I'm just gonna say it right out: I like Sonic 06.

I'm a life long Sonic fan who has played the games since I was hardly able to write my own name. I've seen the best and the worst in the series. I've been through the shows and comics. I've met some of the big names involved. I have a decent collection with some hard to find and unique items. I'm both a Classic and Modern fan of the series. 

And I liked Sonic 06, for what it could have been. It does feel a bit empty at times, it's obviously broken in some places, and it's clear that it wasn't finished... but when you get to look at the concept art and some of the drafts for it... it really looked like it could have been one of the best games in the series, if it wasn't for the time constraints, the cuts to the teams involved in making it, and the fact that it started out being developed for another generation of systems entirely. I heard that from the source themselves.

I've spent (see: wasted) a lot of time playing this mess. There was a time where it was my only game I didn't have in storage, and it was play either that, or the 500th remake of Madden game my cousin insisted I play with him. So I took the challenge in playing Sonic 06 to the end, unlock it's secrets, watch the cutscenes, and learn to work with it's problems.

The truth is: the glitches aren't as bad as you think. A lot of them are very useful in manipulating time scores if you know the way to bend them just right, and some bugs end up allowing some characters to access areas that you wouldn't have been able to with them otherwise due to the controls shifting back to the other characters that are waiting for the script response. You can finish some levels in mind blowing record times, you can bypass some of the worst level gimmicks (I know one that bypasses the Ballard Balls with Silver, and there's a few that skip the ball thing in Aquatic Base), and there's some that change the way a character moves... like making Omega actually glide upward instead of down. Or you can do the vehicle missions with Shadow... without the vehicles.

And the best part? You don't need a hack device to make most of it happen. You just need to learn how to cause a bug, then harness it with some practice. 

Then there's the storyline. It's not really as complicated as it seems... it's just out of order. If you go to this post here on my Tumblr, which I did about a year ago, you can see my guess at the timeline in the game, and what order they seem to best be in. I hope that helps, even...

So... does anyone else actually also think this game wasn't completely horrendous..? 

RaeLogan : oof it was an abomination, especially the loading times for every new area yuck. Sonic's best is when its 2d sidescrolling action not 3d messes such as that   

I dunno, I think it made me appreciate the series more.

I like to think it exists on a tangent timeline created when Mephiles tried to mess with Time (cut dialogue from him suggests that he doesn't adhere to the rules of Time and Space, that he's unable to be affected by it much, and his meddling causes him to be able to bridge the gap between "other worlds", suggesting that there are indeed more timelines than what it suggested). 

That in mind, I also like to think that the game is merely a look at another world that exists in the series where everything is "Bizzaro" and where Blaze is actually Silver's figment of his imagination (I should post my theory with evidence to show and suggest that Blaze wasn't actually in the game at all in terms of interaction with characters or acknowledgement beyond Silver's part), and that because of meddling with Time... there's at least three realities where everyone is dead, one of which involves some rather gruesome implied ways. All from implications in the game, of course. 

What's intrigued me for years is when I asked someone from Sega of America at a convention to something pertaining to Mephiles before I tried a demo of "Sonic Generations" at the convention, and they said and I quote: "Oh, yeah... Mephiles. We actually get a lot of questions about him, really. We didn't get to use him to his full potential, so I don't think we're actually done with him."

That said, I like to hold onto the idea that there might have been something epic originally planned with the game that got cut. One of the leaked drafts indicated that Mephiles' character development could be traced as far back as "Shadow the Hedgehog", so there's that teased in too.

Considering that there's evidence of a possible playable story for Metal Sonic was planned as well... I have to wonder just what sort of things they got in that little treasure trove of a vault as far as development went. Since we seem to get little bits of concept art and such released every now and then (the Crisis City concepts they had in "Sonic Generations" were stunning), I have to wonder what other concept art and drafts they're still holding on to, and what it would take to prod them enough to let us see it all. I really want to know the stages of designs they went through for a lot of that game before they decided what to settle on. 

Been a sonic fan for years....this game is not good sad to say. And I will say why. The storyline was just wrong. When in gameplay, it is weird as modern sonic has new changes of speed and more. The only good thing I would say is the soundtracks and that's just about it. I was really upset with how the whole game came to be, as it wasn't sticking to the original story of sonic.

For me it's 50/50. On one hand, it's glitchy, has some sucky bosses, and introduced...Elise. *shudders*. However, it had a pretty good Soundtrack and introduced Silver the Hedgehog (even if it was as a sucky boss).

I got the game I like it and i play on two players I beat my little brother a lot.

I've never played it to be honest, but by looking at the gameplay from Youtube, my god it looks horrid. I never really like sonic the hedgehog in the first place. I always liked Mario

Oh hey! I liked Sonic 06...

...For the music. No, seriously, Sonic '06's soundtrack is pretty good stuff.

Anyway, Sonic '06 is a terrible (but I won't hate anybody who likes it and gives a good reason as to why) game, not because that is was unfinished and a buggy mess, but that they released it as is, thinking that all the ideas (its mostly with the story that is guilty of this; Seriously? Sonic having a love interest with a human? Why is Elise kidnapped so many times? And why did they think a blue, anthropomorphic hedgehog that runs fast in a real world setting was a good idea?!?) in the game were fine. 

To be honest the only thing I really liked about Sonic 06 was the music. The music was the only thing that was good about it besides that water part you play in Kingdom Valley. That was an awesome part ( my opinion ).



I found Silver the Hedgehog to be extremely annoying with the whole " Iblis Trigger " nonsense. I didn't like how he almost killed sonic in that game but was saved by anime. Sonic ends up dying anyway, I wasn't surprised when that happened.

Well, the game itself is an unfinished beta if anything, but it's not the WORST game Sonic has ever been in. There's games like Sonic Genesis, and Sonic and the Secret Rings to come up and challenge that title.

pacman1755 :

I wouldn't really call Sonic Genesis a terrible Sonic game, because it's a port of the original Sonic the Hedgehog. It's still terrible, though.

pacman1755 : sonic labyrinth and blast are worse than those 2 titles and 06 combined

And 06 was alright, if you can look past the bugs and unfinished engine, the game was decent gamplay wise, the music was good, and the graphics were decent for that generation, the rest was pure trash.

I had no issues with sonic 06 and I just loved the fact that you could play all 3 hedgehogs. I heard that the game was nearly finished when it was released so no surprise why there was a bunch of glitches and other things. I understand why people dislike it but the hate for it is getting a tad bit ridiculous, and the storyline was good as well.

I have a feeling most people only hate this game because of the bandwagon effect. I think a lot of people haven't even played the game, but only hate it for that reason. I myself have never played the game, so I don't know what to think of it.

I find It Average, I rented It back in the days of 60 GB PS3's, and It wasn't too bad. It had the most badass music ever in any of the Sonic Games, including Crisis City, the only Sonic game that was a piece of s*** was Sonic Unleashed on Wii and Sonic and the Secret Rings. It's almost like Nintendo wanted to put Sega to shame.... But Sonic Colors on DS did come close though.

I liked the soundtrack, Shadow's and Rouge's gameplay, and the story SOMEWHAT.

Everything else I hated. The controls, the level design, the voicework (other than Mephiles), the glitches, and the jumpy difficulty.
The mach speed sections... why...

I haven't played the game, but one thing I would like to say, is I did look at all the cutscenes.

Very interesting. The story definitely had potential. They just got everything messed up in time travel. :/ (I'm not a very big fan of Elise though).

Actually, I find that there are more people than one might think who liked the game as well. Which is interesting. I've thought about getting it a few times. That and Shadow the Hedgehog in spite of the hate just cuase people I know have told me that it is good. (minus the branching storyline awkwardness.)

I haven't really played Sonic 06 yet (and wasn't planning on playing it anytime soon). but I have seen a lot of reviews on this game and I have seen a lot more negative reviews than positive reviews. But what I think on what caused it to be back because everyone kept bugging Sega to hurry up and release it and keep pushing them and pushing them, and as soon it was released, it was horrible. So I think it was the people that caused Sonic 06 to be a bad game.

After watching some videos on it, I to think it ain't that good to play.

I've seen some people who are willing to defend this game even though it's terrible, but I'm guessing about 95% of people who played this game would say they hated it. Maybe that's a biased estimate but I'm pretty sure I'm right. The only good thing that came from that game is the awesome soundtrack.