Nevermind this game sucks.

I’m a huge SEGA fan, but there’s a reason why Sonic isn’t in my favorite SEGA franchises list.

Even as a kid I never found the Sonic games to be that compelling. The physics completely contradicted the level design. There are so many bait-and-switches that ruin entire runs. Levels take way too long and retrying them is a complete slogfest. It’s part of why I’ve always preferred Monkey Ball.

Do you fast paced games? Yes!

Do you like fast paced games were you literally can’t see 5 feet in front of you???

The Werehog levels are okay… when you’re doing the combat. The parkour sections are absolutely tedious. One small angle miscalculation, and you restart the whole section, and your score resets. And don’t get me started on the precision platforming. That’s never worked in Sonic.

I seriously can’t comprehend how this franchise got so popular when it’s never been able to find a stable footing with its own games.

Don’t worry, I’ll still goon. But man they’re making it hard to like the games.

“Don’t worry, I’ll still goon. But man they’re making it hard to like the games.”

Moral of the story: just play Haste

Fair point.
Many Sonic games, especially the classic games and boost games, are built around memorizing the layout of the levels and improving your timing with each consecutive attempt. Unleashed is definitely one of the weaker boost games to me, which makes sense, given it was the first one with that formula. And yeah, the werehog levels are ass. The combat is okay, but mashy, and the platforming is not just difficult, but also kinda boring. Interesting concept, poor application. This is one of the visually prettiest Sonic games, but the gameplay itself is very unforgiving. Later games like the two Generations titles improve on the formula drastically, though not without their own flaws.

I don’t think I’ve seen a worse video game camera in my life. I’ve lost count of how many times it’s interfered with my inputs. Even moving forward is a chore because the game can’t decide where forward is.

I think the worst video game camera I've ever seen was for Super Mario 64 for the DS. Not only do you have to use the touch screen, making it difficult to work with the other controls, but it also heavily restricts the camera's movements and slowly forces it to look in a certain direction like the original

Sounds yucky. Plus no joystick on a DS so you can only move 8 directions on top of that.

Also not a complaint but I’m surprised Knuckles wasn’t in this game.

I think everyone is. This was after 06, so SEGA would spend a good while mostly cutting out the extended cast, but it doesn't make much sense to leave Knuckles out here. Knuckles really looked down from his island at the world cracking into pieces and said "this is fine."

Probably “distracted” by “someone”

"im the sigma im the leader im the one to trust" looking ass