[ZachenFoot]

I enjoyed the game. Spent my whole Thanksgiving break back home playing it.

Of course I did notice some of the flaws within the game. It was very quick, and I guess it was good for nostalgia, but I feel that if they had taken it a bit more seriously they could've added some new things (not like the lock-on), maybe made gameplay a little more difficult.

You saw the advancements from one, to two, to three, but as far as I'm concerned they took a step back with the new one, back to square one.

In response to the shortness of the game, I guess since it's Episode 1 it's only a fraction of the story, and if they expand on that in Episode 2, then I really won't have much to complain about.

Still, in short, I enjoyed the game. I thought it was a nice re-introduction to 2D platforming and now Sonic Team knows what to refine. Whether they actually refine the flaws is an entirely different story.

This post has been edited by ZachenFoot: 08 February 2011 - 06:46 PM

[Mobiethian]

This game was spectacular as I knew it would be in the first place. I can't wait for the next one! At any rate, I still enjoy playing it, well any chance I get to and still do not own a 360 yet. Working on it!

Episode II - We're ready for you!

[Solid SOAP]

I might actually be purchasing this soon, I just hooked my 360 up to the HDTV and Sonic 4 looks glorious on it, plus the demo is so much more fun to play now that I can actually see what's in front of me. I'm probably going to pick up Stacking as well, that looks brilliant.

[Glaber]

if I were you, I'd steer clear of S4E1 and just get Stacking

[Solid SOAP]

Thing is, I played and beat it at my friend's house and enjoyed it. I don't know if it'd be worth paying the money for again though, how many times would I want to play it again?

[Azukara]

Thing is, I played and beat it at my friend's house and enjoyed it. I don't know if it'd be worth paying the money for again though, how many times would I want to play it again?

I played it quite alot at one point, but honestly after beating it about three times, I never bothered to touch it ever again. I got it on the day of release and I haven't played it since early December.

Of course, that's comparing to the classics, which I still play every other day.

This post has been edited by Azukara: 09 February 2011 - 06:00 PM

[Dark Sonic]

Surprisingly I still play this game a good amount. I don't know there's just something I like about it. I think on the Ipod version I have like 450 lives and on the PS3 I have something like 7 or 8 hundred.

[Skyler]

I was playing it earlier, actually. I've no idea why. :P


Also, about the Wiki - will music downloads be available anytime soon? I'm still using the recordings from the leak and I'm ready to upgrade.

[Ollie]

I've always found that Sonic 4 has the same replay value that Sonic 1, 2 and 3 & K has. It's just one of those games that you can simply sit down and just pass the time regardless of your opinion about it.

[Rokkan]

Sonic 4 is pretty easy and quick to pick-up-and-play, which is something they shouldn't remove for Episode II (better yet; add a no-save feature, I'd love that!), so because of that, sometimes I feel very compelled to play it whenever I'm bored.

But then as I get through it I remember how frustrating the game is to me, because it could be so much more with so much less shit. And then I turn it off somewhere on Casino Street or Lost Labyrinth

[Chaos Rush]

I'll be honest: I regret buying this. It's just taking up space on my Wii, and it hasn't been touched since I beat it in October. Nothing about the game was memorable for me, I don't see any point in playing this when S3&K has much more to offer, is better designed, and overall, S3&K is just more fun.

I'm not excited for Episode II at all.

[MegaDash]

I find Sonic 4 pisses me off significantly more than any of the Genesis Sonic games, so much so that I'm taken out of the experience. Maybe I'm just not playing it right. I should probably make it a point to not every use the homing attack or avoid springs as much as possible—you know, go against how the designers designed the game to be played—and see if that makes it any better. The Special Stages are fairly tolerable, but it's not like I'd prefer it more than Sonic 1's specials stages, especially with that freaking baby lullaby music. Seriously, Senoue? Seriously?

That being said, I do find I have the most fun in Lost Labyrinth and Mad Gear. And my favorite moment in the whole game was the brief cutscene with the cool "This Is Happanin'" music right before you get to E.G.G. Station Zone. I can definitely see how certain parts of the game balance themselves out nicely for some, but for me it's just half-baked. Splash Hill is so much a lift of every beginning zone trope so as to be transparent and nonexistent. You could replace it with all-white backgrounds and a black foreground and it wouldn't make a difference. Maybe if they did more to make it look like an organic lagoon or a swamp, something different, I would've been distracted by the less-than-remarkable level design. Casino Street did look and play a little better, but I hated the Road of Cards and I didn't need to spend an entire act blasting out of 50 cannons, with the very last one launching me into a do-or-die Bubbles chain over a bottomless pits (hint: I actually liked that act best in the whole zone). The level design was partly lame as it was, but the bottomless pits at the end of each act just piss me off. Almost as much as falling straight down in Lost Labyrinth because I didn't hold right all the way after being launched half of the way from a mine cart stop.

So far, I'd even rather playing one of the Advance games than Episode 1. At least they're not trying quite as hard to be Sonic 1 or 2 but with different physics programming. They're don't handle as smoothly as the Genesis games, but they certainly handle well enough.

EDIT@Chaos: Yeah, come to think of it, I think my $15 would've been better spent on World of Goo. It's not to say I didn't have any fun at all with Sonic 4—it's decent—but it's still disappointing.

This post has been edited by MegaDash: 09 February 2011 - 07:30 PM

[TheKazeblade]

And my favorite moment in the whole game was the brief cutscene with the cool "This Is Happanin'" music right before you get to E.G.G. Station Zone.

I sure wish they would've had those at the end of each stage, and at least some sort of transition between each act instead of just dumping you into the next. Not only would it have emulated S3&K, but I think a lot more people would have overlooked going to the map screen if there was that sense of unity.

[PC2]

Casino Street did look and play a little better, but I hated the Road of Cards

I'm glad I'm not the only one who didn't find that stage particularly impressive. It looked cool at first, and it isn't that bad imo, but the gimmick just feels kind of boring to me. And I always have trouble with the infamous troll platforming section in the middle of the stage.

[Diablohead]

Casino street 2 cards would have been much better if sonic was able to jump through them from below, so many times I slipped off one, jumped to hit sonic's head on a freshly turned card only to have the one below me dump me into a bottomless pit, hayoo!

more frustrating then fun.