More European Outlets Weigh In
There’s been plenty of mediocrity spoken in the press concerning Sonic and the Black Knight of late. So, to our surprise, we found two outlets in Europe that have given SBK some of the highest marks in the press so far.
The first, from French site Wiiz.ft, awards SBK a 15 out of 20, and that equates to a 7.5 out of 10. The original review is in French, but noteworthy from the translation are critical points they make to both gameplay and visuals, and that the multiplayer options are the only fun options outside of the main story. They believe Sega and Sonic Team deserve some credit for the taking the risk of handing Sonic a sword, however, and that may be why a majority of the site’s critiques don’t have an incredible impact on the score.
We also have word of a second review out of Europe, this time from GamesTM Magazine, which awarded SBK an 8 out of 10 in their latest issue, one of the highest scores the game has received thus far. We don’t know many other details surrounding what went into that score, but we do know it’s the same score given by GamesTM to the generally acclaimed (and Sega produced) MadWorld in the same issue.
Presently, the game’s Metacritic average sits at a 58.
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will these our great scores for the game pretty good so far
i mean are
yup, not to shabby
Shit! GamesTM giving it an 8? Woah!
(EDIT – Off topic + it’s the equivalent of yelling fire in a crowded theater…for now. -T)
yea hes right the scores are going up and down with this game
Niceeeeee….
YESSSSSSSS!
BK is the second recent Sonic game that I think did a great job portraying Sonic’s personality and character, Unleashed being the first.
Not that amazing but great enough that it made me play the game from the start to the end.
Robert, you clearly haven’t played Secret Rings or watched the cutscenes. Secret Rings’ dialogues, story and characters’ interactions are incredibly well-written, and Sonic is not that stupid character that always smiles and tries to be cool every time. He has times in the storyline in which he actually reflects about Erazor Djinn’s origins/his death approaching/the World Rings.
Secret Rings, compared to Black Knight, is an almost-perfect game.
Black Knight is a decent, average game at maximum. Secret Rings is way better than it in almost every possible way (except for the beginning of Secret Rings, that has the tutorial missions which are really boring, Sonic still has low speed and oh god, Dinossaur Jungle is an awful stage in every possible way). Black Knight has no platforming, stage gimmicks or any kind of thinking difficulty at all. It’s just holding forward and shaking the Wii Remote. And in the later stages, jumping sometimes to avoid deathpits. And, as I already (almost) implyied, Secret Rings has deep dialogue and storyline. Black Knight’s storyline is good, but the game is so damn short (finished it in about 3 hours – true ending) that there isn’t time to go deeper like they did in Secret Rings.
Black Knight does have platforming but only in certain areas and if you take away all those missions in Secret Rings it would have been almost as short as BK.
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Ok, before I gave black knight a 7.5/10 because it was short and had a very low difficulty. Now I give it 8/10. I hav eplayed it some more and it’s very good! It’s more fun with more speed and the stages are really hard. It take me long time to beat one! It’s that hard! And I like that. And I just noticed that you can du over 30 swords and thats very cool.
The game wasn’t so good until you defeated black knight but then the game just went better and better. And I play it right now and it has all I want!
I coulden’t say that better than you Werehog. The stages after the king athur boss(the second time you meet him) is a little bit harder and I liked that some of the missions is a little bit harder. I give it 8/10 too. So 8 is a good score and fair score.
Yeeha!
WHOO-HOO!
i couldnt stop playing it for almost a full day XD the only thing i was dissapointed about was:
1 – no minigames (secret rings minigames were awesome!)
2 – no hubworlds (ive been wanting hubs since sonic adventure XD)
@ Naysu-san: The 360 version of Unleashed had hubs. I liked the Party Mode in Secret Rings, though, and I want to try out the multi-player.
The game is good it had everything unleashed for the wii didnt, more stages, more missions,wifi,multiplayer,voice options,a little more complex story,diffrent playable characters, RPG ELEMENTS!!!, just perfect, except the rating system and controls which are sometimes alittle unresponsive. 8/10
As long as you all know it’s all about the ‘Legacy’ missions in SatBK. So great.
Crysore: You could say BK was a apology for Unleashed Wii, even though it never met the standards of Sonic the Disaster, for lack of stages
Keydown:Yea I could see that, keydown, as this game nearly surpasses it in all aspects, except the speed.
Rave:I have played Secret Rings but all I liked about the dialogues and characters’ interactions were those by Sonic’s interactions with Eggman,Knuckles and Tails. And of course those “Rat” insults” from Erazor.
Didn’t liked or cared much for the story.
Everything else(the dialogues and the characters’ interactions) was nothing awful but nothing that would strike me as incredible well-written, Sonic did say a few funny lines here and there but otherwise that was not much for me.
And I did not say(or meant to imply)anything about Sonic being a stupid character, nor do I think he is.