Sonic Colors - Ultimate Preview: visit to the Amusement Park | Franziska Behner

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Who lust on roller coasters, lots of loopings, colorful lights and of course sunshine and palm trees? If you have lifted hands with at least one of these terms - alternatively, we also leave a loud "me!" - Then Sonic Colors: Ultimate could be the right game for you in autumn.

The HD remake of Sonic Colors, which only appeared on the Nintendo DS and the Wii, will also play the consoles of Sony and Microsoft on September 7, 2021. Of course, Sonic will also run on the Nintendo Switch. So there are some platforms to choose from to immerse yourself in the colorful adventure.

Interstellar amusement park

The 3D Platformer adventure starts wild again and crazy: Dr. Eggman had the insane idea to build an interstellar amusement park with all kinds of crazy attractions. Said - Already, the galactic park with six different zones is at first glance fun and adrenaline. But you should definitely look a little closer: Dr. Eggman uses slaves to operate all the park! His alien prisoners, the so-called WISPs, suffer terribly and are literally waiting to freed the Sonic. So attracts your best shoes, it's a wild trip in front of you!

We kept ourselves during the preview session especially in the Tropical Resort. This is an area full of palm trees, good mood and correspondingly rousing soundtrack. If you know the original game, you will recognize both the world as well as the soundtrack immediately. The Tropical Resort is already burdened by all attractions that you can race. The bright colorful colors give the loopings and jump extra a lot.

Especially in the Levels, the HD polish has definitely paid off! The individual intermediate sequences act almost a little nostalgic against the color sea of ​​the levels. However, we do not want to exclude that by the enormous speed of Sonic smaller inconsistencies simply do not notice.

With each level, a timer runs in the upper corner - the urge to try it for a new best time directly again is high! This is located in addition to the rather short levels, above all, that you can usually choose different ways to go to the destination. Sonic can jump on platforms and race in airy height or race through the floor to look far down to golden rings and wisps. If you really want to discover everything, you have some runs in front of you.

Easy control

To make it fans and beginners as easy as possible, fine cut was operated on the control. So Sonic should now be more precise and better over the loopings and Co. That worked quite well with our playback date. Only in one place was a bit of confusion, as the displayed buttons do not match SONICS version. If this is fixed, the control is quite alright.

Since Sonic's skills do not require lengthy button combinations, newlings of the genre should actually have access to access. Easy to Learn - Hard to Master! As support, the game offers small tutorials that can optionally touch and read in passing. And that's exactly where the hook is: you can activate it - or not. If you are not so familiar with the control, you may easily run over. Fortunately, the levels can be restarted at any time, because sometimes there is no way back. And if everything does not help, you can simply press all buttons until something happens. That costs time, but so you usually find out what to do next.

It will be particularly interesting if Sonic frees the hidden WISPs everywhere. You remember - that's the Aliensrasse, the Dr. med. Eggman was enslaved to get the amusement park to run! Sonic sometimes give new powers, with which he deals with the handlers of Dr. Eggman can set. New skills are always a great way to keep the gameplay fresh. Paired with the raging speed, you pack a few fresh moves between loopings and other attractions.

It is also the "Rival Rush" mode, where it is a shiny enemy: Metal-Sonic. As hard as he looks, he is too. Here you have to bundle all your skills and build enough speed to insist. The fight becomes hard, but for that special bonuses await you if you can do it.

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Sonic fans are sure to have fun with the crazy platformer. Thanks to the polished graphics and some gameplay improvements, it looks very ok in 2021. Of a HD remake, I honestly expect a bit more, thanks to the rapid rate, but that's hardly falling up. The still rousing soundtrack spreads a good mood and just fits perfectly in the colorful world of the interstellar amusement park. Since there are completely different worlds, longer game sessions will certainly not be boring so fast. Hopefully the control in the later levels is well implemented, so that no frustration comes up when the next best time is reached. Now to the website of Sonic Colors Ultimate!