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Sonic Superstars: Frustrating Bosses
Oct. 8th, 2024 02:55 pmI've been playing Sonic Superstars and while I enjoyed it I must say that the final bosses were extremely frustrating. The final boss of the story mode was, as in most Sonic games, Eggman/Robotnik and while there were bits which seemed impossible at first eventually I was able to learn the patterns and all that and defeat him.
This unlocked "Trip's Story" which was a hard mode in which you could only use Trip who's new and a lizard. On the whole, a nice way to play the game again, until the final boss who is Nack the Weasel/Fang the Sniper or whatever they're calling him these days and he has a bunch of moves which will automatically kill Trip, including one where he launches her at the screen and she smacks against it which just seemed like it was adding insult to injury. And once you've done enough damage to him he pulls out this move which destroys 90% of the ground. Yet, after a while, I was able to figure something out the best way to get out of everything's way and finally best him.
Finishing this unlocked "The Last Story" in which Super Sonic has to fight a massive dragon, and it's a fight whose only real difficulty is getting enough rings to maintain the Super Sonic form because without it you die. And you lose a ring every second and while there's rings floating around, you're entirely at the mercy of what the game wants to give you and there were several times when one of Sonic's allies were about to come give him some rings when the dragon would take over the screen and all those rings would just be lost. Also, there's only certain times you can damage the dragon so a lot of the time you're just flying around trying desperately to grab as many rings as you can while you wait to attack. I managed to get to the second part of the fight (all three boss fights have multiple parts and if you die during any point you have to start over which certainly isn't a surprise but makes each attempt a marathon) with 80 rings one time and still lost because I ran out during what I hope was the dragon's final attack. Eventually I just said, "No more!" and decided that the dragon can do whatever it's trying to do if the game isn't going to give me the necessary tools to defeat it. Perhaps someday I'll try again.
All in all, Sonic Superstars is a good game with some extremely frustrating final bosses. At least it gives you unlimited lives, which definitely takes a little sting out of it.
This unlocked "Trip's Story" which was a hard mode in which you could only use Trip who's new and a lizard. On the whole, a nice way to play the game again, until the final boss who is Nack the Weasel/Fang the Sniper or whatever they're calling him these days and he has a bunch of moves which will automatically kill Trip, including one where he launches her at the screen and she smacks against it which just seemed like it was adding insult to injury. And once you've done enough damage to him he pulls out this move which destroys 90% of the ground. Yet, after a while, I was able to figure something out the best way to get out of everything's way and finally best him.
Finishing this unlocked "The Last Story" in which Super Sonic has to fight a massive dragon, and it's a fight whose only real difficulty is getting enough rings to maintain the Super Sonic form because without it you die. And you lose a ring every second and while there's rings floating around, you're entirely at the mercy of what the game wants to give you and there were several times when one of Sonic's allies were about to come give him some rings when the dragon would take over the screen and all those rings would just be lost. Also, there's only certain times you can damage the dragon so a lot of the time you're just flying around trying desperately to grab as many rings as you can while you wait to attack. I managed to get to the second part of the fight (all three boss fights have multiple parts and if you die during any point you have to start over which certainly isn't a surprise but makes each attempt a marathon) with 80 rings one time and still lost because I ran out during what I hope was the dragon's final attack. Eventually I just said, "No more!" and decided that the dragon can do whatever it's trying to do if the game isn't going to give me the necessary tools to defeat it. Perhaps someday I'll try again.
All in all, Sonic Superstars is a good game with some extremely frustrating final bosses. At least it gives you unlimited lives, which definitely takes a little sting out of it.
