The way Stanton has talked to me about this game makes me really interested in playing it. Given that the story and presentation are good enough, I can definitely forgive some shortcomings in gameplay.
Once I get out from under my massive pile of review copies, I'll have to give this one a go.
Seems pretty damn generic from this video. Guess we'll see what the story is when gameplay is shown.
Argh, I already own the SNES version of this game, but knowing it's going to be a limited run, I need to buy it.
Man am I glad I didn't have to review this crapfest...
I'll make sure Chessa is there next week as well. We're taking a trip up to NY tomorrow, so she was in the process of getting everything in line before we left.
Looks like we're back up, sorry about the interruption!
Well if that were the case, the game should've done a better job demonstrating that. You describe the game as if it creates a sense of immersion, however after hours upon hours of playtime, I saw no such thing.
If the "real" gameplay was between the lines of what I saw, or the culmination of it, it was still unbelievably boring.
If anyone read this earlier in complete confusion as to why there was duplicate wording all over the place, it was a by-product of copy-pasting the review from Word into the site's editor. The tracked changes got copied along with the original text, all of which showed up here.
The correct information is now all present, my apologies for the error.
Much to my surprise, you can actually catch Mew in Pokemon Red and Blue. Like Chris described in the story, there were a million ridiculous tactics to supposedly catch the elusive pokemon, but all of them were a farce.
Back in 2003, someone came up with a way to force an encounter with a Level 7 Mew. It has some crazy set of in-game moves to essentially get some hex values in line to trigger the encounter. I don't know how someone could've possibly figured this out, but it seems legit to me.
I also picked this one up and played through it. I'd say that I echo the exact sentiments put forth by Jason. The game looked and acted like a classic Sonic game, but it was missing some of the heart and soul.
The sense of speed wasn't quite there due to the enemy ladders, and the level themes felt a bit too analogous to the old games. I felt the music was criminally bad, which oddly put a damper on the experience for me.
Even worse is the length of the game, which weighs in at a paltry two hours. Given the ease of the game as a whole combined with the short length, there isn't much to enjoy here.
I was left asking the same question as Jason at the end, "Why should I play this over any of the original Genesis Sonic games?"
