You call this "true sonic" ?
Story: 1/10
Any story in a sonic game will blow, but this takes the cake. Sonic goes after Robotnik again, only to find 2 worlds are coming together and a cat girl is a queen from another dimension who has come to sonic's to fight another villain, and she has social phobia. Wow this is soooooooooooooo original. I wonder whats next. A plot twist involving the same chick not being a queen and she goes emo for some white hedgehog.........oh wait.....
Gameplay: 5/10
This is a bigger insult to my fandom. The gameplay is a mixed bag of S3K and advance 2 (which is a bad thing considering advance 2 sucked) Half the time your going through the stage just holding right. Occasionally you can go left but then you go back to right. I also enjoy blindly running into enemies while holding right, thanx alot. Also its very innovative to completely destroy the purpose of having a spindash by making use of a shoddy boost system which requires energy to use, which is quickly lost due to running into friggin enemies at every corner. You may not see white but its close enough. I also love the useless homing attack features implemented, though works much better than in the advance games, 2 games later it works for some crap called rush. On top of that, you only get 2 characters to use, and none of them have the name "knuckles" I would rather play a character who started out kickass-retard rather than some prick who starts out emo and "in need of friends". On top of that, they make her game harder, which gives me even less reason to waste time on her levels. Even more useless, she doesn't get her own special stages, so you dont have to worry about her or playing the same crappy stages 2wice, because these special place are just here to piss you off. Sure its easy at first but then it grows to make you break your DS. I shouldn't need to take out a stick to play them either. Level design so bad, the megaman level designers would have a ball with this game. And lets not get started on the 2 screen crap. Who's idea was it to make you twitch your eyes up and then down to see where you are going?
Sound: 8/10
Yeah, despite jason griffith and those other **** voice actors, I loved the osund effects, they were pretty good, and the music was cool, however I hated how the stages that you'ed expect to have some awesome music, just had the tunes thrown all over the place. None of the music fits in with any of the cruddy stages at all. And if these games are a throw back to the old, give us some of the original tunes that went with them. Im talking the original tune for when you complete the stage, get an emerald, etc. Dont force us to listen to some crap then some decent music, then back to crap.
Replay Value: 1/10
Unless your playing for story (you poor thing) your better off playing heroes. The story is so generic and stupid, its no wonder people think sonic is a joke. The story so damn corny and reeks of a 90's theme centering friendship. Plus you have absolutely no unlockables (unless you love games that give you a free time attack for no reason or a battle mode which no one plays anyway) to warrent a second play through. This is junk.
Overrall: A big hell no.
Im surprised the past sonic games were this dull. Or maybe its just sonic rush being to hyped up as the "true sonic 4". My ass. If this is sonic 4, then the series is doomed. Im going to play a better sonic game now
*pops in shadow the hedgehog*