« The daytime levels are like good vodka. On its own, a refreshing beverage. »
@Lady this analogy works for the night stages; straight vodka has a much less broad appeal, but it does have one
@Lady where’d you even find this quote anyway lol
@aescling https://www.ign.com/articles/2008/12/12/sonic-unleashed-review
cw: this writer should be fired from ever writing about video games
@Lady the video review version is a classic
@aescling TIL sonic fans include bad video game reviews as part of their fandom
@Lady sonic fans who love mediocre games love to hate bad reviews of the games they love
@Lady anyway you can tell they never completed the game in time for the review when they commented that day stages have “rare” frame drops lmao
@aescling oh look it's the trippy sayonara wild hearts level
@aescling (the bit at 2:45–3:00 really reminded me of https://youtu.be/CuXM6QlF4Zs and is now making me wonder if there were sonic fans on that team)
@Lady this only furthers my conviction that boost gameplay is at its core a rhythm game
@Lady given that the franchise is legendary for its soundtrack i’m kind of surprised they haven’t tried to make the soundtrack the core part of a sonic game yet
@aescling ikr i’m sitting here looking at sayonara wild hearts gameplay and just being like “this could be sonic if sega wasn’t cowards”
@Lady anyway i should probably play wild hearts
@aescling it’s on switch!
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@coriander @aescling it's from 2008; in 2008 i'm pretty sure i read an okay review of a video game on IGN once, i could be wrong though
@Lady OH THE IGN REVIEW LMAO