Sonic and the Secret Rings (Wii)

Daijaga · Chosen of Luck Gender: Joined: 17 Dec 2003

Sonic and the Secret Rings is the one of the worst games Ive played in a long time.

On a whim I decided to buy the new Sonic game for the Wii - I figured it was something that whould be a solid buy as I havnt played any really terrible sonic games and even those I did (sonic heros) were at least playable.

I tried very hard to like this game and frankly the stroy is very attractive. The voice acting is passable, after all its only a Sonic game, and even the leveling system and skill sets are all great implementations to a great genre.

Only...the game isnt great. In fact, this game is aweful. There only one direction, forward. And maybe that wouldnt be so frighteningly bad if Sonic didnt move at half the speed of mud. Yeah, the blue lightning takes off at about Mach Yesterday and about the time you get up to a relitivly amusing amoutn of speed (a few minutes later) you inevitibly hit a wall, enemy, or farknarbn cactus in the middle of the street and have to skid to a complete stop to jump over.

A few small, simple things would have made this game sweet. 3d movement for one, a ground dash, and a manaul targeting system. But no, to attack any enemy in the game, you have to skid to a stop, jump up in the air (a long journey, not because you get phat air - and you dont - but becuase apparently the air in arabian nights is thick and have to be swam through)...anyway you have to jump up in the air, then wait for the targeting rectile to turn red, then do an air dash attack. Your attack options are limited to whatever enemy happens to be closest to you, and you cant cancel or change targets in any way. Thats when you dont barrel past them before you get a chance to stop...jump...get air...target...then attack.

The last two missions I did really nailed the coffin on this one for me.

Dinosaur Jungle
Objective: Collect 99 Coins.

At the start of this mission a trio of triceratops come barrelign at you from behind. The camera shows you this and you take off running, toward the camera, having no farking idea where your going. Not that it matters, because it seemed like about have the time I started the mission, Sonic couldnt move fast enough to escape the dinosaurs before I got to start playing.

Dinosaur Jungle
Objective: Dont Defeat Any Enemies

The objective of this mission is to clear the stage without killing any enemies. Im like ok, so I have to weave inbetween them. No - theres at least two parts were there are enemies in the MIDDLE OF THE ONLY ROUTE (remember, ONE direction in this game, forward). I cant run past them or I take damage (and/or die) and I cant jump over them because by the time I get stopped, jump, and try to air dash the targetting recepticle turns red and I go flying into the enemy, killing it and failing the mission.

I have no idea how to circumvent this.

Oh, and lets not forget the 10 minutesI spent running around in a circle becasue the game cglitched me into an infinate loop in some stage. I killed every enemy, adn tilted the WIimote to and fro. I saw where I was SUPPOSED to go, but the damn game kept auto jumping me to some ledge a hundred feet away. And I coudl choose a direction because the only direction is FREAKIN FORWARD.

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Im going to try EXTREMLY HARD to level up Sonic and see if any of these issues even out at higher levels, but frankly I dont know how to progress in the story any further.

Ultrawolf · Mr. Roarke Gender: Joined: 04 Jul 2003

Once you level up and gain more skills the game becomes 1000x more fun. It's really hard but once you get more used to the controls, learn to brake, backstep, knowing when to jump and not airdash etc. you will be alot better. The skills will help tons to helping you control Sonic.