Visually, itвЂ™s one of the most appealing games IвЂ™ve played in a while, not just in its multihued aesthetic but in the variety of environments on show.

ItвЂ™s not just a shock of rainbows, with Sonic travelling through sky, sea and fire in time-honoured platforming tradition. ItвЂ™s a shame, because it feels like being punished as soon as they open their anthropomorphic faces and start complimenting SonicвЂ™s radicalitude or, in the darkest moments, flirting with him.Д«ugger all that though because everything in between is brilliantly entertaining and I do mean brilliantly. Completing each Act with both Sonics, which means in both playstyles, restores a character to life. The world is cleansed of colour, though only in the hub, and the Sonics must travel through, restoring it to life by running really really fast, grinding on rails and bouncing off badniks. One is the time of 2D sidescrolling, which was SonicвЂ™s classical age, the other is the time of 3D running-into-the-screen, which has threatened to be SonicвЂ™s Great Depression. A horrid shadow creature smashes a picnic that Sonic and his friends are about to enjoy and two timelines become intertwined. Except my pleas and commands are pointless because they already have and IвЂ™ve already experienced it so IвЂ™ll make the summary short. Make it a multimedia interactive museum, which is what it comes down to in the end, but please donвЂ™t string it together with a silly story. In fact, Generations was the perfect chance to jettison all sense of narrative and instead have a front-end that is unashamedly a collection of levels with no reason to throw them together other than the fact theyвЂ™re all part of SonicвЂ™s past. It doesnвЂ™t need stupid dialogue and horribly cloying voices, it doesnвЂ™t need loads of characters that look like they come from the mind of a child from the early nineties who thought that a crocodile in a leather jacket on a skateboard would be totally the most awesome thing. It shouldnвЂ™t have a plot, it doesnвЂ™t need a plot. The modern bits and the not-so modern bits alike, even if the not-so modern bits are more modern than I was expecting, with their snazzy graphics and hyperactive camera.Д«ut enough of this! To explain all this talk of modernity IвЂ™m going to have to talk about the plot, which is absolutely the worst part of the game. You see, Sonic Generations really is rather good.

I havenвЂ™t played it so I donвЂ™t know if the warm reception was deserved or not but the modern sections of Sonic Generations have a lot in common with Colours, so I feel comfortable in saying at least some degree of warmth was deserved. For the good of all, those times are over. All of the internet had decreed that if a man were to state that the new Sonic game looked like вЂњa return to formвЂќ or вЂњa passably entertaining experienceвЂќ, he could legally be duffed around the head with shovels made out of words and animated gifs of the Sega logo dry humping his wallet and weeing on his childhood. The many failures of SonicвЂ™s 3D adventures have a well-documented history, which culminated in the open and violent message board mockery of anyone daring to anticipate a new release. As the slowest creature on two legs, who dreams nightly of great athletic feats, I am the ideal choice to tell you wot I think of the blue speedster's latest. In Sonic Generations, the unnatural hedgehog meets his younger, pot-bellied self as Sega attempts to show that it can recapture its old magic, while proving that thereвЂ™s a place for its blue mascot in the modern world.

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