Sonic Superstars Review (PlayStation 5)
For this Sonic Superstars Review, we play an adventure through the mystical Northstar Islands in this all-new take on classic 2D Sonic high-speed action platforming. Play as Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, and Amy and harness all-new Emerald powers to move and attack in dynamic new ways. Navigate gorgeous, never-before-seen environments solo or with up to 3 other players and stop Dr. Eggman, Fang, and a mysterious new adversary from converting the islands’ giant animals into Badniks before it’s too late!
Sonic Superstars Review Pros:
- Decent graphics.
- 10.21GB Download size.
- Platinum trophy.
- Web manual.
- Can transfer your PlayStation 4 saves.
- Five save slots.
- Three game modes – story, battle mode, and time attack.
- Four playable characters – Sonic, Tails, Amy, and Knuckles.
- 2 to 4 Player Co-op.
- Cartoon cutscenes with in-game interactions and sequences.
- Platformer gameplay.
- Can skip cutscenes.
- Big end of act boss encounters.
- 2D platformer in a 3D game world.
- Simple controls.
- Coins can be picked up and every 100 gives an extra medallion.
- Checkpoints are scattered throughout the level.
- It plays like the old original Sonic games.
- The levels have a lot more to them from a verticality point of view, more bonus rooms, etc.
- Chaos emeralds can be found and earned with seven in total to find.
- The game is split up into acts.
- A timer is always shown on the screen.
- Bonus rooms like the medals one are a throwback to the original games Emerald rooms with an ever-rotating room with end-of-run drops and balls to change the direction of movement.
- Another bonus room is where you have a time limit to swing from Orb to Orb and catch the Emerald or medal.
- Battle mode is like a last-man-standing affair where you avoid projectiles and breaking platforms to outlive the others.
- The Battle mode does support solo play against bits.
- Your character in battle mode is a plain-looking robot but you can buy and customize parts for him.
- Fully animated 3D backgrounds.
- Uses a lot of the level themes from previous games.
- You can stand still and press down and spin to do a turbo spin.
- Many secret rooms and routes to find.
- Some clever bosses encounter ideas.
- Plays better with friends.
- Infinite lives.
- Each Chaos Emerald grants a new power that you can select and use whenever it’s charged. Charging it is just a case of killing enemies.
Sonic Superstars Review Cons:
- Despite Sonic being a game about speed and always showing the timer, this game sure does put so much in you need to take your time.
- Cannot rebind controls.
- There is no tutorial apart from the Emerald powers and they expect you to have played Sonic games before.
- So many tedious platforming sections with the carnival level being a highlight as one wrong bounce and you have to replay large chunks of the level again.
- The Battle mode is a throwaway experience.
- So many bonus rooms and bonus room ideas that it gets too much.
- The story is nonexistent with no voice acting or text pop-ups, it’s all very muted.
- Boss fights get dragged out by having them get hit once and then move a screen over every time.
- It’s all the same themes of levels we had back in the original Sonic games.
- With so much color and movement in the back and foregrounds, it can be hard to pick out enemies and these cheap shots are had.
- With infinite lives, the fear and tension are gone and it’s just a battle of wills and attrition.
- They expect you to sit and read the manual before anything else and have no in-game prompts or pop-ups.
- It honestly feels like a game I have played before.
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Sonic Superstars:
Developer: SEGA
Publisher: SEGA
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