Sonic Double Whammy!

[Ultrawolf]

I wanted to wait till i played both games enough before i wrote this review of sorts. The games im talking about are sonic heros and sonic battle.
Sonic battle:
VERY VERY VERY FUN. Its like a mini smash bros with sonic characters. Even a create a fighter in the character Emerl. Emerl is a robot who can learn other characters moves by fighting them. Once you've learned some moves you can them equip them onto emerl allowing him to use them. The moves require a certain amount of skill points to equip which you can get by battling. 1 point for win, 2 for a win without losing any lives, and 5 for winning without getting hit. At first emerl sucks very badly but as you play he gradually becomes one strong S.o.b. The story is pretty cool as well. Won't give anything away but after you've beaten the game you can play through each chapter a second time to uncover a journal entry from professor gerald who you will remember from Sonic Adventure 2 (you know the guy who created shadow) Also there are a bunch of unlockable besides trying to unlock all the moves (im at 42%) there are hidden characters, minigames, etc. Also the story takes place after Sonic heros. The music pretty good for gameboy and there are some catchy tunes. There are even sound effects of the characters saying little things like "sonic", "all right", "grrr", "bwhahahahaha". I'd give it a 9/10



Sonic heros: good and bad. Very cool concept. 3 character teams. Team chaotix (from the game that not many people remember for Sega 32X Knuckles Chaotix) which consists of Espio, Vector, and Charmy (where's mighty? *sob*) Team sonic which has Sonic, Knuckles, and tails; team rose which has Amy (duh) Big (stupid fishing from sonic adventure 1), and Cream with her chao Cheese( from sonic advance 2); and finally Team dark with Shadow (he's back), Rouge, and E-123 Omega. Each team has their own objectives and goals within the 14 levels. The game plays out similar to the original sonic games.

act1-act2-boss-act1-act2-boss rinse repeat.

the story is shown in in game cutscenes and cgi cutscenes (oooh ahhh). A cool nifty feature i like is that the characters talk to each other during the levels! In one level i was launched from a cannon and Sonic said something like this is fun and knuckles said something about being queesy, something like that. Team Sonic objectives are all run to the end very similar to how sonic's levels played out in sonic adventure 2. Team rose is the beginner team and plays similar to team sonic but cuts out the difficult parts (damn you energy factory of doom!). Team dark levels are more difficult in that they contain much more enemies and more destructibles (yay). Team dark levels are usually smash through everything to the end. Team chaotix objectives are completely different. They do very unique things in levels like collect keys or destroy all turtles. Very weird but fun when you need to take a break from the usual stuff. Each team has its own story. Team rose is out looking for various people (a chao, froggy, and sonic) Team sonic was issued a challenge by eggman who told them that he will complete his ultimate weapon in 3 days and he challenges them to stop him. Team Dark's is all about revenge. Omega was the last of the E series robots but was never activated and abondoned in an underground base. Rouge never found eggman's treasure but she did find shadow and omega. Shadow was sealed away in a tube until rouge freed him ( i have no idea how he survived his fall to earth from the last game as i havent played very far in their story apparently shadow has amnesia) Team chaotix is a detective agency and recieves a case from a mystery man. Espio is suspicious but vector reminds them that their motto is they take any paying case (apparently they dont get paid much). Team chaotix has a very satisfying ending hehe. And as usual there is a final story to be unlocked once youve beaten the other 4 and gotten all 7 chaos emeralds which contains the return of one great sonic villain who i wont spoil. There is a reason SONIC was given the challenge. Anyway that brings me to my next point. the RETURN OF THE SPECIAL STAGES!!! Remember in sonic 2 when you went to the special stage and chased after the emeralds in the weird tunnels. Well they're back! There's seven emeralds and thankfully if you get an emerald with one team it carries over into the other teams. so 7 total not 7x4 teams. Theres also numerous 2 player modes which can be unlocked and i THINK there is a 4 player mode. Music is in the same style of the older sonic adventures. Pretty catchy. The camera can be crazy sometimes. It gets in the way sometimes causing you to erm... die. But it's not that big of a problem. Overall very fun. 8/10