GiantBomb: Sonic needs a break
Ryan Bloom | January 1, 2009
Former Gamespot employees give Sonic an award… unfortunately.
In similar theme to Yahoo declaring that “Sonic needs to die”, GiantBomb.com has posted the results for their “Golden Anniversary Year-End Awards Extravaganza Spectacular”, awarding Sonic the Hedgehog the “ Take a Break” award. To quote the site:
“Gaming is a sequel-driven business, we’ll admit, and we’re perfectly happy to keep playing new installments in beloved series as long as the quality stays up there. Hey, we have a “Most Satisfying Sequel” category for a reason.
There’s a real danger of letting a franchise get away from itself, though. Sometimes the core design goes off the rails; other times you simply reach, then pass, the saturation point. That’s when it’s time to pause and reevaluate. These are the most egregious offenders we could stand to miss for a year or two.”
The total list of nominees for the award included Guitar Hero, Tomb Raider, Lego, Naruto, and Sonic the Hedgehog. Commenting on Sonic winning the award, GiantBomb says:
“2008 continued the trend of Sega producing bad Sonic the Hedgehog games. It’s a trend that’s been ongoing since, well, depending on your perspective, you could claim it went all the way back to the Genesis. Personally, we pin Sonic’s continuing failure to please on polygons, and the gameplay’s failure to stay true to the series’ high-speed roots. There’s only one problem: Sonic Unleashed has moments that attempt to stick to what Sonic does best–running too fast for you to do anything other than watch–and it’s totally boring.
Aside from a few handheld outings, the franchise has been a mess since Sonic & Knuckles. Perhaps instead of continuing to bash their head against the hedgehog year in and year out, the folks at Sega should take a few huge steps back, take a break, and figure out a new direction. Because it’s become pretty obvious that what they’re doing now isn’t working.“
GiantBomb is a gaming news, reviews, and Wikipedia-style gaming community website, founded last December by former Gamespot.com employees Jeff Gerstmann and Ryan Davis in cooperation with Whiskey Media. Jeff Gerstmann was forcefully let go from Gamespot.com under vague circumstances related to a review he gave to the game Kane & Lynch: Deadmen. The Publishers of Kane & Lynch (Eidos) were heavily advertising on the Gamespot website at the time, and though nobody has ever come out and stated the absolute truth, many assume Jeff was fired because Eidos was unhappy with his review. Jeff’s departure marked a mass exodus of staff from Gamespot.com, including Brad Shoemaker and Vinny Caravela, who joined Gerstmann and Davis at GiantBomb.com when it launched.
Though GiantBomb openly admitted to recieving a review copy of Sonic Unleashed for the Wii the week before it went to retail, no official review for the game has ever appeared on the site. GiantBomb’s unspoken policy has been to only review games that they were interested in reviewing (in other words, they don’t just review every game out there). Most recently, Jeff Gerstmann admitted to having picked up the Xbox 360 version of Sonic Unleashed and sounded off about the game’s flaws on the GiantBomb Podcast for December 23rd, declaring that the game felt like it was made “for children” and that it “practically plays itself”. There is no word on whether or not a review for the Xbox 360 version of Sonic Unleashed will appear on GiantBomb.
Stick with TSSZ as we cover whatever the industry has to say about Sonic – good or bad.
Filed Under Hot Topics, Sega, Sonic Fan Flash
In terms of plays itself, that´s true in some levelparts! One boostpad after the other! :/
Gameplaywise, it was a little one sided, you just had to push and hold the boost button most of the time, you could even complete a whole level just by holding this button!
Pathways were just shortcuts you could take, Homing attack was on the boost button aswell, Levels were linear as hell, exploration was gone, no spindash, total change of gameplay overall, no more itemboxes, only enemys that actually shoot at you are a small challenge (and those are rare), QTE´s are horrible, Werehog (wasn´t too bad all in all). But they got the Speed right.
This game had its (heavy) flaws (I´ve listet some above) and I agree that the gameplay wasn´t what some were hoping for… but it´s still fun.
About the Question that Sonic needs a break … sure he does, Sega needs to rethink the gameplay, SU was still a disappointment. *sigh* The best humor and graphics in the world cannot make the gameplay better!
Sega should put him to bed for one or two years to think about a new Sonic experience!
But sometimes I also think that those reviewers don´t know what they want, “This game was made for Children”, SERIOUSELY, what the hell do they think the Sonic from 1991 was made for … for adults??? HECK NO! I agreed on the plays itself part, but not on this! First they want a hardcore action game and now that it turend back into a family friendly (but still to hard for children) game, they turn they´re back on it… what do they want? WHAT DO THEY WANT???
Man, SU is finally cartoony again, like good ol´ Sonic should be! Besides, children are Segas target, some people are still a little to picky when it somes to certain games! -.-´
How was Unleashed bad I really don’t understand all everybody talks about is the werehog. Its annoying and its old. Man do these people even try *sigh* All I have to say is the game was great, its been 2 months, its over now. Besides with the majority of people buying and loving the game no one really cares what reviewers say.
This goes back to the “how dare you make a game that might appeal to someone other than me!” group doesn’t it?
These people and a lot of people will never be satisfied anymore because its “not what it was in my day”, considering for a lot of people this was you know 14-15 years ago surprisingly things HAVE changed. Also not that surprising they didn’t like it if they had no real interest in the thing beforehand.
Actually that policy of theirs sounds kinda odd, I wonder if SOA know about that?
Wait just a minute, those guys that want the death of SONIC are guys filliated to his oponnent “super mario”, they simply want that SONIC die so mario could be on top again.
In my opinion SONIC THE HEDGEHOG is the best game caracter alive, and he has the best games on Earth, SONIC UNLEASHED is one of the very-best aventures(games) of SONIC, SONIC RIDERS series too (everybody likes those), etc…
And the only thing people said that sucks on this game is th Werehog, but I«m one of those that like the WEREHOG because he’s like, gives us another type of gameplay, and that’s so COOL, i prefer play as SONIC though, but the WEREHOG is still awsome.
WE MUST CONTINUE TO PLAY, LOVE, AND GO WITH HM IN HIS ADVENTURES,SONIC THE HEDGEHOG (blueblur)
SONIC MUST LIVE FOREVER!!! (in name of all SONIC comunity)
OK, so here I go…again…
People think that once someone slaps the name “Super Mario” on a game, it’s good. “Super Mario Sunshine”, “Super Mario Galaxy”, “Super Mario Cooking Papa”. It’s the same thing, every time. First off, I’d like to point your attention to this: http://www.hiddenpalacezone.com/2008/11/two-likely-diagnoses-for-shigeru-miyamoto/#more-387 (I guess you’ll have to copy-and-paste in the url in a different tab). Yes, I know, ha-ha, funny, but read the very bottom, where it talks about the objectives in the games he makes. I mean, seriously, WHAT THE HECK. Why do people still buy Mario games? It’s the same thing EVERY TIME.
Now, let’s go back to poor Sonic. He’s a 2-D guy that’s coming into a quickly-evolving 3D world. Sega has to do something to adjust with the times, and that might mean changing Sonic. So they go for something, something that’s similar to Mario games, and something that could possibly compete with the pudgy plumber. Sonic Adventure is Sega’s new baby, and it get’s critisized because it’s “different”. But SA was fun, right? So Sega makes SA2.
And Heroes. And Riders. Not that those games are particularly…bad?…(OK, OK, maybe Heroes was pretty dumb, and Riders was just…Riders…) but Sega made them because they were trying to do something different with Sonic. Trying to shake him up a little. But instead he get’s hacked away by reviewers just because he tries to do something that Mario won’t. And that’s change.
So here’s the deal: Sonic can get as creative as he wants. He can paint pictures. He can make his own Guitar Hero. But until he returns to what he did best originally (which is, like, go fast), he’s never going to be accepted. It’s the sad truth, I know. But it’s the truth.
And for the record, I got Unleashed for my birthday and I love it. But I have to agree with a lot of people when I say that there are WAY TOO MANY werehog stages.
Rant ends here.
No, no, no break for Sonic. The gameplay in the daytime stages in Unleashed was a big step for Sonic. And I actually think that black knight will be a better game than Unleashed. It just stupid with break, SEGA allredy knows what we want! You know when Sonic 06 came and everyone hated it, and then in the begining of 07 we got Sonic and the secret rings, and secret rings got many 7 and 7.5 and that’s not bad. I think secret rings is one of the best Sonic 3D games, and know black knight is the second game in this bookstory game series thingy, I think it will be much better. And if black knight is good and get better than Unleashed they will probably make a new game that is awsome and then Sonic is back!
It is no problem with Unleashed, OK i wanted more daytime stages andless werehog. I wanted empire cite and mazuri, it was stupid actually but Unleashed is fun and very popular Sonic game and a million seller!
That’s what I think about this shit all the idiots says. Just my opinion you can have your opinion I acsept all opinions.(everyone has their own opinion)
AND STOP GIVE US INFO ABOUT STUFF LIKE THIS, IT JUST MAKE ME FEEL BAD IN SOME WAYS.
Unfortunately, Jeff Gertsmann’s wish isn’t going to come true thanks to the sales of Unleashed(Especially the Wii version).
Oh god… not this again. I MEAN I KNOW SONIC HAS BEEN PRETTY SUCKY IN THE PAST FEW YEARS (cep’t unleashed
) BUT JUST LET IT GO! my god.
my god sonic is class so fuck off
any why do they even care about sonic wtf
The game doesn’t play itself…if you spam the boost in Shamar and Empire City you’ll meet Sonic’s favorite friend..the bottomless pit. You can spam boost in Apotos and Mazuri, but after that you need more strategy to get through levels like Adabat and Shamar.
Unless you mean the Wii version. In which case, yeah, you can spam boost and beat every stage except Eggmanland.
Hey Mark, I’m not dissing Sonic! In fact, I think he’s great! I was just trying to say that I’m tired of people constantly calling Sonic a washout, geez.
Agreed with just about everything they said.
I think SEGA knows what there doing! I loved Unleashed for the Wii so I think black knight will be dubble as good as unleashed beacuse I loved the sonic stages and liked the werehog stages, but platform in werehog stages was just frustrating! In black knight they have both the supergood Sonic stages and the sword action!
So Sonic don’t need a break! He has to keep going and learn after every mistake he does! I trust SEGA! I think all Sonic games after unleashed will be good Sonic games!
Can you guys stop putting news like this up it makes people mad and frustrated
Sonic needs a break? No. They should continue the 3D series. But I also think they should bring back old-school Sonic too. Imagine a full 2D Sonic 4 with amazing graphics! I think they should make both 2D AND 3D games. Who cares if the story is just ‘stop Eggman.’
lots of people
if Sonic goes on a break…. wtf will i DO??? SEGA FUCKING RULES! SONIC DOES! STOP FUCKING POSTING BAD STUFF!!! I DON`T LIKE IT!
Since Sonic & Knuckles? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Since SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2006, and that was the only failure in my opinion.
Okay, I’ll admit, the last few games weren’t that good (not including Unleashed). But alot of you didn’t start ranting about it until Shadow the Hedgehog(but you really can’t count this as a Sonic game).Sega just tried incorporating new styles into Sonic, but you guys never never even thought about it. All you did was try to compare him to the old Sonic. But let’s face facts, as much as we miss him, he’s never fully coming back.
Hey maybe if Black Knight is good( I mean it is the sequel to secret rings and that was good) he may have a good chance of fully coming back Unleashed was great so take reviewers
An interesting, personal note: 2008 marks the first year in a decade that a Zelda title wasn’t released and I didn’t even notice.
If Sonic followed suit with a break like that one, I probably wouldn’t notice it, too. Time flies.
@Slingerland–It does. The secret is time and organization. The Zelda game flow works by focusing on one thing at a time for a good long time before a Major release. I mean, take Windwaker and Twilight Princess. There were no titles in the franchise released between those two games other than 4 Swords for GBA/GCN, and Minish Cap for GBA. But yeah, the guy *Sonic, in particular* deserves a long needed break from any games. If I see yet another Sonic game other than BK this year *on Console* I’m going to write Sonic Team personally. Hope those blokes can read American, haha
To heck with them. Sonic rules and they know it!
All reviewers HATE sonic! they know SEGA trys their best and then when a good game like SU is out… BOOM! fucking IGN = 3.5 fucking dixk heads! And only GamesMasters gave SU a decint & honest score of 80% on the 360 & PS3! god i bet SEGA dosn`t even listen to these freaks, and i don`t blame em! keep making Sonic SEGA
and nobody mustive listen to IGN & them cus SU sold a mill on ALL Platforms! So get stuff re-viewers! 
(Apart from likes of GM, Xbox 360 mag gave Sonic a 7 saying enotgh to earn back respect, and some others!)
BTW Sonic dosn`t need a break! and Sonic team can make their OWN choices ya know! And of corse they can Read American! American is like English ya know! GEEZ!
JUST LEAVE SEGA & SONIC TEAM ALONE!
I’am neutral on this, I really wouldn’t care if Sonic would take a break(maybe like Zelda) or not. If Sonic ever does by any chance take a break then thats it. I will survive and everyone else who is against this should be able to survive too.
I love you guys, and your hilarious fanboyisms.
Soul: You enjoy other peoples anger? Wow thats…weird
soul: why do u enjoy ppls anger? u wouldn`t enjoy your own
geez this place tends to update with deppresing news 
@Everyone: Lets get 1 thing straight… Sonic need`s NO FUCKING BREAK! here is 3 simple things to go by!
1. SEGA rules
2. Added with Sonic team and the Sonic series
3. When SEGA decide its time for Sonic to be kicked of out, i`ll be sad but its when SEGA SAYS!
If you hold boost the whole time in Unleashed you would fall off a platform. >_>
true
Well, even though the daytime levels were a huge step for the franchise, I still agree with the idea that Sonic SHOULD take a break for now. Sonic Unleashed was a great game to me, but the game itself should not be an excuse to quickly make another Sonic game in risk of causing disaster for the seires. After all, Sonic Unleashed was in development in the past three years. Considering that the game turned out great, taking just as long to make the next Sonic game (after a well deserved break, of course) would be the best path for Sonic. No need to go make the next game right now. The hate for the series will hill better this way for Sonic.
Plus, I can wait, because like Slngeland, the good fella said above: time flies.
But…I see some faults on what that guy saying the game was for children. Nevertheless, I will elaborate on that some other time.
Say, Soul the Hedgehog, what is so funny?
The next main game comes out in 2010 besides one game cant revive the franchise but we have had 3 good games Secret Rings, Chronicles,Unleashed and Black knight seems great so he goes on break till 2010
You know, guys… I see a pattern similar to 2005′s Star Wars movie.
Remember Revenge of the Sith? It proudly features a handsome 85% at Rotten Tomatoes review aggregation.
Yet, back then the perpetual skeptics kept going, any random website that would consider this a bad movie would be treated like Gospel even if it never made any sense.
The same happens with Unleashed. What possesses these people to think that this particular Sonic game shows everything that’s wrong with Sonic now.
Why now and not two years ago when possibly one of the worst game in recent history was released?
There’s something terrible wrong with the video game landscape when the average review score of Sonic ’06 that stands at 45 and jumps to a 66 from Unleashed and say that this game is the downfall of Sonic.
Though, in GiantBomb’s defense, they started doing their thing way after that game was released.
But why won’t somebody at least come and do a article that’s not complete mumbo-jumbo and say with an honest face that Sonic can be fixed!
Unleashed proved that much.
Oh and I agree Sonic needs a break, it’s just that any Sonic game sells better than any other Sega game in existence. A great deal of revenue hails from Sonic’s games.
But you know, they do give him a break, sorta…
You see, Sonic Unleashed is part of what is known as “the main series” titles.
Unleashed would technically be Sonic 9(if you exclude Sonic & Knuckles which is just really Sonic 3.5).
These main series titles, mind you, take at least 2-3 years to produce.
Spin-offs, however, do come out every year and still sell better than some of what critics call Sega’s finest.
But than again we don’t exactly live in a perfect world, right?
@ Soul: I agree. Stupid fanboys really make comedy gold sometimes.
@blueblur: ……You’re wondering why Soul and I mock fanboys? Have you looked in a mirror?
Whats a fanboy? no seriously
First, you can screw the honorifics from here on out. You guys don’t even deserve them!
@ Keydown:
Fanboy is a term used to describe any individual who is devoted to a single subject in an emotional or fanatical manner, or to a single point of view within that subject, often to the point where it is considered an obsession.
Ok. I am not a fanboy
they guys just plain ol hate sonic im mean they keep switching around what they want out of a sonic game like in sonic next gen they say the plot was convoluted and had to music melodrama. but when unleashed comes out they complain that the plot is STILL to convoluted and the overall look and design is like a saturday morning cartoon. there dumbshits if they dont get the fuckin story!!! it goese like this:: eggman breaks the planet apart and sonic goes to fix it. SIMPLE AS HELL!!!!! jesus the need to LEAVE SONIC THE FUCK ALONE!!
Wow… I hate them…
Sonic has been doing great, to me… Just leave Sonic alone for crying out loud… people just have no taste in the games.
@ crysore: I don’t think it’ll ever happen.
You guys shouldn’t care what others think. Form your own opinions and become independent for Christ’s sake. Who cares what IGN or Kotaku thinks. If you agree with what they say, good for you. If they don’t, oh well, they can piss off. It’s all about opinion.
After reading Crossfire: Take A Break thing today, and I think whoever wrote that (I didn’t look at the author’s name above) proved some valuable points. And no, it’s not to put Mario back on top. You CAN like both, you know. I do.
Here why don’t you guys read this and tell me your opinion:
http://blackhawkomega.deviantart.com/journal/22315911/
And yes, I wrote it.
Yes, fanboys who says something sucks without facts is comedy gold, I love to see them fight on every site, especially on Youtube. I believe Sonic (even though I’m a Sonic fan) should have at least take one break, it seems to work for Mario, Link, Donkey Kong, Samus, and other Nintendo characters, why not Sonic.
Well he is going to take a break till 2010 except Black Knight
I agree with you, Mark Chao-san.
He deserves the honorific. He is worth honoring as a superior.
I am suprised that they said that holding right to win is all a sonic game should be and that the reason it does not work now is because it’s 3D, even though holding right to win is boring no matter what perspective it’s in. This is just another example of a reviewer forgetting that the combination of platforming and speed is what made Sonic good, not just the speed
Ah, now this is the better opinion towards Sonic. He shouldn’t die, he needs a break. They need to go back to the classics and remember what was fun for a while before they should be able to touch Sonic with a 10 foot pole.
@Mark Chao – Nintendo can give their characters breaks because they have multiple successful franchises which they sort of cycle through. Either you’ll get the epic Mario game of the year, or the Metroid game, or the Zelda game, and then the cycle repeats itself or whatever.
Sega can’t do this for a couple reasons. Sonic sells. Doesn’t matter how bad the game might be, but it sells. Sega also doesn’t have enough franchises of equal popularity. There’s a reason for this. Sega had a ton of good ideas. Space Channel 5, Jet Set Radio, NiGHTs. But what do they do? They made one or two games and then ignore them. And in the case of NiGHTS, they eventually listen, only to fuck it up. Due to the lack of popularity any of these games had to begin with due to their general obscurity, any fuck up is bad news for them, so Sega might as well just stay away.
But Sonic’s different. Everyone knows Sonic, and enough people will go and blindly buy the next Sonic game that they don’t care what people think, they’ll just make whatever. And because the series was so good once, people will keep buying the newest Sonic stuff, with people having the hopes that the series might have returned to its former glory this game. Then they play it, they’re let down, but by that point Sega has the profit.
Funny how Unleashed almost got it. They made good Sonic gameplay, but in the end someone got in the way and decided that throwing in all this padding was a good idea. I’m sure they heard from everywhere “WTF ARE YOU DOING?” But it didn’t matter. They made what they made and the reviews are in, they hate it.
Actually Sonic doesn’t need just a break, he needs to be sold. Sega’s become incompetent in more than just Sonic since the dreamcast died. Nothing stopping the series but them
How many times do I say this he is taking a break till 2010 except for black knight
I think rating systems and pointless yearly gaming awards should take a break.
@Keydown: how do u know?
BTW i have always heard rumors of Sonic becoming part of nintendo! And if this happens….. will Sonic still play like in SU and things? Or will Nintendo slow him down as heck? OH NO! IF IT IS NINTENDO…. (all depends like) cause i didn`t enjoy SU wii`s speed and …. ugh never mind. lol.
Well for all you know SEGA could be working on a new Sonic title and coming out in 3 years time or something ey? Well if Sonic doe`s take a break…. will he be back? or dead? plus if the series are coming back then i suppose i can wait
i`d have to won`t I?
btw ppl im not a fanboy T_T i play loads of other games too and Im not just a fan of Sonic
Well, if only fanboy-ism was that simple…
Of course, there are worse cases even in non-gaming related matters…
Look at the 20th Century Fox/Warner Brothers Watchmen legal mess, I swear some movie buffs want to takes sides as if this whole thing was a wrestling match, heels, faces and everything.
@PJMan
They would have to be insane to sell Sonic!
As Keydown has said plenty of times he will come back in 2010!!!
Next Gen: 2006
Unleashed: 2008
‘New Sonic’: 2010
Sonikku Master: THANK YOU
I’m honestly not even sure what to say at this point. I mean, we’ve got fanboys argueing and not knowing what a fanboy is (no offense Keydown and blueblur, by the way), we got people agreeing, and a lot of other stuff…
I’m sure people wouldn’t mind if Sonic took a break, but if you think about it, breaking isn’t really Sonic’s style. He can’t slow down like Tubby da Plumber. He’s gotta go fast (faster faster fastfaster SONIC X!!!ONE11). So, if he took a break, he would be going slow…and thus ruining the point of the whole Sonic series. FAST!!
Nintendo can afford to do this. They’ve got Super Idiot Galaxy (that’s STILL selling like hotcakes, GIVE IT UP), Overrated Prime 3 (seriously, what is SO GOOD about this game? Just plays like Prime 1 and 2), and Zelda: Twilight Princess (no wierd pun? I actually really like Zelda). However, Sega only really has Sonic, other that the recent trend of them releasing M-rated gorefests (see MadWorld, The Conduit). Little kids can’t play that. They need something THEY can play. So they play Sonic.
…not that I’m saying Sonic is a juvenile little kids game. Heck no. I’m just saying that it’s SUITABLE for little kids to play.
Whoa, whoa whoa, Hypo Prower.
Take it easy. I thought Metroid Prime 3 was pretty good.
And those weren’t even puns….-_-;
@Sonikku Master: Oh of course the next legitimate Sonic game will come out in 2010 (Actually I’d almost see the next game coming out in 2011, because that would be Sonic’s 20th anniversary), but what about the likely number of crappy spinoffs between now and then? Those won’t stop.
@Hypo Prower: The hell are you talking about. The series taking a break has nothing to do with the character’s attitude at all. Also, if something sells, why would they give up on it? BTW I think that New Super Mario Bros is the one that’s still selling like hotcakes. It’s been out for longer, and it’s still popular. Obviously Sonic needs to make something like that, a really fun retro knockoff (No, I’m not talking about Sonic Rush. So that means no excessive amounts of holding right, strange music, or boost spamming)
PJMan: Wouldnt it be his 25 anniversary?
MAKE SONIC 4!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
No one is right, everyone is wrong.
NEW SONIC = 2010???? O_O I NEED FUCKING PROOF & INFO! PLZ!!!!
^There is no proof, it’s just expected as it follows the pattern we’ve seen lately, with Sonic 06 and Sonic Unleashed.
An average Sonic game takes about 2 years to develop. Often times the projects overlap each other though.
@Sonikku Master: No. Not by this current team. They don’t know what classic Sonic is. I don’t trust them to do anything.
@Keydown: Nope, 20th. Sonic was created in 1991. Thus 2011 would be his 20th birthday.
What do you mean the new sonic team developed things on the older games
Geez, people. All I did was try to joke a little. I mean, honestly, when does Sonic ever go slow? On ANYTHING?
(insert joke about some old lame game where he went slow, like Labrynth or 3D Blast)
@Soap Scum: Yeah, you’re right, those weren’t puns. Sorry, I was typing kind of fast and I lost track of what words I was actually putting down. Not what I meant.
Looks like someone has getting some nasty e-mails
http://www.giantbomb.com/news/sonic-the-hedgehog-finally-makes-sense/733/
Giant Bomb please decide if video games are SERIOUS BUSINESS or not, you guys have are bipolar about it.
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Or someone whos been longer than Sonic I mean what would Sonic fans say?
Seriously give mario a break all he does is act stupid and hit his head on rock on all of his games but not Sonic its always something new
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