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Sonic Boom Boom: Review thread
- Thread starter Chezzymann
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1. Preteens who are too emotionally invested in the characters
2. People who like The Wicker Man
Colours wasn't bad for the demographic, though.
Watch Da Birdie
I buy cakes for myself on my birthday it's not weird lots of people do it I bet
I'll make you eat those words!
thekonamicode
Member
Sonic Boom actually broke the cycle because no one ever thought it would be any good.
kunonabi
Member
Secret Rings, Colors, and Lost World are worth playing.
grandjedi6
Master of the Google Search
Didn't Sanzaru layoff most of their team after Sly Cooper 4? It's probably barely the same team.
threelights
Member
Actually higher scores than I expected, and I don't mean to be a jerk, I just expected very low scores after all the glitches and problems with the game.
Maybe the game would be half decent platforming-wise if it wasn't broken to hell? hmm..
Maybe the game would be half decent platforming-wise if it wasn't broken to hell? hmm..
Crimsonclaw111
Member
The dancing is as good as the dialogue.
If only that's how it happened in the game.
UltimaWeapon
Member
Oh Sonic 
http://youtu.be/-2U0Ivkn2Ds
Clearly these games are disappointing. It still kinda saddens me to see one of my favourite franchises go down the toilet.
What's worse is that these aren't just new Sonic games... it's Sega's attempt to reboot the entire Sonic franchise. It sucks to know that there's possibly more of this crap to come in the near future.
http://youtu.be/-2U0Ivkn2Ds
Clearly these games are disappointing. It still kinda saddens me to see one of my favourite franchises go down the toilet.
What's worse is that these aren't just new Sonic games... it's Sega's attempt to reboot the entire Sonic franchise. It sucks to know that there's possibly more of this crap to come in the near future.
Why exactly?
If you had told me this was a bad deviantart fanwork I would had believed you.
bobawesome
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imrblankie
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I'd be lying if I said I wasn't slightly interested in the game cause of the first trailer. Besides the Skrillex I think they did a good job at at least making the game look like it'd be worth playing BECAUSE it wasn't a traditional sonic game.
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ElBoxyBrown
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Admiral Woofington
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I'm starting to think that Sonic games are like Uwe Boll films where it's more of a sneaky tax break or some shit lol
imrblankie
Banned
Sonic Riders was also not a traditional sonic game.
never played it but I was specifically talking about the trailer.
Sonic Boom had a few "so bad it's funny" scenes in the stream I was watching.
I should check out the show sometime.
Chezzymann
Member
I heard the show was decent, I watched the first episode and it seemed passable. Its apparently giving Cartoon Network a big ratings boost so thats good.
Dragoon En Regalia
Member
It was also better than the regular series installments that came out right around it (Shadow the Hedgehog and 2006). Seriously, I think it's a good racer, with some neat battle modes too.
This whole Sonic Boom project was cynical and calculated and has been punished for its overall mediocrity and pandering to some marketers' playbook, but I wonder how much of the fault, if any, lies with Big Red Button. My impression is that SEGA rushed this game and the 3DS counterpart by Sanzaru to release, yet now the show has been placed in a deathly time slot.
Watch Da Birdie
I buy cakes for myself on my birthday it's not weird lots of people do it I bet
Sonic Riders was also not a traditional sonic game.
I actually liked that game, the biggest issue was a steep learning curve, but it was decent iirc. The new characters were kind of cool and inoffensive, just regular thieves, and there was a cool anime opening. Plus SEGA guest characters.
The sequels apparently got shittier, which sucks as it had potential.
I don't remember Sonic being so kid-centric back in its heyday. I mean, it was never particularly for the 18+ demographic but it was something anybody could enjoy.
I understand they make these games because parents will always buy them but why can't they take a few breaks with a "real" sonic every now and then
I understand they make these games because parents will always buy them but why can't they take a few breaks with a "real" sonic every now and then
imrblankie
Banned
"Oh when the saints!"
Definitely "So bad" everyone except sonic seems so out of character
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
Is anyone seriously surprised? I don't think this game falls in to the Sonic cycle. It's a tie in to a TV show, I don't think there ever was a chance. Sega probably just wanted to shit out a Sonic game for the Wii U while they were still contractually obligated to, so their next game they actually tried with could reach a wider audience.
Or, somewhat less cynically, they had a game with issues that they could not fix in time for the TV show, so they had to keep what the had. Isn't Big Red Button former Naughty Dog devs? It's hard to believe this is the best they could come up with.
Or, somewhat less cynically, they had a game with issues that they could not fix in time for the TV show, so they had to keep what the had. Isn't Big Red Button former Naughty Dog devs? It's hard to believe this is the best they could come up with.
AgentClassy
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Perfect
"Oh when the saints!"
Definitely "So bad" everyone except sonic seems so out of character
My impression of the show is that it's stupid fun but there's no point to the Sonic characters being there. It's sorta like Teen Titans Go! where they took established characters and put them in wacky situations, but with Sonic Boom there's no "normal" Sonic to juxtapose with because they also changed the characters. I guess it would be like if aliens saw a blurry photograph of a Sonic game and tried to make a TV show based on what they thought it was about, or if the Sonic characters got into an accident that horribly disfigured their bodies and they decided to start a sketch comedy act. It's a good show. It's just... why make it look like Sonic?
where did that even come from?
imrblankie
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I'd say that the TV show is a tie in to the game. The show is a episodic nonsense comedy.
Death Metalist
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From Generations to this. Alright, Sega.
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
I didn't like it at all when it came out. Sonic Chronicles, the Bioware RPG sonic game looked really interesting at the time but I heard it was ok to mediocre.
ReturnOfTheRAT
Member
I thought I said Sonic has been dead for over a decade now.
Like your entire statement makes no sense.
" why are the characters they wrote the dialogue for in the show they wrote the dialogue for"
... What? Thats not a criticism, like sonic boom deserves a lot of it. But what you are saying isn't even a criticism, you just said " why does this tv show have to sonic in it" Why does anything have to have anything in it. What are you even saying
Now he is.
No, because money.
imrblankie
Banned
I think the point of the criticism is that the characters in the show are only sonic characters by name they are just a blank slate of tropes that could literally be ANYONE, they just happen to be Sonic characters because that's the title of the show
Now we all get spoiled by the amazing writing in the comic from time to time.
That said, " they are just a bunch of tropes"
Welcome to toy commercials B, power rangers, TMNT, and Transformers are on your right
IrishNinja
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as a sonic fan, i wish we could say we didn't see this coming from rather early on, but there it is.
Generations & Colors were both fantastic by me, and ive enjoyed the time i spent so far with Lost World. guess i'll hold out hope for a return to form.
fuckin' seriously
Generations & Colors were both fantastic by me, and ive enjoyed the time i spent so far with Lost World. guess i'll hold out hope for a return to form.
fuckin' seriously
imrblankie
Banned
I don't know what your argument is supposed to be by mentioning toy commercials and power rangers, other than defending a cash grab because it's sonic. I'm just saying that his criticism of the show is valid because it's right.
I don't feel like that's a valid argument because you could basically lobb that at any character in two episodes of a show.
It doesn't make money.
I am by no means a die-hard Sonic fan, but I will defend Generations with my life.
In the right hands, the blue blur can still shine!