Recent reviews by Lootman

The games passable - the negative review is for having "Nothing went straight from the algorithm to your headphones." as the ai disclosure - the singer's voices are fully ai generated, correct? So don't lie to customers outright on a disclosure.

Don't buy this game until the servers come back up, the game is worse without it. No news on when that'll be.

Psyonix found a way to make people pay to babysit whining children. 10/10 would recommend Babysitting Simulator 2015.

Edit: The game is now free, babysitting simulator now makes more sense to play.

I've 100%ed this game twice and completed it on 4 systems now, it's a very good game that still holds up.

I would heavily recommend you use the BetterSADX mod with it, it restores the non-shiny lighting and models from the Dreamcast but still keeps the DX improvements, it still allows you to earn achievements. It also allows you to use the originally intended Super Sonic who was probably cut for gameplay problems (he's referred to in a cut voice line where Takal tells you how to use him). It also adds in the Game Gear games that were included with SADX on the GameCube but were cut for this version.

If you want to play this game, play it on PC with that mod restoring the best parts of the dreamcast version. You can turn off Super Sonic if you don't want it included though (it was never intended for launch and was cut for a reason, although the mod does only unlock it after the story is over). BetterSADX on PC is definitely the best way to play this game out of all the versions.

My real complaint about this game is that big the cat is required gameplay to complete the game. He was added to break up the action gameplay with slow fishing gameplay, but if I wanted a fishing simulator I wouldn't be playing sonic.

The criticism of "looks like Mario Galaxy" doesn't hold water. It's Mario Galaxy in style only, and it's a fantastic style that no other game since Galaxy has emulated.

The gameplay is far from Mario Galaxy, if anything this is a standard side scrolling Sonic picture just set in a wonky frame. The world isn't up for Mario Galaxy style exploration, You run forwards and jump like any other sonic game, the environment being curvy is just a style choice, if this game was set in a 2D side scroller instead of a curved environment, the game would be the same just with a different skin.


Now past that point, real criticism of the game isn't the controls (which I'm sure a child as the game is rated for can easily grasp), or the setting, is that the game is far far too easy. It's like My First Video Game™, it's barely possible to game over, the bosses are simplistic requiring you to jump and then press the jump button a second time with slight variations between them that only truly act as skins (sometimes you press A then A again on a dragon, sometimes you press A then A again when they fall off an evil Majoras Mask moon).

Gaming over isn't even a problem, they set you back on the same level with 9 lives. That's right, 9. It's like being rewarded for losing. Dying isn't a death sound, or doesn't even come with a feeling of loss asociated, it's a brisk "try again!" and instantly put back at one of the many generous checkpoints.

The game has some 'hard' areas, few and far between. One of them was artificially hard, where they put a checkpoint, 6 enemies and an exit with no rings between. If you died there well I hope you like going very slowly through the area taking the enemies out, remember Sonic's motto is "Gotta go at a steady pace!". I found it faster to lose 4 lives and game over and play through 2 minutes of level than go through the area slowly. After all I got rewarded with 9 lives for my game over.

Another element that was wholly unneccesary is the new 'feature' where if you lose your final life, a set of wings appear in a capsule at the checkpoint that allow you to skip to the next area. So if simplified gameplay of running in a straight line and occasionally jumping when it tells you is too difficult, and if the 9 free lives per game over, as well as the ability to bring 10 seconds of invincibility with you still creates a game you'd regard as a challenge, then you can skip whole areas when the game sees that you died there. The game lets you skip areas that you die on, successfully removing any resemblence of challenge to get through.

Another minor gripe is the unexplained nature of the power ups, if you didn't play Sonic Colors then you won't find an explanation in this game. Another one is the game has performance issues on AMD PCs, I wouldn't reccomend trying this game on an APU (A8, A10) or GPU (Radeon) - The performance issues will never be fixed, I had to run this game on the lowest resolution with the shadows turned off, desipte being far over the recommended requirements, this problem has been documented with others, I don't know exactly what hardware is effected though but do your own research into it first.

The story of the game was written by the writers of Happy Tree Friends, if you think that will make the story any good, think again. The game plays out like it's a TV show, not a great TV show though. Think 'Buzz Lightyear of Star Command' for the Dreamcast. Voice lines shoved in there for characters at every opportunity, cutscenes that overstay their welcome and play far too often. It's like I was playing a video game when this TV show kept coming on between levels. The newly introduced characters aren't bad and if they reduced the voice lines down to the best ones and cut the rest, it'd be a good amount of dialog still and would feel great. But that hypothetical is not the game I played.

The music is good for the majority of the game though, and the style is lovely. Still wouldn't recommend you play it unless you're between the ages of 4 - 12 or new to games. If you want to know the game length it'll take between 5 - 6 hours for a playthrough. No real opportunity for it to take any longer or shorter on a first playthough, the levels are the length that the game designers intend where you just run through to the end at a set pace.

Like all the sonic games with multiple releases, I've bought this multiple times.
The 3DS port of it is worse than this, it's basically the same game but with less, it's a distinct game in its own right though, but I'd always recommend if you want to play this game, play the PS3 / X360 / PC version over the 3DS. And even between the systems I'd recommend PC for the resolution and frame rate if you can run it, it runs at 30 FPS 720p on consoles.

Getting away from the technical pedanticness, no matter what system you play the game on, it'll be a nice throwback to many sonic games, some levels faithfully reimagined in both 2D and 3D (City Escape, Perfect Chaos) - Some stages like the 2D Chemical Plant zone are jarring to have what was once 2D elements in 3D, and I felt like the classic stages in many areas were worse than their original levels. I'd rather replay Sonic 2's chemical plant than the 2D version in this game. Although the 3D Chemical plant was amazing.

Overall this game is one of the better new sonic games, towards the end it does feel boring though to have to play a level then feel like you're going back into the same level again, even if it's a different level that only shares scenery and a name. Playing City Escape 2D then having to go back into City Escape but in 3D feels like a chore to be forced to play the levels in the order the game tells me, it would have benifitted from letting the player go through the levels in any order they chose.

Better than Sonic 4 Ep 1, gets the title of second worst 2D sonic.

This is probably the easiest sonic game to have come out, there's absolutely no risk involved, enemies are few and far between, the running is periodically broken up by a TV screen telling you to press a button so that you can high five tails in a 5 second long animation each time, multiple times a level.

Falling off a stage is no problem in this game, no risk involved. A handy sign tells you when you're above a deadly pit, and if you do manage to fall, tails can fly you back up.

This game is the worst 2D sonic game that has been created. It's not the worst sonic game, but it's the worst 2D one.

The gameplay is like someone described what a sonic game was to somebody else, then that person showed someone else a video of a level and described it and told them to make a game out of what they saw.

The worst part of it all is the final boss, I completed the final boss 3 times before it was truly completed, it ends on a cheap blow that makes you restart the fight if you don't know it's coming.

(I have 2.9 hours on Steam but have completed it on the hard dificulty on Xbox 360)

It's a SEGA racing game reminicent of Mario Kart, the PC version includes horribly voice acted TF2 characters that nobody would have missed if they weren't included.

It's a well made game that works well for what it tries to acomplish, and that's a fast paced racing game with interesting courses and a range of recognisable characters.

My largest complaint is that the later levels on the hardest difficulty do require multiple tiring attempts at trying to get the best items in a row otherwise it feels rubber banded and impossible to get first.

This game is a SEGA emulator, I have the following games for it:
Sonic 3D Blast, Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, Sonic Spinball, Sonic 1, 2, 3&Knuckles.

It doesn't allow you to "lock on" to use Knuckles in Sonic 2 like on the original hardware, and the game room area for some reason creates performance issues, even when the game is full screened it's still lagging heavily because it keeps the room loaded.

The game does offer a simple launcher mode though, and the games work perfectly without that unneccasary 3D room.

The options for games include a scanline filter that works better than other emulator's scanline filters, although I'm not sure why anyone would want that feature, and it also includes an "Enhanced" filter that blurs the pixels together and makes them look round and horrible.

Overall just launch the game in the simple launcher, turn filters off and just set the resolution to your maximum and it'll emulate the games to the best that they can be.