The lyrics are encouraging and upbeat, but really out of place when it comes to the actual quality of the game. The music is mostly comprised of a hilarious set list of a woman singing songs that were so corny and unbelievably stupid that they could be rejected songs from a D-List girl group in the 70’s. There are games that take advantage of simple controls and still be engaging, like Kirby’s Air Ride, but Sonic R’s horrible controls are a huge detriment to the quality of the game especially since there are complicated tracks with tight turns and absurd obstacles. There is no accelerating button like most games, but instead everything is controlled with the main control stick and a jump button. There is even a knock-off rainbow road to really cement the game as the worst racing game ever. Even looking at some of the main track that the computers follow, there are huge panels missing in the track, and in it’s place is the water that surrounds most of the levels. The Sega Saturn is not a weak console, and it can easily hold more tracks, but Sega was lazy and just wanted to make complicated rat mazes for gamers to get lost in and forget that they were playing a racing game. Granted, the tracks in that game are not as complicated but Mario Kart 64 released the same year as Sonic R and includes 16 tracks. There are also only five total tracks in the whole game, a fourth of what Super Mario Kart had in 1992. I understand the need for having secrets and shortcuts, but making the collectables a currency to obtain shortcuts distracts from the fact that you are trying to win a race. There is a main track, four hundred shortcuts or alternate routes, and another hundred unlockable tracks that you can obtain by collecting enough rings. You can’t race without a track and these tracks are so funny how unnecessarily complicated they are. The other characters simply do not have the same advantages as Sonic does, so choosing anyone other than Sonic makes no sense. The five starting characters include Sonic, Knuckles, Tails, Amy and Robotnik, and each racer has their own benefits, but every kid who fires up this game will play as Sonic because he is the fastest and most recognizable. The Sonic universe did not have that many characters at the time, but enough to make at least eight playable racers. Super Mario Kart was released five years earlier than Sonic R’s initial release and had eight playable characters from the get-go, marking the first red flag of this abysmal game. Everything in the game is so laughable in it’s quality, that it’s very memorable.įirst, the character selection is a whole five characters to begin with. The music is bad, the game play is bad, the controls are bad, the graphics are bad and the courses are so bad that they are more like mazes than race-able tracks. There is hardly a thing on this game that is considered good. Sonic R is the best worst racing game ever, and it’s my favorite on this “gems” collection. There are exceptions, two of them to be exact, and they will be covered in this two part series intro. Most of these games included could definitely be seen as garbage, but ultimately not memorable. And then there was the Sonic Gems Collection, a game where the title is the opposite of the quality of the games included. There were some good games such as Sonic Mega Collection, which included all of the best games featuring the speedy blue hedgehog. In the 2000’s Sega had given up on the console market and shifted their focus on reminding everyone that they used to be good by dumping their whole sonic library onto various games on various platforms. Some were good, but most were bad, but all of them have a special place in my heart. In this series I will go over all the games I remember playing as a kid on my Gamecube.
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