Sonic Dash+

The guts of the gameplay are fairly solid, but the extrinsic motivations that are on top of them (I.e. everything with the currencies) is totally broken and are clearly a port from the payed version without a clear understanding of what the + version would be. Many of the reviews complain about using red coins for extra lives on a run. That actually seems fine to me, as the cost of continuing a run and going for a high score should be large and increasing to make high scores meaningful. The piece that feels broken to be is the trials system. This is an Apple Arcade game. There is no reason that you would want to introduce friction into playing the game longer without paying, so why do you only get two tasks every hour if tasks are one of the main ways to get gems and experience? You open by getting 10 or so, but then after you complete a task it takes an hour for that slot refresh, or you can pay the primary currency (also used for buying new characters or revives). They don’t store up when not playing, but you get a small stockpile of 6 at midnight. Why is there any friction on this part of the game in the + version? Clearly this was a thoughtless carryover from the F2P version where there is value is adding friction users can pay their way around, but it totally breaks the point of this being in Apple Arcade.

Honestly I feel like they abandoned this version of Dash, other than a FEW new events like the Knuckles series event, the game seems frozen in time just going through the same old characters, literally boot this version up next to the normal non apple arcade dash, everything is different, the UI is different too, frankly it doesn't bother me much as the ui in dash + seems less confusing but it still shows how these aren't updated together, my main issue is the lack of event areas and the lack of new characters, sonic dash gets all these cool new characters and dash + just gets them dripped to it, at least character wise i have not seen ONE special area. I also don't really like how you have to wait a whole week to get a new character, i'd like there to be more interesting ways to unlock more characters like in sonic dash regular or even mario kart tour. I really dont understand why they can't just have these two be updated together, if this was up to date then yes, it would be perfect. Honestly i could recommend this if you really don't care much about the characters and areas and just want a quick time killer, or if you want to play the old sonic dash, but if you actually like sonic and wanna try out different areas and new characters, be warned this game seems to be frozen in time.

I love this game but getting characters from the areas are kinda a little overly hard when getting to sky sanctuary the animals you would have to play for hours and hours to get them and while yeah there aren’t many areas wich you should add more it still is a little overly hard to get the animals and then when you try to get too new places there are SO many levels you have to get it’s kinda boring until you get too the high enough levels your looking for also can you add more bosses and maybe more characters like infinite? Can you make the rewards for the leaderboard a little easier tho it’s hard to get them and It’s gonna take forever. Ps: Sega your games are great keep up the good work