Sonic - Lost World

Sonic - Lost World

Sonic Lost world is a recently made game by Nintendo, it is based on the well known character of Sonic, because of its name it draws a lot of attention and is one of the best Sonic games ever to be created.

Released for the Wii U in Europe on October 18 2013, the game received mixed reviews by most critics, Metacritic gave the game a rather disappointing 62/100, Games Radar gave the Wii U version of the game a high 8/10 and said it is the most authentically Sonic feeling 3d outing yet. Game Trailers gave the game a 7.6 out of 10 which is quite good for this time of the year with the next gen consoles coming out soon and these kind of scores show that games like Sonic and Mario can still compete with today's games. In sales, on the opening week in the U.K, Sonic Lost World ranked at number 11 in the charts, but it received a higher place on the Nintendo 3DS chart with being number 4, but in my opinion you would expect that this game would have been top of the charts considering the fact that it was Nintendo that made it.

There is a slight plot in the game, Sonic is in chase of Doctor Eggman, who has captured and stolen many of Sonic's animal friends. Sonic and Tails land on a mysterious planet called Lost Hex, they encounter a group called the Deadly Six who are under the control of Doctor Eggman. The aim of the game is to rescue your animal friends and get to Doctor Eggman.

But for me I'm not the biggest fan of this game as since I played the original Sonic games on the Sega Megadrive, I believe the comparison to them is too bad. The fast pace of the original Sonic games were incredible and this new game feels too slow and the fact that they changed the perspective of Sonic is quite annoying to me. But if they have to compete with today's market then they do have to change it up, but you probably won't ever see this game competing with games like Call Of Duty Ghosts or FIFA 14 or if your Japanese then this game will probably be your preference.

Let's talk about the game play then... The game does use an all new control system which allows you to control how fast Sonic run's. Holding a trigger will then put Sonic into a run, which will then allow him to move fast and doing acrobatics or parkour maneuvers. During the game, players can rescue animals along the way to your goal, this can be done by destroying the enemies or bursting the containers open. This allows players to progress onto bonus stages.

The best thing I like about this game is the fact that you can change Sonic's speed during the game, in previous Sonic games you were never able to do this and it adds a whole new dynamic to the game and hopefully more games to come. The thing I don't like about this game is that it's is completely deriving from the originals, the change in perspectives is annoying and I have always believed that games like this and Mario should stick to their roots and leave it as a 2d plat former.

To conclude... This game is very unique and interesting but in my opinion the negatives outweigh the positives and this is a game that I won't be buying any time soon just to the fact that it has changed a lot and not for the better. Sonic Lost World gets a 5/10 from me unfortunately.