User blog comment:NOS Sterling/Sonic Boom (Game): Ratings Central/@comment-25370755-20141114051828

Friend bought the game. It's ok at best. The gameplay is repatative, the story is pretty good. The frame rate and the graphics do distract from it though. I had a hard time controlling it. (Just like in the demo). The music is good. Not the kind i would expect in a sonic game, but it's ok. The level design is good for what its going for, but i found that i had to do a lot of back tracking because evry alternate path led to a dead end. The boss fights are extremly poor and easy, and the characters are as one-dimesional as ever. This is especially true with Sonic and lyric. And the poor jokes and Roger craig smith don't help. This game is not an 06, but i wouldn't put it up their with the really good sonic games. The multi-player is much better then playing by yourself. The AI isn't the best, (i would expect more after Alien: Isolation)and its not very helpful. At best i would give Rise of lyric a 6.5 out of 10. And this version also gets extra brownie points for effort. With Shattered crystal clearly showing that it is the lazy, rushed version. I'm glad i didn't spend my money on it, but i was good enough that i finished it, (which isn't saying a lot because i recently finished 06) and i really hope it doesn't fail. Because if it does, i think it will mean the decline of the king of the 90's. The peanut gallery is done talking.