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| DarkZero 555th Post
 
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|  "Re(3):Sonic Heroes."
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I'm probably going to wait until this one drops in price since I beat these kind of games in a day and I always feel ripped off.
After beating (more like conquering) Sonic Adventure 2 Battle in two days and bringing it back to Blockbuster early, I'm kind of afraid of the same thing, but the recent EGM review of the game stressed that it's actually much longer than most people are expecting. Unfortunately, it sounds like it gets its longevity from reusing levels much more heavily than Sonic Adventure 2 did, so it's basically six of one and a half dozen of another.
Personally, I'm on the fence about this game. It sounds like a great concept and I really enjoyed Sonic Adventure 2 Battle, but it sounds like it has some problems. Besides the camera problem, I think most of it just comes down to the teams. Every review I've read so far says that three of the teams - Sonic's, Shadow's, and Amy's - all play exactly the same, all while reusing levels more heavily than SA2 did. You also need to complete every team's story to unlock the true ending, which means that at some point you'll have to play as Amy's team. And playing as Amy's team, last I heard, essentially sets the game to Easy Mode, and there's no way that anyone is going to skip right past Sonic's or Shadow's teams to play as Amy's. So at some point, every player is going to have to spend several hours breezing through the game on easy mode while playing as characters that they don't like.
I know I'll still play it, though. I'll at least rent it at some point, probably a few months after its release. As one of the few people in this world that has played Knuckles Chaotix (and enjoyed it!), I have to see the Chaotix characters in action again.
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| Radish 1995th Post
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| "Re(4):Sonic Heroes." , posted Sat 3 Jan 17:31:
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Every review I've read so far says that three of the teams - Sonic's, Shadow's, and Amy's - all play exactly the same, all while reusing levels more heavily than SA2 did. You also need to complete every team's story to unlock the true ending, which means that at some point you'll have to play as Amy's team. And playing as Amy's team, last I heard, essentially sets the game to Easy Mode, and there's no way that anyone is going to skip right past Sonic's or Shadow's teams to play as Amy's. So at some point, every player is going to have to spend several hours breezing through the game on easy mode while playing as characters that they don't like.
But, but, Amy's team is the coolest... isn't it??
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| TiamatRoar 597th Post
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| "Re(4):Sonic Heroes." , posted Sat 3 Jan 18:48
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Personally, I'm on the fence about this game. It sounds like a great concept and I really enjoyed Sonic Adventure 2 Battle, but it sounds like it has some problems. Besides the camera problem, I think most of it just comes down to the teams. Every review I've read so far says that three of the teams - Sonic's, Shadow's, and Amy's - all play exactly the same, all while reusing levels more heavily than SA2 did.
If the demo with Mario Kart Double Dash was any indication (which it probably was, given how complete the game was by then), then yea, most of the teams (Amy, Sonic, and Shadow) do indeed play pretty much the same way.
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| ShadowSonic
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| "Some impressions after a few hours of play" , posted Sun 4 Jan 10:07
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The JP version is out. Picked it up for PS2 yesterday, and loving every moment of it.
Anyone else got the game yet?
Been playing a lot, here are my impressions:
First off...this game is HARD. Harder than Sonic Advance 2 hard. Levels like Power Plant and Bullet Station will see you falling to your doom pretty often. Of course, since SA2 was pretty much a cakewalk the difficulty boost is much appreciated.
As for character differentiation - there are subtle differences between the characters. Only Sonic/Shadow have the Light Dash, Espio can go invisible, Amy can use her hammer, etc. The Power characters also have variations in the kinds of attacks they have and the ranges of those attacks.
As for the PS2 version - it runs at 30fps most of the time, and even in pretty intense levels like BINOG Highway it doesn't slow down. The places where slowdown DOES occur are in the weirdest spots, like when you do homing attacks on certain enemies. Fortunately, it's not too noticeable, except during the boss fights - sometimes the framerate drops to sub-20 during such fights. I haven't tried the game in 2P mode yet but if it's as bad as you say...yikes.
One final note: The camera is better than SA2's but it still has its "moments", like this time in BINGO Highway where the camera would snap 90 degrees every time I tried to jump off a platform onto a ledge, forcing me to land and try again. That seemed to be more of a camera bug than a problem, though, since later runs through the level failed to reproduce it.
Overall, a good Sonic game (so far), but pretty challenging, and has some graphical and framerate issues on the PS2.
Where darkness turns to light and order turns to chaos. 2003.
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