The Adventure World looks pretty nice but made me feel physically sick. I was shocked by how well they were able to transfer over Portal to the Lego format, but they really didn’t manage to pull of Sonic the Hedgehog quite so well. I find these incredibly simple puzzles oddly satisfying normally, but they are an infuriating break of gameplay flow here. This level pack has the same problem, with some fun moments of speed (never as fun as a proper Sonic game mind) hampered by the simple ‘puzzle solving’ that you have in the Lego games. Mario transitioned to 3D perfectly because it was a game about precision and tight control, but Sonic’s speed just doesn’t translate. Somewhat appropriately, the Sonic Lego pack holds essentially the exact same issues as the main series controlling a character like Sonic at high speed through a 3D environment in unbearable. A lot of the locations went over my head, but my depraved Sonic chum seemed to enjoy visiting a bunch of classic locations, so good for him I guess. I’ve played the first one and dabbled with some of the 3D ones from the early 2000s like Sonic Adventure 2 and Sonic Heroes, then more recently Sonic Generations, but it’s not a series I consider to be a real classic. I’m no massive Sonic fan in fact, I picked this up to play with a Sonic obsessed friend of mine (poor bastard) through the local co-op. The core story Level is a decent length and takes in a series of classic Sonic locations from a range of games, from Green Hill Zone through to the first level of Sonic Adventure with the whale. Inside the pack you get Sonic himself, a pointless Sonic car and Tails’ plane.
I’d always choose genuinely good writing, but Sonic is such a poisoned brand at this point that self-mockery does feel like the only real option left. That’s ok though and the writing is decent in that snarky self-aware way that recent Sonic games have fallen into. There isn’t much story apart from Sonic and pals fight to take down Eggman who has nefarious plans. There hasn’t been much that I’ve actively disliked, until the Sonic the Hedgehog Level Pack for Lego Dimensions which is a rather miserable experience. There aren’t many Lego games that you’d be able to call genuinely brilliant, but most operate comfortably at least around ‘good.’ Lego Dimensions has held on to that, with the entire experience operating at the boundary between good and great, which is fine, that’s where the series belongs. Lego Dimensions: Sonic the Hedgehog Level Pack for PS4, Ps3, Wii U, Xbox One and Xbox 360
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