Sunday, 10 May 2015

The problems with Sonic Chronicles

While this isn't the worst game ever, it is pretty bad. Before that lets talk about the good.
  • I really like the Twilight Cage. It's just an interesting place and I like the races that live in it.
  • The story is to be honest is well structured with only plot-holes a big Sonic fan can spot.
  • Eggman,Big and Omega are fun to use.
Okay that's all I can think of. Now for the bad:
  • The first thing you notice is that the music is really poor. Whats worse is that a few are remixes of good sonic song's, like Sonic 3's final boss or Diamond Dust.
  • There's no real way to get money. Sure you get rings in the field but they don't respawn. You don't get money from any enemy either. The only way you can get more rings is to sell your items. 
  • A minor point but why does Sonic have a dialogue tree. I mean why don't they show cut scenes instead of text boxes. The plan to get into the final dungeon would have been better if we could see it.
  • The combat is really unbalanced. Some fights your against enemies that are weaklings while others, pretty early in the game, are extremely difficult. And most of the party (especially Rouge and Tails) has no  move's I want to use and the only reason I have them is because I have to.
  • The bosses are really bad. Some are ridiculously easy, others are unfairly hard and sometimes I don't even k now when I'm fighting a boss. The worst was  the SWATBots mk2. want an example of a good but hard boss, Black Walts No.1.
  • The experience points system is downright broken. Like most RPG's you get exp from foes, but after a while the points you get become smaller until it stays at ten. That's the worst. I like fighting in RPG's because it's fun and I get rewarded for beating strong monsters. I don't want grinding to become a chore. In fact the only way to get more exp is to do side-quests.
  • I don't like Shade. I just wasn't interested at all. I get what she wants but I just don't care. that's a bad sign for any character.
  • Why wasn't Gmerl in it. I know he's not the real Emerl, but the villains were the one's that made him. That would be excellent character development for the rebuilt robot.
  • The Eggman faking his reforming was pretty obvious.
  • Ix sucks. Plain and simple. Have you ever heard of a villain called Queen Chrysalis. She is the ruler of a race of changelings and is just a simple bug. A bug for no good reason CAN BEAT A DEMI-GOD AND IS A COMPLETE IDIOT IN HER PLANING!!! Sorry but the reason I bring her up is because we have no reason Ix can do the things he can do. Like how did he beat Roxas, why do you have to be Super Sonic to beat him, why do people follow him when Shade, a loyal member of his army, admits he's crazy. At least his plan made a bit sense.
  • The final boss was AWFUL! Just follow the commands and you win. No challenge. No satisfaction. No fun. If anything should be the final boss, it should've been this Argus thing we hear about. The thing that an ancient race said was always watching them. the thing that put all these races in this prison. Why not him? It'll be better than Ix.
  • The ending. Whats worse than an awful final boss. A cliffhanger ending for a sequel that may never happen. That's not how you end you first game in a series.The Mario and Luigi games didn't have cliffhangers. Final Fantasy for the for the most part didn't have cliffhangers. And while Mass Effect 2 did have hints towards the next game, it didn't end with a cliffhanger.
And that's all the problems I can think of. Leave a comment on what you think.

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