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Intro: (0:00)
Sponsorship: (1:43)
Sonic 06 Review Score: (1:43)
Sonic Frontiers Review Score: (4:35)
Sonic Adventure Games Review Score: (5:58)
Sonic Lost World Review Score: (7:36)
Sonic Unleashed Review Score: (9:19)
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Outro: (13:15)
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@Matthasnocuts 10 ай бұрын

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@CosmicSlapBattles 10 ай бұрын

First

@CosmicSlapBattles 10 ай бұрын

Second

@CosmicSlapBattles 10 ай бұрын

Third aswell

@bigsleeter 10 ай бұрын

will they be the fourth

@AhmedGH433 10 ай бұрын

that Pocket Champs game reminds me of something on sonic adventure 1 & 2 that chaomix really want it back

@omar__swag 10 ай бұрын

being a sonic fan was the first step toward learning that review scores dont really matter

@omar__swag 10 ай бұрын

also thank you for being a lost world defender, glad to know theres more

@silentlore2458 10 ай бұрын

Lost world is so fun idk why people despise it@@omar__swag

@omar__swag 10 ай бұрын

@@silentlore2458 ikr its really not that bad, just came out at a bad time i guess

@Sonic__Real 10 ай бұрын

@@silentlore2458because you can't boost or run fast in lost world

@Neoniq41 10 ай бұрын

@@silentlore2458 Cuz it has stiff controls, very bad art direction, terrible story and half of the stages aren't that good.

@LashesElf 10 ай бұрын

I feel like if Unleashed came out recently then the outlook would be much more different since it would show people that “Oh Shoot, Sonic can have polish and high budget gameplay.” It’s just sad knowing in an alternate timeline, Sonic Unleashed could have been Critically Acclaimed.

@BobbyProductions287 10 ай бұрын

It still baffles my mind that Sonic Unleashed got a lower score than Sonic 06 on Gamespot back in the day ...

@NeonChannel 10 ай бұрын

And what I still can't understand is how Unwiished got much higher score and sales despite being a 10 times worse than x360/ps3 version

@GMP1isReal 10 ай бұрын

@@BobbyProductions287It became the cool thing to hate Sonic, so they went all in on it.

@BobbyProductions287 10 ай бұрын

@GMP1isReal Yeah Sonic 2006 unfortunately seemed to tarnish not only Sonics reputation at the time but the view on all games after it so that even improvements were seen as "eh Sega got lucky because we've already seen how bad Sonic can be" as if that one game is representative of the entire franchise (and I understand it's not the only bad Sonic game but that's when the hating bandwagon seems to have started)

@videogameguy101 9 ай бұрын

In an alternate timeline, Unleashed wouldn’t exist. If Sonic ‘06 fared well they would have never dropped the “Adventure Gameplay” concept and built more stories centered around fantasies/epics just like ‘06 did. Never forget ‘06 was supposed to be a reboot of the series.

@SilverSpireZ 10 ай бұрын

That Sonic Unleashed review is the reason why so many Sonic fans never take reviewers seriously. Interesting that the guy who did that review no longer works for IGN, according to a fairly recent video they did.

@paulbell3682 10 ай бұрын

Most of IGN's employees who were there in the mid-late 2000s-early 2010s have left the company.

@coltonwilkie241 10 ай бұрын

WHAT!? You mean to tell me that a company with thousands of employees doesn't have the same people stay forever?! Almost like people move on and find different job opportunities. THAT'S WEIRD!

@hotcocoabomb_ 10 ай бұрын

I think Fadel put it best, to paraphrase he essentially said "When it comes to review scores, people just look at the score instead of actually watching the review and seeing what is and isn't wrong with the game. They could like everything that's considered good and not care about playing what's considered bad so to them it won't matter, but they just see a 6/10 and think "bad" instead of forming their own opinion"

@slitchey 10 ай бұрын

@@KCGamingBuddiessuperstars is scoring fine. Not as good as mania but it's got a solid 76 on metacritic.

@e1iteyoshi998 9 ай бұрын

I blame IGN and GameSpot for that.

@Aidel1011 10 ай бұрын

Game Journalists vs Sonic will always be an endless drama

@jarmelatodyssechutminds126 10 ай бұрын

The Days of our lives and The young and the restless of the topic.

@christopherbradley7149 10 ай бұрын

Because they’re very mediocre and get mediocre scores, but for some reason this really offends weirdly obsessed Sonic fans. It’s okay to enjoy something that is mediocre.

@user-om9my9bg5e 9 ай бұрын

Which is why review scores from critics don't matter.

@mrpro538 10 ай бұрын

Superstars is currently sitting around the 70s. The fact that its lower than Sonic 4 epI is baffling

@Grim-death 10 ай бұрын

This is so tragic sonic 4 episode 1 is dog water episode /2 was in my opinion pretty alright

@lpfan4491 10 ай бұрын

@@Grim-death You mean episode "I am in the 60s"?

@mrpro538 10 ай бұрын

@@Grim-death I havent played ep 1, but ep 2 was shockingly fun. I like it more than CD actually

@NeonChannel 10 ай бұрын

What is sad is that Superstars is the real Sonic 4. It got a good level design, lots of playable characters, good and some extremely hard bosses, unique abilities, story, new special stages and one of the best final boss fight in Sonic franchise. I'm sure that most of the reviewers haven't even finished the game properly.

@lpfan4491 10 ай бұрын

@@NeonChannel Sonic 4 is the real Sonic 4 because EP2 was made with the expectation of being Sonic 4. That is like saying SA2 is not the real SA2 because people don't like it.

@DaClodGamer 10 ай бұрын

Even I who is somewhat mixed about frontiers thinks it deserves an 8/10. The game was amazing despite how tired I got with the main gameplay loop at the end of the game. Especially with update 3 turning up the challenge all they way and giving those who thought frontiers was easy a challenge

@amari648 10 ай бұрын

I feel the exact same way man. Despite the game being janky at times with cyberspace and a lot of 2D segments people complain about and the pop in, it still had more positives than negatives imo and it’s the most fun I’ve had with Sonic since Mania.

@Grim-death 10 ай бұрын

I love sonic frontiers yeah cyberspace level kinda sucked but they where not to bad and the updates made it even better like the spin dash and update 3 made sonic frontiers better

@ThatGuyLuxas 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for putting me in the vid! “Put that subscribe button to sleep” Sonic Frontiers being my second favorite Sonic game, the rating kinda caught me off guard, but I get that it has uncountable issues in the form of glitches, the story, and the gameplay. I even didn’t like Frontiers until my second Playthrough, and now I love it. But I still understand the rating

@CSS-Tails_Forever 10 ай бұрын

I never care about the reviews. I like what I like and those critics can like what they want.

@NintendoDuo 9 ай бұрын

You're right about Sonic Lost World. We'll just have to wait until the rest of the world catches up on that one.

@SonicAndMarioPlushieBuds 3 ай бұрын

Completely biased, it's my favorite Sonic game

@Yoshistar238 10 ай бұрын

"The gameplay itself is very enjoyable" *proceeds to show us snowball footage*

@reecegaming418 10 ай бұрын

That worse example of Lost world gameplay for sure😅

@Yoshistar238 10 ай бұрын

@@reecegaming418 exactly my point 😂

@lpfan4491 10 ай бұрын

Snowball is possibly the worst part of LW and still better than Colors' highlights.

@Yoshistar238 10 ай бұрын

I dont think anyone that's played lost world has ever enjoyed that level.

@lpfan4491 10 ай бұрын

@@Yoshistar238 I mean, I found it alright.

@otaforger5375 10 ай бұрын

Wasn't the reason for Unleashed's initial slander mainly due to optimization issues AND the Werehog? I remember begging my friend to play unleashed on their 360 and that thing CHUGGED. If Sega actually made a Steam port like they did for Lost World, Unleashed would pop off.

@rayyanfarooqi2167 10 ай бұрын

Honstley the only thing that bugs me with reviews is that some guys cant go 5 minutes without mentioning 06 or boom rise of lyric even when the game has nothing to do with them

@SonicTheCutehog 10 ай бұрын

Sonic fans when someone gives their game a 7/10: 😡

@SpeedyBlur2000 10 ай бұрын

Wow. Pocket Champs is literally just the Chao Garden and specifically the Chao Racing.

@knowingjordankid 10 ай бұрын

I honestly think that Sonic Fans that are Twitter people there probably the people who just said the score is just unfair.

@Yoshistar238 10 ай бұрын

Sonic after seeing the first review for unleashed. "Big oof"

@cyberwolf5896 10 ай бұрын

One of my first encounters with Sonic reviews as a kid was when I would look up lists for best and worse Sonic games and see 06 as one of the worst and be jumping around questioning why everyone thought 06 was bad cause I had thought it was one of the best games ever 😂

@MrNeedleM0use 10 ай бұрын

Man there’s too many to count lol. Unleashed got it the worst imo.

@vividcolorandrichaudio6134 10 ай бұрын

While I can totally understand being upset that a game got a lower score than it deserves, but I don't agree with the backlash when it's MORE than it "deserves". Like how people get upset that Sonic 4 Episode I was well-received, when it was a fairly decent game, and plenty of fans liked it too. Just because you don't like the game personally doesn't mean that it did better than it deserved.

@killinswagz 10 ай бұрын

Its wild how every sonic review always has to contain some variation of "why does sonic have obstacles? Its about going fast"

@jackhumphries1087 6 ай бұрын

Probably the reason the reviewers actually liked forces

@Blue007prime 10 ай бұрын

Tbh sonic frontiers right now deserves AT LEAST a 8/10 or 8.5/10

@dontbecomelgbt 10 ай бұрын

9 imo

@felixdaniels37 10 ай бұрын

No it doesn't, that game is trash.

@crestofhonor2349 10 ай бұрын

7/10 for me

@Blue007prime 10 ай бұрын

@@felixdaniels37 have you played it?

@the1whoplayz 10 ай бұрын

@@Blue007prime (he hasn't)

@foxmccloud6763 10 ай бұрын

Unleashed was done dirty for no reason when it released, but SONIC 4 GETS GOOD REVIEWS??? GIVE ME A BREAK!!!

@TimDespairBear11 10 ай бұрын

The logic is “werehog bad, 2D platforming good”. I don’t even like unleashed and I think it’s 50x better than sonic 4. So that shows you how dumb the critics are.

@jaretco6423 10 ай бұрын

@tima3004 I don't like Unleashed either. Personally I think the game is way too overrated. But even I can agree that Unleashed is better than Sonic 4 epilog.

@robynwolph3836 10 ай бұрын

IGN is NOTORIOUS for being unfair to Sonic games and giving them undeserving review scores. I no longer trust IGN with Sonic

@adriandzikon797 10 ай бұрын

Remember "sonic is never good"

@CellSays 10 ай бұрын

@@adriandzikon797They literally forgot that sa1 and 2, generations, unleashed, frontiers, etc, exist. most of these games are pretty decent or good. And are usually a fun time. (I didn’t include the classics but you should count those aswell because they really said that sonic was never good)

@e1iteyoshi998 9 ай бұрын

Honestly with their most recent review of Superstars which completely misunderstands 2D Sonic and how it functions I'm convinced that they just hire writers who suck at playing Sonic games just to make them look bad on purpose.

@jackhumphries1087 6 ай бұрын

I don’t trust ign, period.

@Bowblax2 10 ай бұрын

Sega should rerelease Sonic 4 just so critics can give it a lower score lol

@CSTH1 10 ай бұрын

I've been anticipating this video, and you definitely delivered! Great one! :D

@bendiksi 10 ай бұрын

‘’Boost into that subscribe button’’

@12lbsofcopperwire 10 ай бұрын

The werehog stages were goated

@TimDespairBear11 10 ай бұрын

Keep in mind, most “professional” reviewers aren’t sonic fans and don’t know anything. The people who reviewed sonic 4 were like “oh a 2D platformer this is good I guess” and likely never even played the classics longer than 5 minutes.

@e1iteyoshi998 9 ай бұрын

To call them professional is a bit insulting to actual reviewers who aren't even professional yet seem to have a better grasp on reviewing than most mainstream review sites.

@GHShuffle 10 ай бұрын

>most unfair sonic game review scores >ctrl + f sonic shuffle >no results Matt u forgot one of the goat games.

@j19aiden91 10 ай бұрын

I have a cousin who was an playing SA2B demo of City Escape at at store. People were surprised by how cool and fun it looked. He chatted with a few and told me those people did think sonic games could be good. Watching him play it changed their minds that Sonic might not be as bad as they were told

@e1iteyoshi998 9 ай бұрын

Honestly in an ironic twist the "bad reviews" of Sonic games made me learn not to take any reviews of the franchise whether positive or negative seriously. At this point I've learned it's just better to play the games themselves cause if there is another thing I've learned is that neither Sega or the fandom seems to know what it wants in order for a Sonic game to be good.

@demetri2716 10 ай бұрын

I keep waiting for a Sonictuber to talk about the IGN review of Sonic Adventure XD where the writer who clearly didn't play the game talks about boosting and 2D sections

@ItsAK9 10 ай бұрын

People gotta recognize scores LITERALLY don't matter, their actual CRITICISMS do. What is a 7/10 for you might be lower or higher for someone else. The number doesn't mean anything it's subjective. No media "deserves" a specific score from anyone. Listen to the actual criticisms and arguments for or against it. That's what is being argued and agreed/disagreed with, not the score.

@smailchali5102 10 ай бұрын

a good way to view reviews

@e1iteyoshi998 9 ай бұрын

Problem is that these reviews are completely undermined by the review score itself. IGN has become a meme for how many games they hand out 7s to yet the review itself doesn't reflect the reasoning for even deserving it. And not just their video game reviews. The review of the Halo TV show was just so god awful cause if you're a Halo fan you can see how much they butchered the lore and characters. Yet despite all the problems it they still gave the show a 7/10.

@ItsAK9 9 ай бұрын

@@e1iteyoshi998 The problem is with people saying "THEY" imo. There's different people working there and they all have different experiences. Every single person has a bias and that's what the number truly reflects. How good the individual thought it was to THEM. It's why when people are expressing their own takes like saying Sonic Superstars for example is a 10/10 or 5/10, it's just measuring their PERSONAL enjoyment and issues of it. If you keep thinking like "reviews only matter if they solely have the same takes as me" you're just being closed minded and thinking you're right and other people are wrong or vice versa. Once you let go of the score and listen to what they're really saying then it becomes easier to understand someone. And i'm not saying everyone is good at expressing their thoughts, but it becomes easier to listen to someone when you just let the score go.

@e1iteyoshi998 9 ай бұрын

@@ItsAK9 The only issue with IGN/Gamespot reviews and regardless of who reviews it's the score that gets the attention. IGN reviews have been known to be inconsistent like i said with the Halo TV show review. It pointed all the problems that the show as a whole had but yet at the end of the it's a bold direction for the Halo series that fans will like... yet it's a 7/10. If the score half the time actually reflected the review and didn't feel tacked on then it would be another review that would just slip under the radar. But every single review has been like this with almost every AAA game that comes out nowadays. It's not so hard to ask for consistency in a review and yet KZfaqrs seem to do a much better job at reviewing than the "professionals."

@Kookie_13_ 10 ай бұрын

You are very correct on sonic lost world

@Wardy-The-Goat 10 ай бұрын

Matthasnocuts looks to have had a haircut this is false advertising, your name is no cuts. also great vid

@aintthatapotofeffluck8926 10 ай бұрын

Lmfao the denial is gonna be on repeat the rest of the year lmfao

@numb4102 10 ай бұрын

Lmfao being a sonic fan is soo crazy

@ALegendaryBlueHedge 10 ай бұрын

Ngl it kinda is

@pumpkintron8969 10 ай бұрын

I totally agree with lost world

@AYTM1200 10 ай бұрын

The only employee at IGN I remember the name of is Jeffrey Goldstein. That man's name will forever be edged into my brain because of his atrocious Sonic Unleashed review. Still gives me nightmares till this day.

@jackhumphries1087 6 ай бұрын

“The controls can be fatally unresponsive” *proceeds to jump over the boost ramp and into a pit*

@user-en4py6lb7v 8 ай бұрын

i'm just watching the college dropout album in background lmao

@UltraSTH 10 ай бұрын

“Phantom Rush that subscribe button”

@farhaadjagga2907 10 ай бұрын

People also got upset at frontiers’ review scores bc there were 2 people who gave a 2/10 and 1/10, which was the reason the game went from a 76-78/100 to a 71. And the thing is that DIGITAL TRENDS REVIEWS TECH LIKE TV, BUT REVIEWED FRONTIERS FOR SOME REASON. The other critic I don’t know abt but digital trends should’ve left this game alone and review their TVs and such

@e1iteyoshi998 9 ай бұрын

Well let's be honest Digital Trends was just horrible when it came to reviewing the game not to mention their responses to the criticism just made them even worse. I mean it's pretty bad when you're compared to the early IGN reviews that they did of Sonic Unleashed and The Black Knight back in the day.

@DASH596 10 ай бұрын

Sonic Fan: "Ehh I don't care about the critic reviews :D" SEGA: "Well I do, so fuck you! We changing everything and lower the budget again!"

@prestige8477 10 ай бұрын

Here's some reasons why some of these games got the scores they got: Sonic Lost World's Controls are downright bad. Simply maneuvering Sonic is unwieldy and not in a fun '06 way turning in 3D makes you slow down to a near stop. All the moves feel sluggish, the homing attack is unreliable, the best part of the parkour system which is wall-running in 3D, is barely utilized. Sonic Unleashed gets praised in retrospect because we now know how long and frequent the Werehog stages are. Nowadays if you boot up Sonic Unleashed you know there's X amount of Werehog stages and they each take about 10-15 minutes to beat and if you didn't know, you can just look it up. But if you're a first-time player from 2008, you have no idea how many Werehog stages there are, nor how long they are. And whenever the Werehog to Sonic ratio is as lopsided as it is the game can become a total slog if you prefer the Sonic stages (as most people do). The Sonic Adventure games are similar to Sonic Unleashed where you have no idea how long nor frequent the stages that you don't like are going to be. And as a reviewer you can't just look at the Sonic portions and give the game an 85 for being "short but sweet" because there's a whole other 5/6 of the game that needs to be played and reviewed. When you factor that in, the score is appropriate because the general public doesn't like the non-Sonic portions of the game. Also back when the reviews were written, the reviewers didn't know what parts of the game were mandatory (or fun) so they played all of it and formed an opinion. And speaking of the time period, think about this: Why play the Mech shooting in SA2 when you could play Halo instead? Why play the Amy and Knuckles portions in SA1 when you could play Jak and Daxter? The competition was steep back then and Sonic was behind the curve in a lot of areas. I'm glad people enjoy these games, but there's a real reason why they got the scores they received at the time.

@TheSultan1470 9 ай бұрын

Exactly

@MarcoNeukamp 10 ай бұрын

Just seeing Sonic 4 getting a HIGHER scote than *Da G.O.A.T* , just makes me question IGN as a whole

@Yoshistar238 10 ай бұрын

I don't think that was an ign score

@MarcoNeukamp 10 ай бұрын

Pardon, metacritic

@KOTSOSMC2002 10 ай бұрын

Other unfair Sonic Metacritic scores include Secret Rings, Black Knight, Fire & Ice, 06, Shadow the Hedgehog, Sonic 4: Episode II, Sonic Forces and I'd even argue for Rise of Lyric. Basically misunderstood or overhated games, Sonic fandom can be the most close minded type of extremists.

@lpfan4491 10 ай бұрын

How is Secret Rings unfairly judged(In the bad-direction at least)? It got the 69 which is basically a 7. A 7 for a game that didn't become good until Dolphin was able to play it flawlessly(Because playing it on Wii-mote is a lost cause, you definitly need a controller)

@KOTSOSMC2002 10 ай бұрын

@@lpfan4491 Critics score is indeed 6.9, players score however is 5.5. Secret Rings ain't a 5/10 in any universe out in the multiverse.

@RikiZ8 10 ай бұрын

Also also - that part about Sonic 4, what you said is so true. I was still a kid when it came out, and it was logical to me that I SHOULD play Sonic 4 and I SHOULD like it because apparently it's even better than Colors and Unleashed which I liked alot. And guess what, I was forcing myself to beat stupid Sonic 4 and it was so not fun, I remember I was so annoyed by all of this, it felt like beating this game and getting all emeralds took forever to do. But in the end that was a lesson to remember, lol.

@SpeederLight 10 ай бұрын

Honestly I have always not liked critics scores because I would always love the sonic games where on the cretic scores the game would be like a 50 or less where my experience and my enjoyment out of the games are usually pretty high with like most of the sonic games being 80-99 score on them. For example: The cretic score for sonic unleashed is 60, for me its a 90-99. I dont follow nor do I look at the cretic scores because i know im going to love the sonic games no matter what because thats just me and because I usually love the sonic games lol and because I genuinely love the sonic games and always have fun with them. Always remember, the critics scores do not dictate your experience and how you will like it. Love this video and honestly I loved talking about my love for sonic games :) Always love your videos and cant wait for more! :)

@isaacrogers4174 10 ай бұрын

7:57 Finally someone said it! Lost World is in my top 5 Sonic games

@bigsleeter 10 ай бұрын

i think the video editor did a good job good job video editor

@Dark_KK 10 ай бұрын

yes correct perfect editing

@BlackBladeSombra 10 ай бұрын

Sonic has been in a similar situation as the anime "Sword Art Online" where it just became a meme to clown on it.

@M3G4T3RR4 8 ай бұрын

Don't forget about Sonic Free Riders, which barely isn't the lowest rated Sonic game of all time, being only 1 point higher than Sonic 06. That game is physically painful to play, it should be lower if you ask me

@ItzGlitchyy 9 ай бұрын

7:37 sonic lost world should be at a 70, no more no less. It’s not a bad game but it’s not overwhelmingly good either, in my opinion it’s just solid

@e1iteyoshi998 9 ай бұрын

Well if we're talking about the console or PC versions then yes. But the 3DS version is honestly the worst Sonic handheld game I've ever played.

@ItzGlitchyy 9 ай бұрын

@@e1iteyoshi998the 3DS version was the first version I played and I honestly don’t know how I beat it as a kid, i played it again recently and it was actually awful

@e1iteyoshi998 9 ай бұрын

@@ItzGlitchyy It's worse the second time i played through it.

@jasonblack2477 10 ай бұрын

Sonic Boom Fire and Ice is underrated. Way better than Forces or Sonic 4

@ItsSkullyy 10 ай бұрын

"Show your rizzy gyatt to that subscribe button" fr tho great video

@Tanaka-kun9313 9 ай бұрын

How the hell is Sonic 4 above Sonic Frontiers,Colors,Generations,Unleashed and even Adventures Like what

@normalgraham 10 ай бұрын

8:35 Lost World required you to hold a button to run. That's what was wrong with it. Practically every single negative review mentions it. A parkour button is a fine idea for a Sonic game, but the idea that Sonic requires granular control over his speed so much that it's divided into two tiers you switch between manually was an idea already handled to chef's-kiss-perfection in the boost titles. Honestly, if they'd just upped his base walk speed and made the parkour button more overtly a "boost" button we wouldn't even be having this conversation. Lost World was good but let's not pretend gamers were making a conscious choice not to like it, they just got rubbed the wrong way once again at SEGA's insistence on fixing what was never broken and breaking what was already fixed ten times over. I don't hear a lot of people talking shit about Lost World's chain honing attack and god-tier character animation because those were things they did right. The refrain you generally hear is "less Mario in my Sonic game please" and "don't force me to hold a button to go fast if you're just going to cap my speed at a jog anyway," which I think you'll agree aren't unreasonable requests

@lpfan4491 10 ай бұрын

Really, what you are talking about is Frontiers and Frontiers highlights why the critisism of Lost World is bunk. Yes, the default speed is too low, but you are going to stay running 95% of the game anyways, the same way you are going to boost for 95% of the game in Frontiers. Either way, you are going to hold down a button the majority of the game, the speed of the walk-mode barely matters in practice.

@normalgraham 9 ай бұрын

@@lpfan4491 You could have left it at "yes the default speed is too low." That's the problem, my dude. You shouldn't be walking when the stick is tilted all the way forward. It feels like shit in a Mario game, much less a Sonic one

@lpfan4491 9 ай бұрын

@@normalgraham Lmao.

@teleblue 10 ай бұрын

I don't think we should be dog piling people for bad reviews but I still believe that Sonic would be a much more stable series if Unleashed got good reviews. To make the worst game ever (Sonic 06) then follow up by fixing the mistakes and creating a banger game (Unleashed) only to have that banger game sell a similar amount to the bad game and get even worse reviews from certain game outlets must've really messed Sonic Team up. Every game from then on became a budget title and I got bullied at school for liking Sonic :(

@jdmsnowmonkey7913 10 ай бұрын

I do think Lost World deserves its 63 overall score, to be honest. It demonstrates that, just like Unleashed, the context surrounding the game's launch is so important. Viewed in a vacuum, Lost World is a polished, decent experience, but the issue is that it was the next mainline Sonic game after Generations, a game that refined the boost formula and introduced the reasonably fun Classic Sonic gameplay. All Sonic Team had to do was take those two gameplay styles and put them in original levels with a more fleshed out story, but instead they threw that all away and produced a highly experimental mish-mash of ideas with a severe lack of focus and poorly explained (though decently implemented) parkour mechanics. That is the core issue with Lost World, I think.

@ShadowFanQuills3 10 ай бұрын

1:36 Nah i'm Going Beyond that I"m going "Hyper"

@Pepperknight341 10 ай бұрын

I think Sonic Lost World deserves a 6/10. Sure it works, plays nice, but the level design is so dull.

@TheKill3rShark1 10 ай бұрын

Your sponsor is just a bunch of chao in disguise.

@LoginJ 10 ай бұрын

Now, for Sonic 4's defense, a short game isn't bad like S3K is pretty short, but its still an AWESOME game, difference is, S3K was made with lots of love passion and care, Sonic 4 is a hot dumpster fire shat out by an over-milked cow.

@GrassyBoy 10 ай бұрын

I grew up with Unwiished, Sonic 2, Secret Rings, and Sonic 4 Episode 1 And I loved those games to death. My brother and I used to play the party mode in secret rings all the time together. And I loved Sonic 4 and Sonic 2. Sonic Unwiished though, was my first game I ever played. And I will always love it even though I enjoy the HD version much more now.

@FlyingLint 10 ай бұрын

The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog has a Score of 82.😅

@bigmike9486 9 ай бұрын

Sonic peaked with mania. They won't top that because they can't focus on what made it good

@pikapower98 9 ай бұрын

I think review scores matter at least a little bit because they do still get reactions out of everybody. Like if the game I really loved got an underwhelming score sure it’s not gonna change how I feel about it but a little part of me would still be bummed that everyone else didn’t feel the same way.

@NE-oj4be 10 ай бұрын

growing up is by realising that reviewer scores doesn't matter

@SpiritDetective06 9 ай бұрын

And what about Sonic Origins? Critics gave good scores despite the glitches,Sonic 3's music being replaced in some stages and in lesser,the DLC. It could be the later updates like in Sonic Origins Plus

@ultimatedumbass4640 10 ай бұрын

Frontiers 7/10 is a very valid score. Imo, it deserves it.

@e1iteyoshi998 9 ай бұрын

7/10 pre-update for me. But after the final update it's a 8.5/10 for me.

@based980 10 ай бұрын

god damn the sponsor takes up a fifth of the fucking video

@greenhillsmaster5582 10 ай бұрын

Sonic and the black knight is super unfair

@JonyPlayz1 10 ай бұрын

Interesting video! You have good points. At the end of the day we shouldn’t let these scores influence us since they’re a joke 50% of the time and we should have our own subjective opinion. (I would have a hot take that Free Riders is overhated lol)

@Cloud-dt6xb 10 ай бұрын

Well for an average gamer that score might convince someone not to try a game out for themselves so I certainly understand getting irritated with it. However these days most people are smart enough to not just let Rotten Tomatoes or Metacritic be the deciding factor for how they feel about a movie or game. And the Sonic movies help alot with getting fresh eyes to try the games out for themselves.

@sayak132 10 ай бұрын

‏‪9:10‬‏ lack of ambition

@einav2102 10 ай бұрын

0:37 very rodrick face

@Roobieee 10 ай бұрын

I love that you have been posting a-lot more lately

@reecegaming418 10 ай бұрын

If ever listened to review scores I'd only play handful of Sonic games Lmao. I'm pretty open minded with Sonic games, s9 most of different directions the franchise has taken doesn't bother me.

@reecegaming418 10 ай бұрын

So*

@Ibalistic_hedge 10 ай бұрын

Can we just acknowledge the pattern with these scores? The sonic games that are really simple, like sonic 4, colours gens, mania etc are the ones that get good scores, however, the games that actually have difficulty and time put into them are the ones that get crapped on. That shows the biasness that critics have and their laziness. They can't be bothered to do their jobs properly and actually try and play the game (the unleashed IGN review is a prime example of this) so they give them low scores and bc they have a bias against sonic.

@gamerguy-yf5td 7 ай бұрын

0:50 buddy, the thing you need to realize about game critics is that they are not just some people apart of some fun group that gets together and shares their opinions on some of their favorite and least favorite video games. These guys are professional journalists. When they play these video games, they’re not doing it to have a good time. They are literally conducting an investigation of what each game does right, does wrong, why fans would enjoy, why others would not enjoy it, and based on that information they have gathered, they (ideally) should write a completely unbiased review, which communicates their findings with people who are looking into buying the game, and based off of their findings give a score that will be publicly displayed, and also be aggregated on metacritic (which is where most people are going to get that information). Once again, these are professionals and not just some people apart of some club. They’re getting paid to write articles and reviews, so I think it is entirely fair to hold these people accountable when they don’t give good reviews.

@ByronVoogt 10 ай бұрын

I've been plaing sonic since the Genesis days and Lost World is probably my favourite Sonic Game.

@ataladin87 10 ай бұрын

Sonic Frontiers ain't even a Sonic game in my eyes. People praising it and saying it is the right step in the right direction don't know what Sonic is all about.

@Mr.Freeze420 10 ай бұрын

To those who want to play a sonic game after reading an IGN review PLEASE don’t go to IGN. If you want to know why, before sonic forces released they did a little event discussing sonics history and here’s 4 things to why they are immature adults. 1. Apparently, Sonic was never good. Yeah, sonic has has some downs but also some VERY good ups like sonic 2, 3, Mania, generations etc. Even Mario fans respect sonics fans to some degree and that’s saying something. 2. They said that green hill zone was from sonic 2. Yeah that shows a lot about your reviews. Maybe do some research on your games first. 3. Worst one. Apparently we all want to have sex with big the cat. Yep you read that right. 4. They were extremely nitpicky. Apparently spikes, bottomless pits, loops and enemies make a sonic game boring. What’s next the blue sky, the green grass, the animals, the sea. So if you want to start playing sonic games based on IGN reviews PLEASE ask somebody else or read other peoples reviews other then IGN.

@GabrylMD 10 ай бұрын

I respectfully disagree with Lost World. It really encapsulates a lot of shortcomings with having a game just be 'fine to play'. Sure is refined, but doesn't make the controls any better to execute. And its the Modern Sonic problem where there is significantly less focus on the world, and more about levels, which is more like Mario than just the surface level comparison. Lost World isn't a bad game. But it's also not a good game either. 6 out of 10 is definitely what it deserves.

@lpfan4491 10 ай бұрын

Imo, it's good but what you talk about hold it back from being great. Standards really aren't that high.

@CeruleanHee-ho 10 ай бұрын

You know, despite my varying thoughts on the other games, I think we can all agree that giving Sonic 4: Episode 1 a score of 81 is just straight up absurd. I have a strong hatred toward Sonic 4, especially the first episode, and part of it goes back to when I forced myself to get every achievement in both games.

@beastinator456 10 ай бұрын

I feel like the general public is moving towards user scores anyways.

@lemon5000-tj6nv 9 ай бұрын

the first riders game got done so dirty, the score for that game shouldve at least been in the 80s

@TheobaldLeonhart 10 ай бұрын

I like Sonic 4, but I understand that a lot of people don't

@Vantoxify 10 ай бұрын

Sonic Frontiers deserves between 75-80. Lost World deserves a 70-75. And Sonic 4 isn’t a bad game when you ignore the name and every other 2D sonic game to exist. At the end of the day, it’s still kinda fun to play. It’s not bad, but not good either so a fair score is between a 50-55 or maybe 60

@reecegaming418 10 ай бұрын

The 06, and Frontiers reviews are fair for most part. Never cared for lost World it getting a 6 is generous to me. Don't agree with Unleashed review scores obliviousy, and Adventure Dx should least be in 70s imo it is bad port no doubt,but not 56 bad. Sonic 4 getting high reviews never understand it got praised for what didn't do instead of what it did.

@EzBound 10 ай бұрын

Nah, they must have played Sonic Unleashed while blindfolded to not see the touching story, the amazing world building, the soundtrack, etc.

@Sonicjan 9 ай бұрын

Pocket Champs? More like CHAO RACE!

@sethyork1164 10 ай бұрын

For the longest time i thought your username was matthascoconuts

@windy3935 10 ай бұрын

Typical the fanbase still sleeping on *Sonic The Fighters.* Legitimately one of the most deserving games to be on this exact format of a video. Unlike just about any Sonic re-release, STF is probably the best Sonic port, especially since it EXCEEDED its first port. I don't think any second re-release of a console Sonic game has ever had a superior port than before. The game itself is also underrated and overhated as hell. This game should be the goddamn thumbnail of the video. I mean, there's still an opportunity to include it in a... "Top Sonic Ports" video.

@braydenhorsley-zo6lo 10 ай бұрын

9:06 that scream from eggman

@crestofhonor2349 10 ай бұрын

I think sonic riders is the one that got done very dirty by poor reviews that weren’t needed. Such a great racing game that’s also quite deep and taps into the Sonic nature of risk and reward for speed and precision. The game actively rewards those who masters its players with higher skills presenting them with faster routes. It’s basically the sonic formula but with racing. I love it so much and it feels like a proper sonic game unlike the sonic racing series later on developed by Sumo Digital, despite those games still being great as well.

@lemon5000-tj6nv 9 ай бұрын

fr tho, i feel like the critics who reviewed that game didnt understand how to play it properly

@Sapphireeyes104 10 ай бұрын

I REALLY didn't like Unleashed, but I was playing the Wii version and can recognize that it's not a fair way to judge the game. The segmented boost mechanics, how clunky and unfinished feeling the werehog felt, and sun/moon medal collecting just weren't fun to me. I've heard people saying you don't need to collect them in the Wii version or something, but I vividly remember hating that part of the game. I later found out that the Wii version is the same game in the same way that Sonic Generations' console version is the same game as the 3ds one. They are, but they really aren't, and it isn't fair to judge one version from the experience of the other.

@mio3199 9 ай бұрын

metacritic should've just tell us how many people rate the score and remove the total score, Like imagine a scenario where there is a game that have total score of 74 but it has most reviewer giving green score while only few giving red score. Metacritic is already flawed with user score but review score can affect the reception more effectively than it should be just because that damn review score number is big enough to caught everyone attention and not bothering reading the reviews.