Terrible game to play with young children

[Brunn]

I wanted to give this a try with my children instead of Super Mario Wonder because they were losing many lives there; Sonic would surely be better and less stressful, after all player 2 has a mere supporting character role, right?

Wrong. In Sonic Superstars they decided to give both players an equal role, so if the second player is a kid rushing through the screen holding the analog stick permanently to the right the game will ignore whatever Player 1 is doing and force him to respawn on top of the second player. That's a remarkably stupid decision, I was sure there would be a setting to change this somehow but no, there isn't.

Just another issue on top of forcing us to deal with Denuvo/Epic, the complete lack of challenge, short duration and absurd price tag.

[Axelhander]

Sonic games are the sort that should really have the screen split when players get too far apart.

[TheForestSpirit]

Try playing a modern 2D Mario game. People conveniently leave those out because they're just as bad.

[Axelhander]

Originally posted by TheForestSpirit:

Try playing a modern 2D Mario game. People conveniently leave those out because they're just as bad.

Wonder? It's co-op is great, mostly because they removed players colliding.

The NSMB series? Less pleasant, but hardly bad, and nowhere near as bad as Superstars.

[TheForestSpirit]

Originally posted by Axelhander:

Originally posted by TheForestSpirit:

Try playing a modern 2D Mario game. People conveniently leave those out because they're just as bad.

Wonder? It's co-op is great, mostly because they removed players colliding.

The NSMB series? Less pleasant, but hardly bad, and nowhere near as bad as Superstars.

Wonder is a great improvement in co-op I'll give you that but the game is clearly designed to be played solo. I think it would have been better if the screen was split for 2 Players each but then again that could create its own problems.

[Chumm]

Yes, we found this. The local co op is poorly baked in and not pleasant to play. It reminds me of Player 2 for the original Sonic 2, kinda useless.

[D]

This game is too hard for kids. I actually recommended a friend to buy Wonders instead of this one because of that. And Sega is not going to do anything about it, since they just take the money and ignores everyone, so..

[Axelhander]

Originally posted by D:

This game is too hard for kids. I actually recommended a friend to buy Wonders instead of this one because of that. And Sega is not going to do anything about it, since they just take the money and ignores everyone, so..

While Superstars is aggressively mid, this is a dumb bit of advice.

I played, and finished, games waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay harder than this than I was a kid.

[D]

Originally posted by Axelhander:

Originally posted by D:

This game is too hard for kids. I actually recommended a friend to buy Wonders instead of this one because of that. And Sega is not going to do anything about it, since they just take the money and ignores everyone, so..

While Superstars is aggressively mid, this is a dumb bit of advice.

I played, and finished, games waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay harder than this than I was a kid.

So, since you were sooooooooooooooo good at videogames, all those kids out there that are not as good as you, must be ignored? Those 7 yo kids that watched the movies and want to have fun playing a Sonic game must try harder to be as good as you? That it?

[Axelhander]

Originally posted by D:

Originally posted by Axelhander:

While Superstars is aggressively mid, this is a dumb bit of advice.

I played, and finished, games waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay harder than this than I was a kid.

So, since you were sooooooooooooooo good at videogames, all those kids out there that are not as good as you, must be ignored? Those 7 yo kids that watched the movies and want to have fun playing a Sonic game must try harder to be as good as you? That it?

If you stop throwing your tantrum for just a moment and actually process what I said as it was intended, the entire idea of it is that kids can handle difficult games. They might have to throw themselves at the game over and over to learn, but they're capable of it.

[I FARTED AND I KILLED MY HAMSTER]

Hey this game is still far better than the hot garbage that is Sonic Mania.

[ErMun]

Originally posted by Brunn:

so if the second player is a kid rushing through the screen holding the analog stick permanently to the right

That's how game journalists play, so skill issue

[Chris_Chocobo]

Originally posted by D:

This game is too hard for kids. I actually recommended a friend to buy Wonders instead of this one because of that. And Sega is not going to do anything about it, since they just take the money and ignores everyone, so..

Mario Wonder is lot harder than Superstars. The only hard about Superstars is Trip's Story final Boss.