Sonic the Fighters

So Sonic the fighters is a thing.

So we have a Sonic game where you fight the following characters, we have Sonic of course, with Tails, Amy and Knuckles of course. But then we have Espio the chameleon from Team Chaotix, Super Sonic and Metal Sonic unlockable as well as Nack the wolf from the Game Gear Game Triple Trouble, but the other characters well, time to get to researching.

Bean the Dynamite

Bean comes from another SEGA game called Dynamite Dux where a couple of ducks save a girl by blowing shit up and so in this game he hurls bombs at the opponent.

Bark the Polar Bear

Bean's sidekick who comes from nothing, that's right, Bark here was created for this game and nothing more. 

Guess the roster wasn't full enough huh, but there is one more character who you have to input a code to unlock.

Honey the Cat

Honey is a cat version of a character from a proper fighting game called Fighting Vipers. Here's how she looks in that game.

She fights exactly the same as she does in Fighting Vipers. Speaking of gameplay, the fighting system is similar to that of Virtua Fighter. And I have to say the fighting system is actually rather good, it comes with a blocking system made up of barriers which break after a few hits and after they're gone, they're gone and you can also burn these up doing super moves. And these do not carry over between rounds, so if you use them all in round 1, round 2 and 3 you're on your own. This is actually rather good as it stops people from cheating by doing one hit then blocking for the rest of the match.

Now the Story is about Dr. Robotnik who is up in his Death Egg and Tails building a spaceship called the Lunar Fox to fly up and stop him. Problem is, there's only one seat and all the other fighters have an emerald, so they all fight to see who will go up into space, but um... there's 8 emeralds. I'm sorry did somebody actually check Sonic's canon to see if that's right. Oh right of course not.

Now let's play the achievement game. How long does it take to get these achievements, well time to find out, with thanks to Xboxachievements.com

So the first achievement you can get is Honey the cat right off the bat using the code which is easy to find and then fight up to round 7, you don't need to beat the game for the achievements and on the way you'll probably get a perfect match and a barrier set destroyed, which leaves 2 achievements and all of these done in 7 minutes. Fight Knuckles as he is your first enemy with Knuckles to get the enemy within and then stand around and let Amy pummel you in the second match until she does a certain move on you to get the achievement, so basically you can perfect score this game in roughly 15 minutes.

So this game's single player life is well non-existant, but has a fighting game, it's easily accessible for anyone of any age and in the end it'll get people to play fighting games and is a game that perfectly safe for young kids to play unlike say Mortal Kombat, I mean no parent is going to complain about this.

So it's not really a Sonic game, rather than a family friendly fighter featuring Sonic characters and while it's no means the best fighting game it 's not actually bad either, so do I recommend picking this up. Well it's really cheap to buy online and if you want to play against friends, yes pick it up, but for single player only types of people, don't bother, this isn't for you. I'm The Joel MH signing off.