WARNING: The video above contains flashing images.
Over the weekend it came to light that several early purchasers of the digital version of Sonic Colors Ultimate were running into some fairly major visual glitches in the Switch version of the game, which included a host of flashing textures, blown-out lighting, warped models, distorted animations, and other tough-to-miss visual anomolies.
Needless to say, we didn't encounter anything like this when we played the game for review, but after following steps published on Youtube by JustLemres (WARNING: contains flashing images in that one, too), we were able to replicate and verify the existence of the glitches on Switch hardware.
While the majority of players are unlikely to encounter this in what we'd loosely term a 'normal' playthrough, the video above from the lovely Alex Olney gives a brief overview of the sorts of things you can currently encounter if you're unlucky, or if you're actively seeking to stretch Sonic out across half the screen.
Hey, who the heck would notice a borked and stretched Sonic, amirite?! says the chubby Sonic lover who's always turned their nose up at the hedgehog's lanky model in the 3D games. Don't worry, we'll chase the joyless 3D Sonic hater off the premises post haste.
Let us know below if you've encountered any of these visual glitches in the course of your time with the game.
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It should be pointed out that entering a world hub to just leave it is entirely valid behaviour, this is how players check which individual levels they have S-ranked or collected all of the red rings, and would be a natural part of playing to 100% completion.
So it's not true to say that players will never encounter the issue, but everyone's operation of a game will vary.
I just wonder about quality check from SEGA before they release their product.
It is called Sonic Colors though, I'm just sayin'...
Jokes aside, that is some serious glitching, wow. You may be onto something that it is a RAM-related issue. Not a game developer either but I could make sense of that theory.
As there are real concerns for viewers, there was no need to show the glitches over and over again for the full 4 minute video.
The information is good and I understand these audio-only videos do need some kind of accompaniment but normal game footage could have been used - with just part of the time given over to actually demonstrating the problem.
Pfft. Just blow on the cartridge. If you have the digital version then blow on the switch..or..something.
That was more like a spectrum loading screen, I wonder if it loaded.
I was looking forward to this on Switch. I don’t even care that it is 30 FPS but what really turned me off is all the glitches. Unacceptable. Blind Squirrel is the same one who worked on the terrible WWE 2K18 port for Switch.
I will buy this once it gets all fixed up AND at a discount AND digitally.imo it doesn’t deserve a physical copy
Perhaps we were a bit harsh on Nintendo for the Skyward Sword HD pricing. At least THAT game didn’t turn out like Colors Ultimate. So if you were all saying that Sega has done a better job than Nintendo when it comes to Colors Ultimate before the game comes out, think again. SS HD may be at full price but the port itself isn’t glitchy or terrible. And honestly, I would prefer buying SS HD at $60 over Colors Ultimate at $40
This game should get a 1/10 on every review because of this. There is absolutely NO excuse for this poor quality control.
It really does suck that this is the case and no game should ever come out in this state, But I put my blame on sega and not blind S, and I think with more time it would look a lot more different.
Well, at the least there looking into the glitches.
@RupeeClock Can I say the thing?
How do we get a copy similar to the NL copy?
@Snatcher
I don't know what thing it is you wanna say.
@RupeeClock Every copy of Sonic colors ultimate is personalized!
@Snatcher
I don't get that meme to begin with.
The real joyless people were the ones who were insistent that these glitches were faked and hounded peopled who posted them.
DankPods has entered the chat... no really, that song makes me think of DankPods.
On a serious note, I'm glad on actual hardware it's a rare occurrence, and a patch is on the way. Whenever I played Sonic Colors on Wii, in all the years of playing it, not once have I thought of going in and out of planets. Mostly just go into them to play the levels.
I don't follow reviews personally, but I wonder if reviewers missed the bug because they didn't play for a long period. Example, go into a planet, play some levels, turn the system off, then come back later. While playing for a long period may trigger it as you are going in and out of multiple planets to get through the game. Just a guess I have really.
Tbh the glitches look pretty awesome.
I still have the Switch physical version pre-ordered for October 1st.... If no news of a patch fixing many of these issues is announced within the next few days I will have to cancel the order... Annoying as I was looking forward to replaying this, I might just have to settle for the Wii version I still have...
@anoyonmus you show them. I’ll give you my money all the same I just don’t want my friends to know by having the box laying around.
I changed my mind I don't want Unleashed Remastered anymore 😭
I'll Get After A Patch Releases on switch or just get sonic colors ultimate ps4
Lol. I 100% it yesterday and never once had those glitches..that's what you get when u play illegal games
People always expect better from a sonic game, but releases like this are a reminder that sonic and quality are not really synonymous.
The most embarrassing thing is they couldn’t even port a decade old wii game without making it inferior
@Anti-Matter yah, and Nintendo for checking it out. Sega handed it off to another developer. They should have checked their work. Same with Nintendo. I blame all 3.
@Anti-Matter Thats the thing, they don't, they do nothing but rush there dev teams, I blame them for half of the sonic games we had, Not to say the dev teams are not to blame, But games like sonic 06 would have had been better if it wasn't rushed.
@Darkyoshi98 What?
@moodycat Well it came out today, So a week at the most?
i really can’t decide if i should buy it. reviews seem ok/good… but if i read the comments here, it sounds like a really bad game.
@lovesushi Its the port that Makes it bad, Not the game itself, so if it gets patched it would count as good.
ok but is it really that bad?
@lovesushi Some people Have a whole lot of Bugs, wile some people don't see them at all, So It like a 50/50, But from what I heard the bugs are pretty bad.
Still want the physical. Still getting it. A bit of an own goal & embarassing from SEGA though. Lucky it's my fav 3D Sonic (and yes I have pretty much played them all including Adventure 1 & 2. I acknowledge A1 & A2 are better video games but I loved Sonic Colours Wii more & that is a good game in itself. Unleashed is poor. Heroes only decent at best etc).
I actually loved replaying levels on the Wii version to get higher ranks so I best be careful of encountering this glitch I think.
"Hey, who the heck would notice a borked and stretched Sonic, amirite?! says the chubby Sonic lover who's always turned their nose up at the hedgehog's lanky model in the 3D games. Don't worry, we'll chase the joyless 3D Sonic hater off the premises post haste."
(finds this part of the article to had been unnecessary, insulting, negative, and detrimental)
@Mario500 I'm pretty sure he was talking about himself. and not you.
@Splodge No, that would be annoying to the 99.9% of the viewers watching who don’t get seizures from flashing lights. It’s a video about glitches, I want to actually see the glitches.
If you personally suffer from seizures, fortunately for you they put a warning up front so if you keep watching and have a seizure, that’s on you. You can also just look away and just listen to the audio.
And I tried to defend this.
Wellllll see you next sonic cycle.
@piecez No because games like unleashed and generations show how good the quality can get.
Sega have released polished sonic games, so the fan base is disappointed by how unpolished this is.
@Splodge They give out a warning. I need to see them glitches, I don't want to hear about it, If I wanted to do that I would read it online.
@lovesushi the game is good, has some really impressive levels and memorable music.
It’s not all good though, but a lot better than most, if not all 3D sonic games (apart from sonic adventure in my opinion.)
But considering the glitches, I would wait until it’s fixed, or play it on the wii. Nobody wants an an experience ruined by glitches.
In my view it’s a 7/10 game (on wii), but with glitches it’s not worth it.
@Snatcher
"I'm pretty sure he was talking about himself. and not you."
(does not remember having had found the part of the article I had quoted here in a previous message of mine to had been one applicable to me)
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