Well, I love this game as much as I love Sonic Adventure. After playing through his past few games, which were fun... but not as good as he was before. Sonic Next Gen, well I like this game more than this but it was a disappointing game to be honest. Sonic and the Secret Rings on the other hand, isn't much of a disappointment. Graphics- An amazing colorful game with great visuals, character models, and textures. This is a Wii game where it can look very colorful and cartoony. It doesn't look as good as a PS3 or 360 game (In my opinion) but is a very great looking game. If this were on the Gamecube... this would be one of the greatest looking gamecube games (Resident Evil 4 on GameCube is easily the best looking gamecube game in my opinion). Tbeshe graphics are great for the Wii System. Storyline- Sonic is awoken by a genie named Shahra (the genie of the ring that Sonic gets in the game) when he is sleeping with his Arabian Nights book... Shahra tells Sonic that the pages are dissapering by an Evil Spirit called the "Erazor Djinn". Shahra tells Sonic that, according to legend, only a Blue Hedgehog can defeat him. Sonic is the legendary blue hedgehog (Duh). Sonic agrees to stop Erazor Djinn and he goes inside the Arabian Nights book with Shahra. With a ring in his hand, the ablility to boost forward at high speed and slowing down time... Sonic is ready for the adventure (THOUGH you have to unlock those abilities). However, Sonic encounters Erazor a bit too early and Erazor tells Shahra to give him the Seven World Rings. Shahra refuses and Erazor fires burning arrow at her but Sonic takes the hit. Erazor tells Sonic that if he doesn't get the Seven World Rings... he will forfeit his life and die. With Sonic's life on the line... Sonic seeks the rings and tries to find out the truth of Erazor in a Sonic Adventure like no other... Gameplay- Awsome, challenging, and fun. The controls are very good but can be a little hard (sometimes in the Wall climbing scenes that are sideways... sometimes I can't make Sonic go faster). Sonic automatically runs when keeping the Wii mote still, you make Sonic go left and right by tilting the Wii Mote left and right, jumping with the 2 button, shooting the WIi forward to homing attack/jump dash, braking with the 1 button, canceling jumps in mid air with the 1 or 2 button. Then, something that is also cool is the 'Soul Gauge". When it has power, you can do a Speed Break by pressing the D pad up, making Sonic go Super Fast which is awsome as I love the speed in Sonic games... or Time Break, which slows down time. You can stop Speed Break by pressing up on D pad again, you can stop Time Break by pressing down on D pad again. The Wall Climbing scenes aren't so good... but maybe it's because I haven't mastered it yet. The boss fights are amazing... I think they're one of the best boss fights in a Sonic game yet. So the Gameplay is very great. The Flying Pot scenes hurt my arms... but the only time I think they're frustrating are in Pirate Storm... but I could just Speed Break to get through the gate and the rest of the times you use them aren't so frustrating.... actually they suck but I don't don't think they're always frustrating. I think Uhu sucks... but he's somewhat cool as I think flying spirits are cool. You have infinite lives (except for the Diehard mission, where you cannot die) which is cool. Some missions are very hard. I mean... seriously, they can be extremely frustrating. Like the get 99 rings mission on Evil Foundry... okay, that mission isn't hard. It's very easy..It's just that getting that fire soul is hard. The ones where you cannot get hit are the hardest. I have beat many missions without taking damage and got a gold on them but however the Perfect Challenges, they add stuff to the level... making it harder. I have perfected many missions... but some are way too hard. But yeah I like a challenge. There are some delays when doing the homing attack when the game doesn't respond when shooting forward. But overall, Very awsome gameplay though you can beat the game in a weekend. Sound- Ummm... 4kids voice acting... terrible. Sonic's english voice is still bad (he sounds whimpier than ever), Tails/Ali Baba's still sounds female, Knuckles/Sinbad's voice... which was so-so in SNG... has disimproved a lot. Eggman/King Shayrar sounds great. Shahra sounds pretty good but I think it's lame for Bella Hudson to keep getting the voices for most of the female Sonic characters. Blaze's voice is great, Silver sounds great, Shadow still sounds EMO and too depressed... but still good. Amy sounds annoying but decent at least. Cream sounds like a old lady but sounds cute at times. Erazor Djinns' voice... is so terrible that I keep laughing at it. I thought he would get a slick and cool voice... but SEGA is screwing up with the voices. But you can switch the Japanese voices so who cares about the english voices (I still think Sega should have sticked with the old voices before 4kids). I think the music is great but the main theme is.... ehhhhh.... okay. But is annoying. It plays so many times. I just wanna mute my TV when that song plays. That song made the sound get a 9. But still, great sound. VALUE- Very great Replay Value. OVERALL- Any true Sonic fan will have to check this out. Sonic is getting to the top again... Sonic and the Secret Rings is a awesome Wii game that is worth the wait, your money, and your time.
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