Sega Announces new 2D Sonic title

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Secret Rings is decent at best.
It relies on an rpg-like level up system which makes sonic run faster and handle better as you level up.
Only problem is, until you get him moving fast, the game is almost unbearably slow.
Once he speeds up, there are certain areas where the game genuinely feels fun. But they're short-lived, as the game goes right back to being an annoying mess.
The controls are awful, and there are cheap deaths galore.
At least you get unlimited lives.

I've never played Black Knight, but I've heard it's better than Secret Rings.

Black Knight is not.

The main problems of Secret Rings were that Sonic's controls began awful, but after you actually gain the Soul Gauge, it begins to be decent, and then after some leveling up, Sonic is a speed demon and has never been faster (that is until Unleashed came). And also Dinosaur Jungle is a fucking awful stage. But those are the only problems of the game.

Story is good, dialogues are great, the characters' personalities and how they interact are spot-on. The game has a great artistic direction as well.


Black Knight...

Graphics are much better, but the artistic direction is a bit weak. The artworks aren't hand-drawn like Secret Rings looked like, but rather something that seemed drawn with Photoshop's pen tool. And looking like digital art is not a great way to try to copycat an old artstyle. Gameplay is TERRIBLE. Although Sonic "begins" with better controls, the levels are nothing but PLAIN SURFACES. It's all about holding forward and stop whenever there are enemies to slash them down. It's not fun at all. Secret Rings actually had level design and platform gimmicks, but Black Knight? Not at all. The fewer new concepts/stage elements that the game brings (like giving rings to townspeople, reflecting light with your sword to shatter crystal walls and... waiting for a boat to bring you from a place to other) are just stupid and boring. Story sucks, it's a short, overly simple and predictable story like most newer Sonic games. Also, in the few 2.5D sections in the game, it controls HORRIBLE.