It's story aspect.

*ahem*

If a may.

and a 1,

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(stop that Funkey Kong!)

*cough*

Ahem, here we go!


Sonic, Lost world.

This is the most recently released Sonic game, it kinda takes after Sonic Colors and the classic aspect of Sonic Generations. Dr. Eggman, (I prefer, Robotnik) has decided to use animals as a power source again and has gone to a planet. . . that I have no idea if it's Sonic's home world or not.

Honestly though, I doubt it, probably just a neihboring star system, or sister planet with a similar planetary genetic template, or whatever.

But that's not what I wanted to talk to you about today.

Today, I wanted to talk about the story aspect of Sonic, Lost World, and see what you guys think.

Now, don't get me wrong, Sonic, Lost World get's a lot of guff, (unless your a retro purist and work for IGN). And some of it is rightly placed, or at least I think so.

It is bascially a sequal to Sonic Colors, in a lot of aspects actually.

1 Weird zones

2 Bad puns

3 Few characters from other games

But, I think that Lost World isn't really deserving all the criticism that it gets.

For one, people complain that it isn't nearly as complicated as Sonic Adventure 1 or 2 regarding the story. And I would agree, but it certainly has it's high points, but here, look at the skeleton.

The whole game's story can be summed up like this.

Dr. Eggman visited a world that had 6 deamons and begins to use a conch to control them. But when Sonic knocks away Rob otnik's conch, Everything goes wrong. The deamons use their magnetic wave controling abilities to control Dr. Eggman's robots. Now, Eggman, Sonic, and Tails work together to keep the deamon from using a large tower device to suck all the life energy out of the planet. In the process, Sonic fails to save Tails, and Eggman saves him instead. Sonic wants to know how Eggman could stand to save Tails like that. His responce is, "I'm a complicated guy". Then Sonic almost falls for a trap, but Tails knocks Sonic aside, and falls into the trap instead. So, the 6 deamons turn him into a robot. Meanwhile, the planet energy sucking device goes mad, and All the life energy is sucked out of Knuckles and Amy. Sonic goes to face the deamons, but him and Eggman fall off a bridge, But Eggman sacrifices himself to stop Sonic.


And now. . . . all alone. Realising that all his allies and even worst enemy is gone. . . Sonic stares off into the lavy distance.

All alone.

One epic and thought provoking, character developing moment in the game.


And that's pretty much it, (not telling the ending.)

Now, I don't know about you, but I thought that was a great story for using only characters like Sonic, Tails, And Eggman. (Though if Knuckles and Amy actually did something, that might have been nice. . . )


For one, we actually got to see Eggman developed a lot more than ussual. We got another hint at his odd past, why is he the way that he is? He really hasn't been given this much developement since Sonic Adventure 2, with his connections to General Gerald Robotnik.


Amy and Knuckles are dead.

And Tails has been turned against Sonic. All becuase of these 6 deamons!


So, what's the problem here?

I'll tell you. . . . .


IT WAS ALL DONE WITH PLAYDOUGH!


._.

No, I mean, seriously. Do the zeti resemble anything but odd clay figures that would appear in a pixar movie? (those are great movies by the way.)

Let's be honest, the problem here isn't the story, (though, yes, Sonic and Tails are not acting at all like they should be, but I'll get to THAT in a moment.)

The problem is the playdough land textures, I mean, really. I think that Kriby's game on the wii had more textures that this game. But what bugs mee the most is how undginified the "deadly sicks" look.

I mane, really. They don't fit when compared to Sonic at all.

At ALL.

Agreed?

Good.


Now, the other thing that I have to complain about, is how. . . . pretty much every character that has appeared in a Sonic game before acts. (outside of Eggman, I thought that they did him well, though I wonder if anyone could mess him up.)

Sonic. . . is the same as he was in Sonic Colors. Just a dumb teen who seemed to not mind playing with space alien plush toys and making jokes that cuase each one of us to die inside a little as they penetrate our ears and rot our souls.

Tails. . . is where my complaints really come in.

What can I say?

He's a brat.

Well, almost.

I mean, hey.

He is completely unwilling to work with Eggman, makes terribly childish statements. Harbors anger against the mad Dr. in spite of some mutual respect that the two have had in the past. And he brags.

lots.

"Of course I'm done with this propeller, I once made a radio using only washing machine detergent. . . "

. . . .

Nope. . .

not buying it.


But come on!

Who is writing this?

Tail's humility is one of the main points of how he acted in earlier games. That and his maturity

It's just so. . . dissapointing. This Tails. . . is not the Tails that I know. He acted fine in Sonic Unleashed, He's all to bratty and full of himself to ever help Cosmo, in fact, maybe he's been idolizing Sonic all to much. . . and hit puberty.

Ugh.

This is like. . . .1 year and a half after Cosmo's death Tails. Yeah. That anger that he's harbored is still coming out, and he's become more of a jerk. I guess that makes sense.


And wasn't Eggman supposed to be imature? and Sonic and especially Tails were supposed to be acting better than him?

I think that was the point. But unfortunately, that's not the way it is anymore.


And so that is what I think of Lost World's story aspect. Tails is destroyed, Knuckles is still slapstick. Amy is on marjuana cuase it's legal now, hence she's so sleepy and is hardly even excited to see Sonic at all. But knuckles seems to be into. . . something. O_o

Heck, they all do, except Tails. I wonder if he'll be singing some modern, (fake) heavy metal anytime soon? (you know, that angry screamer music that they make nowadays?)

Whoever wrote this story basically took all the old characters and modernized them for today. And I'm hating it. The new Tails I can hardly stand, and if this is how he acts in Sonic Boom, I'll hate it so much.

Well, maybe, I could get over it I guess. :/

*cringes* pleasedontletSonicBoomfail, pleasedontletSonicBoomfail, pleasedontletSonicBoomfail.

And as such, that ends my rant.

Nope, I never played Lost World, I just downloaded all the cutscenes. It was a fun watch, but I fear that Sonic will never be the same again.

I agree with a lot of the things you said BUT, the story for this game was just bad, nothing is explained about the Lost Hex, the Deadly Six, nothing is given background or story, and what is given background and story is almost terrible, remember when Tails freaks out at Sonic for not trusting him or something like that? Yeah it is really bad, the voice acting is decent at times, and awful in others.


Its almost like they tried to make it funny and light hearted, which I can understand, its really how Sonic should be ( unless they do it how they did in the Adventure Series ) and it would explain way stuff is not really explained, like the Lost Hex and that stuff, we are just supposed to take it like oh okay its Sonic just go with it and don't take it seriously, and then they just randomly throw in drama. I am glad they tried to
flesh out Eggman ( *ahem* or as you prefer him Robotnik ) and some of the situations could be entertaining with him and Sonic, it was nothing we haven't seen before, and it just came off as silly and stupid. Those are my thoughts! Neat thread

solidx123456 :

Yeah, I would agree that the lack of backstory kinda sucks.

Maybe Ian Flynn could fix that up.

And I don't have a problem with a lighthearted Sonic Game- just don't forget the epicness of Sonic Adventure 2 and 1 Sega! ^^'

From what I've heard, Sonic Lost World is just all over the place in design. By that, I mean that it doesn't really know what it wants to be. 

...And what I saw  from Hellfirecomms' Sonic-a-thon that they did last week, Sonic Lost World 3DS (AKA Sonic Lost Sanity) is awful.
Like, god awful.
Sonic Genesis awful.
Yeah, that kind of bad.
It has bottomless pits galore, extremely reliant on the wisp powerups, like the asteroid, drill, lightning, and quake wisp, and the stages take FOREVER (The person doing Sonic Lost World 3DS took about a half an hour on Frozen Factory Act 3, and it wasn't his first time doing the level), and the special stages are probably the WORST special stages in the entire series, mostly because of its use of the gyro-scope, and that you gotta swing the 3DS around like a fool to go anywhere, so you gotta have space... good luck trying to do the Sonic Lost World special stages in a car, or a train, or a bus, or anywhere with a lot of people/junk around.