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about to go to sleep, but we’ve finished Shadow Generations, and played around with Sonic Generations (remaster). Here are our thoughts. I guess this is a “review”?
Sonic X Shadow Generations is a weird game to really talk about, because it’s a kind-of-incompetent remaster of a fantastic game, and a new fantastic game on top of it.
Shadow Generations is absolutely fantastic. A great campaign to go alongside base Generations.
The problem is that the remaster of Sonic Generations is…really, really not great. Not terrible - certainly serviceable! - but not great. Framerate dips, loading time issues, new (minor) visual bugs. These are tolerable. It’s not a bad way to play the game, but it’s a little annoying. The game’s also capped at 60 FPS, despite Shadow Generations being capped at 120 FPS. Baffling decision, but it is what it is - the core gameplay of Sonic Gens is largely intact and still as fun as it always was, if not inferior to the original game with mods.
What’s bad, however, is the absolutely puzzling rewriting of the script.
The story is the same, the cutscene animations are largely he same, but the original game’s script has been replaced with dialogue that feels shoehorned in and hastily dubbed over. They didn’t adjust timings, or even lip-syncings, for new lines, so oftentimes character movements or talking just…doesn’t line up with what they’re saying.
Generations already didn’t have the best story or writing. Our initial hope was that the story would be given new plot beats, new cutscenes. New things that would patch some plotholes and tie up loose ends from the original. Instead, we got new dialogue poorly dubbed over old cutscenes that don’t do anything to clarify any parts of the story, and arguably make it worse! It feels like a fanfic writer trying to rewrite the game, and it’s worse off for it. At least the story is still nothing to write home about, so, just like in the original game, you’re not really missing anything if you skip the cutscenes altogether.
If you haven’t played Sonic Generations before, then it’s a solid way to try it. If you have, then Shadow Generations is a phenomenal follow-up that practically makes the game worth the price on its own. But if you already own Sonic Generations’ original PC release, then Sonic X Shadow Generations isn’t going to replace it any time soon.
Sonic X Shadow Generations is a weird game to really talk about, because it’s a kind-of-incompetent remaster of a fantastic game, and a new fantastic game on top of it.
Shadow Generations is absolutely fantastic. A great campaign to go alongside base Generations.
The problem is that the remaster of Sonic Generations is…really, really not great. Not terrible - certainly serviceable! - but not great. Framerate dips, loading time issues, new (minor) visual bugs. These are tolerable. It’s not a bad way to play the game, but it’s a little annoying. The game’s also capped at 60 FPS, despite Shadow Generations being capped at 120 FPS. Baffling decision, but it is what it is - the core gameplay of Sonic Gens is largely intact and still as fun as it always was, if not inferior to the original game with mods.
What’s bad, however, is the absolutely puzzling rewriting of the script.
The story is the same, the cutscene animations are largely he same, but the original game’s script has been replaced with dialogue that feels shoehorned in and hastily dubbed over. They didn’t adjust timings, or even lip-syncings, for new lines, so oftentimes character movements or talking just…doesn’t line up with what they’re saying.
Generations already didn’t have the best story or writing. Our initial hope was that the story would be given new plot beats, new cutscenes. New things that would patch some plotholes and tie up loose ends from the original. Instead, we got new dialogue poorly dubbed over old cutscenes that don’t do anything to clarify any parts of the story, and arguably make it worse! It feels like a fanfic writer trying to rewrite the game, and it’s worse off for it. At least the story is still nothing to write home about, so, just like in the original game, you’re not really missing anything if you skip the cutscenes altogether.
If you haven’t played Sonic Generations before, then it’s a solid way to try it. If you have, then Shadow Generations is a phenomenal follow-up that practically makes the game worth the price on its own. But if you already own Sonic Generations’ original PC release, then Sonic X Shadow Generations isn’t going to replace it any time soon.