![]() Sonic R, by contrast, often looks like one massive blur of colors. Okay, so most early 3D games aren’t exactly pretty to look at these days, but other Saturn titles – such as Nights Into Dreams or the 3D overworld of Sonic Jam – still have a lively look about them. Combine that with the hellish controls, and Sonic R is downright agonizing to play.Įven the graphics are a drizzling mess. The entire game feels like one big glitch. You’ll often run through objects, get stuck in the scenery, or get magnetized to walls. ![]() To make matters worse, the game as a whole just feels unfinished. Robotnik (who pilots his hovercraft…again, despite outrunning Sonic on numerous occasions) control marginally better, but that’s not saying much. Amy Rose (who drives a car) and the unlockable Dr. As you can imagine, this makes Sonic R’s sense of control nothing short of abysmal. Your character reaches top speed instantly, while turning your character feels like a herculean feat of strength. But it ends up having disastrous results, as developer Traveller’s Tales apparently had no idea how to implement the traction and physics of running characters.Īs soon as a race begins, it’s an absolute mess of game design. Robotnik has continuously outrun the blue hedgehog). That may sound like it makes sense, since Sonic can run at the speed of light, and Knuckles and Tails are inexplicably just as fast (and, bizarrely, Dr. Unlike other Sonic racing games that would follow, most of the characters run on foot. “My eyes! The goggles do nothing!”Īs stated, Sonic R was a racing game starring characters from the Sonic the Hedgehog series. Although the Saturn was otherwise a stellar and underrated console (possibly my personal favorite from Sega), the fact that Sega’s biggest franchise only managed to pop out this turd of a game on the Saturn may have had something to do with the console’s short lifespan in the midst of the Sony Playstation and Nintendo 64. ![]() Which is why it’s both dumbfounding and hilarious that Sonic R – the first Sonic racing game on a home console – is an utter disaster, and one of the worst games Sonic has ever appeared in (and boy, is that saying something).ĭepressingly, Sonic R was the only exclusive Sonic game released on the Sega Saturn, with the two other Saturn Sonics, Sonic 3D Blast and Sonic Jam, being a port and a compilation of the Genesis Sonic titles, respectively. Taking the series and adapting it into a racing game seems like it should have had minimal bumps in the translation. Sonic is a character built around his speed. If there is one genre that seemed like Sonic would, by default, have the upper hand on Mario, it would be the racing genre. Despite Sonic’s early titles and a handful of the blue blur’s other adventures over the years achieving their own sense of timelessness, Sonic never did catch up with Mario. *Review based on Sonic R’s release as part of Sonic Gems Collection on Nintendo GameCube*ĭespite being the “ fastest thing alive,” Sonic has always been playing a game of catch up with Super Mario since day one.
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