A great addition to the Sonic series, with good multiplayer (if you have friends), but extremely frustrating controls.
User Rating: 9 | Sonic and the Secret Rings WII
Sonic and the Secret Rings is a great game for those starting out with the Wii or who just want to test the Wii's controls. You hold the Wii Remote sideways for the main game and anyother way the game tells you, for mini games. The story here is that an entity called Erazor Djinn tries to rewrite the Arabian Nights book, and a genie named Shahra helps Sonic get the Seven World Rings in order to stop the curse placed upon Sonic by Erazor. This game plays much differently than Sonic's 2-D games, but better than Sonic's other 3-D games. First off, they got rid of the life system, so you have unlimited lifes (for certain missions, anyways.) The story progresses like a book, and you need to beat certain stages, or paragraphs, to get to the next world. Some worlds have bosses, some have harder missions, and you get to choose which ones you do first, with some limitations. Like most Sonic games, there are two endings here, one without the Seven Rings, and one with all of them. I won't go into detail with them. Through out the game, you won't just feel like you're doing a mission but actually enjoying it as well. With more power-ups along the way, you'll feel more comfrotable. The multiplayer is also good, if you have buddies. Now for the downsides. There are only three though. The biggest problem is that the controls will get you killed some times, and they're hard to fully use as well. The controls add more hardness to the game, which is simply easy to begin with. Then there's the things you need to complete to unlock some minor things, such as multiplayer stuff and art. I'm sorry, but getting 100 or some red souls isn't worth it to get Blaze. Another thing, why put in characters who aren't going to be in the story, but in the multiplayer? Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles are the only ones who were there, none of the other 5 were. And why bring Blaze to the game? Silver was enough. They should've put Rouge in there instead. Oh, and all the characters in multiplayer are the exact same. Period. My last thing is that you only get to play as Sonic through the game. You'll never get to play as anyone else. No one. You don't even get the chance to see Shahra do anything. They could've at least made her playable for a little bit. Well, despite the bad controls, this game is great. Go play it. 
