That’s what a Sonic game is meant to be, so why overcomplicate things? All of them feel unfortunately out of place, each one weighing levels down when you simply want to bound across obstacles as fast as you can. The drill and laser Wisps are a lot more fun to use than say, the wall-climbing Wisp, which feels a lot less exciting to bump into during a level. The Wisps throw a wrench in that, replacing his kit with new abilities like flying into the sky, drilling through certain objects and so on. Sonic himself is a familiar blinding-fast ball of blue, rocketing past enemies and gaining speed as long as he is uninterrupted by obstacles. You’ll bump into Wisps throughout Sonic Colors’ levels, unlocking new ones the further you progress in the main story. Just as every Sonic game tries to unnecessarily mix up the speedster’s platforming gameplay, Sonic Colors’ gimmick comes in the form of these Wisps - and they’re just that: a gimmick. Having hitched a ride to the Carnival, Sonic partners up with the Wisps to stop Dr. Eggman has set up an evil space carnival, as villains often do, using an alien species called the Wisps as an energy source. This plot is fine in a Saturday morning cartoon kind of way, and its interstellar setting makes for some nice environmental diversity.
Eggman’s evil machinations are at the center of Sonic Colors: Ultimate as usual, with yet another plan to conquer the world. You won’t see much of fan-favourites like Knuckles, Amy and Shadow here - instead, this simple tale mostly revolves around Sonic, his best friend Tails and the villain Dr. Sonic Colors: Ultimate trims the fat from Sonic’s colourful assortment of friends, which almost works in its favour. Not that Sonic games are known for their stories, but we should talk about this one anyway. The Nintendo Wii-exclusive game Sonic Colors was one of the last good 3D Sonic games to come out of this era, which makes it that much more interesting to return to all these years later, remastered as Sonic Colors: Ultimate.īut does the 2010 Wii game still hold up? Most of its recent entries have been half-baked, mildly terrible platformers that either rely too much on gimmicks or lose sight of Sonic’s core identity completely.
The Sonic franchise has had something of an identity crisis since shifting from 2D to 3D gameplay.
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games and get a live-action movie of his own. The blue ball of speed’s first few games are undeniably some of the most iconic platformers in history, and Sonic himself has remained popular enough to warrant multiple crossover titles with Mario, be featured in Super Smash Bros. Sonic the Hedgehog is a funny little franchise. Sonic Colors: Ultimate is a great gateway back into the platforming franchise
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