I thought since this game is out now, I should bump this topic in saying that I played this game and....its alright. Its not spectacular, its not a steaming pile of donkey shit, its just average but what I can say is that secret rings was more fluid than this game. It plays similarly in design, you are practically on rails(so the camera still cannot turn, which is a bitch) but instead of him instantly going forward, you use the joystick meaning you have free movement. Not only is this clunky but there is really no point in doing this as the camera is still fucking locked. My only guess of why they did this is to implement wii controls for the *sigh* sword fights.

The sword fighting is mediocre at best, its all waggle with no gestures. Unlike most games, however it at least reads your waggling for the most part and it's not broken. The graphics are great for a wii game and it has a nice attention to detail, as do the comic book style cutscenes. However, those same cutscenes are plagued with you guessed it, the highly incapable 4 kids voice actors and the dialogue is corny and just awful. There are many unlockable items in the game and you can play through the levels as other characters with their own abilities, so there is a good amount of replay value. I still cannot bear the fact that sonic is actually using a fucking sword though but the game turned out with better results than I thought, but that's not saying much.

lol i wonder if the sonic team or whatever they're called even gives a fuck anymore

I wouldn't doubt that. Sonic team really needs too get rid of their first graders they call programmers.

I stopped caring about Sonic when I realised it parallels Megaman in some uncanny ways.

Sonic= Blue Protagonist out to stop Dr.Eggman for whatever reason, probably cause he's fat.
Megaman= Blue Protagonist out to stop Dr.Wily cause he's a mama's boy.

Shadow= Sonic's evil counter clone. Both are questionably evil and try to be bad but fail at it horribly.
Bass= Megaman's evil counter robot. Both are questionably evil and try to be bad but fail at it horribly.

Dr. Robotnik= Evil scientist with an obsession for robots to take over the world. Is fat and looks like an egg.
Dr.Wily= Evil scientist with an obsession for robots to take over the world. Is so old he could probably die from constipation.
Both have the exact same moustache, both just refuse to die, both build impractical death machines to atempt to thwart the protagonist.

Knuckles= Red, can fly, and has spikes coming out of his... knuckles. Don't know what the heack he's supposed to be.
Zero= Red, clings to walls, has a sword. Questionable sex affiliation.
Both are silent cool type douche bags.

Tails= Side character with no purpose but to fly with his two tails.
Robo= Side character with no purpose but to drive a truck.
Both were around longer then the other side characters.

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