Each Sonic game has a similar set of defects and strengths. Colors: Ultimate is an excellent case study for that. While my preview impressions of this game were bright enough, do they resist a more in-depth exam? Does a Sonic game stay brilliant after enough time under the spotlight? The short answer is somehow? The more I play Sonic games, the more I understand it is futile to wait for certain things. You are always too fast to control correctly, you can always do better and sometimes you really want to improve. The latter makes the difference between a good Sonic game and a bad. Among others! It turns out that Sonic Colors: Ultimate succeeds a lot.
If you do not know the story, it is quite simple. Sonic and Tails are on an amusement park satellite built by Robotnik. It turns out that it has built it for harmful purposes, namely to reap a whole species of extraterrestrial as a source of energy. Most of the usual support actors are absent this time. Instead, we are entitled to a tighter and lighter history focused on Sonic and its favorite juror enemy. I did not realize how crowded the barrel was removed. It is refreshing ! Instead of cutting five different people every time something happens, there is room for jokes, moments of character and something that looks like a camera work. Although that in truth, even the story goes to the background with the real gameplay.
Here we see the successful franchise formula in action. Take an established character with a set of familiar movements, add a new unique mechanism and the turn is played! One of the good entries in the series was born. This time, Sonic does the same thing as Robotnik? But on a smaller scale. I also think that the extraterrestrials are volunteered in this case. Anyway, Sonic consumes a color coded extraterrestrial in exchange for a wide variety of cool powers. Things like drilling the earth, sneaked between the crystals and skyrocket in the sky. Each power is essential for wrapping a different world. You can even go back and fully explore the old steps with the powers you unlock! For the most part, however, they are your platform skills that will prevail.
In a short time, the platform goes from the breeze to punishment. It is only natural, but it also acts as a kind of crucible. Are you going to scream with frustration and stop? Or do you think that success is at your fingertips? While games like Sonic '06 and Sonic Heroes crush you, Sonic Colors: Ultimate is more optimistic. Another test and you will have it, you say to you. This next run will be that one, you are sure. For me, it's one of the brands of a superior Sonic game. Hard, of course. But hard in a way that encourages you to continue trying. Thanks to relatively strict controls, success and failure seem to be in your hands.
To be clear, the controls of a Sonic game are never perfect. Something in the character requires you slip, skid down and fall wherever you go. It would not feel like it differently. To a relative amateur (that is to say myself). Sonic always feels like a wild animal that you have briefly played. He could free himself at any time, exploding through the nearest wall and out of your life. But you have the impression, especially in the best Sonic games, that a skilled hand could allow him to achieve incredible exploits. Everything is a matter of practice and patience.
Okay, but it's a remastered version of an older title. So, what has been improved? What is quite different to justify revisiting a ten-year old Wii game? The visuals received a boost, to start. Entirely looks like a 4K sharpness, sufficiently so that I forget regularly that it was a version 2010. You can customize the appearance of Sonic, giving it different effects of shoes, gloves and dashes. There is a rival Rush mode with which to play and a new extraterrestrial power-up (or WISP) to unblock. Said Wisp -The Jade Ghost- allows you to cross the walls and explore new areas, even if I barely touched it in my own part. There is also a Tails control point feature that is not very useful. You have unlimited lives, which deletes a little emergency. Yet he draws his weight from time to time, which is good.
The big Sonic Games are a rare race. At least from the gameplay point of view, it is difficult to find the balance between a fugging speed and precise controls. While Colors: Ultimate never meets this platonic ideal, it gets closer! Really, it's hard to ask much more than that. In addition, the writing is lively, the graphics are vibrant, the soundtrack is amplified and the difficulty increases well. You can see the master's plateau on the horizon, and it seems feasible. As for the remasters, everything looks and feels good. There is not a ton of new content, but the original version is always very strong. If you searched for the good smooth Sonic game, then Sonic Colors: Ultimate will easily strive this itch. __
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