WorthTheWait

Elden Ring is a beautiful game that is well designed and filled a refined level of polish and care, there are many aspects of this game that the average developer would never even consider in terms of creating an open world of this scale and filling it with this many meaningful interactions, exploratory rewards and overall gameplay feel, however where they fell through was with the lack of idle animations. The player character (Tarnished) has no idle animation for when people walk away from the their controller although the game istelf is filled with a number of animations for the tarnished to be able to complete at the press of a button a lack of idle waiting animation to help characterize the tarnished or at least as a small flourish for the player is abysmal especially considering the fact that this game is filled with a number of small things that many would overlook in such a large game. WIth people going out of their way to design a mod for idle animations. Quite disappointed

The character of sonic is known for two things, speed and chili dogs. This love for speed combined with his already youthful and cocky nature come forward beautifully in his idle animation for this game. Should the player take their hands off the keyboard for around 3 seconds of in-game time he begins to start tapping his foot and looking at his wrist as if being stationary for this long of a time is detrimental or beneath him in some way. Should you wait any longer he lays down and expresses his annoyance with you through a sharp look and a wag of his finger. Overall the idle makes perfect use of sonics youth and drive for speed. On a gameplay level it also forces the player to keep moving, as sidescrolling platformer based mostly on the forward movement of the player, pausing or slowing down in anyway make the game seem less fun and stops the playing from enjoyng the levels to their fullest, blitizing rightward through eggmans foes to help the animals of the forest. The idle speaks not just to sonic wanting to go fast but is a message from the devs themselves. Gotta go fast!

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]