is this game really THAT bad?

[GalaxiaShadow]

out of curiosity

[LoSTsOuL]

yes. The frame pacing is really bad. Audio will refuse to work. Loading is terribly long. There are frame spikes all over. wait till its 9$

[GalaxiaShadow]

Ouchie

[Shake-zula]

The game itself isn't bad but it's a bad remaster. Just emulate Sonic Colors if you want to.

[Vask]

its compilation stutter.... Dead Space, Callisto Protocal and many other games have had the same problems at launch. Once the Shader library is built it will run much smoother, just try running a level again and you'll see there will be no stutter after the first run, these games nowadays require a fast SSD to run properly on first run. for deck users luckily the shared library is shared across devices so hopefully it'll get better with time. not sure if it works the same way on PCs though since there are many different configurations to consider.

[MaverickZX12]

This constant stuttering makes this game almost unplayable

[10011101001]

must be bad, only 5 hrs long playtime the game?

[GlaceonChireiden]

Probably depends on your hardware. It's been running perfectly fine for me, no stutters in the framerate or anything.

The game itself looks like it should, it has a few oddities but nothing really worth complaining or boycotting about. I've only run into (noticeable) audio glitches once and it was right at the end of a stage, so they were barely there long enough to be annoyed by.

Seems to just come down to having a computer strong enough or not I guess.

[Tsuki Zero]

A more specific explanation:
The Wii version? Good. Although the waggle crap was truly unnecessary. <s>Thanks, Nintendo.</s>

The DS Version? Also Good! And it has special stages using touch controls, but that is what makes its special stages so great: you can jump from one point of the floor to another in a snap. Only drawback is the underwhelming reward for 100%,... If you care to 100%, that is.

"Ultimate" Remaster? A disastrous port job done by the infamous Blind Squirrel Studios, who has severe disconnect issues between their PR and Dev divisions, has actually released multiple broken remasters before only to fix them after the fiasco causes enough uproar, and by then they got enough publicity to be hired again. They are clearly adepts of the "any publicity, good or bad, is a good publicity"

[NBOX21]

Originally posted by Tsuki Zero:

The Wii version? Good. Although the waggle crap was truly unnecessary. <s>Thanks, Nintendo.</s>

The waggle crap well and truly is unnecessary, because the Wii version lets you play the entire game using either the Classic controller or the GameCube controller so you don't have to deal with any motion controls whatsoever.

[🪻🧋Sylvie💮🍃]

No, it's not a bad remastered port. The game, however, suffers slight stuttering issue due to Denuvo Anti-Tamper DRM implementation. Hence, SEGA developers would need to release the patch to remove Denuvo DRM to address performance-related issue.

[drow1212]

Yes it's a horribly game. Only boom games are worse

[Tsuki Zero]

Originally posted by drow1212:

Yes it's a horribly game. Only boom games are worse

Well... Depends on how you view the Sonic Boom series... As Sonic games? Bad. As something else without following established ideas? A decent attempt at something new, but really shouldn't have used "Sonic" in the title.

[Shadowlet]

It's a bad remaster.

The 2d levels (and non-main levels) weren't particularly good in the original game.

[Shadowlet]

Originally posted by Sylvia🌼:

No, it's not a bad remastered port. The game, however, suffers slight stuttering issue due to Denuvo Anti-Tamper DRM implementation. Hence, SEGA developers would need to release the patch to remove Denuvo DRM to address performance-related issue.

Still mono audio among other bugs still unpatched

[Xeno]

Sonic Colors itself? No. I think the game's recent hate is overblown. It may not be the perfect Sonic game but I'd still say it is at least good. Ultimate as a remaster? Overall I like it. It definitely has some issues but nothing game-breaking.