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Sonic Lost World Review | Crave

Crave - "Wow, where do I begin? Sonic Lost World is an unmitigated disaster, and nullifies the small amount of good will developer Sonic Team had generated with the decent Sonic Colors and the actually-quite-fantastic Sonic Generations. It's a huge step back for the blue blur, who was starting to make us believe that he'd finally got the hang of this whole 3D thing, and is a thorough disappointment for Wii U owners who were hoping for a solid exclusive game to tide them over until the release of Super Mario 3D World later this year."

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NYC_Gamer4213d ago (Edited 4213d ago )

2.5 out of 10?wow,the game must be real damn crappy.

Neonridr4213d ago

Or this person who reviewed it didn't enjoy the game.

I would reserve your judgement until you actually play the game for yourself. Never let someone else tell you if a game is any good or not.

That being said, the reviews are all over the place with this game.

lilbroRx4213d ago (Edited 4213d ago )

You skip the multiples of good reviews to zero in on the this one bad review and act surprised that the lowest score(which you singled out) is low?

No trolling at all here folks. This guy is clearly legit.

MasterCornholio4213d ago

It has a metacritic of 63 and there are many negative reviews of this game.

If a game is bad its bad it doesn't matter if its exclusive to a Nintendo system or not.

Nexus 7 2013

IPLAY24213d ago

No it really is a great game. I just picked it up today. I have only spent about 5 hours with it, but it is beautiful. It can be frustrating, but so can allot of games. Also there are quite a few great reviews for this game. Some as high as 9/10. It kind of reminds me of the mixed reviews of Zombie U. I bet some of the reviews for this would be much higher if this were cross platform. Try the game for yourself and I bet you will like it.

TopDudeMan4213d ago

I loved sonic generations, so I'm hugely disappointed to hear these reviews.

Neonridr4213d ago

So why don't you go read the good reviews? There's a bunch of those too.

SpiralTear4213d ago

There are, but I've heard more negative reception of this game than positive. Still, not enough to scare me away from giving it a try later this month.

TopDudeMan4213d ago

One cannot simply ignore negative reviews. It's the equivalent of jamming your fingers in your ears and yelling "lalalala"

lilbroRx4213d ago

He didn't say ignore.

The most important thing for any review is the "why" that, not the score.

TopDudeMan4213d ago

And I didn't say I hadn't read these reviews. I was simply pointing out the trend.

Neonridr4213d ago (Edited 4213d ago )

@TopDudeMan - believe me, I am as torn by the many negative and many positive reviews. I am not ignoring it by going "lalalala" even though that made me laugh a lot. It seems like such a bi-polar game. You love it or you hate it. Kind of reminds me of another game that got reviews all across the board - ZombiU.

I am really hoping a demo shows up for this game, so I can give it a try..

miyamoto4213d ago

We love Sonic Generations too and played it like there is no tomorrow till this very day. It has Sonic Colors too.

Its one of the greatest Sonic games ever made after the Sega Genesis games.

lilbroRx4213d ago (Edited 4213d ago )

Its IGN. They give everyhting Nintendo releated low scores. Even the Wonderful 101 got a low score, and that game is great.

Posting that doesn't really change anything. Its expected that IGN will rate it low. I'm sure they'll give Super Mario 3D Land one of the lowest scores it will get. Same with Mario and Sonic at the Olympics 2014.

If its not a gore fest, or doesn't involve shooting or killing with swords, then IGN isn't going to like it that much.

Neonridr4213d ago

IGN has always been good to Nintendo with the 3D style Mario games and Zelda. They even gave Deus Ex a respectable 8.3/10.

but I agree, if it's a new IP or a slight departure from the norm, they tend to bash it.

IPLAY24213d ago

I lost all faith in IGN over a year ago, and no longer care much what they have to say.

TheEvilWithin4213d ago

I was just trying to make a point to not listen to reviewer's. I think Sonic Lost World looks AWESOME! I also think everyone should give it a try before writing it off. Wonderful 101 is amazing and so wont this be.

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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.

-Foxtrot475d ago

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

phoenixwing473d 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.

DarXyde473d 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.

XiNatsuDragnel474d ago

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

Profchaos473d 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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Fntastic1337d 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-1337d 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_Scum1337d 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.

lellkay1336d ago (Edited 1336d 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

Pyrofire951336d 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?)

lellkay1336d 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-1336d 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.

DFresh1336d ago

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