Sonic Boom Rise Of Lyric Platforms

[Skye Severy]

Regardingthe over-whelmingly negative previews, it's kind of frustrates me how Stephen Frost isn't here to address alot of these issues and complaints. He just kinda stopped posting here ever since the E3 show and went into hiding, I think. I still care about the game and want it to do well but I don't think they should release it in 4 months. If they really want Boom to successed then they should give the game a lot more time and fix these problems. Otherwise the game is going to end up being a huge flop and the critics has another Sonic game to make fun of. Sonic 06 came out almost a decade ago and they still refuse to move on and let it go.

It would be a shame if the Wii U version ended up flopping. Thankfully, the 3DS version is getting tons of great impressions. Sure it's not open world and is restricted to 2D but it looks like a ton of fun.

I'm hoping they can keep improving the Wii U version and fix some of the complaints. It would suck for Red Button's new game to fall flat. I know I'm super optimistic about this game but that's usually how I am with new Sonic games. Even if it does end up being unfavorable, I'll still buy it Day 1. I want to try it out for myself.

I seriously want BRB to release a demo for Rise of Lyric so we can decide for ourselves whether the previews are right. We may say it LOOKS bad, but does it also PLAY bad? According to the previews, yes it does! But I still want to play it for myself and see if these opinions hold true.

If Sonic Boom flops, it'll tell SEGA that the drastic change was a bad idea. I mean yes there's been changes in the past e.g Generations to Lost World, but nothing this drastic. If this flops, I'd imagine they're unlikely to veer so far off the path of normal Sonic games for a loooong time.

I honestly don't think the game will flop. You could argue critically, but sales wise? As someone pointed out, this is going to sell to kids and fans of the show/toys. People like us are just "icing on the cake".

If the game does turn out to be bad, I'm just hopeful that critics will just chalk it off as a TV show tie in game and forget about it when the next Sonic game is announced. We don't want another Sonic 06 situation where it's the center of every reason why they think that Sonic should just die (only later to contradict themselves).

So, that means we should think of 3ds version as show tie-in game too? Even, if you just said that the 3ds version looks better? Nope, it deserves it if its a bad game. Still buying the game if it has a good story.

Wow, if there were only a couple of negative impressions I wouldn't be too worried, but this game's demo is really getting panned by pretty much anyone who plays it. That has me worried a bit... It'd actually be kind of odd if this ended up being a complete opposite of Lost World. The previews for that were almost entirely positive, then the game was released and and got incredibly mixed reviews. It'd be weird if when the full game released, it ended up with decent reviews despite the overwhelmingly negative reception the incomplete demo is currently getting. Highly unlikely to happen, but it would be kind of ironic. I really hope BRB is just holding out on us and hasn't shown us the best bits yet... If they have, well there's always Shattered Crystal and the TV series to look forward to I suppose.

That's what I am really hoping for, but at the same time I want to keep my expectations low just in case. It would be nice if the game turned out to be good, but I'm not holding my breath.

At this point I'd just be mostly sad if Rise of Lyric fails and Shattered Crystal doesn't. That would result in Boom becoming exclusive to 3DS in the future and quite frankly I don't want to get ANOTHER system to play on. I mean, normally I just read up on plot points on Wikipedia for handheld titles, but I'd really feel like I was missing out.

I'm really hopeful the game will be well-constructed in the end, but SEGA and BRB made poor choices for the demo reels. As we all know, SEGA's marketing usually isn't that great, so that gives me more reason to be optimistic.

Games don't become exclusive to systems based on quality, they are released based on sales. Despite Sonic 06 being a disaster for SEGA critically, SEGA continued to put Sonic games on the Xbox 360 and PS3.

Sega isn't going to abandon a platform because one sonic game doesn't do well on it worrying over that would just be silly. That said I wont be surprised if the WiiU doesn't get many more sonic game since the deal is over but who know what will happen.

I wouldn't be surprised if Sonic Boom - despite the negativity surrounding it - manages to out-sell SLW on both the Wii U & 3ds. Now SEGA have said Boom is supposed to be targeted at a younger/newer audience, right? I would imagine a large chunk of the 3ds & Wii U userbase is a much younger audience. So to me it would make sense for SEGA to keep releasing future Boom installments - keeping them exclusive - on Nintendo consoles. It's also saved SEGA money in terms of game development and marketing by releasing SLW, Rise of Lyric and M&S on Nintendo consoles. So it seems like a no-brainer for all future Boom games to remain exclusive to Nintendo consoles and have the SEGASonic games developed for multi-platforms, PS4, PC and Xbox1.

It sounds like fans and critics alike are overwhelmingly deeming Rise of Lyric to be meh and won't buy it except if it's used. That's going to turn away casual buyers, which leaves the fans of the cartoon as this version's saving grace.

Sales tend to be influenced by critics, and critics seem to have overwhelmingly made up their minds. There goes the preorders. Then you have lots of fans saying they won't be buying it either, and Sonic fans buying up everything with Sonic's face on it is one of the series' strongest cards. So if even they are turning away in droves, you know things are bad.

Sonic games usually sell better on nintendo consoles in general and they are always for younger audiences. The cost of porting is less than the cost of making an entirely new game so it would take little to make a profit. So staying on nintendo may just end up making them miss out on money. Sure it may not make as money as I does on WiiU but they arent going to just throw it away.

Apparently, the cartoon was such a success on Disney XD that there will be a 2nd season and a sequel to the game. If Pac-Man can do it, I'm pretty sure Sonic Boom can. As for how bad the cartoon is, it's your typical cartoon for little kids, nothing else.

So I've been doing some digging for other E3 impressions of these kind of games, and nearly every single site I go to, they just didn't find the gameplay interesting enough to preview it altogether, or were more interested in the story and other factors like graphics and animations than anything. For example, these are the few previews I found for such types of games.

I think the only reason everyone is actually reviewing this game at E3 is because it has Sonic in the title. They're going in expecting fast paced gameplay like always, but come away always disappointed. Pretty much the only people to give it a glowing review was Gamespot, who were one of the few who covered Ratchet and Clank: A Crack in Time and thought it would be a great game, despite only playing two levels, one of which was this: (skip to 5:20)

On that point, is it even possible to put a slow-paced game in E3 and have people come away impressed with it in all the rush that is E3? Especially when they have nothing to go on previously to guarantee the enjoyment of the title?

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