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If anyone ever tells you that Heroes is their favourite Sonic game because it was their childhood sorry but you gotta burst their bubble and get them to take off the nostalgia goggles. If you're still reading this I commend you and your salt tolerance.
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In conclusion, I genuinely enjoyed 06 more than this. I don't know which infuriated me more, Sonic not having a spindash, the incessant switching accompanied with painful voice lines, combat being such a pain, my inability to give up despite hating the game because I felt I had to 100% it, having to replay the exact same levels four times or the fact that the final boss was the best part of the game and even that was trash, just less trash than the rest. SA2 looked so good for a 2001 game and then three years later they went "hey let's make everything look plastic" probably to promote a toy line or something.
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Except Sonic Heroes and We Can, there's no way I'll forget the horribly repetitive, explicit "this is what the game is about" lyrics. The rest can all go get forgotten because that's what they are, forgettable. This Machine, What I'm Made Of, Team Chaotix, Power Plant and Bullet Station are all great. I don't know about you but I thought Sonic 1's ending was pretty dark with Sonic just standing there watching Eggman's ship explode and fall into that abyss. Hell at the end of each classic game they made it look like Eggman died. They were all about an evil dude that trapped animals in robots and tried to wreck the environment to control the world and Sonic trying to stop him. Also the classics weren't lighthearted, they were comical at times with Sonic tapping his foot in impatience but not lighthearted. People say the story is good because it's simple and lighthearted like the classics and sure if it was simple and well-executed like the classics it would be good but it lacked the stoic determination that Classic Sonic exuded and replaced it with Ryan Drummond slowly dying of oxygen starvation because we all know he was breathing in helium the entire time while William Corkery battled a sinus infection and Scott Dreier actually sounded decent. No inconsistencies, no Amy being devoid of personality past "I wanna marry Sonic", no Charmy being an idiot. The Last Story was probably the best-written part even though it has "We'll show that creep the real super power of teamwork", ironically. Team Dark's story was probably the best story apart from the Last Story but it introduced a multitude of plotholes and inconsistencies by bringing Shadow back from the dead. Nope, apparently Sonic's for kids now despite always having been marketed towards edgy teens in the past so every second sentence has to be about teamwork and friendship. Sandwiched between SA2 and Shadow you would've thought it would have a darker story. Speaking of the enemies they take way too many hits to defeat and do nothing to help the game being slow and clunky and lastly the levels are far too long which would be fine if you didn't have to replay them a further three times as reskins of the characters you already beat it as. It's genuinely buggier than 06, half the time my homing attacks just flew straight up and the other half the time I was raging in Rail Canyon at Sonic Wind clipping onto handrails which are grindrails for some reason that would launch me into the abyss while trying to defeat enemies. Stopping and switching between characters to move forward was clunky and took away the high speed action I thought I was going to get from this game coming off SA2. It's easily the most overrated game in the series, ask half the fanbase and they'll say it's their favourite game cause "muh nostalgia". It's genuinely buggier than 06, half the time Man do I hate Heroes.