Simply one in all my favourite video games from final 12 months was Sonic Dream Staff, developed by Hardlight and launched solely for Apple Arcade. It ruffled a bunch of feathers on the time as a result of it’s a recreation that, knowingly or not, feels prefer it was throwing again to the unique period of 3D Sonic video games on the Dreamcast, and it featured quite a lot of characters which can be fan-favorites however aren’t frequently seen in different video games. Placing all that behind a requirement to have Apple Arcade as a way to play is the feather-ruffling half, however no matter how you are feeling about that Sonic Dream Staff is a wonderful new 3D Sonic recreation which is one thing that’s tougher to return by than it may appear. We loved it quite a bit in our assessment and selected it as our Sport of the Week when it launched this previous December.
In addition to being tied to Apple Arcade, the one different actual grievance I’ve seen about Sonic Dream Staff is that it’s slightly brief on content material. If you happen to’re simply breezing by means of the sport to completion I can see how that’s true, however there’s a whole lot of worth in going again to seek out all of the collectibles and whatnot, a few of that are extraordinarily well-hidden. There’s additionally weekly Tails Challenges with leaderboard help, which form of remixes layouts and challenges from present ranges to offer you one thing new to do every week. It’s effective… however there might be extra.
Effectively, this afternoon, there WILL be extra. The primary main content material replace for Sonic Dream Staff is arriving as I sort this. It would add Time Trials to each stage, so you possibly can compete for quickest occasions on-line in all the conventional marketing campaign ranges. It would additionally characteristic 8 new boss missions in addition to revamped boss fights. One other minor criticism in regards to the authentic launch was overly-easy and form of boring boss fights, so hopefully this helps in that regard. And eventually a rating system is now carried out into the primary marketing campaign ranges so you possibly can work on speedrunning the sport. Gotta go quick! Search for this new replace to go reside shortly, if not already by the point you’re studying this.