Shine Plays Sonic and the Black Knight For 30 Minutes, So You Don't Have To!

Seriously! He did this for the zero's of people who read this site. Or maybe he did this because he loves Sonic. But, if you're someone who says, "I don't know about this game, I wonder what Shine thinks," then this is for you! - RFO ------

Running through stages is very similar to secret rings, however you have full control of sonic instead of auto-running. This games seems much more polished than Secret Rings was in all aspects: graphics, controls, presentation etc.

Sword controls are indeed random waggling, however if you just go nuts you’re not doing to do that well. You have to time your swings as you're running along, so you can maintain a constant running speed, otherwise you're going to end up slowing yourself down and getting a lower ranking. Speaking of which, there's an honor ranking that goes up and down depending on whether you attack enemies or villagers.

No repeating stages like in Secret Rings, either, unless you want to. You can repeat stages to increase your star ranking, or to gain more followers and items to ID for the treasury. But if you want you can just go from new stage to new stage and not worry about them. Like in Secret Rings though, some parts of "new" stages in the same area will consist of small sections of previous stages, giving you a larger scope of the whole area. (Like the first area is Misty Lake and there's several stages and boss fights surrounding it)

Overall, I would say this is a slightly better game than Secret Rings, and it's deserving of those 8.0's it got. Matt (from IGN) may have thought this was a 3.9, but I've played worse games on Wii that have gotten 6's and 7's from him, so whatever. He's entitled to his opinion.

- Shinget64