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  • -tough last boss and - no co-op!?

    This would explain why they gave Mario Galaxy 2 a 10 with it's laughably easy last boss and minor co-op. [saracasticly] Yeah... I sure feel like a winner beating a game that's stupidly easy with a co-op feature that's barly anything...

  • 2:06 Boner Ability...?

  • If you're familiar with the original Sonic 2 boss style, then it's not really all that difficult. It's moreso when you're trying to get the Untouchable trophy.

  • In my opinion, I think sonic was a LITTLE to slow in this game...

  • "If your a purist you can just go PLAY A PORT OF THE ORIGINAL GAMES" Boy does that sentience contradict itself

  • "I never asked for the darkness"...

    I NEVER ASKED FOR THIS COMMERCIAL!!!!!!

  • I wasn't interested in getting this game solely because of the lock-on auto-aim homing thing. I hate that automatic stuff in games.

  • Im fine with getting thumps down with this but when i played this game it felt so mindless. Like sometimes the controls were sluggish and doing the homing attack feels so wrong. and they were to generous with the lives. Im not trolling i like sonic alot but this didn't feel like a classic sonic game

  • Why are challenges a negative aspect?

  • @Soullessdistraction Because this day and age kids are never losers, there's always happy endings, and we want todays youth to be tomorrows pussys!

  • @Soullessdistraction because everyone my age are only good at cod

  • Going back and doing old feeling control was a perfect idea. Yeah i agree on that, it would have made this more fun if they did that.

  • You just lowered the game's difficulty by one point just because its last boss is difficult?! Last bosses are soposed to be difficult!!!

  • ...k. They failed to mantion the fail gravity. WHY?!

  • Sonic 4 & Sonic Generations are the 2 best sonic games I have played since the origionals Sonic is back! To kick some ass!

  • can someone tell me why everyone is hating this game i mean i really enjoyed this game it brought back old memories and besides wasn't this game supposed to be from the old memories that actually gave us a reason to like sonic this game is incredible

  • @hypershadicful If you had played the old games,you should notice how the game's physics are shit.I hate it when people think a Sonic game is "old school" because it's 2D.

  • @SuperAwesomeTiago yeah so?

  • @hypershadicful Sooo,that's why everyone hates this game.It doesn't play well.

  • @SuperAwesomeTiago buy the ratings it feels kinda acurate

  • Nah, Sonic Generations is the true masterpiece that recaptures the feel and style of the classics while also being updated. Plus it's a game that both classic and modern fans can enjoy because well it has both classic and modern Sonic and both play the way fans remember them. Sonic 4 mostly only appeals to the classic fans while Sonic Generations appeals to both classic and modern fans.

  • Sonic Generations was better

  • Pretty sure he has no idea what he's talking about...

  • this review could go down in history for having the stupidest demerit ever

  • Isn't a final boss supposed to be hard?

  • @RusticRobot5000 ikr apparently games with easy final boss are more fun and challenging -____-

  • the can do something better with the music... not the same 16bit music... but still be a great game!

  • this game sucks ass, it has stupid fucking puzzle sections and makes you do entire levels over again if you lose a boss battle

  • bubble shield ? nope

  • Oh sure. Just when Sega releases a hair pullingly hard Sonic game, the guy who did the Sonic Unleashed review decides to start liking Sonic games. He didn't even state the lack of physics.

  • Should have gotten a 9/10

    Oh well, fair enough.

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  • Should of got a 5/10 this game was bland, broken and boring. From the terribly done physics, the dull environments that pales in comparison to SG and levels that introduced pointless puzzles and rehashed content. SEGA has looked at these issues and they said that they will fix them in Episode 2, so here's me hoping.

  • @MrEduardKhil your not really a sonic fan if your hating this game man this is from the old version and PS SONIC EPISDES 2 IS GONNA HAVE METAL SONIC :D

  • @hypershadicful You don't have to like the old games to be a sonic fan, you have to like the old games to be a Sonic lover.

  • @RusticRobot5000 i love all the games -w-

  • lol i was just about to buy this game.

    but i changed my mind when u said the boss is hard =P

  • 3:30

    -tough last boss

    uh... how DARE they make the FINAL boss be HARDER than the other bosses?

    -no co-op

    who gives a flip

  • @TheLairOfRockwhales well, some of my fondest childhood memories consist of playing sonic 3 & knuckles with my sister controlling tails, so co-op would be nice.

    Not a dealbreaker though

  • @TheLairOfRockwhales a difficult game? are you living in the 90s or something?

  • How on earth did they get his age wrong in this game?

  • 3:00 How Dare The Final Boss Be HARD?!!

  • IGN just can't give the benefit of the doubt to SEGA when they try something new can they?

  • >final boss

    >odd spike in challenge when trying to recreate genesis gameplay

    LOLWUT

  • IGN = FAIL

  • Dynamite.........wat happened to SpinDashing though obstacles.

  • Wow, you lowered the rating because the last boss was too hard, and yet you said everything else to that point was easy, wtf man, the final bosses have never been "easy" not just sonic, EVERY fucking game has a tough last boss, why was this such a shocker? *face palm*, and no co-op? Are you fucking serious? Ok sure the game would've been better in co op, but its nothing to fucking get moist over, fucking ign....

  • @MrPwn4cash What he's saying is that a game should get progressively difficult as you advance, as opposed to maintaining an easy difficulty throughout 98% of the game and then suddenly throwing an immense challenge at you at the end.

  • when a game is good, IGN reviews bad; when it's bad, IGN reviews good

    i really don't understand, i'm sorry

  • No CO-OP this game is like a remake to sonic 1 and sonic 1 didn't have CO-OP

  • The reviewer said the final boss is unfairly long and difficult compared to the rest of the game.

    Infuriatingly frustrating would be more accurate.

  • "Tough last boss." Well I guess Sonic 2 should be an god awful game.

  • 3:05 WHY DOES THIS MEAN VERDICT

  • 1:50 So does this mean presentation IS gameplay?

  • 2;07 Bubble Shield???

    

  • Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1

    It was long awaited, and as a lifelong Sonic fan, I was very disappointed. The physics were horrid, the controls were unresponsive, the zones were not fitted to the iDevice screen, and the collision detection was almost non-existent. Looking at the game, I thought as if it was a cheesy fan-made rip off. The resolution was awful, and the sprites were grainy.

    Bottom Line: A failure by Sega that doesn't surprise anyone. 1/10

  • @italianXnightmare If you're playing on an iDevice that explains most of the problems

  • @eateroftheflame Well I was talking about the game overall. The iDevice was the worst experience I encountered with this game. I didn't play it on Windows Phone, but the Windows Phone's lack of being good at anything would make me believe that it wasn't much better on it. The system game play was a little better, but not much. Too unresponsive and seemingly unfinished.

  • sonic 4 episode 2: NEW PHYSICS ENGINE, NEW GRAPHICS ENGINE, TAILS PLAYABLE, METAL SONIC AS A NEW RIVAL. now you may nerdgasm and let the hype begin!

  • Sega said that episode 2 will have a higher budget so with any luck there'll be better physics and more original levels.

  • @eateroftheflame maybe they will make it look like sonic generations also

  • @eateroftheflame Actually, I just viewed the teaser of Episode 2; it was announced that there is a new physics engine.

  • Final bosses are meant to be a challenge. IGN is full of people who complain about games being easy, then find something that's meant to be hard, then complain its tough.

  • Thumbs up if you noticed that IGN wrote Presentation 3 times instead of: Presentation, gameplay, verdict

  • Last boss is hard? I think IGN is too use to tapping A or X to beat a final boss and watching a choking cinematic(Call of duty)

  • Physics are way off in this game. When you're running down and hill and press down to turn into a ball it doesn't feel right one bit.

  • well you cant write IGNorance without IGN

  • Actually, the Casino and Metropolis levels are inspired by Sonic 2, the Green Hill levels inspired by both Sonic 1 and 2, and the water levels and Special Stages are inspired by Sonic 1. There are enemies from Sonic 3 and Knuckles in the casino, as well.

  • wow give it a bad score b/c you cant beat the boss what a little wimp

  • @slayershayne 8 is a good score.

  • I can not find it on xbox live. HELP!

  • Do I have to buy episode 1 to buy episode 2?

  • @BobbyJackson100 Episode 2 has not been announced nor released.

  • Tough last boss?! That's one of the minuses in this game? A challenge is a good aspect!

  • They did

  • They should add super sonic in it

  • @Galactis14 He is.

  • MY

    EYES

  • Sonic 4, Sonic Colors, Sonic Generations... these Sonic games are the Sonic equivalent of the Nolan Batman movies. We have Sonic again!

  • @MrThePandaman Wrong.

  • @TechRyze Well, I'll take this over Sonic Riders.

  • PHYSICS

  • isnt the whole point of a game to challenge the player EVEN through its bosses

  • @be2bed

    calm down man they gave an 8/10

  • @be2bed Shut the fuck up this is one persons opinion. He gave it a high rating. What do you think the rating should be lower? -_-

  • These guys have never played Sonic,have they?

  • Tough last boss is a minus??

    Easy games are for pussies and children.

    Scratch that...

    Easy games are for pussies only! I loved difficult games as a child.

  • @hospital349 I eat pussies for breakfast!!

  • This game was NOT like the Genesis games. What a waste of $15!

  • @CODMarioWarfare Those days are over. Deal with it.

  • @huskiesghost No need to be a dick about it.

  • Okay IGN, you need to study up on the history of video games.

    The final boss is SUPPOSED to be hard.

    The game is easy, but as you progress, it gets harder and harder.

    Then the final boss is there to top it off.

    I- no... WE would be seriously disappointed if we went through a good and hard game, pumped for the final boss, went into the room, said "LET'S DO THIIIIIS!!!!"...... But then the boss was as easy as taking a pee.

  • @sonicfangamer2 Agreed.

  • Tough last boss? This guy is joking.

  • tough last boss? your rating the game down because a part of the game is hard? -_-

  • @emantharp5

    AND THIS IS WHY IGN SUCK AT RATING SONIC GAMES

  • @lljmaxon98 i know..... i meen its like saying you hate cod because you suck at the game........... (not saying i like cod)

  • @emantharp5

    Sonic 06 is too glitchy , that's a good reason to get a low mark , but i dun think theres any prob with Unleashed (ps3 /360 ver) and its lower than sonic 06

    Which is why i hate IGN rating sonic games

  • no co-op i can understand but TOUGH LAST BOSS? sonic bosses are real easy and thats a part i dont like about sonic! harder is funner! so that shouldn't really be a minus. . .

  • I have a lot of respect for this reviewer. ''Fans'' call this game bad because of the physics, but complain about the reviewer giving it a minus for a tough boss. The reviewer actually makes a good point by saying to ''play a port of the original.'' if you're a purist. I think the homing attack was a welcome addition to keep it fresh. And on a side-note: the reviewer actually says the boss is ''unfairly long and difficult in COMPARISON to the rest of the game'' and ''an odd spike in challenge.''

  • @LittleMichaelz Exactly! I mean in the previous games they had a build up meaning the levels before were pretty hard and the final boss complemented it. This fight was pretty long and hard in contrast to the rest. Challenge is only good in doses not dropped in at last second. Other than that this game was fantastic but too expensive when they release Ep. 2 they better make it cheaper.

  • maybe tails will be in Sonic 5

  • @zikten there is no sonic 5 HOWEVER there will be a sonic the hedgehog 4 episode 2 where he trails is playable AND you can fight METAL SONIX X3

  • can someone tell me the cheapest game system i can get this on?

  • @remorrs Your best bet is on PSP, where a used one can be about 100 dollars.

  • WHERE IS EPISODE 2!!!!!!!

  • The lack of modern-day originality in the Sonic series is appalling. Just how many times can you milk the freakin' nostalgia cow? If I see one more "reenactment" of Green Hill Zone or an old boss fight, I'm losin' it.

    This game shouldn't be called "Sonic 4"; it has no continuity with the classics. It should just be called what it is: "An attempt to blind you with nostalgia so that you won't notice our otherwise obvious lack of genuine effort." Unfortunately, that's too long of a title.

  • @soloace Yeah, especially fucking Generations, its just a rehash of levels from older games.

  • @WiiThoko your an idiot if you think Generations is bad because of the levels. they are all reworkings based around older levels and most of them are better than the originals. the game is fantastic.

  • its called a homing attack fools

  • huh?

    2 times presentation?

  • Is this on anything other than the Wii? I've downloaded it to my Wii and am stuck on the last main stage in Casino Street Zone, I like the game a lot, but My God is Casino Street Zone frustrating, at least it is for me.

  • You know.... The last boss is SUPPOSED to be hard.

  • @chimanruler15 if you watched the review he said it was UNFAIRLY LONG and a weird SPIKE in DIFFICULTY which is completely different

  • @MrShotgun175 I UNDERSTAND that, but he gave a MINUS for the game having a tough boss, which seems unfair for the whole review. At least the game actually has a tough boss (I've never played it, though). He should have put in, "UNFAIR LAST BOSS." There is a difference between "tough" and "unfair."

    He complained about the game being too easy sometimes and then complained about the game being too hard at the end. I can understand why there was a complaint there, but at least there is a challenge.

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  • @JoaoFranciscoDuarte I don't really hate IGN; I just don't like the way that they review games sometimes. The boss being unfair in this game is something that I can understand, but at least there is a challenge, and at least the boss is difficult. The reviewer complained about the game being easy, and when there is an actual challenge, he complains about it being difficult. Unfair boss that is out of place in the game, I understand. Difficult boss that poses as an actual challenge, I don't get.

  • - tough last boss?

    dude last bosses should be though

    in sonic 1 and 2 the final bosses were too easy that you don't even need rings for them

    it should be "+ though last boss"

  • TOUGH LAST BOSS?????? arn't ALL last bosses supposed to be tough???

  • @TVAssassinsCreed Its IGN bro not surprised

  • @TVAssassinsCreed

    I take it you've never played Gradius.

  • why would it have co-op

  • .... CO-OP? Really? You were expecting Co-OP?

  • but Sonic always had a tough boss.

    Sonic 2,3

    06, Unleashed

  • @jet4212006 Unleased's battle was easy, 06 was hard because the game was so broken, and yeah 2 and 3 had hard levels, but it's not a matter of the battle itself being hard, it's that there's such a difficulty spike that's annoying.

  • @FailVideosThatFail

    Unleashed had easy bosses but the last one was hard

  • @jet4212006 I disagree, I found the final boss of Unleased to be a joke, lol. But that's just me.

  • WANT EP 2 NOW!

  • uuuuummm... sonic was "almost" ALLWAYS known for hard almost unfairly hard final boss battles... so why the negative.. lol negative for no coop.. :/

    thats wasn't even to be expected for ANY sonic game... especially not a side scroller.. so why the negative.... hmm...?

  • @HeartBr3akDrake I never had real trouble with any sonic boss...

  • @IMmephiles well either you really good or you haven't played many sonic games.. lol but good for you... your better than me... ;)

    all I'm saying is i can't believe they are saying that in this review, yet most of soinc's final bosses are pretty dang hard... at least to me a claimed others.. and I'm not downing sonic games.. just that one point in the review.. btw the review is bad either.. lol

  • @HeartBr3akDrake i never played SA2 or secret rings, and they say those are very hard

  • @IMmephiles SA2 was.. never played secret rings myself.. but genesis and gamboy sonics were hard to me.. and that was about it.. the rest were just very challenging.. not unfairly difficult..

  • @HeartBr3akDrake genesis is hard, but very easy once you know how to defeat it. i only played 1 gameboy game (SA3) wich had kinda difficult bosses, but the final boss was ridiculously easy

  • @IMmephiles Adventure 2 is hard, but it feels right, like it's a fair challenge that actually requires skill to overcome rather than being cheap and annoying. Secret Rings is also hard, but I found the challenge in that game to come more from flaws in the control scheme. Also, if you never played Adventure 2, what are you waiting for? It might just be my favourite Sonic game, and you should definitely try it out.

  • @MetroidCommando i would if i could! i dont have a dreamcast or gamecube (i DO have a wii, but no GC controller) the game is nowhere to be found in stores anymore, and theres no downloadable pc or ps3 version either!!!

  • anyone else notice that they said presentation for verdict?

  • um..Sonic has always been awesome, regardless of games, bad or good.

  • the one thing i don't get is hard boss well sonic colors had easy ones and that was a complaint but whatever

  • Thumbs up for Sega to make more of these classic side-scroll sonic games!

  • @yTubeBlowsBigBalls Thumbs up if Sonic Team makes the games.

  • @KyonGivesYouFacepalm I saw you on John's channel.

  • @yTubeBlowsBigBalls .........NAAAAh im....im good

  • what kind of moronic reasons are no co-op and Tough last boss?

    The final boss is supposed to be the hardest

  • the different zones are WAY way too similar to the ones from the previous sonics, especially the last one, the robotnik factory like one. what a lack of imagination from the creators! maybe the next sonic will be more imaginative, apart from that, game looks GREAT

  • Oh, IGN. How you FAIL at video game reviews. JK. =P But seriously, "the last boss is unfairly long and difficult?" Wait, what? =/

  • SONIC!! :) Welcome To The New Level!!!

  • havent you heard IGN hates everything

  • @1997theonlyone well you can't spell ignorance without IGN

  • So what if IGN gives call of duty games a good score. Its because they are good games so stop bitching that your favorite game got an 8 out of 10

  • @PokemonMaster386493 My complaints aren't invalid. 1. Galaxy 1 did nothing to Bowser. Name a game where Bowser is challenging. 2. You never know where Magikoopas will teleport to, so he wasn't dummed down much. Chain chomp also was never challenging.

  • This review is very lazy.

  • @PokemonMaster386493 1. I stopped at 70 stars out of boredom. 2. SMG2's music is so unoriginal i could immediately tell which galaxy 1 song each track was based off of. 3. It's ONE GAME that i don't even hate, i just think IGN is stupid for building it up like a 3d Mario game with SMB3 quality. 4. I guess you'd hate to know how I feel about SMW compared to Mario 3. BTW, lost levels is the only game in the main series i hate.

  • 156 dislikes. Yeah, that how many people tried to boycott sonic 4 because his legs were to long.

  • Am I the only one who got this on release and still haven't beaten the final boss

  • the reason he didnt like the last boss was obvious - he said it was an odd difficulty spike. you cant just do that in games. its fine if games are hard all the way through, but when they fluctuate of course theres something wrong

  • I'm glad to hear someone going easy on a Sonic game. I think people are far too hard on newer Sonic titles which have been on the whole great fun.

  • I regret buying this game for 16 $ IT'S TOOO FUCKEN SHORT AND IT HAS 5 OR 6 TROPHIES FOR 16 DOLLARS FUCK YOU SEGA YOU RETARDED PIECE O'SHIT

  • minus points for difficulty??? WTF Video Games wouldn't be fun if you knew you were gonna beat them anyyyways.

  • Sega sega sega, sequels are supposed to be better than their predecessors, or at least on par. I'd much rather play Sonic 3 than this, I'd rather play Sonic 2, Maybe even Sonic 1.

    All of the bosses in this game are laughably easy versions of boss battles from another sonic game aside from the last boss. The game is also short and the level design and music is bland.

    Oh and before a fanboy starts bitching at me, I beat this game and got all chaos emeralds,Im qualified to say my 2 cents.

  • wow touch last boss. douchebags...IGN that is

  • What a huge disapointment they did not make it 2 player and another huge let down that there is no 2 player battle. This was the thing I liked most about Sonic 2. It could have been great fun over xbox live. It feels like the developers have been extremly lazy and just wanted to cash in on the classic sonic fever. The graphics are not very impressive compared to other platform games on the console. I would probably score it 4.5/10

  • @TheCommodore64Player The original Sonic did'nt have Co-Op!. Yes, the next two games do but I don't give a shit!. The developers wanted to return Sonic to his refreshing 2D roots and guess what?... Nobody gives a shit!. That's like saying the New Super Mario, Mega Man 9 and Donkey Kong Returns games on Wii suck WHICH IS AN INSULT!!!. If you liked those games so much then stop being butthurt and be nice to Sonic 4!. PS. Graphics don't make a game, asshole.

  • This game is 1200 microsoft point and 14.99 psn hmm..I gonna download both of them lmao but I miss Sonic with his own console. Sega Genesis was my first console than Ps1,N64,Ps2,etc.

    MAKE SEGA CONSOLE!!!!! BRING SONIC BACK HOME!!!!!

  • how is a tough final boss a con?

  • you guys whine to much what was so bad about this game

  • excuse me but the final stage isnt hard, its quite easy