Tag: sonic the hedgehog

No. WRONG. Remember my rants about all that was horrid with Sonic Heroes? This could actually be worse. NO.

Had just one attempt this time, and it was enough! Was out of rings with just one hit left to land, and I although I had no idea what he was doing, he pretty much killed himself. EXCELLENTIA. So, he’s defeated, the cut scene with the now traditional Amy-chases-Sonic bit was shown, and then the credits rolled. As well as being completed, Sonic Rush marks the 52nd game I’ve completed since I started this gaming diary back in January. That’s …

Back to this then. And back to Eggman Nega at the end of the game. And back to “gah!”ing at him. Managed to get his health down to just two notches remaining on one of my many attempts, but that was about the best I could manage. His laser attack is too random to successfully avoid every time, and the electricity attack (especially the four-beam variety) is a pain too. The fact that you lose your rings for good if …

Had another go at “Dead Zone”, Zone 7, and found and collected the Emerald again, then went on to complete the zone and defeat the boss at the end – who turned out to be Blaze the Cat, who was easy to beat. Then “Final Zone” opened up on the map, and it’s a boss fight with Eggman Nega (yes, it wasn’t Eggman after all) in a giant mech suit. I tried a few times to kill him, but failed, …

Went back to Zone 2 and picked up the Chaos Emerald there, before trying Zone 6 again. Managed to get through it this time, and beat the boss. Then it was on to Zone 7, and shock! It’s set on a spaceship, and there are gravity flippy things! How completely new for a Sonic game! Found a Special Stage on Act 1, and failed to complete it because it’s too hard. Luckily, there was the right sort of level structure …

Two more Chaos Emeralds GET! Went through the first Act of the up-in-the-sky level again, stopping off to pick up one Emerald there. Then tried the second Act, but died a few times due to not looking where I was going. Tch. After that, I went back to the first Act of the first Zone (Leaf Forest, or whatever it’s called) and picked up another Emerald. That means I have five now, with only Zones 2 and 7 left to …

Another Zone done. I can’t remember the name (again), but it’s the Metropolis Zone From Sonic 2 On The Megadrive One. You know, with the pipes and the steam and stuff. And I got another Chaos Emerald too, which makes three. Go me. Moved onto the zone after that as well, which is a whole lot of down. And died. A lot. I did manage the first Act (with hanglider!), but the second had too much sky and not enough …

This seems somewhat easier from where I left off, you know. Bizarre. Anyway, completed two zones – the Sandopolis replacement, and the Carnival Night replacement, and defeated both of the bosses at the end of them. It really is very fast. Very, very fast. I also managed to get into the Special Stage a few times, and grab two Chaos Emeralds. Yes, I went in more than twice, but you can only get one Emerald per Zone, it seems, so …

I feel like a quadraplegic or something when I can’t complete a ‘simple’ Sonic game without having to resort to $hlmun attempts at killing the end of game boss. In fact, the boss wasn’t actually all that difficult, it was the fact that every time you die, you had to kill the pre-boss boss, then the boss. Then, if you lose all your lives, you have to go back and do the boss from the previous level, then the pre-boss …

Gah!! I was on the end of game boss again, had hit him more times than on any of my other attempts today (about 15 or so, probably), and then my Game Boy Micro turned itself off with battery-drainage! RUBBISH.

Finally managed to complete Chaos Angel Zone, which wasn’t actually as hard as it has first appeared. The boss at the end was a bit of a pain, though, and I lost tens of lives to him before getting past. And now it’s onto Altar Emerald. The strange Metal Sonic/Ristar hybrid thingie that keeps cropping up as a “mid boss”, as well as part of the main bosses, was here, and then a giant Eggman-controlled Eggman robot was after that. …

Erm. Yes. I did say I wasn’t going to play this much, but for some reason it fell in my hands again and it was rude not to press it and touch it and stuff, wasn’t it? Completed the second Zone with Sonic, and played through the third (but died). Also played through Blaze’s first Zone. But died there too. I don’t like the way she controls – too floaty and she seems to have a jetpack, and she’s sloooooooooooow …

Just a quick go. I didn’t really want to get into it until I’d finished Sonic Advance 3 but, well, it arrived today. And was shiny. And it’s great! The music is totally not Sonic, and there’s a Tony Hawk’s type trick system to go with the usual rail grinding, and it’s fast. Very fast. But great! Only played through the first zone and beat the first boss though. And the boss was great too – 3D without 3D-ness. Sort …