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Another Mediocre Sonic Title
posted by ThaSquare (ROSEVILLE, CA) Mar 28, 2009
Member since May 2007
2 out of 4 gamers (50%) found this review helpful
Sonic is about speed. Take that out of the picture and all you have left is a hedgehog. Though this game doesn’t take it completely out of the picture, the breakneck twists and turns you’d find in most games of the series is severely toned down here. As he’s lugging around a bluntt sword, both physically and verbally, it’s not exactly a shocker to hear but the loss of velocity is coupled with another problem; Sonic’s patented acrobatics don’t come into play half as much as they should.
A massive loop in the middle of the stage doesn’t do much to advance the story or gameplay but it gives the player something to be excited about. Here you might run into one of these obstacles once or twice the entire route of stage. In previous outings, you’d be likely to see more action in the first fourth of the map as you do in all of Black Knight.
One of the biggest upsets is they failed to include a move list anywhere. So the entire time I was playing, I was frantically swinging around without knowing if I was about to pull off a sweet move or screw up. Missing from most of the game is the ability to forge new items as well. Ingredients are found at the end of each level. However, there isn’t a use for most of them up to the point where Sonic takes down King Arthur, which is basically the entire game minus a few stages and the final battle.
All in all, Sonic and the Black Knight is about as mediocre as you can get. What usually defines a Sonic game is all but represented here. The slower pace and absence of unique obstacles that usually go hand in hand with the series brings the fun to a halt in more ways than one and the extremely short play time is definitely a drawback. However, the game still retains some amount of fun with the quirky dialect, multiplayer modes, and mildly entertaining gameplay. I believe it'd have been a much better experience if the controls were properly explained. It just fails to thrill and becomes yet another notch in SEGA’s Failed Sonic Ideas belt.
A massive loop in the middle of the stage doesn’t do much to advance the story or gameplay but it gives the player something to be excited about. Here you might run into one of these obstacles once or twice the entire route of stage. In previous outings, you’d be likely to see more action in the first fourth of the map as you do in all of Black Knight.
One of the biggest upsets is they failed to include a move list anywhere. So the entire time I was playing, I was frantically swinging around without knowing if I was about to pull off a sweet move or screw up. Missing from most of the game is the ability to forge new items as well. Ingredients are found at the end of each level. However, there isn’t a use for most of them up to the point where Sonic takes down King Arthur, which is basically the entire game minus a few stages and the final battle.
All in all, Sonic and the Black Knight is about as mediocre as you can get. What usually defines a Sonic game is all but represented here. The slower pace and absence of unique obstacles that usually go hand in hand with the series brings the fun to a halt in more ways than one and the extremely short play time is definitely a drawback. However, the game still retains some amount of fun with the quirky dialect, multiplayer modes, and mildly entertaining gameplay. I believe it'd have been a much better experience if the controls were properly explained. It just fails to thrill and becomes yet another notch in SEGA’s Failed Sonic Ideas belt.