Sonic Colours Ultimate Review (Xbox Series S)
For this Sonic Colours Ultimate Review, we go after The evil Dr. Eggman who has built an interstellar amusement park – but he’s powering it with a captured alien race called “Wisps.” Use Sonic’s speed to free the Wisps and gain their amazing powers as you explore six colorful unique worlds.
Sonic Colours Ultimate Review Pros:
- Decent graphics.
- 10.7GB download size.
- 1000 Gamerscore.
- Tutorial pop-ups as you play.
- Platformer gameplay.
- Very fast-paced platformer.
- World map level select.
- The game takes place in a 2.5D world where you get multiple viewpoints from behind to side on.
- Every level is timed.
- World map level select.
- Can replay levels.
- Get a rank after each level.
- Hidden Collectibles.
- In-game cutscenes.
- Easy to get into.
- Fast loading times.
- 45 story acts.
- 7 Chaos emeralds to collect.
- 180 Red rings.
- 6 rival rush events.
- Can rebind controls.
- The red rings are found in levels and they unlock new levels in the Sonic Simulator game where completing acts in there will reward you with Chaos emeralds.
- The extras menu has videos and the full playlist of the soundtrack.
- Customize – find park tokens in-game and you exchange them for new gloves, shoes, aura, boost, and icons.
- Full stats screen and records of all levels and ranks.
- You have many actions from jumping to sliding to homing attacks and Wall jumps.
- Big boss battles.
- Levels will have many alternative routes and secrets to find.
- Each area has an overall percentage of completion and then each individual level shows how many red rings etc you have.
- Wisps are the different colored entities that once you release them from their capsule prison will grant a one-time use ability like drilling through blocks, Ghost attacks through walls, or turning into a laser-like Hedgehog.
- The gameplays itself have you a lot of the time just holding down a direction and reacting to obstacles.
- Not like the other Sonic games.
- Levels are actually quite small and short.
- Remixed soundtrack.
- Satisfying when you get a flow going.
- Checkpoints throughout the level.
- Tails can rescue you from big drops.
Sonic Colours Ultimate Review Cons:
- Takes getting used to the pace and controlling of it all.
- When entering certain zones the camera takes a while to catch up.
- Can be difficult to navigate levels for Collectibles.
- Frustrating boss battles.
- Hitting the tutorial pop-ups is not always easy or particularly helpful.
- Laser beam obstacles emit a horrible high pitch noise.
- Doing any precise jumping or timing is nigh on impossible.
- The camera is erratic.
- The story is so broken up it’s hard to remember or follow the events.
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Sonic Colours Ultimate:
Developer: SEGA
Publisher: SEGA
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