Sonic Colors: Ultimate

Just how I remembered it.

Pĺatforming is not great to me. Jumping feels slugish and not accurate. Most annoying is vall jumoing to me, it is not enojoyable. But overall it is fun experience. Game is quite easy to progress at start but it gets frustraitngly hard at the end. I needed like an hout for some levels.

Sonic Team have no idea what the world "polish" means. They had the perfect opportunity with this remaster to turn a good game into a great game but it's still as janky as ever. I guess 60fps is nice but the only real improvement they've made is the feature where the game warns you when you're approaching an instant death pit.
There are still so many frustrating aspects of this game they could've easily fixed: for example, the double jump button is the same as the homing attack for some ungodly reason, there are invisible walls everywhere that prevent you from going back for collectibles you missed and trying to jump while grinding on a rail is often suicide, not to mention they didn't even bother to remaster the cut scenes. This version also includes bugs and glitches that weren't present in the original, like how the final boss of the final level no longer telegraphs its moves making it almost unbeatable.
With all of that being said, this is still Sonic Colours which is a (sometimes) fun experience and it is easily one of the few good Sonic games out there, although I guess that isn't saying much.

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The remaster itself can be a little underwhelming. Especially when not played on an Xbox Series or PS5 system.

But the game is fun. I enjoy the level themes and music. The platforming isn't bad and the plot which is simple but fun for what it's trying to do.

I really wanted this as a kid but I didn't have a wii at the time it came out so i just got generations instead and that was definitely the right choice. The physics in this one feel so stiff and i don't feel like that's a product of the disasterous remaster as i haven't seen anyone make that specific complaint against it.

This is the the game that actually introduced the red rings and i think they make a good bridgeway for completionists to find faster routes and optimize their times and get the surprisingly challenging S ranks.

The levels themselves however, can be quite dull. I beat the game in less than 4 hours and that can be atributed to alot of the levels being incredibly easy or incredibly short sone of which take less than 30 seconds which is shorter than the challenge acts in generations. There is more of an emphasis on points than on time though and it seems like to get an s rank you won't be trying to tighten up movement and saving time. Instead you'll be looking for rings and enemies which is a method I'm less of a fan of. I feel the earlier sonic games handled exploration better as exploring was intended on being the way you obtain the emeralds for 100% with the optimised times as a separate goal you can do later. Sonic colours adhears to none of these approaches as going for the fastest possible time gives no reward and exploration is locked away based on what whisps you've unlocked.

Each world has a level where you free a specific whisp type that grants a different power and overall I'm mixed. The game spoils you with the best two from world one, laser and drill. Drill was so good infact that there was a whole game made by devolver digital that developed the one mechanic called pepper grinder. However a whisp that changes the floor when you ground pound or one where you're a shark that gets slower and slower the more things you destroy.... Not in my sonic game I'm ok thanks.

The narrative lets you know this was released in an era where sonic games were on their last straw so it's incredibly safe and uninteresting. Just sonic and tails shooting the shit, eggman being evil standard stuff. We're a far cry away from the games whos storys added alot of scope and weight to the plot like in SA2 but it's simple enough so kids will probably love it.

I don't see this being anyone's favorite sonic game but i don't think it'd be anyone's least favorite by far. It's biggest downfall is again it's length but i guess that's what 100% is for.