Sonic The Hedgehog 4 Reviews

There is a lot of bad things about this game so I will just list it all. First why is there a homing attack in a 2D sonic game? Why is tails only in ep 2 if this is supposed to be a sequel to the original trilogy? Heck, why is this even separated into episodes? The touchscreen controls are AWFUL, half of the time when I want to press the jump button, I press the tails button or whatever it’s called, and vice versa. Why are there 4 zones now, in sonic 2 and 3 and knuckles, each act had 2 zones instead of sonic 1’s 3 acts to keep the zones from getting stale. Also why is there an act specifically for a zone’s boss, why not just put the boss in act 3? White Castle zone(or something like that) act 3 lasts for WAY to long, it feels like it never ends. Why does a SONIC game start with a WATER LEVEL? Why is the game not in a 16 bit style if it’s supposed to be a sequel to the original trilogy? And finally, why do you play as modern sonic and tails instead of the classic ones. So yeah, that’s all the problems I had with sonic 4 episode 2.

I’m here to write an actual review because all the other reviews are fake so here we go.
The unresponsive controls: this game has very unresponsive controls when trying to use Tails, jumping in anyway you want to go, and using your abilities, Sonic is very unresponsive in the game when moving and it shows in Special Stages he turns very slow and the game feels so awful on the Phone. Awful Mechanics: this game has AWFUL MECHANICS, very awful one of the worst out of any Sonic game. The ads: the ads are very consistently annoying when playing, when I pause the game I get an ad when I want to play another level I get an ad, when I retry a level guess what? I GET A AD. I’m not paying for free mode basically it’s not worth my money.
Awful stages and enemies: the enemies in world two are annoying and a very huge difficultly when playing only world 2????? Slylania Castle and Oil Desert aren’t that bad but and other levels after it get way too hard. This game is just awful and I played it so you don’t have to I feel robbed playing a free Sonic game this maybe better then episode 1 but not by much.

So when I first bought this game on my iPad and IPod Touch, the game was perfect. There were no bugs or glitches I could find. Now I have some bugs and glitches that need to be fixed ASAP. Let me address some of the issues.

1. Make it so people who have already bought the game doesn’t need to buy it again. This is not a glitch or a bug but this is something that needs to be fixed. Seeing ads every time you beat a level or retrying gets annoying.
2. I’m not sure if it’s my Ipad’s fault but for some reason I can’t use the dash in the special stages. This makes getting the final Chaos Emearld harder than it needs to be.
3. Again I’m not sure if this is my IPad’s fault but I can’t turn into Super Sonic even after all I got all of the Chaos Emearlds. I tapped on the Super Sonic icon multiple times but Sonic won’t turn into Super Sonic. This makes getting the Chaos Emearlds feel worthless.
4. The controls seem to be worse than it was when I bought this several years ago. For example when I hold down Sonic won’t go down unless I put my finger way down. Also the Tails swimming controls seem to not work properly.

If SEGA can fix these issues then I will make this 5 stars. Then again SonicTheHedgehog4 has not been updated since 8 months ago as of this review so I doubt SEGA will get this.

So I first got this hame when I was around 7 or 8. I enjoyed it a lot especially with there being no ads. Eventually I finished the game, stopped playing it as I started losing interest in sonic and eventually deleted it. I then went on to switching devices when I got my first phone and I decided to download Sonic 4 again to play it after a long time. When I get into SonicTheHedgehog4 , it gets infested with ads everywhere. When I open the game, there’s an ad, when I unpause the game there’s an ad. And I know what you’re thinking, why don’t you just click out of the ads? I would, if the exit button actually worked. Every time an ad pops up, I simply wait the amount of seconds there are before I can click out of the ad. But when I do, it acts as if I’m not pressing exit (not on the video ads but on the picture ads). So in order for me to get out of the ad, I always have to press get and then exit out of SonicTheHedgehog4 Store in order to keep playing, but when I do all the sound goes away and the only way to fix it is if you press pause and go through all that stuff again. I couldn’t even get passed the first level because of this. To make this long review short, please fix this and don’t update it to have more ads cause no one wanted that.

This is a cool game, especially for people like me who don’t have many ways to play the original sonic games, but there are a few things that could be fixed…
First, the controls: the controls are not very responsive and when they do respond they do what you tell them about 1-2 seconds after you have tried to move sonic. They are also rather small, not SUPER small, but a lot smaller than the first sonic game for mobile.
Second, the ads: this game is loaded with ads. Ad almost every time you die, ad almost every time you pause the game, ad almost every time you unpause the game. Now granted you can pay for and ad free version, but for people who don’t want to spend money on games, then the ads are a pain.
In conclusion: the game is fun, but the controls are bad. And the game is so full of ads, it can be hard to play and enjoy yourself completely. (If you’re not screaming at the game because of how aggravating it can be. I mean, come on, it’s a sonic game! All those games are hard!)
Final words: if you want my advise, go find some good emulator and play the original sonic games on those. (Raspberry Pi is good for emulating games)

the game itself is not bad, I especially love the metal sonic boss fight. The entire game is amazing. There is just 2 problems. the controls for tails and sonics are really annoying because when I jump it makes me click the tails and sonic thing and makes me fly. And when I’m on the ground and going to click the jump button i click the tails and sonic thing and it makes me spin dash. When I’m in the water it’s a big problem because I can drown. the other thing that is really bothering are the ads. The ads pop up all the time. When I pause the game and unpause the game the ads
immediately pop up. The ads also pop up every time I beat a level. And when my internet goes away and comes back ads take forever to stop. i do Not want to use my money for no ads.

When I tried to finish Special Stage 4 in this game. It’s getting harder and harder from every level. When it fails I destroy my computer screen monitor on accident because of the special stage trying to get the fourth Chaos Emerald. And just like that, My life is ruined over the stage, not being easy cuz the controls are very decent and it doesn’t feel like the original Sega Genesis Sonic games (Sonic 1, Sonic 2, Sonic 3, Sonic CD, Sonic 3D Blast). In the future I would finish this game if I fix the controls using the mods. My whole life is being destroyed and ruined by the 4th Special Stage trying to get the fourth Chaos Emerald. And the mobile version of this game is very decent because it has ads on it trying to feed people some money. And just like that, I got no monitor, I got no desktop, and I got no life with a computer screen monitor.

This is actually a fun game. After hearing so many bad things of 4, I got a little worry-some, although it's actually pretty good. The homing attack makes things a little too easy; but it's fine. The problem is, though, the controls. The control stick which you use to control Sonic and Tails is pretty bad, and, despite looking the same, is nothing like the ones used in the Christian Whitehead remakes of the originals. First off, it's too small. Not only is it hard to move it around because of this; but your hand is always falling off the stick. My suggestion is to add a ability where you can make the stick larger, or smaller, like in the remakes.
Something else, is performance. There is something wrong with the performance; I don't know if it's frame rate or something else. When standing still, everything likes decently fine. Also, I'm on an Ipad Mini 4, one of the newer devices, so I'm pretty sure it's not on my end.
In the end, a decent game almost completely ruined by controls.

This game is much better then Episode 1 while Episode 1 was pretty bad it wasn’t fun.
The physics were pretty bad Sonic feels like he has no weight to it, he has no momentum to his gameplay when rolling he doesn’t get faster.
His jumps feels very light.
The Spin-Dash doesn’t work well it stops without carrying any momentum and when preforming it on an edge it stops.
All of these were fixed in Episode 2 and it feels much better but the rolling physics still doesn’t feel great sometimes yes but other times no.
It still needs work and there many things that could make this game better.

1. Make the gameplay physics to be exaclty like how it was in Sonic The Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles.
2. Have there be an extra button to switch as Tails
3. Have a button to turn off the Super form from Super Sonic.
4. Add Episode 1 levels into Episode 2 and move Episode Metal in a new file under continue.
5. Bring back the Elemental Shields from Sonic The Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles and another button to use their abilities.
6. Make the gameplay physics for Sonic, Tails and Super Sonic to be exaclty like how it was in Sonic The Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles.
7. Redo the Episode 1 levels with new looks and remove the gimmicks

This is a lot but it may be worth it to make the game better in my opinion and there’s still more things to add on but I think it’s better to make it a shorter list.

Hey Sega, basically I’m not making a review about this game, I’m making a review about Sonic 4 Episode 1 (Had to put my review here because I couldn’t put it on S4E1). Haven’t got a chance to review about Sonic 4 Episode 1 so, I was thinking that you guys should finally put Sonic 4 Episode 1 on the Sega Forever line so it can finally be free, and with that update, make S4E1 be like the PC/Console version, like fix the sound effects and Sega sound, making it normal pitched instead of low pitched, fix Sonic’s opening animation in the title screen, fix the stage select menu music to have it like the PC/Console and S4E2 music, fix the font for the HUD, the score, timer, and pause, to resemble the PC/Console version, change the pause menu to resemble the PC/Console version, improve the graphics/quality, fix Super Sonic’s music to be the PC/Console/S4E2 one instead of the invincibility music and replace the mobile Casino Street act 2 with the PC and PS3/X360 one, that’s all I have to say about S4E1, Episode 2 was good when I first played it though.

This is a childhood classic I remember getting this game on my iPad way back in 2021 and it’s 2024 now so I now have different thoughts on this game now it’s is a classic but it’s just ok. It’s not the worst game ever but it’s not the most great game ever it’s just ok I think if they change the level design a little bit it would be better but the level design is also ok but sometimes the just throws randomly hard parts in the game example oil ocean zone is pretty good zone but there’s one part where the sand rase and it makes the game harder than it should be the metal sonic fight was ok to it could have been better so in conclusion I guess get this game I don’t know it’s your choice oh and episode metal was ok I guess

Okay, I'm going to start this off as bluntly as possible. A while ago, I thought that episode 1 was actually a good game. After looking at the game again though, I take that statement back.

As for episode 2 though, it is INFINITELY better than episode 1. Everything got an upgrade, from Sonic's running animation and physics, to bringing back Tails and Metal Sonic.
(also, thank god they fixed the physics.)

I really enjoyed using Sonic & Tails' Co-Op moves. They all had a little bit of nuance to them, but once you got the hang of it, the levels are a blast to just speed through. Also, there’s a singular Red Ring to find in every level, alongside the 7 Chaos Emeralds. They are really fun to find, despite not getting anything for finding them all.

The only things keeping this from 5 stars are the very jank parts of the game. Sometimes, I get hit by an obstacle or enemy that I clearly shouldn’t have been hit by. Also, there’s Episode Metal, which is supposedly unlocked when you own both episodes 1 & 2. I played episode 1 on my cousin's phone. I don’t own episode 1, yet I've played through the entirety of episode metal.

Still a solid game though.

This game is fantastic! I see a few problems about it that I want to address.

1. Super Sonic does not work on iPads! I tried transferring my data to a phone with GameCenter but that did not work either, so I’m stuck with chaos emeralds that do not work. It took a long time to finish the last 2 emeralds and the hype died.

2. I would improve the joystick a bit, since I have some trouble with it. Maybe a choice of how fluent it is. Also have an option to change where the controls show.

3. I would maybe fix how Tails swims underwater, since it’s a bit too wacky when trying to go up or right. He just kind of goes inconsistently and kind of veers out of direction.

4. Multiplayer! It does not work! I’m playing on iPad (I don’t know if that’s the issue or not), and it never connects. Maybe no one is on? Do I need to be closer to another player? Please fix this if you can!

Honestly, I don’t know what all the hate is about. I loved this game in the lite version when I was little! Now it’s free! However, the only issue I really want fixed is Super Sonic. I’m missing out on a few achievements due to these broken parts of the game. Anyhow, keep making great games!

I know hyper sonic was bad for the eyes because flashing lights and rainbow color but you can make the color silver instead like the fan-art and add the stars behind him just like sonic 2 and remove the flashing attack that make a white screen for 1 second and add the super emeralds and add the palace and add the master emerald for after all super emeralds are collected jump on it and then you unlock hyper sonic and to get in a special stage you need 60 ring and jump in the big rainbow ring and after you get all super emeralds you unlock the palace and jump on the master emerald then go in a act or boss collect 60 rings and press a new button and please don’t make super sonic and hyper sonic the same button make it different so if sega is reading this then please make my suggestion come true.

OK episode one was pretty trash I got to say it had bad controls it just felt so off modern sonic instead of classic seriously is not very fun it’s just rip offs of all levels making them even worse but episode two is much better I really like the level design the concepts tails in the game just looks so much better than episode one with generations coming in between because for Christmas in 2020 in a couple days I will get an Xbox one X with sonic generations and Sonic unleashed those games look pretty amazing to me as well as this one I got to say I like the level design characters tails it’s just I got to say it’s insanely better than everything from episode one is an insane improvement in the final boss I can just make it look so deep and I seriously I am very happy to say I think this is a very nice 2d sonic game

You are on a roll SEGA. i’m really impressed with the games you have made especially this one, I wasn’t able to get my hands on episode 1. but it is OK at least this one is for free! Ann a lot of people don’t pay attention to these type of games but HEY it’s a sonic game for crying out loud am I right, anyways back with the game I really like how you added the chaos emeralds so that you can turn into supersonic but the last two emeralds are very hard maybe try making them a little more easier I know they are supposed to get harder and harder each emerald it takes but how about you try making them is just to give people a chance to get super more easily, also will you bring hypersonic back I know the super emeralds are in another dimension (I read a article about the super emeralds) but can you just involve hyper because hyper is the most powerful even as dark sonic he is the most powerful but I bet dark sonic over come hyper so despite that matter but honestly I really want hyper back because he is the STRONGEST form out of super sonic I know the game is already out but could you try making another version please and thanks, I hope you enjoyed this rate review and I will hopefully see you in another game😉

This game is really addictive to play until I beat just recently, all in a couple days. The game is a great part of my past, as it was my first look into sonic the hedgehog, back in 2013. My only problem is sometimes the game can have some internet connection problems and be a little slow at times, but nothing really to complain about. Really good transfer in my part, from the gameplay to music, it’s not too bad. The only thing I have to confess about is, why is episode 2 free on SonicTheHedgehog4 Store and episode 1 is 2.99? Like it make no sense to give the second game free, but the first not. Because if people play this first and play the original second, it can mess up the entire experience and vibe, so at least make the first free, to be just as popular as the second, if you can. Overall, great game, just one marketing flaw and it’s perfect. So thanks sega!!!
Ps: Still waiting for Sonic 3 and Knuckles and Sonic Spinball Remastered for the complete sonic experience!!!

I have been a loyal fan of your games and love your company. But one thing I do wish you would recreate and bring back is shining force neo. The one hit wonder title that I have adored and cherished since I played the game back in 2007. I see you have the classics here but to me my favorite title was shining force neo. Such a captivating compelling story with such a crafted difficulty and level system that I have not played any other rpg and felt the same way shining force neo made me feel. I hope my review gets read and a thought could spark from your development team to bring this game back. I would gladly pay for it and play the game just like I spent years playing it on my ps2. Even if it’s not for mobile. Just a remake would really make my life complete.

(Best to read if played game before, might spoil) Well well well, sonic 4 episode 2, do I have to say more? The stages are so good as well as the music! however some stages are pretty bad. The final boss is okay and the Sky fortress act 1 is a little boring. But EVERY stage besides those are just pure fun to run through. Sylvania castle zone is a great discount of green hill zone, white park is amazing! (Besides act 3) and oil desert is EXTREMELY UNDERRATED as well as sky fortress. it’s like a ban-aid was put on the physics, there kind of better BUT NOT REALLY. some bosses are so irritating as well but the music is amazing, but the final special stage is the WORST. It requires so much trial and error… instead of you getting 300 rings, you have to get from 100 to 400 rings or else you lose! But the other special stages are good too, and when you get super sonic, he feels so refreshing. Sadly u get nothing for the good ending when you get all the chaos emeralds. With a few shortcomings it by far one of the best sonic games ever.

I know you guys are working hard on every single game but i hate it how they cancled the update for hyper sonic and knuckles for this game. Knuckles was supposed to be in the game but then sega cancled the update so i kinda do not like it that much but it was fun i got all the caos emeralds and ya. I love suprizing metal sonic with super sonic. It’s pretty fun to do. But i also hate about when they cancled the update for hyper sonic and such new levels. I wish that In the next update or game whatever, i really want to see hyper sonic in it. I cant afford the sonic 3 game and i also see why that they canceled the update but i really wanna see hyper sonic and knuckles in the next update so sega that’s why my reasons to give to you why you should give sonic 4 update. I’ve never seen hyper sonic but i loved watching hyper sonic games whatever and such but i never seen him in game. So i think you should add him in The next update. Please sega