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Sonic and Cars Don't Mix; ...Or do they?
Topic Started: Feb 17 2011, 01:14 PM (1,991 Views)
Tammy Feb 17 2011, 01:14 PM Post #1
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 People always complain about how cars don't belong in Sonic games, saying that Sonic has legs and he's faster than any car, but I just realized something. Save Colors, just about every main game since Adventure has had Sonic or some other character or characters placed in some form of wheeled vehicle.

Sonic Adventure had the cars in Twinkle Park. These cars got better acceleration according you how many rings you currently had. While the controls were a bit loose, they were quite fun to play around with.

Sonic Adventure 2 gave us the Kart stages. These were, in my opinion, the best execution of the car idea out of all the main games, mainly because you could drift. I had a blast playing these stages in story mode and I had even more fun with the Kart Racing minigame.

Sonic Heroes gave us an on-rail bobsled portion in certain stages. There's not much to say here. I don't really find the bobsleds to be good or bad, it's just steering and jumping for about ten to thirty seconds and then you move on the to the next part of the stage. Eh.

The concept of vehicles REALLY expanded in Shadow the Hedgehog, however. There were military trucks, armored cars, and sports cars, just to name the actual CARS. On top of that, it also featured motorcycles, flying aliens, walkers, and hovercrafts. While some don't work as well as they should, there are some that were a very interesting and fun addition to the game. I certainly didn't mind having these things around.

And then there was '06. Hoo boy, '06. This was probably where the vehicles mechanic was at its absolute worst. Like many other parts of the game, the vehicles Shadow rode on were glitchy, unreliable, and overall not very fun at all. The buggy flipped over much too easily, the bike's controls felt unnecessarily slippery, the hang-glider portions felt pointless, and the hovercraft had pretty much the same problem the buggy did, only in this thing flipping over can be fatal.

And in Unleashed we had the bobsleds/coaster cars in Cool Edge and EggmanLand. Like Heroes, not much to say, other than that these things can be annoying, mainly because you get sent FLYING forward whenever you get hit, which is liable to send you soaring off the stage and into the abyss.

Probably the closest thing Sonic ever had to a vehicle portion in Colors was the roller coasters in Asteroid Coaster. These were completely on-rail portions that consisted of jumping to get rings or jumping onto an adjacent coaster so you would not fall to your doom. Not much to say.

So yeah. While most of the time they weren't exactly fun, vehicles have kind of become a staple of the Sonic series. And yet they're one of the major things people complain about.

Ironic, eh?
Edited by Tammy, Feb 17 2011, 05:10 PM.
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Tammy Feb 20 2011, 09:13 AM Post #31
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 @Radar: ...My god... o_o

@Riders: Let us hope that argument is never, ever brought up by any idiot fanboy again in the future. Good god...
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Lan Prower Kopaka Feb 20 2011, 09:37 AM Post #32
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 Sonic was also in a Kentucky derby horse race game thing, but no one ever talks about that. :P

Anyway, yeah, Tails likes cars too. My big brother vibe tells me he got that desire from Sonic. ;)
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Tammy Feb 20 2011, 09:46 AM Post #33
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Lan Prower Kopaka
Feb 20 2011, 09:37 AM
Anyway, yeah, Tails likes cars too. My big brother vibe tells me he got that desire from Sonic. ;)
Well, Tails likes machines in general, so it makes sense. :P
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Lord Eileanach Feb 20 2011, 11:25 AM Post #34
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Yeah it does make more sense for Tails to be into cars and stuff given he's a gear-head.

That is really scary Radar thank you for scaring me with the creepy Sonic image. :OMFG: Haha! Sonic's green eyes or the blue/pink eye lid argument. Gotta love some of the strange things the fans will argue about.
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