Sonic and Handheld....

Why is it that when you get a game like Soinc Unleashed for a home console, it always get bashed with a big flaw point out, but games like Sonic Rush and SR: Adventure, could almost in everyway, TOP the 3-D console games?

My awnser- there is less to work with on the DS, compared to console counterpart. Therefore, it is a waste of time to try to put so much into a video game, and at the same time get away with it on a handheld. Basically, handhelds have lower standards.

Second Awnser - Dimps. Nuff said.

Or it could be that SR & SRA are good games.Minishdriveby

Handhelds don't have lower standards. DS Lite actually has quite high standards because a lot of the games for it are just awesome, and Sonic Rush is one of the best. The console versions of Sonic as of late are just a mess.

Side scrolling 2d sonic games= Good

3d Sonic games= Bad

Sega just hasnt been able to recreate the 2d success with a 3d game. The DS does not have lower standards

The reason Sonic excells in the side-scrolling genre is because the formula has worked from the first Sonic game and that carries over.

Sonic Team doesn't make the handheld series, either.

They are too busy being forced by Sega to pump out Sonic game after Sonic game.

Speaking of Sonic 2D, I wonder when Sonic Rush 3 is coming....

the werehog seemed like a big flaw to me thats why it got a crap score but the DS games didnt have any of that stuff

Because Sonic doesn't turn into a werehog, wear knight armour and grab a sword, or kiss human girls.

I think they work because the DS games are made like a real Sonic game. No emos, no monsters, no guys in eye liner. They work cause they are a real Sonic game, and the console ones throw in waaaaay too many gimicks.

Sega just don't seem to understand that sonic and 2D go well together but sonic and 3D is bad with a few exceptions in that category.

As most people here have said already, Sonic works better in 2D. That and Sonic team are just incapable of making a decent 3D sonic game because they never learn from their mistakes and they always add pointless gimmicks with each new game. It's not that the DS has low standards. In my opinion it has a better library of games than any of the current gen consoles. It doesn't have as many major titles as the consoles, but it's consistently pumping out great games. Raiko101

I wish I said this but, I agree with it all.

Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers!

The console games are developed by Sonic Team.
The handheld games are developed by Dimps.

Sonic Team fails at making games now. Dimps does not.