Sonic Colors (Nintendo DS)

Sonic Rush, Rush Adventure and 3ds Colors. This is where its at, and its all just being forgotten when it doesn’t have to be. These games ARE(at least in my opinion) the pinnacle of 2d Sonic games. Sonic Rush/Colors manages to fuse the feeling of both Modern Sonic and Classic Sonic perfectly at the same time, the music is God-tier and the level design is amazing. Go watch a gameplay of it, I’m telling yall these games are where its at.

The fact that these games are 2d would make this such a amazing port as well, I strongly believe they should really give us either a continuation or should a remaster of this game and it would fit so well with Modern fans expectation of Sonic games.

Out of all the games that I thought should be rereleased, none I think deserve one more than this series

Dimps was probably under a ton of pressure in 2010. They had to develop Sonic 4 AND a DS version of Sonic Colors. So, one of these would probably suck. Luckily it was Sonic 4. Colors DS can easily be called Sonic Rush Three. The gameplay is basically the same just by looking at it. The biggest difference is Blaze The Cat is not playable. I think just like its Wii counterpart, this game is great. Let’s start with the story, which is still small, but it’s more than the Wii version. The setup is the same- only this time the rest of the cast is here and they interact with Sonic and Tails. Orbot and Cubot find Cream and try to take Cheese, her Chao pet, thinking it’s a Wisp. Remember I said in 06 that the events of that game was a “distant memory” to the characters and not completely erased? Here’s some explanation: at the end of that game, Elise feels the blow of Sonic’s speed, and says it felt familiar, somehow. I bring this up because when Sonic meets up with Silver The Hedgehog and Blaze, Tails says it feels as if the two had worked together in the past.

We see Knuckles, Rouge, Shadow, Omega, yeah, basically all the main characters. I believe this to be the canon story of colors as it’s more believable as in the Wii version it was just Sonic and Tails at the entire park. After Nega Wisp Armor, though, there’s a new final boss for this version. Sonic uses the Chaos Emeralds to turn into Super Sonic to defeat, if I remember correctly, Yacker’s mother, who has been turned into a Nega Wisp. Unlike the Wii version, Super Sonic is in the final boss. That’s it for the story. The gameplay?

The gameplay is literally the same as Rush, as I explained. Tricks are now gone though, and replaced with the white wisp capsules just like the Wii version, and those fill your boost instead. There are some new wisps, too. The Butst Wisp is here, and also Violet Void. Red Burst just sees you burst around and kill enemies or, burn them. Violet Void is fun to use as you suck everything like a Black hole. The music is mostly compressed versions from the Wii, which is fine. The areas are the same, and levels are in 2D, of course. Also I’ve forgotten to mention but the Rush games use 3D aesthetics because of the capability of the DS, but the angle is in 2D. The bosses are much more memorable, as in Wii the bosses would be over in a few minutes or less than a minute. They were just incredibly easy in that version. I think here they are much harder and something I’d come back to.

The level design is phenomenal. I love going through these stages. Just like Wii, only Sonic is playable. They’ve abandoned multiple playable characters after 06. Sonic moves from Unleashed have been translated to 2D for the new system. Homing attack is much better in this game as well. I think that’s it for Sonic Colors DS. It’s a fun 2D version of the already great Wii experience, and one of dimps’ best games.

Final Rank: 7/10

Here's some Rank Assets from Sonic Colors (Nintendo DS). Unfortunately, There wasn't a P-Rank Asset here. So I took matters to My own Hands and then made a P-Rank Asset, and then Slammed the Pizza Tower Style for A/B/C/D-Ranks into it.

Does anyone ever wonder why Yacker isn’t one of the wisps who chose to stay on Earth? I mean out of all of wisps Sonic and Tails met, he was the closest and the one they got along with the most, so why didn’t he chose to stay with them?

Before I begin, this took a while so a upvote would be cool :)

This function is quite different from the normal Boost seen in Sonic Unleashed and beyond. It's first appearance is in Sonic Advance 2.

Boost Mode allows the player to run at supersonic speeds, and it can be triggered by speeding up while running. The more rings you got, the faster you can do it.

A picture of it:

This allows the player to do special moves, like the Super Skid, Step Attack, and Head Slide to name a few.

In Sonic Advance 3, the Boost Mode returns, but with changes. Only speed teams can use it, and Boost Attacks are removed.

In the Sonic Rush duology and Sonic Colors DS, the boost mode is nothing more than a rainbow aura effect that looks pleasing.

I would like this to return in future 2D and 3D Sonic games, as it makes more sense for Sonic to build up speed into a boost, then randomly break the sound barrier. He already has a Spindash and Peel-Out for that. (Maybe give the White Wisp some new ability, idk...)

That's all from me, thank you for your time.