Poll: Sonic X Shadow Generations Is Out This Week, Will You Be Getting It?

Do I want it yes. Am I scared for a switch review, yes. But I'm trying to stay optimistic

Considering what happened, not worth it...

I've seen a little bit of generations on the switch version and it looks pretty good. I'm still waiting to see the shadow part tho, hopefully it runs well

Yep, I've got it pre-ordered and will pick it up during my lunch break on Friday.

At one point, I was very tempted to buy that pricey limited edition that Limited Run was selling but decided I'd make due with the standard edition.

I ordered it for ps4. I want the best available to me.

Looks pretty good, but I already own Sonic Generations and the Shadow episode is not enough of a selling point to justify getting the game again

Yeah, already pre-ordered. It's a shame that it doesn't release early on the Digital deluxe for Switch.

I adored Generations when it was released. I would love to pick this up at launch but this holiday season is going to be so good for books and games I'm a little overwhelmed by choice! Might pick it up closer to the new year...or maybe an impulse buy is inbound!

Maybe on sale later, definitely not at launch. Sonic games sink in price quickly and I have the original if I want to play it.

Maybe sometime down the road, but Sonic games in general just don't do much for me anymore. They typically just feel too weird in gameplay to me, like something always feels off.

Hope everyone who gets it will enjoy it, though! Maybe I'll get it sometime if it ever gets priced down enough.

Got burnt on Sonic Frontiers (Switch version). Fool me once...☝️

I'll wait for your Switch review first.

I'll probably pre-order on Xbox digitally through my Series S before Friday. Want to play it, get my own opinion on it without too many reviews and other opinions (although I've gotten a tiny taste of them), and experience it in the finest form I can. Which is why I'm skipping switch this time. Probably won't be bad, but probably not the best way to play either.

Thing is, I want to play Shadow Generations ASAP, but it feels more proper to play it's version of Sonic Generations first, even tho I've already played Sonic Gens many times through 360. That game's been with me for many years, and is one of my favorite Sonic games. Hopefully this version will hold up.

I'm getting it Friday when Smyths lets me. But I'll go out on a limb here and say that if the classic, overused line "Sonic had a rough transition into 3D" is in the review in any fashion, prepare to look, as the kids say, very cringe.

I'll get it when it gets a discount, I already caved & got Jamboree two days ago. I'm waiting to get Brothership sometime down the line... I'm not in a rush to get this one after I saw spoilers on Twitter.

There is no option for just 'yes'. I have not pre-ordered yet!
But...yes!

You should add an option for "Waiting for the 50% off Sega sale"

I'm waiting for the Switch reviews. Especially from Nintendolife and SwitchUp.
I know there are videos out there showing up the Switch version, but...

Should be an option for “I’m finally tired of the years of emotional abuse”. It’s crazy how Sonic fans keep coming back after some truly hilariously bad games.

I'm very on the fence about this. The Shadow episode looks really good but the original was pretty disappointing to me in terms of difficulty, making epic boss fights trivial, thus actually taking away from the nostalgia factor instead of letting me relive the memories. I'll really have to wait for a review, especially if there are difficulty levels or if the Shadow episode is actually any challenge.

I stopped buying Sonic games near launch after Sonic team Racing. Give it a month or so and its at least 40% off.

A must have but I do not know when I can find the time to play it. First I want to finish Visions of Mana.

I went back and replayed a few levels from the original on PS3 last night. I forgot just how awful the physics and level design were. Which is weird, because they got it so right in Colours (the previous game). Although Sonic Team are on a roll recently. Frontiers was great! So the new Shadow stuff is probably pretty good.

Gonna get it with at least a 50% discount somewhere down the line. It seems like this is a perfect way to replay the old campaign and the new one adds a lot of extra time to the game. I just can't see myself paying full price for any 3rd party games, as they tend to be discounted so fast.

@27celsius search a trailer for the game on Nintendo of America's YouTube channel called "Doom Powers" if you want to see the Shadow part of the game running on Switch.

Yes but don’t know which console. Waiting for reviews of the Switch version.

Poll needs an option for people like me who buy games on day one but never pre-order them.

I actually didn't realize this game was already out; for some reason I thought it comes out on the 25th, lol.

@jesse_dylan

It's funny because I used to be a bit of a Sonic hater myself, but I've really come around in recent years and think SEGA's output has been really good this generation.

Sonic Mania was solid, of course--I really enjoyed my time with it. I never played Sonic Colors back on the Wii, so Ultimate was my first time experiencing the game. I never experienced any of the crazy graphical glitches some other people ran into, though. (I did admittedly get softlocked once, now that I think about it.) But overall, I enjoyed my time with the game.

Sonic Frontiers was also a lot of fun, despite all the pop-in. Loads of content, lots of upgrades and customizability to Sonic's core abilities, a decent story, and the way the game flows from zipping from one grind rail to the next to traverse the open zones is just really satisfying and must have took a lot of meticulous planning.

Sonic Superstars was pretty good, although the last level and final boss were really frustrating. But other than that, I had a really good time with it--even if it was a bit upstaged by Super Mario Bros. Wonder since it didn't exactly re-invent the wheel. Not every game needs to though.

And, like Sonic Colors, Generations is another game I missed out on--or, at least, the console version. I had it on 3DS as a kid and only vaguely remember it, but as I understand it, it's drastically inferior. I've heard tons of praise about Generations though, and I think it's very likely it will become my favorite Sonic game. I can also appreciate the bonus content with Shadow, like how 3D World got it's own separate campaign in Bowser's Fury.

Oh, and I thought Sonic Origins was a great compilation with a ton of content. I've heard hardcore fans complain about the emulation quality, but as a more casual Sonic fan, I thought it was perfectly fine--just like Colors Ultimate.

This is coming from a guy who has always wanted to like Sonic but just saw the franchise as mediocre. My first Sonic games as a kid were Sonic and the Secret Rings, followed by the Wii version of Sonic Unleashed--both of which I traded in to GameStop, and I pretty much NEVER did that as a kid, so that's how you know I hated them!

But between the more recent games, the movies that are way better than they have any right to be, and even stuff like Sonic's inclusion in Super Monkey Ball and Samba de Amigo... I really couldn't be more satisfied. Even Sonic Dream Team and that new Fall Guys clone look pretty great, and I'd love to see them come to consoles someday.

Hopefully the Sonic Adventure fans will finally get both those games on modern platforms in the next couple years (which I also never played), whether it's ports or ground-up remakes. But beyond that... I really don't know what more SEGA can do that they haven't already.

I used to be right there with you in thinking that the Sonic franchise had violated my trust, but I dunno, man. He's really proven himself to me over thr last several years. That's not to say Sonic fans will never get burned again, but I think there's been way more hits than misses lately, and the future looks bright for the blue blur.

No, waiting for the next 2D Sonic.

Already got it on my Series S, since how could I not? Generations is the game that solidified my interest in the franchise after only sporadically checking things out for it over the last ten years. If you can count Adventure 2, Heroes, R, 3D Blast, Mario & Sonic at the Olympics, Advance 1 + 2, and Sonic X sporadic.

Either way, Generations is a special one for me, and I do love Shadow, so that extra content is going to be loved by me just as much, I feel.

Pre-ordered from Amazon, but the problem with that is that it doesn't get here fast enough, like Sonic said about Crack-Ups Magazine.

I'd rather buy it on Switch just for convenience so I'm waiting on reviews. If the game runs like garbage, then I will begrudgingly get it on PS5.

I'll be opting in for the PS5 version whenever I have the time to play it. For now, I'm just slowly working on my Switch backlog.

I'm getting on Switch. I could care less about performance, I just wanna play the game about a Kellogg's reject that goes fast

No, because I already have Sonic Generations on two other releases, and Shadow isn't a very interesting character.

Waiting for a steep discount. That’s typically what I do with Sonic titles, especially remakes/remasters (well, this one is only half a remaster lol). And I’ll probably get it on my PC to run it at 4K/120. Very grateful to have a powerful setup for such a high speed game.

Not into buying Sonic games, but I'm interested to see Shadow's story

Need to see some Switch reviews first. It would be daft to buy it before then. However, providing it's good, I will likely pick it up.

I might wait, just because if it's true the Switch successor was originally planned for this holiday, then they likely were working on a version of the game for it (hopefully running at 60fps!). I don't think I can go back to 30fps Generations.

Really excited for this, will be playing it as soon as my physical copy arrives.

Already playing on Xbox One!

Preordered on PS4… But considering the Switch version one day now I’ve seen some videos. This might just be Sonic Teams most stable running 3D game on the Nintendo’s hardware yet. A locked 30FPS to match its original 360/PS3 console experience is really all we could have asked for on Switch.

@Isaix Shadow “game” you mean. This is actually 2 complete game experiences on one cartridge. Shadow ain’t getting no Sonic Forces Episode BS this time thankfully 🙂

@Sonicka Yeah, but it's still not enough for me to get it

@Isaix completely fair if not for you 🙂

I will say though… playing through this now, I am actually surprised that Shadow Generations is the bigger title of the two games. If we include the incoming movie DLC there are 7 worlds with 2 Acts, and there seems to be a lot more original content and courses from the bonus challenges - and of course the 3D white space hub is its own Frontiers style open zone which has quite a lot more to do than Sonic Generations white space ever offered.

Initially in my head I had equated this to be the Bowsers Fury of Super Mario 3D World, but that isn’t the case and it’s quite the reverse. It’s very weird how this title has been marketed by SEGA and not pushed harder that it’s a brand new game that just happens to have Sonic Generations as the bonus side content.