The unskippable steamy makeout session between Sonic and Shadow at the end was certainly a bold move but overall great game 10/10

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☑ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☑ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☐ Teens
☐ Adults
☐ Grandma
☑ All ages can enjoy
---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☑ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just "left click"
☑ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☑ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☑ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☑ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond
☐ Depends on you

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ Just buy it
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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SonicxShadow Generations is the first Sonic game I played since the original three in the 1990s. After playing Sonic & knuckles I sold my mega drive console (!) and never looked back. I have really fond memories of my time playing those first few games.
Over the following years I got glimpses of the new Sonic Games but for one reason or another never played them. So, when Shadow came about, with a "remaster" of Sonic Generations, a game I didn't play before, which also featured levels from many games I didn't play, it seemed like a good opportunity to jump back in, or at least get a closer look of what I was missing all these years, while also getting a good look at how Sonic games are doing today.


This review is from someone playing Sonic Generations for the first time in 2025.

While the first three levels of this game are very reminiscent of those first three sonic games, and are fun to play (for the most part) they already start to show the inherent problems that Sonic had during those first years switching to 3D. Coming from those first 1990s games, of course the graphics are much better in comparison, and look amazing, and also play very well, showing the richness of switching to 3d. But when you start playing the later levels of Generations, the ones relating to the games from middle and late 2000s, the playable aspect of them starts to...fall. Numerous deaths, falling of the screen for no apparent reason (or jumping at the wrong moment in the wrong place) to the point of not really being fun after the 10th death. And somewhat painful.

Of course, you can say the game is difficult because Sonic games are difficult and I should get good at playing it. But the fact remains that there are many parts in this game, for example the final boss, which is so famously (and unnecessarily) hard that you can still find to this day messages in forums dating from fourteen years ago up until the present complaining on that final boss and how in the world you can defeat it (it seems to be not that fun).

This was my unfortunate impression of Sonic Generations.



But I Acknowledge that this is my perception of playing a "2011 game" with my "2025 point of view" and the game remains unchanged, so my perception of it could’ve been different if played at release date fourteen years ago.

That leaves us with the real new game here, which is Shadow Generations.... and luckily, this is where things get better!!



Shadow Generations while still follows the same general structure of the original Generations (main character gets sucked into a white space which features random levels from different Sonic games of the last few years) it really plays much better in all aspects (gameplay!!!!)


Playing the main levels of Shadow Generationsis FUN!!!!! And you probably have, right there, the only real reason WHY you should be playing this game. That's really it, of course it also has pretty visuals, catchy music too... The rest of the game is better put together, or perhaps more trimmed as well.

You can still get stressed out by playing the hard optional levels once you reach the end game, or just ignore all that and move along, play a few normal challenges (necessary for unlocking the different bosses) and get to the final bosses and that's it, you finish the main campaign as I did.


I also love Shadow's attacks and how you control it, not because of how powerful it feels, but because of how it lets itself flow better through the level.

This time, while playing Shadow Generations, I did get curious about some of the past Sonic games I missed over the last years, while also noticing the different mechanics each of these games had. This game, Shadow, really worked not just "as a new Sonic/Shadow game" but also as a showcase of recent Sonic games you might have missed and yes, a possible gateway into playing some of them.


While playing Shadow generations I remembered that some time ago I was actually interested in playing Sonic Frontiers, and so, that’s a game I’m going to play soon.


So, the main thing I’ve got from playing Shadow Generations is that once again I was able to have fun with a Sonic game, still being challenged, but not to the point of frustration (as long as I don't try to go for the 100%!) I even enjoyed fighting all those bosses (!) and the fun I had with those first Sonic games was not just something of the past, but something that is very much alive, today.


And also, I can still kick some sonic boss @ss!


This review ©2025 Aleena.