Okay before I start this "review" I will stat that this is an honest opinion of this game. So before people go nuts and say this isn't a review. I am going to say yes. I know. This is my opinion. Since people in the world don't know what that is. I'll explain.... You shut the hell up and read the article and it'll be clear. We good? Gooooood.
Okay let me start off saying yes... I am not a crazy fan of this series. You see people told me about the game and told me how good it was. How awesome it was. How it was some kind of holy god that the PS2 has produce. Blah, blah, blah aaaaand MEGA blah. Let me give you my honest opinion on DMC... I think it is ok. I don't think that the game deserved to be some mega hit like every one made it out to be. I feel that the hero is just nothing but a prick and honestly just a D-Bag that wears a red coat and died his hair white to be honest he is the first cosplayer before cosplaying was cool.... Which I know nothing about. I played the game finally and I liked at first.... then slowly, slooooowly began to hate it. I mean I found it at Entertainmart for 14 bucks and that is before I knew about the HD remix.... DAMN YOU CAPCOM! Anyways I played through the game and realized that it was a hack and slash adventure game. Which I liked for the first 5 minutes and realized that it got old real quick... I am a gamer that likes to play games that I can run through then go back and say yeah I can beat that in no time flat. But no my first big problem I have with this game or with any game is ranking how you did by the end of the level. I hate that shit. I really do. Capcom guys you don't have to rank everything. Some people just want to beat a game and NOT worry how long it took you to beat a level and if you are like me stubborn as hell and will not use Gamefaqs worth anything than you know that feeling of being stuck but being proud of yourself when you figure everything out on your own... Even if it took a day.... or a week.... Month. But still you make through on your own! Getting a D rank at best. I just couldn't give a damn about the ranks. But I pushed through the game and I feel like I don't get anywhere with it. This was a big example of you the gamer chugging away at a game and it doesn't feel like you've done anything the story in my opinion is lame as hell. No pun intended. The game is hard which I am not going to complain about. Because Capcom looooooves screwing there fans over with that kind of stuff. What I am going to complain about is the lack of well everything in it! The controls are wonky and really not meant for a hack and slash game. They would work better for a survival horror game. Which if this game was a survival horror it would be a hell of allot more interesting. No pun intended! I can't stand the music for the game it's like this is all the techno that you didn't want to hear from the 90's or any era! I don't like DMC. Just plan and simple. I will not complain about graphics because it's way past the time and to be honest most of them look decent while the others just look like crap. I really don't understand why people have ranted and raved how good this game is when it really isn't. The aspect I truly did like was that you could customize your charaters moves. Creating awesome chain attacks which you may... or may not get but it mainly falls into the may not catergory. Trying to chain together attacks are just near impossible unless you are crazy enough to learn how which once again I just don't have the time to do that. I want to play through a game once and be like well I like it. It kept me satisfied from beginning to end. I liked the music, the story, the gameplay, the hero and the controls for the game. For this game I really can't say any of that. I can't say I like anything about it. To be honest I haven't even finished the game. I am stuck on some boss battle with a demon knight guy who decided to show his face and everybody and there mother decided to ruin that for me and told me that was Vincent. Dante's brother that is in the other games... Thank guys.. Thanks. Will I stop playing the series because of this game. Probably but I am a crazy, stupid, lonely(hey girls! call me?) man that will do everything in my power to make it through this awful series... Yes Capcom.... I awesome man have decided to take on this challenge and beat all four of your crap games and the new reboot coming up to show you.... That.... I'll.... Damn.... They have me on this one... Oh! That I don't need known of your damn DLC content or stupidty. I will speed through this series so I can give these people the review need but they don't deserve! The sad thing is... I love the DMC anime more than I like the games and I will explain why in a later review but all in all with the characters D-Bag factors(and I mean that everyone in this game is made of giant doouuccche! Kinda like the Marvel Universe!) this game gets a 2.3 out 5. Why? Because it is a pain in the ass. You hardly get enemies to fight and when you have to fight the bosses you better hope to God that you bought some yellow orbs or allot of healths or have enough power in your Devil Trigger cause you will be fucked if you don't. This is yet another sad let down cause I saw that this game had allot of potential only to be blown back on it's ass by control issues, music and Dante. Yet again the funny thing is I like him soooo much in the anime but I can't stand his guts in the games. I just don't know why maybe because he reminds me of a bully I knew... That moved to Canada.... Wait... His name started with a D too.... What if they are the... Same person!
God I hate meme's but it seemed like the perfect time do one.
All in all I know is Capcom needs to do something better to keep my attention this is getting old and they just want to get money from us gamers we need to tell them that we are not going to buy into there cheap..... Wait Venom is going to be released for MVC 3.... BYE!
My god he even has a tan like a D-bag... Yep that is what his name is from now on.... D-bagion. I like that.
It's been 20 glorious years. 20 years watching the blue hedgehog run and save the world from the evil hands of Dr. Robotnik/ Dr. Eggman. I still say Robotnik sounds cooler that is just me I mean look at this!
I mean........ Okay that is pretty damn sexy.........
Moving on....
AH OK! There we go! Dr. Robotnik himself.! That's more like it!
But besides my hate to call him Eggman... I really do hate that. I get it! He looks like an egg and he has egg things... Like.
The Death Egg.........
The Egg Viper....
Nevermind....
Anyways back to my lovely point about Sonic Generations! What can I say about it... IT WAS AWESOME! From the idea to the nitty gritty of the game like the details and graphics for the game. Everything to expect from Sonic. They did what I've always wanted to see them do. They took what worked from past Sonic games and put them together in a way that it is really hard to say that this crap. (Which I did after dying allot at certain stages...) The game in a whole felt complete and awesome! It takes place on Sonic's well birthday and he is joined by his freinds to throw him an awesome brithday party! Until a Dark entity comes....
That wasn't what I was really talking about but oooooookay.....
I meant this guy!
There we go!
This evil baddy comes and throws everyone into different parts of time and leaves Sonic to go find his friends were he meets his chubby counterpart..... CLASSIC SONIC! I couldn't tell you how excited I was when I saw this and got play as Classic Sonic. It brought back good ol' memories of my childhood until I remember some parts of the game that made me want to chuck my Genisis controller across the room back then. The two go off find there friends and collect the 7 chaos emearlds to go fight the Time Eater himself. I also laughed at the fact that Classic Sonic couldn't talk so he had to emote everything which was awesome! Now this is cool! Playing through your favorite levels from each game. I thought it was a pretty neat idea and fighting the mini bosses were pretty cool too! If you own the console versions PS3 to Xbox 360 you get to fight Metal Sonic (from Sonic CD), Shadow the Hedgehog (Sonic Adventure 2) the battle happens on the Ark which was awesome! And............. I hate this character with a freaking passion.... Silver the Hedgehog.... Probably why I hate him is because I hated that game so much but I digress this is about Sonic Generations! Not Sonic the crappy next gen.... They are all fun and exciting mini-boss fights which I enjoyed. Now for your boss battles it goes from classic Sonic (Sonic the Hedgehog 2) to Modern Sonic(Sonic Colors) Now some of these can be frustrating but the pure detail that they put into the bosses make it so worth to play them over and over again. Each boss has a Normal Mode which makes it easier for you then a Hard Mode after you beat the boss the first time. For those insane achievement whores.... Like me! Going back to the gameplay mechanics the most you really will use these mechanics are for Modern Sonic which is somewhat of a shame but understandable. You have his boost that will help allot on some courses. Quick side steps to get out of an objects way and drifting which at first is hard to pick up on then as time goes on you slowly get it. The awesome engine from Sonic Unleashed is used in this game. The engine that will let you go from a 2D view which brought back allot of that classic Sonic feel to the game then it would switch back to the 3D view which every game after Sonic Adventure used. Sadly that engine didn't work well with that game because of one thing and one thing only.....
I'm sorry this was the most stupidest aspect of that game! A Werehog! REALLY SEGA?! The sad thing is I know people who actually dig this and I just can't fathom why?! It's not Sonic! That just doesn't work! That is worse than him playing in a band! Thank God that never happened!
Okay... After that experience! Back to the game... The game shows what Sega could truly do. Which makes me ask myself this.... WHY THE HELL COULDN'T YOU GUYS DO THAT IN THE FIRST DAMN PLACE?! Seriously between SA1 and SG they've had so many console crapptastic Sonic games it's unbelievable(Except Sonic Colors and yeah that was it!) Anyways getting back to my review. The game at first is fun exciting and awesome... Then like every Sonic game after the legendary Sonic Adventure 2 it becomes a chore... And this is where I go into my negatives for this game.
I think personally the replay value on the game is awesome with just all the levels that they have but once again they had to add something more. Negative thing number 1 there are 45 mini levels and there not shared because nooooo that would be waaaay to easy! No. There are 45 mine stages for classic Sonic and 45 stages for Modern Sonic. So a grand total of 90 mini stages. At first it isn't to bad until you realize that you've wasted so much time putting into the game that you just scream.
Negative thing number 2 after stage three Classic Sonic's level become significantly harder. Not even going to lie. The Sonic I wanted to play as in this epic game I felt like I was being punished for playing as him. While Modern Sonic can just blow through each stage with ease and I mean with so much ease. On my first run through on this game I ranked all S's for Modern but for Classic I couldn't even make a B on the later stages. It was infuriating and absulotley stupid! I feel that the game should get harder for both Sonic's as the level progress and become crazier. Now some people have said "Well those stages were designed for that Sonic at the time so of course they would be easier for Modern." That is still no excuse it's called equal exchange! You can't make one side heavier on a paper airplane and hope it will fly. It won't and that is what I felt like I had to deal with for the entire time I played as Classic sonic. A terrible experience with a controller through the wall.
Negative thing number 3 You can't listen to the full versions of the songs that you've unlocked unless! You are in the gallery and even then it won't give you that satisfaction. What I mean about that is this after you beat one of those stupid mini stages you get a bell that you have to ring and chase after a musical note. A blue note is artwork and a gold one is a song. So you have to chase after it.(Which is another stupid part of this game.) before time runs out on it and you have to do it all over again. Once you collect the gold note you get a song. Which was exciting for me since I am a big fan of all the Sonic music. Once you collect it you can play through a stage again or mini stage listening to that song you got which is cool! Except they don't give you the full song! I kid you not! I can't tell you how many times I listened to Live and Learn after Sonic Adventure 2 came out. I was obsessed with that song and for those who don't know what I am talking about.
This song... This song is just so much win!
So when I finally got it unlocked I was stoked ready to listen to it over and voer agian.... Only to have my heart ripped out from cold, boney body. They played 2 minutes of the song tops on a loop. It includes the awesome guitar solo which is cool but I would like to hear the full song the song that let me know that I was saving the world from the evil Bio- Lizard! But they took that away from me!
Negative thingy number 4 after you beat the game you can get Super Sonic.... ONLY FOR THE MAIN STAGES! Now I get why you don't get it for the Mini stages. They're supposed to be challenge stages... Which suck! But you can't go Super Sonic to fight the bosses. I would like to fight Perfect Chaos like I did in Sonic Adventure 1 thank you very much! I think that would be allot of fun but I guess they didn't see that is being the right thing to do or something. I don't know I know some of you probably didn't complain about that but that really got me.
Negative thing number 5 You're telling me you couldn't have given me a two player race mode?! Sonic Adventure 2 did allot of things that changed Sonic forever.
Hedgehogs with guns....*HEAD DESK*
And a kick ass 2 player system! It was so cool to race my way through each level especially my favorite level at the time and still to this day Radical Highway! So a decade after that game came out... Damn I feel old! Anyways you're telling me that you couldn't give a two player mode? I mean for craps sake you made 90 mini stages! That are just so stupid unless you're once again an achievement whore like me. It could have been pretty epic to have done different things in each level race against someone or helping each other. I mean for balls sake Sonic 2 had a two player mode! So there was no excuse for that madness.
Negative thing number 6 For a game that supposedly has so much to do. Really has nothing to do at all. I mean really after you beat the game that is it. You're done. There is nothing else to do unless you want to S rank everything. (Which I would never do!) The game just ends. So you are sitting there going what now? That is what I asked after I beat Sonic Gen.... Then I played Sonic Adventure and the sad thing I rather play that game over and over again including Big the Cat and his awful fishing levels! Than run around and just get my rank to an S rank. So I guess it really boils down to this either you want to play the game again just to get a A to an S then go for it. If you are like me and are satisfied with what you have done you will put down the controller and go on with your dull, plain and boring life then give me a call when you want me to run you over with my truck or ladies give me a call and we can go to dinner and a movie.(FOREVER ALONE!)
Negative thing number 7 three letters that make three great words sometimes... Unless you're Capcom cause these three letters mean bank for them.... Damn you Capcom. DLC! I just found out not to long ago that on the DS version of this game you get a couple of different stages and Boss battles! Which at first I thought well of course cause it can't match the power of a modern day console. Until I took a look myself and saw what I was missing. I was blown away! Some of my favorite stages where on this game and I liked it a hell of a lot better than my version! So you would think Sega would be like 'Hey! We can remodel some of these levels and rehash some stuff and boom the Xbox 360 and PS3 can play these levels too!' NOPE! They haven't done that or released any info on doing anything like that. So that makes me wonder... Are they being lazy or have Sega and Nintendo finally combined there forces to make a huge empire to destroy other game companies with there marketing ploys? Nah going with lazy. I mean honestly if they were to do this they would make so much bank they have no idea. But oh well, I'm not the head of Sega it's this dumb guy....
Yeah cause of this guy Sonic games are ruined for all!
Well besides those complaints and many others I had for the game. The game was all together a good game. I really feel if Sega wants to make a comback they should stick to this style until they get back on there feet. Sonic has truly been my favorite video game character since I was 5 and I would love to see him continue on down that road at top speeds. So with that being said Sonic Generations gets a 3.9 out 5. I think they can do bettter and who knows maybe the next game will be better but until then we will never know! Until then! SONIC BOOM!
