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Sonic Lost World Review: Same Hedgehog, New Spin | For the Love of Gaming

Sonic Lost World is a good game, but lacks some of the polish that you get from an AAA platformer like Super Mario Galaxy. There are some insanely frustrating elements that can halt your enjoyment suddenly, but when Lost World shines you quickly forget the bad parts. If feels as if this is the first time we are getting something new from Sonic, and sometimes you get growing pains when you try new mechanics.

Dudebro903821d ago

This game on the 3DS is utter garbage.

4logpc3821d ago

Friend of mine got the 3DS version. He said he almost threw his 3ds out the window.

kB03821d ago (Edited 3821d ago )

Yup I blame dimps. I honestly never felt so robbed.

Ign gave 3Ds version a higher rating WHY? It's broken. You glitch through the ground sometimes, you lock onto crap u don't want to. It's slow, very slow actually to the poitn where it feels like a Mario game.

Also FULL of cheap deaths, and very little control over character. Also I found it actually hard to see where and what I'm supposed to do. It's a very unclear and just unfinished game.

Even the sonic model is off, and the 2D segements are worse! How do you screw up the 2D sonic?!!?!?!?

Uhhh, I already traded it back.

They should port Sonic Adventure 1/2 onto 3Ds or Vita imo. Those 2 rock.

4logpc3821d ago

i think ign played one level then wrote a review.

admiralvic3821d ago

"Also FULL of cheap deaths, and very little control over character. Also I found it actually hard to see where and what I'm supposed to do. It's a very unclear and just unfinished game. "

This is exactly how I felt at the end of the game. Some things, like beating the last segment of the Lava Mountain stage, seemed to come out of nowhere. The first time I played the level, I just ran to the top and was surprised to learn that wasn't the goal. I actually had to look online to see you had to knock the blocks down on him. Really poor game design.

mcstorm3821d ago

Ive not played the 3ds version but I'm loving the wiiu version I like the kind of Mario galaxy style levels mixed with the old style sonic games and not had any issue with the control on the wiiu but I could see id having issues on the 3ds maybe they should of just done a wiiu version.

Nerdmaster3821d ago

I actually like the 3DS version more. The stages are longer, gameplay is easier to learn, there are more lives (so you don't have to replay all the stage from the beginning if you love some lives like in the Wii U version) and the emeralds are gotten through special stages instead of every Red Ring in every stage.

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Sonic Game Writers Had ‘Very Little Say’ On Story Scripts

The writing duo behind Sonic games like Sonic Colors and Sonic Lost World reveal they have little creative control over their game scripts.

-Foxtrot99d ago

They need to start letting people take inspiration from the comics, there's a ton of great stuff to take inspiration from.

phoenixwing97d ago

My beef is why even hire writers if you're just going to control the whole process. I'd be very upset as a writer if someone did that. A job is a job though.

DarXyde97d ago

Performative for optics, I would think.

It's like the US Congress holding a vote to "denounce the evils of socialism." It literally did absolutely nothing about anything and was a complete waste of everyone's time (and tax dollars—which is its own irony, by the way)

Dumbest thing in the world, but if you hire writers, it looks like you made a serious effort to make something great.

Do you remember when the original Suicide Squad movie was coming out? How much did we hear about Killer Croc's actor watching cannibal videos to get into character? Or even the "incredible lengths" Jared Leto went through to personify Joker on and off set?

It looks better when people think you're taking it seriously.

XiNatsuDragnel98d ago

Pretty much confirmed that SEGA controls everything about sonic no derivations fr

Profchaos97d ago

Nothing new sonic forces was meant to be far darker then sega got cold feet and they did the same old power of friendship ending

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How Sonic Lost World Paved the Way for Sonic Frontiers

While a number of the games before it help influence Sonic Frontiers, Sonic Lost World acts as the blueprint for the game's open-zone design.

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Top 10 Worst Sonic Games

Alex DS. from Link Cable Gaming writes: "I’m a huge fan of the series and love to talk about its best games… but its hard to argue that it’s all been great for the blue blur. From games that were loaded with glitches, slow-paced gameplay, and visuals that look more like a blue blur of… pixels and polygons. So, take this as a warning to avoid these 10 worst Sonic games of all time."

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Fntastic961d ago

Never played any of these on this list, surprised Sonic R isn't there, but then i played that on my first PC and didn't think it was that bad, got some mild enjoyment out of it at least.

-Hermit-961d ago

Lost World, Black Knight, Forces and Chronicles should not be on that list, I can easily think of worse.

Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal, Sonic Drift, Sonic Drift 2, Sonic Labyrinth, Sonic Eraser, Sonic R, these are all way worse than the games on this list. Knuckles Chaotix was terrible as well, I hated the way you had to control the players, it was a pain in the ass. Even games like Sonic 3D Blast, Sonic Spinball and Rivals 1 and 2 which I thought were decent were worse than some of the games on this list.

To be brutally honest, most of the Game Gear and Master System Sonic games are pretty awful too. Sonic Chaos on the Game Gear for example, you can't even see what you are doing because the field of view is so bad.

I would rather play Sonic 06 than any of the games I listed above, and that game is classed as the worst Sonic game of the lot.

People have nostalgia glasses on when they think about old 2D Sonic games. Outside of the mainline games on the Mega Drive, most of them were worse than the modern day 3D games.

Rebel_Scum961d ago

Sonic 1 & 2 on the MS2 and GG were great games. Perfect blend of speed, secrets and challenge.

Sonic Chaos was shite. Too easy and gross looking sprites and backgrounds.

imo 1-10 for worst Sonic games would just be all the 3D one's and Sonic Fighters.

lellkay961d ago (Edited 961d ago )

There is definitely some worse games than Lost World,

The guy who wrote this definitely didn't dig enough into the franchise history haha

Pyrofire95961d ago

General question.
Is your favorite Sonic game the first one you played?
If not, is you favorite the same style as your first? (3D, 2D, some other distinction?)

lellkay960d ago

My favorite game is not the first one I played. (First one I played was Sonic The Hedgehog on Megadrive/Genesis)

My favorite one is probably 3&K or Mania, so yes it is in the same style as the first game I played.

-Hermit-960d ago

My favourite Sonic game is not the first one I played or same style.

The first Sonic game I played was Sonic 1 on the Mega Drive, my favourite is Sonic Adventure 2.

DFresh960d ago

I disagree with Sonic Forces on that list but the others are correct.
Sonic Forces is hella under rated.