With it, a Couple More Screenshots and Snark
Let’s take a breather from the E3 hype for a moment to bring you something just as noteworthy–details hot off the press from the UK’s Official Nintendo Magazine preview of Sonic Colors.
This is one of the more critical previews we’ve seen. References to past Sonic failures litter the piece, including references to the Sonic Cycle, which they refer to as the Sonic Hype Cycle. The ONM preview also classifies the Wisps as gimmicks, and clear references are drawn between Colors and the Super Mario Galaxy franchise. Pot shots are also taken at games that weren’t so bad, like Sonic Heroes and Sonic and the Secret Rings.
That aside, the ONM preview claims there will be no multiplayer component, which is different from what we’ve previously heard. In the end, the preview concedes that Sonic is at his best mimicking Mario elements, and believes this will be the equivalent of a all-daytime Sonic Unleashed:
The action is fast, the levels are nice and long, there are loads of different routes available through each level (even more than usual now thanks to the drill ability). Even the music’s the same annoyingly catchy rubbish we’re always ashamed to say we quite liked.
ONM did publish a few previously unseen screenshots in their preview. For that reason, we are relaying a portion of the preview in our gallery below. ONM also published a quick Q&A with Takshi Iizuka, but no new information was revealed in the interview, so we don’t want to waste your time. The scans are courtesy of SSMB forumer Stasis Colours.
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ONM is being cynical with a Sonic game? Since when? Must be the previewer. They seem to always give Sonic games good ratings, whether they’re good or not.
i like e 10 up games there cool for sonic
Lol…Rubbish Music my ass.
GASP! SAWNICK IN CANDY LAND!
Seriously, Sonic music is always awesome. The ONE time it flopped, music wise, was Chronicles.
Garbage preview.
@Skai Chan: I 100 percent agree with you there. The gameplay preview has Eggman’s chatter in the music…its weird but strangely works. =D
Last I read of ONM covering anything Sonic related, they weren’t snarky whatsoever. Just level headed about it…well, there goes another publication down the “whining about hedgehogs” drain. And its a real shame too.
Gamespot was quite positive in their preview…
Something must have rubbed the fellow the wrong way that day.