Is Sonic Superstars Any Good? Well... 

I prefer it that way tho. You’re rewarded when the job is done and it’s the best reward you can get in the game.

And the levels arent designed around them at all besides the waterfalls

It's not really baffling that individual emeralds, which grant teleportation dont imbue different powers since when you collect them, you become a pseudogod

i think part of the reason is they didn't want to draw the obvious Infinity Stone paralells that they had for the emeralds to begin with

Well if you wanna be technical they tried it in sonic 06 with the gem shoes gimmick but we don’t talk about sonic 06 lol

His colors actually look good too

Totally agree, this is the best he’s ever looked in 3d imo

He looked good in sonic R

Budget? Go make a game clownass.

You summed up my thoughts on it. Hopefully it gets some good discounts on it because I can’t justify paying 60.

Metroid Prime did this right. Heck even Generations 3DS added many hours of replayability with less levels with its cool collectibles for racing online, which Superstars tried to follow but in the wrong way, Medals were the right idea but Robot parts were the wrong goal.

Same with Mario Wonder. Companies are just greedy.

You could get 3 copies of Sonic Mania for the same price as a copy of Sonic Superstars

This

True, but with a title like, "Is the game good, well....", I expected much harsher.

So it's only proper if it is criticized? Are you a hater? Are you angry? This just proves this reviewer is a loser and not a Sonic fan.

​@@justinstewart9145Can't get those viewers without click bait titles he's relied on a couple of times.

@@comicking428 It's certainly clickbait but not in the bad way. First there's clickbait like this where the creator tosses a hook into the title and thumbnail to reel in viewers. Then there's clickbait where the creator puts false things in the title and thumbnail to TRICK viewers into clicking.

Recommend getting the new Mario game instead

Friend of mine got in yesterday (I'm in NZ) and sounds like he's already at the final level

It's a good game, but not worth the 60$ if you are concerned with your purchases. I beat the game with all emeralds, and an extra story similar to Knuckles' playthrough of Sonic 3&k, and had a lot of fun. I think it holds up pretty well against the classics/Mania. The game could use some bug fix patches, some patches to control issues, and if you're on PC the mods could fix a lot of other issues too, so just wait for a price drop! By the time you get the game for around 40$~ it might also come with improvements!

@@ToniCiprianiX007he said his main issue was th e price and you’re recommending a nintnedo game? The switch has been out for 6 and a half years and not a single first party game has recived a perment price drop (Mario + Rabbids doesn’t count as that was published by Ubisoft). Even launch window games like BOTW and Mario Kart 8 are still at $60

​@@skibot9974nintendo games being locked behind nintendo exclusivity is a hidden crime against humanity

​@@dreamsdeep1076"opinion invalid" 😂

@@dreamsdeep1076 Buddy your forcing your opinion on other people and saying why their wrong. I'm not trying to change your opinion I'm making fun of how defensive your responses are Everytime some says something you don't like. "Opinion invalid"

@@dreamsdeep1076 a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge. ( Google definition of Opinion) Also air isn't wet and has no possiblity to be wet. An opinion isn't an fact Statement invalid

The thing is that 'it's alright' when competing with my wallet money alongside several legitimately great games releasing the same year isn't good enough, *especially* for the same price as them. Which is a shame because Mania could absolutely stand up to the likes of Super Mario Wonder. I'm very much looking forward to Penny's Big Breakaway, though.

Sonic Mania was only 30

@@tytanwhite2576 20. 30 for plus, 25 for mania+dlc

@@tytanwhite2576 No, it wasn't. It was $20.

@@thenonexistinghero It was $10 right?

@@thenonexistinghero$20 physical with $5 for the Mania Plus DLC. And $30 for the physical edition of mania plus

Yeah,60 is a bit too much for a game like this. Hopefully for the next game,they address this.

J got it for free, so of course he would say it’s a good game even though he said sonic mania didn’t merit a second play through

​@@TB12methodPlus it was sponsored by Sega and he didn't say they didn't see it beforehand or it didn't affect his review.

​@TB12method I mean Mania doesn't.

You control the games you buy with your money. This isn’t Nintendo and Sonic isn’t Mario, these games WILL go on sale and lower in price fairly quickly

Regarding those it can be hard to tell which one you'll grab and it feels like the speed boosters are the way to catch the goals because I've been inches away from them many times without any prompt to catch them, at least with the medal stages Also it's nothing like spiderman remastered in terms of fluidity it can feel super off

@@randompog8493 i don’t think that it’s trying to be Spider-Man, I felt like it was going for a more castlevania iv-esque type of balancing. I managed to grab like three emeralds without the speed boosters, but it does feel a bit off sometimes when there is a lot on screen to grab to.

It's the old heads that are in charge of Sonic these days. If they get the developers that worked on Mania to do this game. There wouldn't be such a problem.

They are good

Well, we still have to wait until Friday for Mario but let's be real here, they will deliver as usual.

"Wait till Friday", he says. Lol. Lmao even.

​@@ScumSookar*insert One Piece-great pirate age-meme*

@@ScumSookar You think I am unaware of the leaked ROM? Or lacking a hacked Switch? I have plenty to play - including Sonic Superstars now - so to wait another two days won't hurt.

5? what's the fourth game?

Agreed

I'm glad he's back.

He said that he's played. Not what you played@@jaretco6423

I think it's a hot take . But I like it more than mania . It has more depth since it's 3d instead of pixels . Not saying pixelart is bad but it's easier to make and doesn't give depth like 3d . It's also a whole fleshed out game unlike mania wich was more than half of reused stages wich have act 1 a mixture between the original levels 2 act level design. Has more mechanics and things to do ( not including mania plus ) and so on . I'm not saying mania is bad . In fact it's almost a masterpiece . But I didn't enjoy it as much as only watching videos of superstars. And it attracts me so much

@@user-yi4ie1gd5qI gotta agree with ya, I love Superstars a bit more than Mania, atleast in my personal opinion.

imagine what kind of bootlicking you have to do on the regular to be really glad a game publisher pays for an "unbiased" review. this guy getting paid by sega to talk about how great their game is just means he's another to unsubscribe from because his corpo-shill mouth only spews shit now

He wasn't sponsored, he recieved a review code like dozens of other critics. If he was sponsored he'd be on a script, here he gets to do a review just saying what he thinks. Still, getting a review code is a big milestone for a guy like him.

@@sethgob5591 He literally said he was sponsored right in the beginning of the video

He literally said it was sponsored in his sleep

Ok yeah a lot of people have been saying he said he was sponsored but sponsored usually means doing an ad, and this isn't an ad, he just got a review code like any other reviewer, if this was an ad he would have a script and just say his thoughts, he just misworded it.

@@sethgob5591 I think you need to look up the meaning of being sponsored, does'nt have to be an ad..even coverage will do since it's paid publicity to get it out early.

The game has just been released we don't know how much it's gonna sell

@@mohabalserafe3795 Not much, inititally, because of Spider Man and Mario. However, I agree with Jeskido here that it will sell really well once black friday hits and the game gets a massive discount. I know I am waiting for a big sale haha.

ok

no, definitely not

I think a lot of the classic Sonic fans abandoned Sonic after so many years of neglect.

@@dreamsdeep1076 i just want sega to show some love for dreamcast sonic for a change.

@@dreamsdeep1076 that's a fan project, i want official stuff from Sega

Is it hard? Frontiers level of difficult? 😅

just annoying hard@@renansantos6533

@@renansantos6533 Not necessarily. The problem is moreso with the wait time than it is actually fighting him

F that Fang Boss fight those stage hazards are so cheap.

Endgame superstars has a crazy difficulty spike. That's actually the worst about this game. Fang plus the final boss are a pain in the butt. Especially so if you hadn't managed to collect all chaos Emeralds by the time you reach the final boss. I went in at 4 chaos emeralds, got frustrated and went back to collect all of them in order to make it easier lol.

They said that they would give bigger budgets to future Sonic games earlier this year, in response to Sonic frontiers's surprise success, which sega themselves didn't expect. Superstars was in production way before that and shared development time with frontiers, so It is obvious that superstars would not be included in that new plan, that and It is very clearly a side game.

Camera feels very good for me. It also zooms out depending on whether you’re playing with another person, although there were a few instances where I was going a bit too fast and I ran into an obstacle (tho tbf, that’s an issue with every classic sonic game and it wasn’t nearly as big of an issue as it was in sonic cd)

Yeah it could have added some extra replayability and it could have been quite fun if done right. Mario Wonder looks like it'll have a cool online, so I wish this game had an online too even though I usually don't care about multiplayer modes.

I’m of the opinion that by 2023 any game that has a multiplayer component should have online play be mandatory

​@@dreamsdeep1076peak fanboy answer

@@dreamsdeep1076 feelings "invalid"

@@dreamsdeep1076 $60 party game doesn't have online multiplayer, hard pass. Nothing can redeem the game in my eyes, if they made such a crucial, fatal mistake.

nigga the video just came out

You will also find success if you learn to write proper English

literally most online games use epic online services because unlike steam's solution which only works for PC, EOS works for crossplay you can literally just ignore it and still play the game

@@internetguy7319 Huge majority of online games doesn't require epic account so stop making irrelevant exuses. At the end of the day, the Sonic brand and SEGA took the L because of this.

yeah man, it's so fair that sega *paid* him to have it. that's how reviews should work right?

@@bixmcgoo5355or, hear me out, and I know this will fry your tiny brain, he actually LIKES the game 😮

​@@bixmcgoo5355You say like he wasn't transparent about it. 😂

​@@flyingunpan50doesn't matter you simply cant take a sponsored review seriously. Damage is done

I should've bought Celeste

£35 is a maybe due to crappy mega drive music lol

yeah funny how trusting reviews by people who are paid by the publisher leads to buying disappointing games, isn't it?

Did I do something wrong? I am playing as Sonic on my first run and didn't fight Fang. Instead, I got the Amy stage.

​@@MegaManNeoThey mean the Fang boss fight in Golden Capital. The 8th zone

@@justdex721 Oooh~ well, then that is one that I still have to see 👀 It's late here so I stopped but I am sure I can get there by tomorrow.

@@MegaManNeo are you a fellow mega man enjoyer are species are starving

@@justdex721 There's also the brutal Fang fight at the end of the second story

Its like how Fall Guys on console needs and epic account. The crossplay is run through Epic online.

Bruh why is that in the game!? Thats so dumb

​@@lssjgaming1599It was meant as an Epic Games Store exclusive until the last moment (the first trailers only had mentions of EGS)

If it’s that big an issue just don’t buy the game

@@dreamsdeep1076 I didn't say Superstars wasn't replayable... it is, but so are the games I mentioned above, while being cheaper and better games to boot

@@MariusUrucu The whole philosophy of 2d Sonic was about replaying the game over and over until you master it.

@@hazelcrisp So are Freedom Planet 1 and 2 and the Spark games...

​@@dadashiroman, it's just his opinion. This is coming from someone who really liked the game.

@@dreamsdeep1076 Sonic games have always been notoriously short from the start. It was more about Being mid at the start but as you replay the game you improve and become a speedrunning master.

​@@dreamsdeep1076mania also had tons of characters and reasons to replay

@@internetguy7319 And was made with love by people who get Classic Sonic in a way the Superstars team didn't.

My thoughts exactly. It’s been refreshing to have had a consistently positive experience with the franchise for the past few years.

I chuckle every time someone says this. "FINALLY, WE HAVE CONTENT THAT IS BETTER THAN 4/10, SONIC IS BACK, WOO!!!" Sonic Frontiers is the first good main series game in 11 years, and it is not groundbreaking in any way, just good, and it has too many flaws for a game that's been developed for 5 years on an already existing engine. After 11 years of mediocrity, we deserve more than "it's good I guess". I'm really glad you're enjoying the current content, but with your mindset, we'll never get better things, Sega sees that "7/10" is cherished by the community, and gives no more effort.

​​@@OnaterdemI don't even know how people are calling the Sonic movies good either. First one was just alright, but felt pretty juvenile in a few instances. The 2nd had the same problem, but was a bit better in terms of characterization and references. It's just..they're nowhere near the quality as say, the opening cutscene of Sonic Unleashed. Just sucks they couldn't have made a banger movie with that kind of animation and instead went the live action route.

Haha I get that too. I honestly can’t say I enjoyed Frontiers that much, aside from a few select moments (the complete lack of polish spoiled it for me). But with the release of the dlc, I saw some really interesting concepts introduced that I think, with a more focused development approach, could let Sega knock a sequel out of the park, and make a product legitimately worth an 8-9/10, rather than people praising it on the basis of “finally something not garbage”. I just look at the generally positive reception to stuff like Frontiers, the movies, Prime, and now recently Superstars and see that Sega actually has some direction now, rather than aimlessly running in circles like the past few decades. Makes me hopeful for the future, rather than just crossing my fingers that they eventually figure out what their intention with the series is.

​@@Onaterdem its so dumb, you cant criticize the recent games because fans have decided "sonic is in a renaissance". its similar to the modern pokemon games where the companies can cheep out because fans will not only buy the games, but defend them no matter the quality. sonic isnt good again, its just a bit less bad now (and even that is debatable)

You shouldn't say that unless the controls feel similar which is probably the worst insult you could give it because the controls were "sonic 4"s worst aspect in a sea of bad design choices.

@@asksalottle220In my opinion, the controls actually DID feel like an in-between of Mania & Sonic 4’s physics. No joke, maybe it was just me. It felt oddly floaty and startup is a bit slower than usual. Not to say it’s bad though.

Yeah. Pretty much sums up the game as an whole. It's ok. Not as good as it could've been. But it wasn't bad either. Just alright.

@@dreamsdeep1076 Whether or not a game’s physics feel good is subjective. Again, I don’t have any major issues with Superstars’ physics.

Really? It was 60$ good when it was 20 years ago and much less of a game.... whatever you wanna tell yourself.

​@@asksalottle220that's a stupid argument. 2D only games should not cost the same as something big like God of War, or Spider-Man

​@@hwanniggles187spiderman is 80$

Hollow Knight cost like 35$, cheaper and yet a longer game than a sonic game

​@@hwanniggles187So it's because of people like you, they're making them 70 bucks now huh? *sigh*

It isn't the same number of special stages it's always been?

The Mania team just "get" Classic Sonic in a way that the Superstars team never will sadly.

Play sonic triple trouble 16bit.

@@chillvibed Wonderful game! TT 16 Bit has you at hello, and works so well with the muscle memory coded into your nervous system from years of playing Classic Sonic.

Superstars is its direct sequel

@@cockshield Why are you lying, they both cooked

Yeah that’s the reason I’m passing on this really wanna play like a dragon gaiden especially when rumors say new game plus will be behind a paywall for yakuza like a dragon infinite wealth

Would've been much more redpectful to his audience if he hadnt taken sponsorship money on a game he's officially reviewing. It sullies the entire review

@@ZontarDow What’s Denovu mean?

​@@dreamsdeep1076that does matter for $60.

It's a classic sonic game, they've never really been amazing.

​@@IndigoOverdriveYes they have?

@@IndigoOverdrive BRUH the Genesis games are literally the most popular games in the franchise not only that, prior to frontiers, lots of people argued the classics could never be topped by the newer games

​@@IndigoOverdriveIs this satire

Tbh, this game deserves it.

@@anthonyyawtwumasimensah197 It does. SEGA did good

​@@dreamsdeep1076 Well, newsflash: Sonic Generations was amazing, and it was a worthwhile and loving tribute to the Sonic franchise that clearly had effort and care put into it, while this game looks bland and is clearly trying to pander to rose-tinted glasses wearing boomers who grew up with the Genesis games. Please stop shilling for pathetic slop like Sonic Midstars, because that's why we get games like this. Because Sonic fans want to make every new Sonic game seem like the second coming of Christ so Sega doesn't get the wrong message and go in a completely different direction for the next game. People are allowed to criticize things. I love Sonic games like Sonic Adventure 2, Sonic 3 & Knuckles, and Sonic Generations, and yet I can acknowledge that even the games I love aren't perfect, and neither is Sonic Superstars. So just admit that you hate seeing people dislike your rehashed overused Classic Sonic mediocrity and move on. No need to be so passive aggressive and bring up Generations, a completely unrelated game. Anyway, I don't know about you, but this game just doesn't look all that special to me. 4P co-op isn't a game changer, either, since many other games have already done it, imo. More power to you if you played and enjoyed it, though. I'll be looking forward to playing Mario Wonder, though.

@@ElectrikStatik900 Wonder is literally NSMB with a few new powerups. Same exact gameplay, same garbage. And they are charging full price for 3 characters who play the same and have the exact same story. Lazy rehash of a game.

​@@hazelcrisp So...I'm guessing you never saw the actual gameplay trailers and such? You haven't, huh? Because Wonder looks like a completely brand new and fresh experience to me, that actually tries new things and dares to be different, unlike Sonic Midstars or the NSMB games. C'mon, man. I know you can't be talking about Mario games rehashing things when Classic Sonic and his classic friends have been in every single Sonic game, including modern ones, for like the past decade. Now, if THAT isn't rehashing, then I don't know what is. But hey, you're probably not gonna read this, and I can tell you're trolling, knowing that you claimed there are only 3 playable characters in Wonder, even though I saw that there are plenty more than that, so I know this'll all go in one ear and out the other for Sonic fans like you. I hope you enjoy wasting $60 on Sonic 4 Episode 3, when you could be playing literally any other 2D Sonic game that's actually good, like the original trilogy, the Advance trilogy, the two Rush games, Colors DS, or Mania.

@ElectrikStatik900 Wonder has 12 character skins. With only 3 Unique character abilities. Literally no difference between Mario or Luigi. Unlike Sonic which links together gameplay and character. Tails being the younger character but is able to stand by Sonic with his unique skills. So 3 characters is accurate. Why should I pick Luigi over Mario? I like Green over red I guess. Games have proven they can like story, character and gameplay and work together in tandem. Wonder has minimal graphical upgrades. Same platforming from the first game. Superstars has new level designs, stage gimmicks, one new playable character, character unique stages tailored to their ability and character, new powers you earn. Mania physics by Whitehead himself. Challenging bosses. Clearly you haven't played Frontiers either. With character development, unique lore, unbridled boss fights, fresh combat system. Returning characters which haven't been uniquely playable in over 10 years, actual challenging stages that require skill and mastery to speedrun.

@lovable_madman 12 skins. Only three unique playstyles. They literally play the same. Why should I pick Luigi over Mario? I like green I guess? Superstars has 4.5. Sonic is faster and has drop dash, Tails can fly/swim, Knuckles glide/climb, Amy has her hammer and double jump.

Wonder is literally NSMB with a few new powerups. Same exact gameplay, same garbage. And they are charging full price for 3 characters who play the same and have the exact same story. Lazy rehash of a game.

​@@hazelcrisp terrible bait 👎

@onyoutubeuser8819 How. There's literally nothing better in Wonder. 3 unique playable characters, 12 skins, updated animation, few new power ups. There is literally nothing new or innovative. People see an elephant and that's all people need to be excited for. Nothing impressive to me.

one of the reasons why I can careless if SEGA makes Classic style games, Fans do better

Did god of war hurt frontiers sales?

@@devgainz3093probably not because not everyone has a PS5, and they are of different genre.

@@devgainz3093yes

@@devgainz3093 Frontiers was ranked number 4 of the year in Japan.

​@@devgainz3093god of war has nothing to do with Sonic, Mario does

Bro a shill I'm unsubbing

@@schemar17if he was a shill he wouldn’t criticize the music

@@cannonbyrd1755 you can still shill and critique, Sega sponsored the video lol. He wouldn't say anything bad about the game like he did frontiers

@@schemar17 it’s almost as if he likes the game, shocker