The gameplay of Sonic Unleashed is divided between sections spent playing as Sonic in normal form, sections spent playing as Sonic in werehog form, and the standard stage hub sections where one talks to people to glean info, with a few other oddities here and there as needed (flying on the back of Tails’ airplane shooting down robots, for instance). The music, as usual, is excellent and atmospheric, and fits the experience nicely, both because many of the songs in the game are matched to the theme of the level they’re associated with and because they simply feel like songs that work for the franchise. Aurally, the game gives you the option of English and Japanese voice acting, both of which are good across the board, and the sound effects are cartoonish and properly capture the essence of a blue anthropomorphic hedgehog bouncing off of spring bumpers and smashing robots and such. The enemies are generally well animated and presented, though there’s a dearth of monster designs throughout the game, which hurts the presentation somewhat, though this is offset by the awesome boss monstrosities Eggman throws at you, which more than make up for the lacking variety of regular robots to face off against. The environments are also bright, colorful and lovely, and running around them is often quite an exhilarating experience.
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Sonic himself, in both forms, is fantastic to watch in motion, and his animations are fluid and lively at all times. Visually, Sonic Unleashed is outstanding. The story is solid enough to be entertaining and gets the player invested well enough, and while it’s not fantastic or anything, it does exactly what it needs to in the way it must, and it’s pretty enjoyable. The usual cast of characters is reasonably well represented here Sonic is the heroic protagonist, yet also has his own problems that he must overcome on top of his need to defeat Eggman Eggman is seriously evil instead of the joke he became in the Sonic Adventure games, and he presents a believable threat Tails is the support character who acts as a master inventor but otherwise stays out of the way, and so on down the line. Needless to say, it’s up to Sonic, along with an amnesiac pink… thing named Chip and the usual gang of folks to put the world right again, by recharging the Chaos Emeralds, reattaching the world, and beating Eggman once and for all. It also has the somewhat disagreeable effect of turning Sonic into a werehog, a situation that has our hero bummed out to no end. It seems Eggman has invented a device that drains the power of the Chaos Emeralds to rip the world apart, allowing a phantom monster to be summoned from within the world that he hopes to take control of. Eggman from taking over the world, this time by, well, destroying it. Sonic Unleashed once again puts you in the role of the speedy blue hedgehog himself as he seeks to stop Dr. Well, that metaphor got away from me a bit, but I think you get the point. The idea of bringing the Sonic character back to what made him into the icon he is (speed, and lots of it) is fantastic, and the idea of going in a different direction with the experience by adding in transformations and such isn’t a bad one, and the interest of the concept actually stays with the player up to about the point where the player actually experiences the things that the game does with these concepts, whereupon it too plunges head-first into the ocean.
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Unfortunately, Sonic Unleashed falls into this same trap in most respects. The Wii is an interesting idea for a system until the first time a player either injures themselves or breaks something playing it. Mirror’s Edge is an interesting concept until the eighth time one is shot to death crossing a long open area. So too is it with video games, and often moreso, as we often find the idea of many games appealing until we experience certain elements of them.
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The idea behind the Twilight series and their “different” vampires isn’t bad, but the actual implementation leaves a bit to be desired. Leonardo DaVinci’s flying machines were fabulous on paper, but actually putting one together and trying to make it work would have sent him plunging into the ocean in a hurry.
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There’s a significant difference between imagination and implementation.