Special Post N°4: Sonic All-Stars vs Mario Kart

Before I start this post I just want to say that I like both games, both are awesome titles to spend time with friends and please don't think that I will talk good about Sonic and bad about Mario just because this is a Sonic Blog.

No videogame war is better than a Sonic vs Mario!!!

I will be as much impartial as I can, I promise.

I will compare both SAGAS but I will put my atention specially on All-Stars Racing Transformed and Mario Kart Wii and Mario Kart 7

I will make an update of this post if a new Mario Kart its anounced later.

GAMEPLAY and Level Design.

Sonic All-Stars and Mario Kart are different ways to racing. Let me explain:

Mario Kart its like the MotoRacer gameplay: you mostly fight with the ROAD. 

I have won some races with the help of the items, but I felt that most of the time I was fighting against the road and not so much with the other players.

Sonic All Stars has different style, This game prefers you to battle mostly with THE RACERS. Eventhough some roads have places in which you can fall from 1° place to last as a sample its the Race of Ages in which if don't handle well you will suffer.

Specially in Online Matches with Skilled players you will see a race in which you dont have idea of who will win because the desing of the road has the intention to have two or more players being head to head during all race and that is what I like from the sonic game: Being fighting all the race.

Who's better? I think it depends of what do you like. I like both but....

All-Stars Racing Transformed has something that Mario Kart doesn't: TRUE air and water sections.

In Mario Kart the handling of the kart its almost the SAME when you fly or in the earth, the kart just modifies his look.

In Sonic Racing Transformed the physics of the car, the plane and the boat are TOTALLY DIFFERENT and that makes you to change your strategy constantly. 

WEAPONS

I think Sonic Weapons are more based on strategy than the Mario Kart ones. And does not unbalance the race as in Mario Kart.

In the Sonic game you have to decide if you prefer a quick shot (Ice cannon and the Firework shoot) with the risk of failing or a slower weapon (tornado and the clone machine) who follows the other racer and gives you time to move quickly in case of any other racer is pointing you with other weapon.

Also you have to be carefull if your oponent have the defender glove and can redirect your shot.

In Mario Kart in the last moment you can get a blue shell and all the effort of the others is ripped in pieces

The All-Star is also very powerfull but it doesn't come by random, you have to drive very well to receive it and the All-Star Attacks can be evaded. 

I enjoy so much when someone got the All-Stars and I evade all his shots. It's almost perfect! you sometimes will have to fight against something most powerfull but you have the oportunity to beat it.

Career Modes

Both games have a lot of content to be played. I love the "challenge" roads in the sonic game like the Turbo Challenge, The Battle Race, The Ring Race, Drifts Time-Attack Races and others.

INNOVATION

This is when I consider Mario Kart Saga is overvaluated, with 7 games of the saga the innovation HAS BEEN MINIMAL.

I love both sagas but Sonic All-Stars Saga has innovated more with only two games than Mario Kart with 7 games.

And eventhough the critics always gived an 8 or more on innovation to mario kart, its just unfair that Sonic Racing Transformed only scored a 7 on innovation when it has been the game who bringed more new things.

I think it is just because of the game has the name Mario, if other saga has the same innovation as Mario Kart nobody would talk so good of it.

FINAL DECISION

I enjoy playing both games, this situation is like a FIFA-PES it depends of what characters you like most. It is other Sonic-Mario Battle.

I love when I play the sonic game and a friend argue me: "let's play mario kart and try to win again" 

I reccomend both games BUT if I have to pick one, I would prefer Sonic And All Stars Racing Transformed in the PS3 Xbox360 or WiiU versions.

If you havent tried the new sonic racing game give it a chance, you will have a lot of fun!

If you alrady have it, ENJOY IT!!!!!

SPECIAL POST N°3: How could fans react to the anounce of...?

Alright sonic brothers and sisters this is my favorite section of the blog. As you may know a lot of rumors say that the next hedgehog day (February 2) a new AAA Sonic game will be anounced.

I imagined how the fans (including me) could react depending of what game sega anounce.
I wanted to make it FUNNY for all of you, so I hope you enjoy this! :D

I took some of these picture from movies and videos that you may saw with your teen friends. (Specially for the guys, you will understand believe meXDDD) 

But don't worry, are suitable for all ages (at least I think so)

HOW COULD FANS REACT TO THE ANOUNCE OF?.......

Sonic Adventure 3?

I'm sure lots of Sonic Fans will do this
if SA3 is anounced

I have years and years to be hearing fans asking for this game and I understand them.

The Adventure Saga is one of the most successfull formula of 3D Sonic but after I've played SA1 and SA2 I can say:

It's overvalued, Adventure Saga has HORRIBLE camara and physics bugs, even when I liked some awesome moments, sometimes I felt unconfortable with the gameplay, the same sensation I felt on Sonic 4 Episode 1

If you watched this movie,
mmm you were with your MALE friends for sureXD
and without your  parents

A lot of people only ask for this game for THE NAME, be carefull of what you are asking for. IF SEGA release a SA3 with a diferent gameplay you will hate it. (And remember that Sonic Heroes and Sonic 06 ARE Sonic Adventure 3 and 4)

BUT A WELL DEVELOPED SA3 could be a massive reborn for sonic, I bet my soul that SA3 could be the best selling Sonic game in years!.

BUT FACE IT! Sonic needs to get away from Adventure Formula.

MMM, about the photos, I'm sure you know from where are it XD

A New game based on Unleashed-Colors-Generations Formula

Many long time fans began to believe again in Sonic after sonic unleshed (day levels) colors and generations.

I personally like this formula, BUT it works when the level is FULL of dangers like in Adabat, Shamar, Holoska levels of Unleashed.

I also believe that this formula need to have features in each new game, like the wisps in colors and the team-based gameplay (Sonic Heroes) that is suposed the upcoming sonic game will have.

A Sonic-Mario PLATAFORM Game

Believe me, I WILL BE in there if this happen

The Olympic Game Saga show how mario and sonic could appear at the same time in a videogame.

No matter what somebody can argue, if the way of mix Sonic and Mario gameplay in a PLATAFORM game is discovered, believe me, the videogames will have a before and after.

Is hard to this happen, but about 10 years ago seing Sonic in a Nintendo console was near to impossible to believe, and just watch now.

Sonic 4 Episode 3?

Even the huge fan of RiverPlate
do not want to see Sonic 4 again

Sonic 4 saga it's not bad, it's just not what we (the long time Sonic fans) expect from a 2D Sonic game. That's all.

Episode 2 was fun for me, but in any case IT'S NOT THE WAY to do a CLASSIC 2D Sonic Game. 

A REAL CLASSIC 2D Sonic Game?

Classic Sonic Adventure? Sonic 5?
In any case I will be like this

I really believe that release one pure 2D and then release a 3D game can make the Sonic Saga stay fresh.

And of course, the quality of the games will increase because of the total focus of Sega in each individual game.

IT'S BACK NO!!!

Sonic 06 II?

Let me explain, If Sega release a game with the horrors of Sonic 06 that could destroy the recovered confidence of the sonic fans.

And who would not react like this if this happen again?

If you know from where this picture is
YOU survived to the worst video in internetXD 

What a pitty, Mou started to believe in sonic againXD

I'm giving you lots of clues about
the video from where I took the pictures

Well friends, that was all in this 

Special Post N°3

I really make a effort to make you laugh and I want to make you an invitation to receive the upcoming AAA Sonic Game (whatever it is) with an open mind.

Remember that Sonic is about fun!

Please support our loved hedgehog as much as you can.

Buy the new sonic games (if you can please do not buy them on second hand).

Invite your friends to play the (good) Sonic games you have, show them how strong is actually Sonic.

Organice tournaments of ASR Transformed in your school. (Let's defy Mario KartXD)

And the most important is HAVE FUN!!!

By the way, I could not put all the images here, if you want to see all of them go to our facebook 

Only he could be happy of this