Eh, the older Sonic games involved a lot more platforming.
Which is one reason I feel Rush wasn't as good-- it's a game that basically plays itself. It's all about going fast, so hold down right and jump occasionally and you win. But in the Genesis games if you did that, you'd die a lot.

That's one of the successes of the day stages in Unleashed, in my opinion-- it's not as "plays itself" as some of the other Sonic games. Being in 3-d, you have to do more things to control yourself instead of just having it go.

I've also noticed that Sonic Team seems to be better at games that can be played in bursts/are mission-based, in an almost arcade fashion. The other game I think they did well on was NiGHTS on Wii, which I immensely enjoyed (besides the mediocre platforming levels). It was really fun to go back and try to get the highest grade on the missions. It's the same case with Unleashed's day stages. I think they should do more games like that.

As a side note, Unleashed was fine with a GameCube controller. =D

Oh man, in the first SA I remember homing in on one of those umbrellas in the first area, and he hit the bottom and spiraled up (around) the umbrella in the spin dash, and then when he reached the top, he went to the next umbrella and did the same thing. It was the funniest glitch. XD
Sonic Unleashed's day stages were pretty much on-rails, but they were fun. Sure, you could stop and go in whatever direction, but the controls were clearly for going forward (because otherwise they suck ass).

Yeah, they were decent, but still not really that great. But either way they are miles better than the post-Genesis console Sonics.

There were so many instances like the one, for instance, where I'd run up those anti-gravity cylinder things in the space levels, try to jump to another one over a pit, and have Sonic or Shadow just completely fall off or not attach to the next one instead of making the leap, all due to poor controls and programming.
Oh, it's not nearly as bad as Heroes and Shadow. Then again, not much is.
One of the things that absolutely infuriates me is that if they kept Sonic Unleashed to Sonic-only stages, that game would have been awesome. But they had to "try something new" with the Werehog, and it ended up ruining the entire game.

Ah, that's a good idea.

It's sort of a guilty pleasure thing. I admit I have fun playing it from time to time-- if only to make fun of it. It's a terrible freaking game, not even just because it's not a "true Sonic game", but because the way it was thrown together sucks. The story's stupid and uninteresting, the music sucks for the most part, the controls are horrid in every mode, the programming is abysmal (I mean, if you simply walk into a wall, your character spazzes out), and the only gameplay that didn't bore me out of my goddamn mind was Sonic and Shadow's. I cannot possibly see how so many people like this game.

It's a pile of bilge.

I agree that some of this is subjective, but some of it's not. There are a lot of things about this game that people cannot deny are bad without plain lying to themselves.

EDIT: Although I readily admit it's a lot better than the original SA (which isn't saying much, but still). I can't believe many people say the first is better than SA2, because it's worse in almost every regard.

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