a new story with new levels and everything. The first thing that you might notice is 2 huge egg robots destroying a city....the city in my opinion looks like Soleanna. This is all some theories and all, but it might look like there trying to surround the story around Sonic 06....and if you didn't know, Sonic 06 is considered on the worst games in this generation. It was a VERY promising game that never got finished. But for years I would hope they would TRY to do something about it and it looks here that they might be trying to surround the game around sonic 06. I dont know yet, but we will find out soon. Now, Sonic looks of course bad-ass as always! The running sequence looks very similar to Sonic Generations gameplay and I LOVE SONIC GENERATIONS. And then Classic Sonic shows up and I really don't see why he is in this game. I do hope that you can play as other characters like Tails, Knuckles, Shadow and more. There really wasn't much shown, but the best part of the trailer was the beginning. SONIC TEAM is making this game, so expect a good game! The last sonic game, Sonic Boom really hurt SEGA, so lets hope this game helps Sonic get back up. The trailer is below:




Now on to Sonic Mania. I'm a huge fan of the 2D Sonic games and have been waiting for a new 2D (Not 2.5D) Sonic game...AND THEY DID IT. Sonic Mania looks amazing! You can play remastered old levels and new levels. The new levels have beautiful design and there is alot to look at! And they added a new drop dash mechanic, where you automatically spin dash when you drop to the ground! And you can play as 3 characters: Sonic, TAILS and KNUCKLES. You can finally play as other characters than just sonic. I love Sonic, but doing this will give the game more replay value. I do hope that there is a bit of a story to this game and not just levels put together though. There didn't seem to be anything about a story so, we will see what they do. The trailer for the game is below:




Both games are coming out next year 2017, Sonic Mania in the Spring and Project Sonic in the Winter. I am so ready to start playing sonic again. I beat sonic generations probably almost 100 times. I hope you enjoyed the review and trust me, I will be posting more on these games when new trailers are released! Thanks for reading!!

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Monday, July 4, 2016

Overwatch: Is it worth the money?

I'm back! I have been working on practicing game design and haven't had the time to post anything. But I'm posting now because something has got my attention... game review sites has been giving Overwatch SO MUCH PRAISE. it's gotten 9 or 10 out of 10!!! WHY?? This game is at MAX a 7 out to 10. Let me explain why. Lets go over the good things. There are A LOT of characters to choice from! Theres way more then I expected at release. The level design is AMAZING! People complain that the maps have no places to snipe (AKA camp) and I hate games that add ways to just sit and camp. So good job on that. Now let's start on the bad. The game is OVERPRICED. For a game that only has 3 game modes and repetitive gameplay $60 is not worth it for this game. The story behind the game is stupid. And yes, it is a FPS and it really doesn't focus on it, but from all the YouTube videos that they made, it makes no sense why there fighting each other! Its crazy and they should have came up with a better story. Escort mode has to be the WORST game mode in the game. And for the OW fanboys and girls, listen before you rage. I'm taking about if your team has to escort the car. It is HARD AS HELL. All the enemy team has to do is go near it, and it stops! And at times you never get the car HALF WAY!! And what's worse is that when you die, it spawns you back in the spawn hub area, and it takes a while to get back, depending on the map! Another problem is the loot. It is the most useless add on to the game. All you get is new skins and poses, that mean NOTHING! Certain characters in this game are either to weak or to strong. At the beginning of each game, when the other team or your team has to defend the area, people LOVE to camp outside the doors and then KILL ANYTHING that moves out! This game is not a 10 out of 10, it deserves a 6/10. There isn't a lot to do and they still have a lot to fix. These reviews that are giving out perfect 10's are not noticing these problems. And is it wortg $60? NOPE. This game to me should be either $40 or even FREE! There is not a lot of stuff that it should be automatically $60. Not every game needs to be that high. Rachet and Clank was $40 and it had A LOT of content including a story...but that's my opinion. I hope you enjoyed reading!

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