Sessler: Werehog one of “Worst Characters Ever” in Series
There is more Werehog bashing in X-Play’s review of Sonic Unleashed.
US cable network G4′s flagship gaming program gave the XBOX360 edition of the title a 2 out of 5 yesterday–a 4 on the “10″ scale. X-Play promotes itself as having brutally honest gaming reviews.
We have attached the video review below, and it’s quite critical of the Werehog, but not in the way you would think. As Adam Sessler calls the Werehog one of the “worst characters ever” to be a part of the Sonic franchise, his rationale for demeaning the experiment seem quite thin. Saying that “Sonic is a lover, and the Werehog is a fighter” and that the two were never meant to mix does not say much to the actual Werehog gameplay. Thankfully, the text version of the review, not written by Sessler, elaborates on the point better.
Instead of running, the werehog plods along its stages tackling the same couple of enemies or specially designed ledges for his stretchy fingers to wrap themselves around. Compared to the daytime Sonic stages, the werehog feels like a small eternity moving from one local to the next. Defeated enemies turn into experience that can be later be put into learning new combos, increasing you life, or any number of attributes that seem to do very little to help move your hairy butt from one section to the next. The combat is simply tedious, relying on simple combos and repetitive button mashing.
It’s not the enemies that kill you but missing that next ledge will quickly take you out. The werehog levels rely too much on hitting the right jump or imprecise timing. To get to the next ledge/pole/safe area, you often have to depend of the last second catch that only appears if you’re in the right distance and right orientation to some imaginary point that will take you three or four lives just to figure out. The static camera doesn’t particularly help in these portions as well when you need move your view just and inch to the left in order to see where your jump actually lands.
Keep in mind when watching the review that these are cut to fit for TV–meaning they are deliberately short. In this case, Sessler’s review only hits about 2 minutes.
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Psssh. If you actually took the time to get to know the game better, you’d learn that if you HOLD B after you jump you automatically lock on, no need for split-second button pressing. CHIP tells you that!
Stop give us imformation about bad reviews it just make me despred, real reviewrs finish the whole game up to 100%, ok maybe not 100%. If you want to finish unleashed up to 100% you have to get S-rank on every level, complete every secret mission find alla the moon and Sun medals. But many just play 5 levels and then say it’s shit.
And I say as you E, take the time.
Y’know, reviewers play games before they make their final judgement on them.
I dont get it they admied unleashed when sega brought it in but know they hate it
This is why I don’t watch X-Play anymore.
The video doesn’t match up with what Sesslar is saying at all, the show has turned into a giant joke. 5 out of….5s to every big name over hyped game and 2 and 3s to everything else.
Uh…Wah? Adam Sesslar, is a Sonic fan. >__>; I never seen him this biased against a Sonic game since…Shadow the Hedgehog? Even then, he cutted Sonic gen 06 some slack. Well, that was Morgan Webb reviewing it, not him. But it wasn’t like a hateful review.
It’s like they make Sonic throw in the towel now these days whenever he seems to have a game on their show.
X-Play being honest? Ha. Don’t even joke. Every review is the same, with stupid cardboard cut-outs of celebrities with South Park style Canadian mouths and repeated jokes and always end the review with “A 3………..out of 5.”
I hate G4 altogether ever since they combined with TechTV. And since when the hell is “Lost” and “Heroes” a video game show?
Well, excuse me, but I happen to really like XPlay. Maybe even love, in fact. I always laugh at their reviews (although they were funnier when they were still on TechTV). The reason the reviews are short is because now they have to cover a lot of gaming news. G4TV.com used to cover all the gaming news on television, and all XPlay had to concentrate on was reviews. And MAN were they funny. Still harsh, but hilarious.
@Soap Scum: Yes, I will admit that most of their reviews are 3/5, but usually those games are worth playing. At least Unleashed didn’t make their horrid list of the “worst video games ever”. Along with Barbie. And Monster Truck Jam (or something).
What about the wii version, its alot better
The camera is fine
The level design is great
The Sonic levels are really fun
And the controls are very tight
The Werehog still disapoints though
@ Hypo Sonic-san: I used to watch X-Play when I first saw it, but I eventually became more critical, and analyzing almost anything on TV, and I guess that’s what led me to hate G4.
At least bring back “Judgment Day” back, guys.
Face it, the Werehog is their excuse to badmouth Sonic.
Seriously, lay off the were-hog!!!!