User blog:Journey125/Why Sonic 06 is my favorite Sonic Game ever

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Thank you  Tiro Finale! 02:01, June 17, 2013 (UTC)

"This game is awful, one of the worst ever! Don't pay money for this at all!"

-Reviewer

Sonic The Hedgehog 2006 (Or Sonic 06), is critiqued by many reviewers and fans on the 'Sonic The Hedgehog' series to be one of the absolute worst games of all time, and at the very least the worst of the Sonic series. They say that between the terrible story, the ridiculous gameplay, and the huge lack of speed, this game has nothing left and is impossible to play. If you ask me, it's pretty fun.



Introduction
Sonic06 was originally announced in the time of May 2005. The game was made to celebrate Sonic The Hedgehog's 15th anniversery and was supposed to be a new legacy that originally excited fans. Sega had troubles with deadlines, and had to rush the game. The final product was not what Sega Fans had expected, and was bashed on by many people who bought the game. The game has been growing a worse title over the years, so I thought I might as well get the game myself, and it is  NOT  as bad as people make it out to be. I'll go into some of the main complaints and give my personal thoughts on them.

The Story
One of the big complaints of the game in itself is the story. The main reason of all these complaints over the story is because the story has Time Travel as it's main gimmick. As many people know, time travel is hard to pull off in most stories, and if done incorrectly, it can create a large amount of loopholes in the story. For some odd reason, Sega decided they wanted to make the time travel some huge part of the game that happens more then once throughout the story.

The story is split in to three 'Chapters'. The chapters each have their own main character that you play as for most of the story. The first Chapter takes place as Sonic. Sonic, along with Tails and Knuckles, are trying to once again bring a stop to Doctor Eggman's (Or Robotnik for all you old-school fans) evil plans. The second team consists of Shadow (who now works with GUN for some reason?), Rouge (Who I guess gave up on jewel hunting and is now a full time GUN agent), and Omega (Who...Also became a gun agent???). Their main goal starts out similar to that of Sonic, to stop eggman and see what he is up to. Later on, their goal seems to shift to fighting the mysterious Mephelis character. The last team consists of the new comer Silver (who is also a hedgehog what), Blaze (Yes the one who is now from the future instead of from the Sol Dimension?), and Amy Rose. Their goal is to go back in time and defeat the "Iblis Trigger" who caused the destruction of their timeline.

Sonic's Story
Sonic's story first takes place at some ritual ceremony or something. (Which is a pretty misleading start of a Sonic game, mind you.) Of corse, with everything being peaceful, this is the part where something goes wrong. From what seems to be out of nowhere, Eggman appears and decides he wants to kidnap Elise so he can use her as a lab rat to figure out the flames of disaster that were sealed in her 10 years ago. (This is a plot hole that I will get into later.)

Sonic just decides to pop up and defeat all of Eggman's robots. He does this in ways he could never do in gameplay, which is not as much a complaint as it is  a note. Sonic takes Elise for a little stroll, turns his back for a second, only for Princess Elise to be kidnapped. Sonic just decides to take a nap because he ate one to many chilli dogs or something.

The next day, Tails wakes up Sonic and they go on an adventure. They decide to chase a flying Eggman on foot, and of corse end up not catching it. Stuff happens, and they end up on a desert. Tails thinks he is a man and decides he can handle all of Eggman's robots. Sonic goes off with Elise, and everything seems pretty good. After some scene I expect from Twilight between Sonic and Elise, they get back to Soleanna.

Upon their arrival, Silver decides to pop on by and play some football with Sonic. They have a fight, and Elise gets kidnapped. After losing football, Amy comes in and takes his place. Sonic runs off to chase Elise who was kidnapped. He somehow ends up with Tails and Knuckles. They go over to Eggman to get the princess, in exchange for a chaos emerald (they should have kept the chaos emerald). Sonic is somehow sent to the future and thats where plotholes start to begin.

Shadow and Rouge are there just being themselves. Apparently, the two must locate chaos emeralds. Both sides successfully do this, only to fight some Iblis worm. Apparently Elise was killed and all that fancy jazz, so yeah there is that.

I would go on, but, Spoiler Alert: You basically just save Elise over and over and that is where the story ends.

Shadow's Story
So, apparently somewhere between Sonic Heroes and STH06, Shadow and Omega picked up jobs at GUN. In the start of this story, Shadow must go save Rouge who apparently can't fly, climb walls, or do combat anymore because she's stuck in White Acropolis.

Shadow does this, and Rouge needs male assistence to another location, where Rouge slips up and breaks this menacing scepter of "Darkness". Upon doing this, they release a, *gasp*, EVIL RECOLOR OF SHADOW! (because they needed to do a recolor of a recolor everyone.)

They are sent to the future by Recolor the Dark, and meet up with Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles. After doing their jewel hunting for the chaos emeralds, they all leave except for Shadow. After Shadow and Recolor the Dark have a nice dinner, Shadow leaves. When he leaves, he goes and helps Sonic win football against Silver.

Silver and Shadow go on a walk, and end up in the past. Shadow does stuff, and basically there isn't much after that other then some romantic talk between Recolor and Robot-The-Feels.

Silver the Sorry Excuse of a story.
I'm going to make this as short as possible:

Stuff happens, the future is ruined, Mephelis tricks group, Silver tries to kill Sonic, Amy no like that, Blaze die.

There that is pretty much the end I can't get into it without facepalming to much, this is the only story I can't stand.

My overall opinion of the story:
There isn't as much wrong with it as people say. Sonic isn't meant for kids, and the story would have made sense to me as a kid. I wouldn't have seen anything wrong with it, and that is why Sega didnt care enough to look at the story.

Gameplay
At the end of the day, people don't care for the story as much as they do the gameplay. Without good gameplay, it wouldn't be a good game. Sonic06 is bashed for gameplay more then any other game I have yet to see. The reviews range from hatred, to a lot of hatrade. I will go over each character and how their gameplay works.

Sonic
Sonic is meant to be the speedy character. The game overall fails to give him speed. He is rather slow and has to spam the homing attack to kill strong enemies. Regardless of his terrible controls, he does have gem upgrades you can buy. Originally they had a magic bar that would show how long you could use the powerup given by the gem. The terrible programming however has made it so that the bar never runs out, and you can use these powerups forever. The best powerup if you ask me, is the powerup that makes Sonic a lot faster.

Tails
Tails is.... Slow. He can fly pretty well, but sinks like a rock after a certain amount of time. A lot of people bash on Tails for being very slow, but I don't personally mind it seeing he isn't Sonic. He also lost all his abilities of using his tail in combat. Instead of this, Tails has to use fake rings to hurt enemies. I love Tails, but in this game he is just alright.

Knuckles And Rouge
I placed these to together. Mainly because they are the same, just as they were in Sonic Adventure 2. The only slight difference between the two is the fact that Rouge uses bombs like Tails, and Knuckles uses terrible controls that dont hit most of the time. I can tolerate Rouge, but Knuckles is just a bother. Their biggest problem however, is that they get stuck on walls you glide on. It's very annoying to be stuck on a wall you can't get off of.

Shadow
Shadow has a lot of combat, using kicks and punches to get his job done. He is about the same speed as Sonic, only a tiny bit slower. Shadow also uses Chaos Spear and Blast. Basically, Chaos Spear freezes/stuns an enemy, and Chaos Blast just hurts enemies on the screen. Overall, his gameplay style is fine.

Omega
Omega was... annoying. He uses a lot of guns that usually miss, and fails to move at a good speed. There isn't much going for him.

Amy
Amy was taken a far step back from the game. In Sonic heroes and Sonic Adventure she was pretty good. In this game Amy took lessons from Espio and now knows how to turn invisible. She also has her hammer that really isn't that useful. She is really on my nuetral side.

Blaze
Blaze is pretty much a second Sonic. She only has the difference of shorter parts, and a double jump. She also has a fire spin, and all these are really good. Sonic only beats her with his gem powerups.

Silver
Silver uses his Jedi mind powers to bend spoons and pick up trash noone wants. He can't fight with anything other then that, and can fly around. He is also really, really slow.

Noteable Problems/Glitches

 * The Silver Dusty Desert stage with the ball section. This is easily skipable by jumping on boxes and sneaking through a crack at the top of the door.
 * The Sonic loop glitch where Sonic defies gravity. This is only a problem if you look for it.
 * Shadow's Hovercraft. This is the only part of the game I could really hate to a impossible extenet.
 * Rouge and Knuckles sticky wall problem. This is annoying but not as bad as mde out to be.
 * Sonic vs Silver boss battle. It's easy to avoid the problems shown. Just don't stop running.
 * Mach speed sections. They are hard but Crisis city is the only one I can see a problem with.

Overall
Sonic 06 is a good game. If you are not trying to actually get anywhere in this game, you can have some serious fun. It's rather annoying for people to focus on all the glitches. This game's story is meant for children to understand, most glitches are avoidable, and quite a few of the characters have some pretty good gameplay. (With exceptions of Amy, Omega, and Knuckles.)

I honestly don't think Sonic is a successful series. The title of this blog is a bit wrong. Sonic 06 is only my favorite 3D sonic game. I don't count Generations in this category because it was both 3D and 2D. I'm not much a fan of boost to win, and SA2 and SA were pretty glitchy at times. Sonic Heroes is a story in it's own.