IGN's Terrible Sonic Reviews

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1. Ok, I don’t really play a ton of Sonic games but these reviews just make me want to go to IGN HQ, with a weapon, and threaten them with a mob of people to change the reviews for the Sonic games, (and other games to I guess I don’t watch IGN)

   Like, Sonic Unleashed XBox 360/ PS3 gets a 4.5/10 whereas the Wii version (which is technically almost the same thing) gets a damm 7/10

   Free Riders is easily a 2/10 from me, maybe a tiny bit higher like a 3, but a 7.5 for garbage controls makes no sense

   And Sonic 4… for context, I watch a certain YouTuber who does “Everything Wrong With” videos and man, just seeing how Sonic 4 plays is just garbage, and, what do you know, it gets a good score… because of course… why wouldn’t be its IG f**king N

   I don’t know why the hell Frontiers has a 7/10 as I never watched the review, but aside from the popups that appear, this game is really good, a 8.5 or a 9 would’ve been aceptable but a 7… really?

   And that is all for my rant, thank you for reading and if you want to contradict something, that’s fine, unlike IGN, I respect people’s opinions, it’s not like people joined the Sonic community to f the characters (something said by IGN themselves btw, oh and that Sonic was never good)

   For those who somehow never heard that, let that sink in…

2. I wonder how was the "Society against Sonic" in the 90s

3. They hate star fox 2 because the graphics are horrible when it was made in the 90's

4. I still find it hilarious that ign somehow manages to have an opinion that will almost always contradict the fanbase, but seriously good video this is a great channel I've stumbled onto!

5. I mean how anyone can give sonic unleashed a 4.5/10, but give sonic 4 an 8 is beyond me.

6. That's why IGN participate into game cancelling event's.

   If they don't try to get false sympathy of some random community
   They have no talent

7. I despise Sonic 4: Episode I, one of the worst games in the entire franchise, spin-offs included. Sonic 4: Episode II is a completely different experience however, I actually love Episode II, it's one of my favorites.

8. Still better then Watchmojo top 10s

9. i remember doing the crappy big gear gimick in sonic 4 as super sonic and it goes fast as hell, why does it move that slow with normal sonic? its so bad (btw what im talking about shows up at 1:37)

10. I don't get the hate for Sonic 4 episode 1 and 2, I genuinely like the games.

11. To me, IGN’s review of Sonic Unleashed is the peak of their shitty scoring system. I gave a watch at Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition and people got pissed that IGN gave that game a score of 8/10…

    Unleashed scored worse than 06… that speaks VOLUMES

12. i wouldnt say that the werehog stages are bad because they are really fun for sonic fans like me

13. ign try not not make dogshit reviews challenge (impossible)

14. The Unleashed review is like the main reason why I can't stand IGN! Plus I still have Sonic Free Riders. Had no problem with it at all. The KINECT ON THE OTHER HAND! Plus, let's not forget the "Sonic was NEVER GOOD" bullshit

15. IGN …. More like Gaming in the Clinton years

16. Imo, ign should have stop reviewing games a long time ago. I don't watch them anymore because of their terrible reviews (not just the sonic ones) and there are independent reviewers on youtube that are better does a much better job at analyzing games than they do.

17. ”Sonic was never good.”

18. I think IGN just doesn't fully play their games, and they definitely don't replay them. Some Sonic games suck on your first attempt, and become better through replayability. Which is why I hate Unleashed and SA2. They sucked so much to play the first time, which doesn't give me any motivation to replay them.
    I think the Unleashed score is fair. Not the review or that score compared to other sonic games. I mean Unleashed was mostly Werehog, and it still earned a 4.5/10

19. The werehog is basically god of war, I guess none of the sonic fans like god of war which is better than sonic

20. I think they never played the games they just took opinons and slapped it on to their reviews.

    People like Classic Sonic? 4 gets a good score.

    Sonic had a rough transition into 3D some people say? Okay, giving these modern 3D Sonic games like Unleashed, Forces and Frontiers either a bad or mediocre score.

    People… like the Riders franchise? I guess ranking Free Riders 7.5 makes sense.

    Pocket Adventure? Yes. Please. 11/10

21. That unleashed review was simply a skill issue

22. Tbh in my opinion, the only good IGN score is Sonic 4 (because I genuinely enjoy the game) but the actual review itself sucks (same with Sonic Unleashed)

23. More Sonic videos bro I see they get you more views

24. Bro sonic fans will not let the sonic unleashed review go it’s been 15 years get over it

25. W video, you’re commentary and almost monotone voice are hilarious

26. the sonic unleshed reviews are why sega it's afrade of mading hard games

27. 7.5 too much water

28. Fun fact: The guy who reviewed Sonic Unleashed Left IGN

29. Game journalism shouldn’t give any reviews of Sonic’s games and instead should let the audiences to dictate the reviews

30. This is true, but hot take: Free Riders is fun and playable, you really just need to master the controls lol. I’m like one of those rare people

31. if I recall correctly, Sonic Unleashed (fave game of all time btw) has a lower score than the supposed "Franchise Killer" Sonic 06, which has a 4.7. and I thought Frontiers getting 1 nomination across 5 videogame award sites was bad.

    also while everyone talks about how slow and tedious the wherehog levels are, if you play the game more and get better (considering getting better ranks and improving yourself is the whole point of replay ability in a sonic game), you can cut them down immensely. Here's a shocking revelation, You can skip EVERY fight, that doesn't keep a wall blocked off or switch/keystone hidden until all the enemies are defeated. This is how the dreaded Eggmanland which could take up an hour to beat can actually be completed in just 10 minutes with no deaths. It might actually be my favourite level in the game, I love how much challenge there is to run through it as quickly as I can.

32. 5:42 lmao I suddenly remember this scene from the video where they say "the jump button can be fatally irresponsible" as he proceeds to jump above the ramp into a pit, anyway amazing video

33. I don’t think you realize that the people who write the review, record the footage, and do the voiceover are 3 different people in most IGN videos. That footage almost definitely doesn’t belong to the actual reviewer

34. I don't see no plm with these reviews. Sonic has been trash after 2010

35. IGN’s ratings are so biased and half assed

36. IGN literally gave Bayonetta 3 a higher rating than Frontiers

37. Imagine if you left a negative review on someone's negative review

38. Ngl, when anyone seems to pick up a sonic game for a review or prerelease footage, they just seem to forget how to play video games. If u look at the recordings of people playing frontiers at those events and stuff, they are there just mindlessly sliding around in a circle, or blatantly jumping of edges.

39. We can all agree that IGN is just bad at rating Games and they hate on Sonic without any reason most of the Time

40. People shouldn’t be surprised. After all, you can’t spell ignorant without ign. In all seriousness the fact they gave Free Riders and Sonic 4 pretty good scores and not Unleashed really amazes me.

41. I like free riders I had no issues

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