SONIC X SHADOW GENERATIONS

This is a weird release, I mean, Shadow Generations is a whole new game, meanwhile Sonic Generations is the old same game from back when that dual boots from the title screen. The final boss of Sonic Generations is underwhelming compared to Shadow Generations but besides that is a great game, worth the price of admission and I really love how the series is always to improve its storytelling and fixing certain confusing things with the lore. Anyways, if you get bored boot up Sonic Generation and play on the Casino Night Zone Pinball, man, I sure pured hours playing that when I was younger.

Sonic is a colorful parasite designed to keep children blind to reality. Shadow is the only entity in this entire miserable franchise who understands that life is a conflict. The Doom Powers segments are pure unfiltered adrenaline, channeling a dark, destructive energy that the blue rat could never comprehend.

I bought the original version of Sonic Generations long ago, but had to refund it due to controller issues. This more than makes up for it. Shadow feels amazing and intuitive to control, and pretty much every mistake felt like it was on me, not the game. There aren't too many levels, but what's in the game is pretty much all killer and no filler. I will admit that one late-game power is rather tricky to get to grips with, to the point that someone wrote a Steam Guide to help people use it. Shadow's story in this game fits in neatly with Sonic Gens's and the rest of the franchise. It's not a deep tale, but after years of Shadow being treated as a discount Vegeta clone, it's refreshing to see him portrayed as who he really is - a no-nonsense badass who fights on behalf of his departed family to protect those he cares about. I'm a bit less of a fan of the Sonic Generations half of this package. Not because it's bad - it's pretty much the same game as before. But I started playing it right after finishing Shadow Gens and Modern Sonic's controls felt incredibly slippery in comparison. Shadow Gens gives you the option to adjust how fast you lose momentum when you stop inputting a direction, which is set to 100 (instant) by default; I adjusted this to 70. There's no such option for Modern Sonic, meaning you're stuck with what feels like constant ice physics. It's really jarring to switch between the two games as a result.

I wish shadow gens was a bit longer and sonic gens is more or less the same, but they're both fun and polished. Good collection overall

The Everyone 10+ rating does not fit this game. There is a cutscene involving Sonic kissing Shadow.

thanks to denuvo i cant even start the game properly, great experience. i enjoyed it a lot on ps5, thought id get it on steam aswell but im not gonna bother spending two hours trying to fix the game on my behalf until i cant refund it anymore. rip

They're both amazing games, so it's a shame to see that many people just focused on Shadow Generations. Sonic Generations is not perfect by any means, the story is obviously not great but it's incredibly fun gameplay wise. I can clearly see that Shadow Generations focuses a lot on having very tight control over Shadow and less on speed, meanwhile Sonic Generations lets you customize everything to fit to your liking via skills, though the control is much more slippery and it is definitely focused on just running. [h2] Replayability [/h2] As Sonic Generations is my childhood game, I may be slightly biased, but this game is genuinely really fun to replay. All the collectibles are simple to understand and there aren't too many things to do. If you fancy, you can also play around with different skills in each playthrough. Unlike Shadow Generations, you get to pick and choose which challenges to beat, which can make every playthrough unique and fit your desires (unless you're going to beat all the challenges anyway). Unfortunately, the modding community for this game has been lost to time, left back in Legacy Sonic Generations and there is basically zero high quality custom levels to try out for this specific edition. For Shadow Generations, I definitely think it's also replayable. There's just much less incentive to actually go out of your way to collect everything again, unless you love exploring the white space, as Shadow Generations has a huge open world 3D white space which encourages exploring, opening boxes, completing tiny challenges, and finding parts instead of Sonic Generations' little 2D hub. In Sonic Generations, collectibles can unlock you new skills, but in Shadow Generations it's just Collection room things. Shadow Generations also has a fresh modding community which can bring exceptionally high quality custom levels to the table. Both games are short and sweet, which makes them replayable at their core, and you'll likely feel less like giving up due to their length. If you love the gameplay, you'll love replaying. [h2] Story [/h2] I'll try to do this part without spoilers and just as a short review on quality. For Sonic Generations, as much as I hate to say it, don't wait for anything special story wise. The story feels like some sort of excuse for all these nostalgic old levels to be stitched into one game without putting much thought into it. Shadow Generations on the other hand is basically the same thing, however, they put so much more thought into it and it shows. Instead of the white space being a timeless area in the fabric of time or something, it's basically a materialization of Shadow's memories which allowed for so much more potential which they used well. [h2] Optimization and graphics [/h2] Sonic Generations (Hedgehog Engine 1) was SO ahead of its time, it still looks mostly incredible to this day. I doubt you'll have any complaints, except maybe the fidelity of some textures. Being such an old game at its core (almost 15 years, wow!), it uses a barely meaningful amount of resources on a modern PC. Implementing pre-baked global illumination to the game was a perfect idea, because it really connects Sonic to the environment and makes it so much more immersive. Shadow Generations uses a more modern engine (Hedgehog Engine 2) which uses a much higher amount of resources. I don't exactly know how optimized it is in reality but on my part when both games are running at 60fps at max settings, this has at least double the GPU usage. In terms of graphical fidelity, the trade-off of resource usage is barely worth it. That is mainly just because it's a newer engine with newer tech like real-time lighting which is more technologically advanced but at the same time takes away the meticulously crafted feeling of the original engine's stages. That makes certain things feel a little bit less natural. Not to say that Shadow Generations doesn't look amazing (it absolutely does), but personally the environments in Sonic Generations felt much more natural and handcrafted, though honestly this less natural feeling might just fit Shadow Generations better. Both engines are amazing and really well optimized (as far as I know). Technically speaking Shadow Generations has more advanced graphics, but Sonic Generations speaks to me more artistically. TL;DR Both games are awesome. They run well. If you love speed and customizability, you'll love Sonic's side. If you love story and tight control, you'll love Shadow's side. Just please play both.

Соник Дженя все такая же кривая, но вот Шэдоу Дженя... ууууу, подержите мою газировочку. Это было классно. Хотя форма Doom Morph, наверное, самая кривая и неинтересная.

这是我见过最最最好玩又好看的刺猬索尼克游戏 没有之一 就是难有点肝 但是比马里奥好玩一百倍 没有引战个人观点

Después de conseguir todos los logros y jugar toda la semana a este juego voy a compartir mi opinión: Sonic Generations es uno de los mejores juegos de Sonic actualmente, yo diría mucho mejor que Forces (obviamente) y que Frontiers simplemente porque es divertido. No tiene una historia compleja, mas bien es simple pero eso no significa que sea horrible. Lo que me gustó es que te lleva directamente a la acción con niveles frenéticos que puedes ir super rápido, tomando atajos y matando enemigos a diestra y siniestra(con excepción de Planet Wisp que diría que es lo único malo), además de que trae niveles de otros juegos y manteniendo su misma magia es un trabajo increíble ya que no tienes que ser una gran fan de Sonic para disfrutarlo porque cuando juegas un rato jugar parece hasta natural la velocidad que controlas a Sonic. Ahora con Shadow Generations, es muy diferente a Sonic Generations y eso hace muy interesante jugarlo. Es una combinación de Frontiers (Por el mundo abierto) y todos los Sonic donde ha aparecido Shadow, lo cual les salió muy bien por que ahora buscas coleccionables y piezas esparcidas por el mapa mientras vas a las fases. Y lo mejor son las fases porque son rápidas y agradables a la vista por las escenas animadas cuando Shadow usa sus poderes y también se siente muy bien igual que generations ya que te familiarizas rápido. La historia esta muy bien trayendo de regreso a Black Doom el cual era un personaje olvidado y que en este juego nos damos cuenta que era un enemigo formidable. Estos juegos no te exigen mucho en dificultad y son muy disfrutables en el proceso, Los coleccionables pueden ser un poco difíciles pero cuando te vuelves a pasar los niveles son mil veces mas fáciles pasarselos. Si eres alguien casual que te gusta ir rápido por un juego y disfrutar visualmente te guste o no Sonic estos juegos son para ti. 10/10