Sonic X Shadow Generations

Great remaster for Sonic Generations, I don't mind too much with the dialogue changes.

Let's talk about Shadow Generations.

The story was great! Thoroughly enjoyed it, Kirk put in a good performance, I'll admit I'm not a fan of his Shadow voice, but you can tell he truly cares about the character he's playing.

The gameplay, well look, I'm not like all of you who loves the gameplay, to me I think I'm just a bit tired of the boost formula, wasn't a massive fan of the UI either, white space is a bit boring.

Overall it's a must play, the levels are fun to experiment, Kingdom Valley was my favourite one.

7/10.

This game was a masterpiece just outright. I mean you don't just show 06 and have shadow not remember anything about it when you don't care. Maria is designed absolutely adorable and is probably the best any human has looked in the Sonic franchise. Speaking of Maria, in the little recap on shadow in the main menu, they did the thing from the sonic channel art with shadow and Maria looking up at the stars in an observatory in the ark with the earth below and a gorgeous blue background. Now to actually get into gameplay. For additions to the boost era gameplay, they added some cool black doom abilities to shadow's moveset along with chaos control and a chaos control based homing attack that isn't used well outside of the first couple levels. Now for levels, there's 6 different groups of levels. Space colony ark, SPOILER, Kingdom Valley, Sunset Heights, Chaos Island weirdly enough, and Radical Highway. So my only idea as to why Chaos island is there is because Sonic Frontiers had a lot of lore drops about Chaos and the Chao and Shadow is connected to Chaos thanks to the artificial Chaos Gerald made. Anyway for all of those levels their design is actually amazing. Seriously if all of forces was designed like sunset heights was in this, I don't think it would have been that negatively reviewed. And lastly, one last awesome gameplay thing. The white space, the main hub world, is a 3D open zone area. It's not that big, about the size of the tutorial area on Kronos Island in frontiers, but that doesn't change the fact that it's designed well and still a huge undertaking to make boost shadow's controls work in a large space and a linear level without many changes. Now for the reason for the other post Generations level, sunset heights, they say it themselves in the game, a time space distortion made by the time eater brought Maria and Gerald there from the past so it's not a stretch to say that it brought things from the future too. Overall this game was an absolute blast to finish, so much that I did it in one sitting and I highly recommend you fork out the minimum $50 USD to play it.

I've been a Sonic fan for a long time, and I can't say I wasn't surprised when they announced this remaster, and even more surprised by Shadow's campaign. But when it was released, and I bought it, I finished both Sonic Generations and Shadow Generations and I can say that the game is incredible. I played it on the Switch, which unfortunately affected the gameplay because the controls are very bad, but both campaigns are wonderful, but I'll have to highlight Shadow's. Many surprises await those who play it, but just the fact that you can FLY WITH SHADOW is already worth buying. Unless the game is like $75, but that's another story. I almost (almost) cried at the end, and the Open Zone concept in White Space was simply brilliant. Grandma and you can spend hours discovering new things there. I'll platinum it one day, because the game is so good that I bought it for the PS5 too and I'm going to finish it there.

Shadow Generations is essentially the upgrade to Sonic Generations, to make it even more fun and even more enjoyable. Even though I think this game could've been a bit longer, it still provides a lot to be a worthwhile game with a solid story that expands around Shadow's history, graphics that are more of a step up to its predecessor, great gameplay that makes this more skillful, and fun scavenger hunts that greatly extends the gameplay. If you like Sonic Generations, I think you will like this one as much. But this is also the perfect game to introduce the character as it has a feature that tells Shadow's story. And once you know who the character is, you will have a real good time with this game. This and Sonic Frontiers are very much convincing that Sega are really stepping up to the Sonic games, and I'm really proud for that.