Sonic Colors Ultimate is Pathetic
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- čas přidán 3. 09. 2021
- Sonic Colors Ultimate is, unfortunately, not the Christmas Miracle we were all anticipating. There are some... issues with it, to say the least.
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Sonic Colors Ultimate Retrospective Review Critique KingK - Hry
PSA: so at the time of making this video, the only Switch issues I was aware of were the abhorrent load times. However, since then, more information about the Switch port has been uncovered, glitches which approach Sonic '06 levels of bad, which you can no doubt find on Twitter when you search 'Sonic Colors Ultimate', so I would caution anyone that still wants to buy Ultimate to STEER CLEAR of the Switch version.
That sucks, I was thinking I might experience Sonic Colors for the first time on the Switch version. Hopefully the game gets patched on all versions.
30 fps on switch version is already enough to steer clear of it
@@junglezone7323 yeah, the game ran just fine on Wii, and if Skyward Sword can be 60FPS on Switch then surely Sonic Colors can be too.
Fuck too late
I got this game on my ps5 so. It’s running fine at least for now. Tho I did come across one thing. Occasionally when I use the wisps the music doesn’t show up, not every time just rarely. If I do run into some glitches like I saw on twitter then… I don’t know.
That Metal Sonic rush pop-up looks like one of those "THERE ARE HOT SINGLES IN YOUR AREA!!!" advertisements online. I bet that someone will make a mod of the game on PC where the message in the pop-up is exactly that or something similar.
Twitter had a field day making memes of it
"THERE ARE CHAOS EMERALDS IN YOUR AREA!!!"
Modders are saying they don't even want to touch the game
@@gunman8452 Yeah, I just heard that too. Still, there may be one in some time.
it looks like one of those "you don't have enough diamonds! buy now" popups in mobile games
How the fuck does a game exist in 2021 without separate music and sound FX option bars? That design choice alone is absolutely baffling
fucking thank you, this is something more people should talk about. old sonic games have had such options yet this 2021 remaster doesn't, that in itself is disappointing as fuck and says a lot about the quality of the game imo. Shows that it's rushed to hell with questionable decisions. They know the sound mixing is ass so they're masking it
ikr id switch off in game music to play 100 gecs instead
best music
It does though? Unless it’s updated recently you can have the opinion to use the OG colors soundtrack in the options menu.
@@angel_of_rust ew
"So this is Sonic Colors"
"Yep"
"A game that, minus a few issues, is pretty well liked by a great many people"
"Yep"
"And that improving it would basically require some graphical updates, some sound updates, maybe a few bonus features, nothing that could be fucked up"
"Sounds right to me"
"So don't fuck it up"
*fucks it up*
LMFAO
Sonic Team simply does not care anymore
@@wuffiousmaximus4808 They didn't make this. It was Blind Squirrel.
@@blibdo3216 yea but Blind Squirrel got screwed by Sega because they didnt give BS enough time to fully develop the game and therefore it came out this rough
@@gamingnubs7628 now i understand it,Sonic Colors Ultimate is Sonic 2006's spiritual sequel.
It's kinda weird that people always call Sonic fans "ungrateful" for rightfully being frustrated at Sega for all of the ignorant decisions they make.
True
This whole "ungrateful" thing is a prevalent issue in all video game fandoms now, it's fucking stupid.
It's not a present from grandma, it's a product I'm paying money for, I don't have to be "grateful" for shit.
Sonic fans have this toxic culture of calling everything that isn't positive "whining". Like, people get accused of just complaining when it comes to things like character design. No other fanbase would go "Sonic Fans are always whining. We can do better." (or some other high horse shit like that) when we talk about the main characters design.
"Ungrateful" and "entitled" are the two words i see thrown around so much at game communities. its like look here you boot licking troglodyte we are paying customers this stuff aint free why should any of us accept subpar quality?
I've never seen anyone call sonic fans ungrateful. I think sega is lucky their fans still put up with their shit. Aside from pokemon I can't think of a single fanbase that would have stayed with a franchise that's so abundantly riddled with dissapointments. Far better games suffer far worse fates.
iirc, sega said they wanted to remaster colors so that the newest generation of sonic fans made by the movie would get a positive idea of what video game sonic is like. Releasing unfinished games is part of the classic sega playbook, so it succeeded on some level
@@amuroray88 because developers are incompetent and can't be bothered to compete with dolphin.
Well atleast its only the first version which makes makes of this getting updates almost guaranteed & there is an atleast decent chance for sega to make the game start of really bad but get good later on, but yea because it's bad now 1: it doesn't even deserve the wird ultimate in its name & 2: because it seems they can't even remaster colors properly i have pretty low hopes for rangers to be good
It's bad when you're losing out to the competency of emulation as the company that made the game in the first place
Those Rival Rush UI assets...just how rushed was this port? Colors deserves better than this.
It honestly looks like something from a mobile game.
By the looks of it, the only had like 1-2 months before the reveal to get started. This is just what I'm guessing, no telling for sure.
@a thing 😂 that genuinely made me laugh
It gets worse when you realize all of Metal Sonic’s animations are ripped from Super Sonic
@@runningwithscissors8612 now that's a damn shame
I almost never hear people talk about Colour's on DS, cause its a bigass theme park and in the DS version they added a bunch on NPC's from the Sonic gallery to fill up said theme park that give you side quests. The Wii was just an empty theme park with no other life besides you and wisps so I was hoping they would merged the two into one to flesh out Colour's world
That’s the only version I’ve played.
The DS version was fun. I had small hope that Mother Wisp would be in this one.
The side quests were generally repeats of existing levels with special objectives and were overall just padding playtime
@@PeruvianPotato but good tho
@@metalicarus8372 no
Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition:
-Has updated visuals and character models.
-An incredible remastered soundtrack with the option to toggle between the equally incredible original soundtrack.
-Has made plenty of QoL improvements that makes side-questing a lot easier.
-Improved UI design that's a lot simpler and organized.
-Has a time attack mode, and an epilogue based off of the unfinished Bionis Shoulder.
Sonic Colors Ultimate:
-Somehow has worse lighting and shading compared to the original.
-UI looks cheaply made with pop-ups that look like they belong on an Windows 95 computer.
-Remastered soundtrack that either has really good or really bad remixes, with no toggle option for the original soundtrack (at launch).
-Glitches and errors that are somehow even worse than the ones in Sonic 06.
-Newly added content that wasn't even fleshed out completely.
How is it that a remaster of a beloved yet niche JRPG has more polish than a remaster of one of the most popular platform games that's a 'return to form'?
3:31 "There's generally just something wrong with the new model I can't put my finger on"
It's the eyes. Ultimate's pupils don't move, they're constantly staring ahead and this messes up a lot of animations in which they were intended to move. (The start of level, victory, and idle animations all being the most noticeable.) The added blinking Sonic can do with every animation is nice, but even this is ruined due to how it fucks up some things, with one part of his idle where his eyes are meant to be partially closed due to looking tired now having his eyes stay wide open and occasionally blinking. He's just so... lifeless now.
Sonic colors got the forces treatment
It's like Sonic is a souless doll. No, life at all.
@Keenan Hunter Sonic Unleashed did it and Generations too and it was fucking rad and cool
Colours also had starting animations like sonic doing stretches at the start of a stage.
"His model reflects more light than it's probably supposed to"
SADX: First time?
SADX looks like heroes
It would fit in even better if Sonic randomly fell through level geometry in this remaster.
@@superplayerex2431 well, he does
It looks more like Unwiished's model
Hey now, SADX’s characters were covered in lube from head to oversized shoes so as to go really fast more efficiently
Man is an absolute legend for doing this after getting a review copy
I think it’s sad he has to be called a legend for this because aren’t review copies suppose to be you know *reviewed* not a fake front to make their game look better. the reviewers should be telling the truth about their experience.
So supposedly gaming company’s hate when they give review copies and ppl review it badly ???? That’s so stupid smh. Make a good game then you don’t have to worry about bad reviews 😤
First time in a looooong while I've seen someone do that properly, not just hide it behind "yeah I'm looking forwards to this" and it being shit
-I'm looking at Grid 2019 personally but you get the idea-
I'm not even a casual Sonic enjoyer by any stretch and this release disappointed me. This franchise deserves better, man.
It's truly cruel that they made the height of the franchise so amazing, because it keeps fans swimming through the garbage for the sliver of the chance that sega pulls off another colors or something akin to the first few games. (Mania was good but that's only because sega wasn't really in charge and at this point it's also 4 years ago)
@@randomusername1735 You hit the problem right on the head. I grew up playing Sonic games and this franchise just deserves so much more than the slock Sega does themselves. Mania and the Sonic Boom show was probably the best thing we got in the franchise in a while. And neither we're really done by the Sonic Team.
@@freshlymemed5680 That's the hard part about being a Sonic Fan. You genuinely enjoy the franchise, but you know you can't defend it, despite that deep down, you know you badly want to.
@@secoTheSonicFan Fair enough.
Freshly. And the Sonic 2020 movie.
"Metal sonic is here to talk about your cars extended warranty, do you accept?"
This remaster has actually annoyed me. I'm so tired of Sega saying "we're focusing on quality now with Sonic". But what have we had since then? Nothing outside Mania has really shown it.
TSR was worse than previous games and the online didn't work properly and was never fixed. Forces is well, Forces and very divisive. And now a port/remaster was screwed up. We're getting less games and the quality is arguably lower than before, other than a few exceptions.
Sometimes I think Sonic might have a big comeback with the movie and extended media on the horizon but then this lacking port just makes me think Sega do not care about quality over deadlines. So now I'm even more concerned about Rangers.
Like, I mean it is kind of funny ripping into a shoddy game on the surface level, but there's frustration in the fact even a remaster of a GOOD game is now getting ripped into. And rightfully so, but c'mon. It really shouldn't have been that hard.
People not ready for this truth. Can’t believe i have to call mania underatted even though it has the most love put into it and its shown
It’s kinda funny that you say this because you’ve played Sonic 1 on GBA.
It is really frustating, when we think Sonic might make a come back it just goes lower, Modern Sonic is a pure mess
I had TSR on two platforms and i never saw an issue with it. Highly enjoyed it and experienced 0 bugs. Multiplayer kinda dropped off after a month or so though
And then theres people complaining about old stigma being broght up in reviews of Sonic Colors Ultimate lol
SEGA:
**Continues to make shitty Sonic games**
Sonic Fans:
**(Rightfully) Call those games a pile of steaming shit**
SEGA:
"Well, oh well. It looks like pople aren't interested in Sonic games anymore. Let's force them to wait for another four years to get another half-baked title!"
If the Sonic game of 2022 ends like Colors,probably Sonic will die.
What bothers me even more is that I know Sonic Team is capable of making a good Sonic game themselves as seen with Sonic Colors(Wii) and Sonic Generations. I feel Sega doesn’t want to try because they know fans will buy it anyways if it has the Sonic name on it,
@@Juanhernandez-zx7kt I've heard some of the people who worked at Sonic Team back then have jumped ship to Nintendo, so Sonic Team now is quite different from Sonic Team of the early 2010s.
@@JonnySpec yea it mostly happened around the time of working on Sonic lost world and the Dlc
Let’s face it. Sega and the fans have lost faith in so many styles.
Sega now is like:
No Adventure style
No Heroes Style
No multiple unique characters
No Werehog
No Wisps
No Boost
No Classic Sonic in Modern games
I can't wait for the "Sonic Colors was never good" videos that use glitches from this remaster that were absent from the original to prove their statement, because time is a flat circle, and Sega is doomed to repeat the same mistakes over and over.
Wouldn't be surprised considering people do that with the Adventure games and their GameCube (or later) ports.
Sad to see so many classic games getting half assed remasters because companies want to just rush out an old product for an easy buck. Good review man
Can you do a video Would you survive Eggman's intergalactic amusement park?
Shame. I was looking forward to finally playing this one.
The nostalgia drive can only go so far with regards to developing a decent game.
Why is Sega physically incapable of learning that rushing only leads to bad outcomes?
Hate when they Sonic Rush titles out.
This is a case of sega not understanding that “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”
Sega: "What was that? I couldn't hear you over the sound of me breaking it."
"if it aint broke, break it"
But they didn't try to fix it...they just remade it
"If it ain't broke, fucking destroy it"
-SEGA
More like "If it ain't broke, drop it off the 50th floor and fire an Angry Bird at it"
Can we just acknowledge how egregiously stupid it is that they didn’t let you play as Metal Sonic after beating all of the Rival Rush races? It would’ve made completing the races worth something, but no you get a PURPLE boost trail, wowwww so cool.
Wow, Sega managed to Sonic Cycle a game that was actually decent. Can we please just give Christian Whitehead another go?
Sega is way to focused on yakuza and persona to care about sonic, and you're right we need Christian Whitehead to make a new game
@@mrexeptionel9530 I’m convinced Sega just releases the occasional Sonic game to keep the brand on life support for merchandising. They are able to cash in pretty well on the Sonic brand without having to put much effort into the games side.
honestly just make fans develop both 3d and 2d games, if they can’t even get a wii port right then I fear for what’s coming next…
@@Schwoomy right, just look at the fan game sonic gt
@@Schwoomy LOL fuck no. People don't realize that SEGA didn't just ask random fans to make Mania. The mania team went there and pitched the concept, and got accepted because they are ACTUAL DEVELOPERS, who took COURSES ON GAME DESIGN, not your average amateur fan that places a Sonic model in a 3d test level and gets called better than Sonic team
Man, even sticking to their hits can't prevent Sega from fucking things up.
Sad, but true.
At least they were competent enough to stay being that imcompetent since Lost World, gotta admire that.
Sorry, I should be very dissapointed.
@King Slayer lmao
@King Slayer Imagine simping for a corporation that would assassinate their own mothers if it meant making more money.
@King Slayer Reading this shit makes me think that the Modern Sonic fanbase truly deserves nothing more than trash like this lmao.
The solution is simple: Get a refund and buy Monkey Ball.
Based
@@_CNT_ hey, its better than getting a refund and NOT getting monkey ball. Right?
But i want to play another mediocre 3D Sonic game. How is MB the solution to that?
When RANGERS is a mediocre dumpsterfire, wich it probably will be, i cant wait for the 3D Sonic Fans to loose their mind^^
This will be a repeat of 2017, Classic Sonics game (Sonic Origins) will be a Masterpiece and 3D Sonics game (RANGERS) will be hot garbage like Forces lol
@@KillyRR i hope not.
moenky ball will forgive your sins
Sega never ceases to amaze me in their lack of competency.
Eh... Wasn't ultimate developed by another studio?
@@funnygamer.692 oh yeah, but like sega decision making was really bad, they rushed a studio that doesn't like to do crush, they contracted a studio that usually works only with xbox and playstation. To be honest is kinda like sega set them up to fail
@2d fighter fan Sega gave Blind Squirrel a delay but seeing Blind Squirrel's shit remakes on Mass Effect and Bioshock, I doubt it wasn't purely Sega's fault unlike how they treated Big Red Button in Sonic Boom
Well the 3D Sonic fanbase is supporting SEGAs incompetence so what do you expect lol
It's kinda weird that we can't toggle the soundtracks for the remixes in each level. In Sonic Generations, they can be switched in ALL levels, bosses, and minigames for each and every one of them, and that game came out years before SC Ultimate.
Does that sega exist anymore?
@@battokizu no.
A lot of love went into generations, it was supposed to remind us of how far the franchise has come. Now it seems like this past decade, anything sonic related that isn’t linked with Christian whitehead is a rushed, neglected mess. How tragic.
But generations was made to be like that. It's an anniversary game meant to celebrate sonics history
@@reservoir4798 Well it's nice to know we have to wait until anniversaries to get a quality Sonic game.
Well, at least we have yet another meme in the Sonic fanbase.
"Long time, no see"
"It's no use"
And now..."Do you accept?"
@@wonderblockstalks3049 "The entire Sonic franchise will become a meme."
"Do you accept?"
@@lucylu3342 X - *yes* O - *TAKE US BACK*
@@lucylu3342 lmao
@@yourehereforthatarentyou ∆- WE CAN SINK EVEN LOWER!!
@@wonderblockstalks3049 lol now? NOW? WHERE YOU BEEN IN THE PAST 20 YEARS! Sonic as a brand is memeable, so anything positive or negative that comes out (mostly negative) is meme worthy..
Almost a month later and only one bug was patched :(
It's official this Port sucks
Meanwhile P-06 is made by one guy and it’s leagues better than this is
@@wuffiousmaximus4808 rlly?
@@unknownwill4th549 Yeah man. It's super good.
5:34
Metal sonic: *in Indian accent* hello your remaster has virus
"Hello, your Metal Sonic Mk. II has virus."
And then SEGA's gonna look at the negative reception to the remaster and be like, "Welp, people just don't seem to like remasters. Time to ditch that idea if we ever did a remaster for a Sonic game again. Alright, next game!"
What sucks is that’s a mentality seen in the games industry as a whole especially in Japan. Devs will overcorrect an issue into a new issue to prove themselves ‘right’. Forces is that overcorrection for ‘Darker Story’. Ultimate is there overcorrection for the PR from Forces and fans wanting remakes. ‘Oh you don’t like my remake!? But YOU wanted it, well I guess I was right, new game it is!”
@@Zanetune Exactly, it's like we don't just shit on Sega just cuz of poor quality control. We shit on them because we know what they're capable of and what they can do with their games. Sega just needs to believe in themselves again and not be so scared about some of their past mistakes in the "dark age" of Sonic like with obviously 06'. Instead of ditching ideas, why not just take the things that didn't work in 06' and improve upon them for future Sonic games along with taking the ideas that worked in 06' like with how Shadow's story was written and keep them in the newer titles?
Good, at this point I don't want them to touch Adventure 1 with a 10 foot pole. In fact, just never make a Sonic game again. Sonic died in 2010 and everything since then has just been bludgeoning his corpse.
@@jordanboyd5587 It's because that was when Sega hit an all-time low and ever since, it's like they have a sign where they work that says "We're never going back to those days again." It sucks but to them, they probably feel like they're in a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation.
@@jordanboyd5587 capable? Pressing X hard to dowt.
What's most baffling about this remaster is that it was supposedly meant to be an _introduction_ to the series for new fans from the movie. Is this really the first impression they want to give to newcomers? The Sonic movie was a dark horse hit, and this was the perfect opportunity to provide a game that's fun, polished, and accessible for new fans of the series to sink their teeth into. This is already disappointing as someone who's a long-time fan, so imagine how someone who's never played a Sonic game before might feel.
Whatever they say this was meant to be, it was not. Don't listen to marketing. Listen to who they hired to make this, and how much QA they out them under.
@@QuintaFeira12 you could argue about whether they actually intended for this game to be an introductory point for movie fans or if that was just PR babble, but I think the point still stands. Regardless of intent, this game will likely be the first impression for many newcomers, and SEGA knew that. This is the first major Sonic game release since the movie came out. They knew that and they still released the game in this state anyway. Not only did they let dedicated fans down, they've also potentially shot themselves in the foot for introducing new fans to the series.
Hot take....the sonic movie sucked ass.
I worked on both...everyone gets treated like shit and the end product was mediocre at best
All this game does is remind us how shitty video games have become Ans how they've been declining over the years as a micro transaction half finished messes
@@Matanumi for some reason I don't believe you
@@mrexeptionel9530 nah dude, you don't understand. That's clearly Tyson Hesse's alt account. Show a little respect, smh my head
I’m…numb to Sonics incompetence at this point…it hasn’t been good for a while guys. I’ve had faith it’d get better for nearly 10 years and it hasn’t. I’ll always pay attention to new sonic releases, but it’s going to take a lot to earn my trust back. I never thought my literal childhood idol would fall this hard. He’s literally just a meme. I just want to go back.
SEGA has been getting lazy since 2013.
sonic mania tho :)
Mania is honestly the only good game Sonic's had in a WHILE.
@@Villain_of_Overhype yeah but mania is classic sonic, this is modern so only classic is good lol
@@jacobgirard7175 made basically entirely by fans and adopted by Sega.
I'm really starting to think SEGA doesn't take Sonic seriously anymore.
of course they do, if your a critic and/or hate the series because they can't do anything right
@@SapphireKnight675 I didn't quite understand your reply what exactly did you mean by it?
Look at the social media accounts for sonic. And you’ll see how little they care.
I feel like sonic is the abused and berated step child of the 90’s. All we want is to be able to spend time with him from time to time and catch up with him, but our step dad is hell-bent on beating him in front of us each time we gather for a family reunion. All while Mario has moved out and gotten a PHD at Harvard and gets showered with hugs and kisses every time we see him
Lmao
except for that one time this year when he had a halfassed rerelease trotted out and was then publicly executed by Shigeru Miyamoto himself (as the meme goes)
@@MediaMunkee wait it was? Lmfao I need to see that
@hiotsobo I honestly believe at this point the devs @sega smoke crack....
thats such a weird analogy. sonic is a game franchise not a friend you form emotional bonds with
When you re-release an 11 year old game two entire console cycles later ... there shouldn’t be so many bugs. You’ve had the time and technology. And straight up removing stuff without a toggle is incredibly dumb. The idea that the Wii version of anything on Switch is better is embarrassing
@@tommurchuis5464 Then they should either put the time and effort into making it work or just *not* release an unfinished product.
@@WaspCameraInSpringfield I agree.
@@tommurchuis5464 sonic colours is on all old gen consoles, including ps3 and xbox 360
@@lemonynuts5051 No, it's not.
@@lemonynuts5051 It isn't, this specific version is only on Wii
Tails is literally just Beat from the Mega Man games. Except Beat actually gave you control and even let you skip ahead a bit. With Tails, we got a recovery even slower than Lakitu picking up racers in Super Mario Kart!
Back in my day, we were able to play as Tails in the original release, with various advantages that Sonic never had. But this? This is just a reskined lives system.
If Sega can’t even the bare minimum and put out a quality remaster, I have little faith in their next 3D Sonic game
Sonic Frontiers called, they left a voice mail of them laughing for 45 minutes.
@@bonedude1286Sonic Frontiers is terrible
@@bonedude1286 Who they laughing at? Frontiers is garbo.
"Review copy provided by Sega" yeah that's never happening again. But good on you for telling the truth!
If companies expect reviewers to sell their credibility for their profit, they are delusional, lol
No one with a brain is going to ruin their career just to appease SEGA
@@rompevuevitos222 Absolutely, and again I applaud you for being frank about the quality of the game despite getting the game from Sega. That honestly gives you more credibility as a reviewer if anything.
@@Random-ri5gz NANCOK isn't this video's reviewer, though their point still stands. I think you might have assumed KingK replied to you when he didn't.
@@syweb2 oh I'm dumb lol
I love how the person who actually made the core engine for Colors Ultimate wasn’t credited by Blind Squirrel, and when Blind Squirrel tried passing it off as “and over-looked issue”, somebody called them out saying that they credited themselves for the engine in both the beginning and the end.
A fair amount of SEGAs work is usually borrowed or just half assed, the Chaos Garden from Sonic adventure is an example (they took it from a prototype of another game and just re-skinned it)
All the PC ports for SEGA games use the same clunky save system and tend to have the same glitches (at least the frame rates tend to be ok)
They also tried remastering a racing game some time ago and literally copied the game as-is without even fixing the most known bugs and just added shaders on top of it, worth mentioning the game was like 15 years old and still looked old af after the "remaster"
@TheSeventhForce can't remember the game rn, it may have been called Daytona but i really don't remember, it was more of a port from an arcade game than a remaster, but it did have shaders which the original didn't
Lawsuit in the making
@@rompevuevitos222 The Chao Garden was an extension of the A Life system from Nights into Dreams, which was also made by Sonic Team, and was credited as such in Sonic Adventure.
Did they not use fucking godot to make this
Knowing this was a review copy has really increased my respect for KingK's channel. No bullshit here, the man tells it like it is
bUt ThE gLiTcHeS aRe fAkE!!!! ThE pAtCh WiLL fIx eVeRyThiNg!!!!! XD
Fake Sonic fans on twitter and youtube damage controlling a shit game they wasted money on as usual.
I'm convinced only Christian Whitehead knows how to remaster a Sonic game properly. Seriously... can he please just direct these ports instead? Dude legitimately gave us so many options, like the music in CD or having the spike bug in Sonic 1 and to add on top of it, he added meaningful content like Hidden Palace Zone which is genuinely an amazing level. Dude could probably port Sonic Colors to bloody mobile devices and it'll still be gold with nifty features and options.
So fucking true
Those are small games. Big games have millions of lines of code and resources to handle. So many art assets, libraries, music, and licensing issues to cross.
@@cixlo more like they’re 2d.
@@cixlo I'm not really talking about the state it's in right now tbh and whether if it does a good job at being a port. I'm more so just dissapointed in the lack of options and content they added, like the music being completely forced. I can fully see that SEGA rushed them to hell on this port. But I'm also not really convinced that these guys are game designers seeing their tack record. The features they put in here are questionable and stick out like a sore thumb, like the abundance of invisible walls. But I still put the blame on SEGA.
The bugs and performance are SEGA's fault I'm fully convinced. But I will critique them on weird additions to the game. (I also really hate all the bloom they put in so badly)
@@cixlo maybe these ficking devlopers should just give up and focus on lazy ass mobile port cash grabs instead since those seem to sell these days
It’s such a shame to see stuff like this. Gaming history is fascinating, and it’s good for people to have access to these older games, but more often than not these remasters serve as a chance to just make money as opposed to actually doing right by the original games. Maybe SEGA will use this as a learning experience? One can only hope
Sega, learning? With SONIC?! Don't make me laugh... Or cry. Oh, Rangers is gonna be barely playable isn't it?
You'd think they'd have taken a learning experience when Sonic Adventure DX, Sonic 06, and Sonic Boom were called out for being so laughably buggy they practically set the standard for youtube humor about poor production value.
And even when the games aren't buggy, their reception is usually mixed at best, such as Unleashed or Forces.
Sega won't learn from this.
Sonic Team have been pretty lazy in some aspects at all times, but they’ve been especially lazy the last decade and are are now also being lazy this one. They had plenty of learning opportunities before this fiasco, and yet here we are.
@@superplayerex2431 iizuka sucks
ChaosX released the 4th demo of his P-06 the same day SCU got released and My god is it infinitely better
The poetic irony writes itself.
Colors is supposed to be an '06 counterpunch, but yet, a decade passes and an '06 fan remake is returning the favor XD
I can’t stress enough how good of a game P-06 is. (Imo it’s better than both Adventure and Adventure 2.)
Wow, this was probably Sega's time to shine, and they ruined, *so so so much*
A big mistake to the list.
Another one bites the dust
& the sonic cycle continues
well, _that glitches shine a lot_
Negentropy. And another one bites the dust. And another one there. And another one there. Another one bites the dust. Hey! Hey!
He didn’t even have to continue about the sound mixing when he said: “in a move that reminds me of both adventure rereleases-“. I instantly went “oh it’s fucked”
Adventure 2's main issue was the sound mixing. The ports are still playable.
@@justasimplemanworkinghiswa1569 definitely. But like I said, the sound mixing was murdered
Colesephhh Yeah especially Sa2.
Okay, it’s 2021.
There is literally no excuse to have music and sfx on the same toggle switch. Games from 25 years ago had them on separate options. How is this so hard to them?
0 quality control
Also there’s no need to make Sonic Games less fun and playable than games from 30 YEARS AGO!!! SONIC IS 30 years old and the classic games look more competent than this!
I don't think there was a volume slider originally, which means fx and music are treated the same; while voice is localised, so it's easy to auto tag it. I mean someone could just go through and manually tag the several... dozen music files, but OH NO THE EFFORT, GOD FORBID WE PUT ACTUAL EFFORT INTO IT.
Shout outs to Freedom Planet on PS4, which has a music switch, but not a switch for any other sound; I know this because I am not fond of that game's voice acting but you cannot shut it off. It's quite a bit more excusable overall, given its much smaller status, but its still egregious.
It's funny cuz when this game was first announced many people were saying stuff like "Sega does what Nintendont" and "THIS is how you make a remaster of a game Nintendo!" Which turned out to age really badly
Apparently Sega can't even do what Nintendoes and it's making decent games of their most beloved franchise
Hey remember when Nintendo tried to remaster three separate titles in one and failed on all three of them? aah good times
@@rsmg4m1ng56 All Stars is leagues above colors ultimate
@@kingmustang4006 That is not saying much at all
@@PeruvianPotato His point still stands tho lol
@@rsmg4m1ng56 remember when Sega released a broken mess of an already well received game? So not only do they fail at making a good new mainline sonic game, they also fail at remastering one from 10 years ago.
"Sega does what Nintendon't"
*like putting no effort or care into their games*
I know Nintendo is bad with the whole DMCA thing, but at least they make good games.
No no, they have that one thing in common.
Yea but Nintendo's copyright policy sucks so much man.
mobile game tutorial well recently Nintendo has changed
Hell, Nintendo is falling into the same trap with the "finish it later" shit they LOVE to shove into every major Switch game
They're just worse versions of previous games in their series. People let them slide because it's Nintendo. It's disheartening to see because Nintendo is no better than anyone else when it comes to standards and what's acceptable
As someone who played on apparently the best version of this game, at the end of the day, my experience isn't whats that important. People like me who didnt have anything crazy happen shouldn't defend the game when people cry out about the bad time they've had because of these issues. We've gotta get #FixSonicColorsultimate trending as much as possible. We need to make sure they CAN'T ignore us. Some may say we're whining and the game aint even out yet but man it's been patched 2-3 times SINCE WE GOT OUR CODES. There's more than enough reason to complain at this point. We need them to hear us, acknowledge this, and work to FIX this. Sonic Colors deserves better.
_"As someone who played on apparently the best version of this game"_
You mean the Wii version?
Sound less like you got review copies and more were used as free beta testers, a practice happening all to often now.
@EuroMIX2 LOL
Nahhhh there shouldn’t be a fix it trend because they should had this all fixed before they released the game
Right?! Like how is this even acceptable nowadays? Before if a studio would pull something like this it would have been shut down or in case of a big one be ridiculed to the point of no recovery!
I'm genuinely upset about this. Sonic colours deserved way better than what Sega gave it...
The whole Sonic the Hedgehog IP deserves way better than what sega's given it over the last 20 years. It was a 16bit juggernaut, now it's just a tired franchise with a 90% failure rate that lifelong fans such as myself no longer have any faith in
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This kinda looks like a half baked “overhaul” mod you’d find on Nexus
The one where you enter a random location to scavenge and find a full on brothel complete with nudity?
I’m glad I kept my expectations low for this remaster.
Same, but still, I was just expecting a simple HD version of the game and I still got disappointed.
More like a demaster
Sonic colors ultimately unplayable
18:20 That capsule used to be the only capsule in the game that you could homing attack onto. Perhaps they thought that was a problem, and in trying to "fix" it, created an even bigger problem.
You can just tell that the homing attack exception was a necessity in the original game to prevent this, and whoever was responsible for it wasn't involved in the remaster.
Somehow by making that capsule unhoming attackable they somehow removed all collision on that one capsule.
How did they even manage that
Wait, you could do that?
@sonicboy678 yup
I greatly appreciate the honesty in this review. Colors Ultimate is a severely flawed and unfinished game and it shows with the abundance of technical issues and glitches across all platforms. The fact that this game even corrupts and deletes people's save data and causes people to have to replay the game all over again is unacceptable and unforgivable. Blind Squirrel Games needs to fix these issues immediately. The previous patches they released clearly didn't fix much.
For some weird ass reason IGN didn't even mention about these glitches or bugs in their review. I guess Sega payed them to keep their mouths shut?
Sup Ace
@@CipherRage-tp5ql I wouldn't be surprised if that's the case. The sheer abundance of glitches in Colors Ultimate is so impossible to ignore, it's clear that some of the critics are actively trying to cover up the flaws this game has and promote positive publicity for it despite it being a broken and unfinished mess.
@@zobirismage2813 Nothing much. Just been fired up lately because of the drama with Colors Ultimate. How's it going with you?
@@BrokenAce1295 I've just been observing the Colors Ultimate discourse from a safe distance LMAOOO
9:20 *"channel name" spinning with a galaxy background *
I remember playing Sonic Colors when I was 11 and it felt like such a magical experience, a breath of fresh air from Sonic Unleashed that I felt was an unfairly hard game at the time. Since Colors on the Wii was an excellent game, it stuck with me for all these years. I feel bad for the 11 year olds in this year needing to settle for this hastily done remaster, which I hope gets a finetooth comb of patches and updates to make it more polished.
So we went from getting many bad sonic games each year to waiting several years just to get 1 bad game. Not sure if that's better or worse? It's like slowing down Sonic's death but still allowing him to die...
Aside from 06, there were no bad Sonic games.
@@Bornagainvillain You're right, just very mediocre or underwhelming ones
@@Bornagainvillain Idk, Free Riders and Rise of Lyric are pretty abysmal games.
@@ChrisStoneinator I forgot about Boom. Guess that shows how worthless of a game it was.
@@Bornagainvillain Lol I had to rack my brain for it too. Having never played it it was easy to wipe from my mind. Free Riders, on the other hand, was my first experience with the 360 on Xmas day 2011 after being obsessed with Zero Gravity for 3 years. Never forgetting that letdown.
Once again we waited 4 years for some form of a mainline Sonic game, and we get something that feels horribly unfinished and still sold for $40. I was looking forward to this and considered pre-ordering, but now I'm so glad I didn't. If Rangers doesn't give me some reaction other than disappointment, I'm done with Sonic (or at least games made by Sonic Team since I still liked Mania and the movie).
Sonic Momentum is coming relatively soon, keep an eye on that one
“if _____ doesn’t happen i’m done with sonic”
yeah, i bet you’ve said that before. and i bet you’ll say it again too
@@yourehereforthatarentyou I haven't actually. I've been pretty loyal up to this point. Plus, I wasn't around during the "dark age"
@@brantchristy3490 well, the same can’t be said for most people that do say that
lmao not just with sonic either. basically every series fandom ever
This game was not made by Sonic team either, so does it really matter?
Remember, kids: Sonic Adventure remakes were shelved because you wanted another rushed boost to win thirty minute long game. And Sonic Team chose to “remaster” one of the rather good ones, the one that didn’t need anything other than upscaling the resolution and bumping up the frame rate which you can do on Dolphin. Not only that, but the Nintendo Switch version was so bad that I called Nintendo to get a refund, and the support rep actually played it and AGREED it was a bad game and gave me a refund without a fight. I hope it was worth it!
Signed, A Long Time Fan Since Sonic 1.
Imagine unironically thinking sonic team was actually working on remaking the adventure games lmao, you have too much faith in them.
@@ultrascarlet5275 Well, there's no need to be an ass, kid. In all honesty, it was a joke. You think I don't know Sonic Team wouldn't really be working on Adventure remakes? I wasn't born yesterday unlike you. I know Sonic Team is the king of letting their fans down. That's why I made that joke in the first place. If you'd read between the lines, you'd see that.
Blaming the fans doesn't help anyone, NO ONE wanted this.
This game makes 06 look like a finished game. It’s not as bad as Rise of Lyric, but it’s more broken.
It also makes SADX a finished game.
So, can we expect Matt McMuscles to make a "Wha Happun" on this game?
I’m not gonna be surprised Can’t wait to see it
Of course my boi
Very very soon
I hope he does. It'll be a real treat to hear how Sega screwed the pooch on this one next.
YEAHHH
I havent played the game yet but the tails-safe animation looks so painfully slow that I get annoyed by just watching it
I played this game a little on my switch and yeah it is so annoyingly slow to respawn
Oh I finished the game and yes, its very annoying
😂😂😂😂
i don't know why did they add it, its literally just a padded out checkpoint of sorts, and checkpoints already exist in the game, so like ????
I just wanted to say thank you for respecting the developers. As a developer that has always been a pet peeve. But the fact that you acknowledged that makes me happy and you have my utmost respect (for what it’s worth).
I respect you
I don't respect developers
Only the corporation's that make them work
Wooow. The only new game since 2017, and it's just a remaster, and they still managed to fuck it up? And Sonic fanboys wonder why people think this franchise is pathetic.
but wait "what about tEam sOniC raCing frOm 2019"
@@ilay_ux lol right
@@bluerat2106 I can’t blame you. Sega also forgot about it
"There will be an option to turn off the Tails Save!" They said. Meanwhile back in 1997 with Sonic Jam, the first compilation of the 16-bit titles - Sonic 1, 2, 3&K - outside of the Mega Drive, along with introducing the Spin Dash to Sonic 1, with an option to turn it off. It also gave the option of an Easy and Normal mode for all four games, as well as an Original Mode which allowed you to play the game as it was intended. Here they only had to do it with one game and they couldn't even do that.
"Easy" effectively halves the amount of levels in each game (by skipping what were presumably considered the "difficult" Acts of a Zone), reduces the hit count of most bosses to just three hits, and adjusts the placement of objects so as to help less experienced players. The Acts chosen for easy mode vary depending on the game - the original Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic the Hedgehog 2 usually have the player run through the first Acts, while Sonic 3 opts for second Acts, save for cases where it makes less sense (such as Angel Island Zone, where starting from Act 2 would omit the introduction). Also Wing Fortress Zone is completely skipped in Sonic 2
"Normal" Acts as essentially a bug-fixed version of the original game, though some layout changes were made to address concerns with the original releases. As an example, more platforms were added in Sonic 2's Chemical Plant Zone to reduce the chances of the player drowning in the level's second Act - it means on the whole, "Normal" is easier than "Original", but harder than "Easy".
Who made sonic jam? The original developers? Easy, medium, hard mode isn't some light switch. You could end up making a game unbeatable in a few instincts without proper testing.
Whatever they said, they should stick to it but I'll be damn if you mouth off about game difficulty settings being an ez solution. It is really freaking hard.
@@cixlo in this case, the "easy" toggle would just affect the tails save. being air lifted to the last solid surface you touched makes colors extremely easy, especially since you keep the red coins. (wich are supposed to be hard to get in most cases) the game has the check points in it already so the toggle would just swap saves back to lives.
What op is suggesting would not be something easy, but hes not wrong about how easy it would be for them to add an "easy mode" toggle into this game to just remove the tails save when the toggle was off.
@@cixlo no one said it was easy?? Demon never said that. They just said that back in the day, they did it with 4 games, and now couldn't do it with one. Now, Colors is a much larger game and it's not nearly as easy as with a Genesis game (I can say this, having worked extensively with the latter)
That siad, technically speaking, a difficulty mode in the classic games literally is a switch. i've implemented an easy and hard mode and it literally comes down to a single flag, with some code edits and layout changes. Making it FUN to play, is a lot harder... but simply doing it is not.
I know a guy who owned sonic jam, its a pretty rare game but he doesn't want to be known as the guy who owns sonic jam when he's dead.
Suddenly I’m not feeling so optimistic about an Unleashed remaster…
Same it's better if a fan makes a sonic unleashed remastered just like P-o6
I don't want an Unleashed remaster, those budget God of War sections where boring af
I would love a game that takes the best of the 3D sonic games and just banks on what they already know
But just look at Sonic forces, the games get worse every generation in a way that's just mind boggling
@@Sup_nw85 yeah. Lets wait 20 years for an unleashed remaster. Those fuckers cant even make a small game under 10 years.
@@rompevuevitos222 Personally I love the Werehog, and I wouldn't play a Sonic Unleashed without it
@@nobbieocoelho8784 same
I canceled my preorder of the physical deluxe. SEGA has promised time and time again that they learned their lesson about releasing Sonic games before the games were ready, but they still keep doing it. If I buy the game later on it will be when everything is fixed and improved assuming SEGA does improve what we currently got.
I guess you can say they're just sabotaging their own reputation
@@user-mh5nx5to2t pretty much
@@user-mh5nx5to2t Amogus
Same. Glad I got Metroid Dread instead of this.
not sure why but the IRS scam with Metal Sonic is extra hilarious to me.
It's incredible how even though I no longer expect anything from sonic
It still disappoints
I'm so glad i wasn't a Sonic kid sometimes.
Simple. It’s a remaster of a game. In this scenario you always expect two things no matter what. A game that’s enjoyable and a remaster that’s faithful to the original. Sonic Colors Ultimate provides neither of these things. Even ignoring the remaster you still expect a game that you could care to play. Modern Sonic games don’t provide this either
@Otneimicayou can make the same argument for platformers like crash bandicoot to say these characters are one trick ponys is just idiocy
@Otneimica then that just sounds like a you problem
To say that gameplay loop is stale or repetitive is just false good level design is always going to be a drawing factor
@Otneimica you know what that’s understandable it’s all personal preference at the end of the day I’m sorry if I came off aggressive or argumentative in my statements this franchise is so divided
If you say sonic doesn’t interest you I can’t argue with that.
Being a sonic fan is suffering. I say that as someone who isn't one- but I was looking forward to this remaster. Considering this is regarded as one of the best sonics in the modern lineup.
The franchise was just lucky back in the mega drive days. Taking every game into account, Sonic is just not good. It’s time we all move on.
@@emlyndewar What about Sonic Generations or SA2
Sonic is just lucky and never had a good game. you probaly never played a sonic game and just like to hate it. And don t say that is your opinion thats is purely free hate
@@GuilhermeGomes-jo5vt Who are you responding to because if you’re responding to OP they literally said they wanted to play this game
@@emlyndewar Respectable take
Pity about you being wrong tho
Sonic Colours in general is pathetic.
Seriously, people complain about Sonic Forces linear, block and even slow level design are the same type of hypocrites who cream themselves from Sonic Colours... WHICH HAS THE SAME SLOW, LINEAR, BLOCKY LEVEL DESIGN.
Sega just copied an easy formula, why bother hiring Generation and especially SA1 level designers who would cost them fortune if we can hire devs who will just copy Sonic Colours level design, after all fAnS somehow enjoyed it as well, so they'll eat it in forces.
But they didn't???
And yet some people still defend original Sonic Colours and even Ultimate remake??????
to be fair to colors, although the majority of levels is 2D they're quite multi-layered and encourages exploration via wisp power ups.
also it had completely original level themes. and the story didn't try to pretend to be something it isn't.
other than that yeah, you're not wrong.
@@corel7966 Multi-layered ? Is that an euphemism for claustrophobic, tedious dead ends for useless fetch quests ? With shitty, pace-breaking gimmicky minigames ?
Original stages =/= good. A candyland stage in Sonic is just a cringe attempt at being like Mario. The rest are a bunch of bland and generic platformer trope stages, minus Aquarium Park. Too bad its level design still sucks.
Gimme a break, it sucks. Plain and simple. You're reaching.
@@yrooxrksvi7142 hey, just saying. it tries unlike forces but it doesn't necessarily means it's good.
that's probably why people defend it.
@@corel7966 It fails horribly at trying too hard to be like Mario or a Metroidvania. It's EXACTLY the same as Forces minus the Wisps gimmicky trash. And people defend it because they're either Nintendrones with no standards or are just plain stupid.
@@yrooxrksvi7142i guess so?
Sonic Team, we just want a good 3D Sonic game. It doesn't have to be amazing, just good. We know you're capable of it, you've made good ones in the past. Why do they continue to disappoint fans with worthless failures?
because there are already 90 other fucking sonic games and you lot are absolutely baffled and befuddled at the idea that sega could be stale on sonic ideas after 20 years of making a sonic game on a daily basis
@@ladylover1134 They clearly are. But if Nintendo can make groundbreaking Mario game with Mario Odyssey, franchise that only has one premise in every game, then Sega should be able to make a Sonic game when they have so many characters to work with.
@@ladylover1134 If they just make a game that's worth a damn, then they could work on their other projects. Mario Odyssey came out 2017, and we haven't needed a new mainline for a while (closest thing to that was a 3D World port). If they make a good game, it should hold people for a good while.
Quick correction. It's Blind Squirrel Entertainment that handled this port. Not Sonic Team.
@@bwario5504 I mean they fucked up on Mass Effect and Bioshock so why wouldn't they also fuck up Sonic
Those "Sonic Colors Ultimate is better than Skyward Sword HD because it has more content and is cheaper" posts aged terribly
And this was before people began to find the ridiculous amount of glitches and crashes
People should judge remasters in the importance of changes rather than the amount of whatever changes, beacose sonic colors ultimate doesn't have a single change that really makes it better than the original.
Zelda was still overpriced regardless
@@KnucklesWTD yes, it was overpriced for a wii game. But atleast it was finished.
The scu port is bad.
It's a wii game struggling to hit 30 fps on the switch version despite skyward sword and mario galaxy doing it before it.
It's not like sonic colors ultimate is a very demanding game to have as much glitches and problems it had.
I'd much rather spending 60$ on a finished game than 20$ on an unfinished game.
It's like seeing food on the ground for free and taking it just because it's free.
@@KnucklesWTD It also fixed some issues and added a control theme.
@@KnucklesWTD The Zelda port is superior to the original release in every way while Colors just stained the franchise once again. Clearly Zelda was justified to charge more given the end results.
This game makes me appreciate how they didn't screw up the lighting and art style of Skyward Sword HD.
Staying true to the original version of a game should be commended more and not tarnished by internet people as "no effort put"
@@fernando98322 oh so Skyward Sword HD was a fantastic remaster. Really?
@@fernando98322 I agree with that mentality but didn't those "internet people" complain because they slapped a €60 tag on it..? Isn't that argument a little valid for the quality they're getting.
@@hollowknightfan2.563 When did Fercho say that it was a "fantastic remaster"?
@@fernando98322 SSHD is a good port. The problem is it's overpriced.
Never a good sign when a game has a loading screen for the pause menu
This remaster has that Sonic Adventure DX flavour to it; it's less stable and screws things up that the original got right, but added a few bells and whistles that don't really add to the experience.
At least SADX let me unlock Tails Adventure.
What's sad is that the community and this excellent near-launch day review had to uncover all these issues. Most pre--release previews/reviews by media outlets were glowing and didn't note any of these obvious issues, which is baffling.
I have a suspicion that reviewers were provided the best build of the game, which is probably PC or Xbox.
Standards for Sonic have been lowered.
Thanks for this video. Nice and concise place to showcase this remaster's flaws. I feel like the discourse surrounding this game has been all over the place and hard to follow.
"Concise"
At this point I am convinced Sega are doing this on purpose, it has to be. No company can keep been this bad for so many years. And when you think about it, it is only Sonic. The rest of their games have done pretty well. So yeah, this has to be deliberate so they have an excuse to walk away from Sonic or something.
Honestly you could be onto something.
I still play colours on my Wii and yep, I steered clear of Ultimate.
Ayyyy a fellow Wii enjoyer in 2022.
I will never understand why they felt the need to remaster sonic color's already god tier soundtrack
They made sonic colors even easier but it arleady an easy game dammit
Me, a few days ago: "Y'know, I don't like Colours, but doing a remaster of it is a safe, sensible idea for SEGA at the moment. It's an easy way to get some good will back after... well, Forces."
Me, now: "Maybe I _don't_ need SA1 and 2 remakes."
Should just let the fans remaster SA1 and 2. The major thing needed is the lane/whatever gameplay from the later games. On the stretches of running in SA1 and 2, its almost impossible to keep Sonic in the center. I'd LOVE it if Sonic STAYED in the center and we could just smoothly move left or right WITHOUT slamming into the railing.
@@Rokabur
If you play on Dreamcast or use the input fix mod, SA1 plays like a dream. You can have Sonic lean slightly left or right when going through level such as Windy Valley without slamming into rails.
I'll be honest, I might be biased because I really did not like Colours at all, but this is disgraceful. I lost faith in Sega after Sonic Forces. It just shows they still haven't learned from '06 and Boom. Rushing games out to meet a deadline is always a bad idea.
the Sweet Mountain and Aquarium Park bosses are also bugged in a weird way. It's impossible to hit them with the drill wisp anymore. The Sweet Mountain one will just bounce out of the way when you pop out under him, and the Aquarium Park one will literally just teleport to the other side of the arena whenever you get within 30 feet of him. There are achievements tied to doing it!
I thought I just royally sucked at the boss in Aquarium Park. It’s been a while since I played the original so I can’t remember how he handles.
What the fuck is with developers including broken achievements and then not fixing them?
Finally, someone else said it.. Dude, Aquarium Park's is the literal reason why I still don't have 100% achievements. The fucking boss just starts teleporting and spazzing out whenever you active the drill wisp it's so unfair and annoying.
Yeah you’re not wrong
Its crazy that people will defend Sega for this. They literally managed to butcher an already good game💀
Sonic 1: First Time?
@@smashmaster521 me: looks over at 15th anniversary sonic 1
Also me: you mean second time
Looks at entire franchise: how many times has it even been?!
@@dragonmaster3030 That's what I was referencing. Sonic 1 knows better than anyone what it's like to be butchered by a terrible port.
@@smashmaster521 I thought their was a port before that anniversary that was also shit but maybe im just not remembering correctly
You know? As fast as I was about to make a “Sonic Colors Ultimate DX” joke, I realized that not even DX altered the game as badly, sure the graphics got butchered in DX, but at least it still was Sonic Adventure at it’s core with a neat bunch of extra content that didn’t really change the main gameplay. I’m actually disappointed in how little it seems they have tried and I don’t even think colors is anything more than a 6/10.
it also allowed cutscenes to be skipped
Remember when we could actually play as other characters in Sonic Games?
Me too I miss playing as them
I member.
@SpiteHook what
There's Forces and Mania.
@@MrEasyNah Oh yeah, I'm glad we can all play as our Sonic OCs now, and TWO, count 'em, TWO variants of Sonic. That's not what anyone wanted out being able to play as the other characters again. Shadow being available essentially as a skin for Sonic is fine by me overall though, but that's still not much. People want to play as the pre-existing characters that they already like; Sonic Heroes was great for this and that game didn't even really have 12 characters, it had one weird combo character with move variations. Honestly, I think people just want the side-characters to be more relevant again; Forces kind of did that but was not convincing about it at all.
Remember those good ol days where Sega & Sonic Team cared about releasing a good Sonic Game.
I miss those days
Oh my god that Rival Rush menu and startup is like a mobile game. Jesus christ Sega, put some respect on my boy Sonic.
The Metal Sonic artwork is the same from Sonic Generations
Blind squirrel made it but sega is still part of the blame
Poor Sonic can’t catch a break. Think I’ll play the original again out of spite lol
Same
Not even out of spite, because it's the logical version to support :)
@@fruitlion8 Not to mention still the best version.
The virus popup analogy had me laughing SO hard
The moral of the story is to never expect anything good from anyone or anything. That way you can't be disappointed.
Damn. Colours is one of my favourite Sonic games and I was always hoping for a remaster on the Switch. But it looks like they did what I was hoping they wouldn't: Half-ass the thing and bank on people's nostalgia for a popular game. You hate to see it
Colors is not even close to be my personal best games to play, but I still appreciate its creativity, soundtrack, and even the level design, which is not really my type (specially the yellow spring stages), but I was still looking forward to this remaster, this was a gigantic disappointment
Same. Colors was the game that brought me to the franchise and to see it have this is sad
Demon’s Souls has the same problem with its OST. The original soundtrack was amazing, but the remake soundtrack is so staggeringly different and there’s no option to use the original.
Persona 1 PSP is also like this
I was just talking about this the other day. The old soundtrack was kinda weird and creepy (even goofy at times), and it really contributed to the atmosphere. The new one just sounds like some generic epic fantasy battle music
@@broomybroomybroomy Not to say that there aren't some good tracks-Storm King and penetrator are pretty good-but a lot of them are repetitive or completely miss the tone/vibe of the original. Phalanx straight-up has completely different music that isn't at all what the original sounds like. Flamelurker and Man-eater seem like faithful renditions but they end up sounding so repetitive, which is something the original tracks could get away with because they were much simpler pieces.
@@theretard1590 the very simple composition combined with the unconventional instrumentation makes for a very dreary and strange soundtrack that fits the tone and atmosphere of the game. It also fits because the bosses are comparatively easy and limited compared to most other games. Dirty Colossus doesn’t deserve a soundtrack that intense in the remake-he’s a complete pushover that can barely function. Storm Kings ost is good but also he has literally one attack and is mostly a punching bag, so the song seems a bit out of place. Each trackwas deliberately made to match each boss in the original. The adjutacator for example is this indescribably weird giant troll thing so they matched it with a woodwind which emphasizes how bizzare he is. Allants theme is a great organ peice that Bluepoint didn’t bother to try and capture in his new theme. The original makes for a pretty off putting soundtrack, I can understand why people don’t like it but it’s unique and subversive. The remake is attempting to replicate Bloodborne or Dark Souls III’s soundtrack, but Demon’s is simply not those games, so it doesn’t work at all.
@@theretard1590 ok sure you can say what you wanna say but being contrarian for the sake of it gets nowhere if you’re not gonna say why you like it
I played this so much on my Wii back when it was originally released. It's really one of the best Sonic games ever made. I can't understand how they were able to make so many things wrong like that.
I know right, I’m glad I still have the original game, and my Wii
I remember a time when I was about 8 years old (around 9 years ago) my brother had read out of a video game magazine that Sonic was dying or something like that. Remembering my objection to him saying that just now made me realize that I’ve still been optimistic for Sonic for nearly a decade, yet I have not played a single New sonic game outside of mania within that time. Rangers is my last straw, if that flops then im giving up hope lol.
"Hey sonic enjoy your future, its gonna be great" BIGGEST LIE EVER
Lol
@Federal Bureau of Investigation Don't forget it's a prequel to mania, so he had a really good time with that one.
@Federal Bureau of Investigation It doesn’t matter though because immediately after, 06 happens.
New Sonic fan: “Man, this game is cool, but underwhelming.”
Old Sonic fan: “First time?”
Ye Tho ik glad I didn't get it on switch might is well play the wii version and Tropical Resort sounds awful and the headphones thing is surprisingly trash but ye last sonic game I played was Generations and mania those are the sonic game I be playing but damn th7s is hella disappointing
Do new Sonic fans even really exist?
@@TheMadCroctor no. Especially since only old fans really watched the movie
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I can still tell the sound mixing is bad, even through my speakers and not headphones.
Also, remember your other video saying Super Mario 3D All-Stars was pathetic? At least that's not even a quarter as buggy as what I'm hearing about this.
Kind of bizarre how this port turned out! Almost makes you wonder why, maybe an expedited schedule, things turned out how they did?
With the Mario Galaxy rerelease, Nintendo actually just used a proprietary Wii emulator and higher res assets, and I'm wondering if that would have actually been a better idea here.