Given that Veradux has a very poor physical power stat, when he cannot use Electro Bolt, or when he isn’t using it effectively, he becomes extremely passive, not capable of generating much, if any, offense at all. However, the potential for this to be useful is all but dashed by the mechanics of the game itself, which prevents the player from controlling or, like “Sonny” 2, even influencing Veradux’s actions, which will very often lead to Veradux using Electro Bolt one or two turns too early, rendering it useless. Electro Bolt does solid damage, and removing a random buff can have some oddly clutch moments. While his Area Heal and Heal are quite helpful in the early stages of the game, as the player advances deeper in the game, they will likely think to themselves “Jeez, Veradux is friggin’ useless” at least a dozen times per World.Īll told, Veradux has two damaging attacks: Attack (which everyone in the game gets) and Electro Bolt. While Veradux’s character isn’t impacted by what you do in game, though, it is unfortunate to say that Veradux is much, much less useful in this game than in past editions. Funny, but capable of getting down to business when the series antagonists, the Zombie Pest Control Incorporated (ZPCI), come knocking on the door. The arrogant, funny, comic relief that this game needs.
The return of Veradux: “I’m gonna knock you silly!” and plenty of other trademark one-liners return along with Sonny’s best pal, the robotic humanoid-ish Veradux. However, the attempt at giving the player variety in their playstyle is a good sign that the company at least tried to give the game more replay value than its predecessors. Unfortunately, the game itself is extremely hostile to many of these options except for a few “optimal” combos, and certain combos (such as Physical + Fire) are downright unviable to the point where it becomes literally impossible to complete the game with them. Well, at least it SHOULD have been that way. In this game, you eventually unlock and choose any duo of a total of seven elements - leaving way for 49 total different combinations the player could choose, to truly give their game variety and added meaning. “Sonny” 2017 blows this out of the water. “Sonny” 2017 allows for a greater variety of gameplay strategies, but many of those options just don’t pan out. “Sonny” 2 took a more advanced approach, offering the player three different “elements” they could explore to give their character more powers, with differing playstyles depending on the element. Much, much more elemental flexibility in playstyle (at least, in theory): “Sonny” 1 brought to the table a simple “walk up to the enemy and bash his brains out” type of RPG gameplay. “In this game, you eventually unlock and choose any duo of a total of seven elements - leaving way for 49 total different combinations the player could choose, to truly give their game variety and added meaning.”įirst, let’s start off with what the third iteration of the game did correctly:ġ. “Sonny” 2017 gives the franchise new life on iOS and Steam. The franchises’s gimmick is that you play as a zombie, the titular Sonny, in a post-apocalyptic world in which you fight with traditional RPG mechanics.
What could be the harm in making a third? The “Sonny” franchise reached moderate fame in the mid-late 2000s on sites that hosted flash games, like Kongregate and Newgrounds. That said, it’s not all gloom and doom here, because as I said, the first two “Sonny” games were certainly solid in their own right. And yet, it came anyways, stumbling onto the game marketplace in 2017. They were pretty good flash games, not “Shenmue II.”Įven though award-winning music director David Orr performed debatably his finest work in the first two games, it was not enough to give the franchise that kind of following. The first two games, while pretty good in the case of the first, and great for its time in the second, weren’t so unbelievably incredible that they were going to be engraved into the average gamer’s memory for a whopping eight years.
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That’s probably because, until the tail end of 2017, the franchise was defunct, lacking a title since 2008, without one being confirmed to even be in development until very late in 2016, about 6 years after anyone who like the first two “Sonny” games or their flash brethren stopped caring about the series and flash games in general. When talking about contemporary gaming, and what dominates the interwebs of today, the “Sonny” franchise is hardly, if ever, mentioned.
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