Sonic Generations is a blast to the past, and a blast to play.
User Rating: 9 | Sonic Generations 3DS
Let's face it, Sonic's had a rough ten years last decade. Sonic Adventure 2 started off the decade with a hoorah, but things got worse with Shadow the Hedgehog, Sonic '06, Sonic and the Black Knight, and many more failures. The only good games were the Sonic Advance series and Sonic Rush series, and Sonic Heroes was okay. But in 2010, Sonic returned to his roots in Sonic 4: Episode 1 and proved blast processing can be great in 3D in Sonic Colors, along with a DS version of Sonic Colors that had Sonic Rush gameplay. Sonic, once again, is a great character. Even better, the next year SEGA combine the 2D platforming brilliance of the Genesis days with the 3D on-the-rails gameplay of the Rush series. Sonic Generations is an attempt to attract 2D and 3D Sonic lovers alike, having Act 1 of each zone you play as Classic Sonic, with gameplay similar to Sonic 2, and Act 2 you play as Modern Sonic with the newer gameplay of Sonic Rush or Sonic Colors DS, or you could say it's a lot like the 2D sections of Sonic Colors, just the entire level. Both types of gameplay are fun (I prefer Classic Sonic) and the Special Stages are fast excitement, but the story itself is short. You'll complete it in hours. But getting S ranks make it last longer, there are 100 missions to complete which will last you a while, and there's Versus mode, where you can play locally or online. My only complaints are that this is a short game, the storyline is confusing and the cutscenes are more like talking heads, and I really would've liked CGI animation or hand-drawn cutscenes better, and that the graphics aren't at their best, because the 3DS is capable of Wii graphics, and the graphics on this game are nowhere near that. Nevertheless, Sonic Generations is a must-have Nintendo 3DS game, and I recommend it to all 2D Sonic fans and is a near-perfect 2D platformer, despite its flaws.
