mephiles_fan2007 Reviews

Sonic the Hedgehog (I) (1991 Video Game)

Sonic is Amazing!!!

[10/10 · 24 April 2009]

This game is great, if you want to know for yourself go play it. There are several ways to get it but its worth it. Sonic is a great game, I recommend it to anyone. Its fast, fun, and challenging. Go play it. I give it a perfect score. The game stars Sonic the Hedgehog trying to stop Dr. Eggman from getting the Chaso Emeralds and ruling South Island. This game is classic. Go play it, its available for download on the Wii's Virtual Console, Xbox Live Arcade, and many great compilation games, you can even probably buy the original cartridge online even.

I recommend this game to any gamer in the US, Japan, and Europe. Please go pick it up and play it, it's great, outstanding, one of the best game of all time, and is better than the newer games, so please go pick it up.

Sonic Heroes (2003 Video Game)

Sonic Heroes, the Game That Brought Me Into the Series!

[8/10 · 24 April 2009]

Sonic Heroes is a fast action-adventure platform game. The game is underrated, in my opinion it one of the best 3D Sonic games to date. This game brought me into the Sonic franchise. I'm not just saying its great just because it was the first Sonic game I got into. I love it because of level design, characters, music, and gameplay. The game is designed like the 2D iterations of Sonic. You play through 2 acts of a level, have a boss after each act, then move on to the next one. You play as 3 characters all in one team which is an interesting choice.

You play as 1 of 4 teams; Team Sonic, Team Dark, Team Rose, and Team Chaotix. As Team Sonic you play as Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles trying to stop Dr. Eggman. As Team Dark you play as Shadow, Rouge, and newcomer Omega each with different goals. Shadow lost his memory and want to know who he is, Rouge wants a supposed treasure belonging to Eggman, and Omega wants revenge on Eggman. As Team Rose you play as Amy, Cream, and Big who are trying to find Sonic. The last team is Team Chaotix who are comprised of Espio, Charmy, and Vector.

The game is fun on the Gamecube, yeah I hate the PS2 version. It controls well except for some issues, the Team system works, and gameplay is fun. Also there are not a lot of cutscenes which add to the fun of the gameplay. The game feels like the classic 2D games and is overall great. I give it an 8 out of 10.

A West Texas Children's Story (2007)

Great Movie, But Some Dark Room Lighting Issues

[9/10 · 24 April 2009]

A great movie. Have Dreams, Will Travel is a film that stars Cayden Boyd as Ben Reynolds, and Annasophia Robb as Cassie Kennington. Both kids set out to Baltimore to live with Cassie's aunt and uncle (Cassie and Ben are not related). They meet a lot of interesting characters and learn a lot about life. They even have a romance part in the story (they get married to each other very early in the movie). Ben wants to be a major league pitcher so you will see him throwing a baseball several times in the movie.

The film is also funny at certain points, not like funny as hysterically hilarious, but funny as in Heh Heh. Like a serious funny. Its hard to explain but it has some pretty good humor. The film has a lot of romance between Cassie and Ben, but not too much. Annasophia performs outstandingly but sometimes it seems like she is not doing well. Cayden Boyd does a great job too.

The movie while great has some flaws. One flaw is that the lighting in the dark rooms is horrendous. I can rarely see Ben and Cassie. In the trailer for this movie it seems like the lighting issue is not there, but it is. I hope the edit this for its US release. Another problem is the movie feels a bit short to me. I watched it on Youtube. It was separated into 8 parts. 7 parts are 10 minutes while the 8th part is 3 minutes. In fact two parts of the movie on Youtube at the end have at least the last quarter of it taken out or blocked, most likely these parts are on the DVD (Brazil only).

Overall a great movie that deserves a release in the US. I hope they release it here and if they don't we should make a petition, or I could import the DVD from Brazil. It gets a 9 out of 10.