So what, in the end, did Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric deliver? The premise is something like this: Sonic and his friends accidentally awaken Lyric, a biomechanical snake with a penchant for destruction, and it is up to the heroes to collect crystals in order to prevent him from eradicating life from the planet.
This was further reinforced by the waves of concept art and character designs which came cascading out from official releases peaks at lush, organic environments and teasers of gargantuan mechanical leviathans confronting our heroes was more than sufficient to induce salivation from a large fraction of the fan base. Furthermore, the herculean marketing drive for the game across the many months led many to believe that something special was in the pipeline, myself included. It seems like cracks in the game began to manifest fairly early on, likely compounded by the en-mass exodus of staff from the developer.
Unfortunately, SB:RoL doesn’t get off the hook that easily for several reasons most notably, the Big Red Button brand bred high expectations with many fans for a full and thorough development of something potentially fresh and exciting. If SB:RoL were to be purely judged as a tie-in with a TV show, it could be taken as a typical endeavour designed purely to reinforce sales of merchandise. The game’s origin is unusual in that it is rather Inception-esque: a spin-off game from a TV show, which in itself inspired by the Sonic the Hedgehog series. But while two Booms seem to have won over the fans, the third, Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric for the Nintendo Wii U, is most certainly not – and it doesn’t take much searching to find there is a rather polarised, negative opinion of the game. Sonic Boom (the show, the 5 th Sonic the Hedgehog TV series to date) is currently airing State-side entertaining kids young and old alike with its unique brand of slapstick sitcom comedy, packaged snuggly into accessible, digestible episodes. Sonic Boom (the fan event, now in its 4 th year) was yet another fantastic showcase of the best of what the Sonic franchise has to offer, including the a troop of extremely talented musicians, artists and voice actors presented in an incredibly well executed evening. 2014 has also been a year in which SEGA has proven it can still put on a show.
2014 has been a significant year in my books To mark my 30 th I’ve been fortunate enough to have also celebrated Sonic the Hedgehog at three different events across three continents with many fellow enthusiasts.
0 kommentar(er)
