Sonic The Hedgehog review

Sonic The Hedgehog

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If you're playing video games in the 21st century, chances are, you know about the blue spiky-hair hedgehog known as Sonic. For our first review we decided to check out iLLuSioN's Sonic The Hedgehog map. You are given six levels to speed through, which get increasingly difficult as you progress, for example, you go from just running forward on grassy hills to slippin n' slidin through wanky ice caverns in side a snowy mountain. When you die [and you will die, a lot] you are sent back to the main room which you have to run through just to get back at the level you were attempting, this gets REALLY tedious and makes this map a whole lot less enjoyable when coupled with the sometimes extreem difficulty. Eventually, after you complete the six main levels, you unlock the boss battle with Ivo "Doctor Eggman" Robotnik. The battle is pretty static (you just jump around and hit his ship with your crowbar a few times) but was a creative way to introduce a boss battle without the use of an AI on health steroids. After you beat Doctor Eggman, you are free to go back and replay the six main levels, this time, looking for the hidden Chaos Emeralds which will unlock a hidden mini-game if found. Finding the Chaos Emeralds is extremely hard, and requires a good eye, patience and a little bit lot of luck. Once they have all been found and smashed by your crowbar, they unlock a "mini-game" room which is really just another level but is abnormally difficult and lacks the fun of the other maps because how it is set up (its a whole lot of precision jumping on small pieces of land). Once you complete it, you find the Grey Chaos Emerald which unlocks the SUPER SONIC room.

Either we didn't get this room working properly, or it literally consists of a black room with SUPER SONIC images plastered of three of the walls and a contraption with a button and a sign that reads "Remember Dont Go Over 5000 HP". Pushing this button causes the small roof above it to come down and crushes you. It really didn't make sense to us, so we just assume it was a stupid  fucking waste of time. But the feeling of success from completing the main levels, as well as finding the emeralds, makes this map FUN.
8/10