An educational Sonic game that controls like Doom (but with no shooting, although Dr. Robotnik is pretty terrifying in this). This was created for PC and really feels like a different game with a Sonic license slapped on top.

You move around a corridor with four main rooms: two maths, spelling and reading. All of these work in the same way: there’s a large central room with lots of either numbers, letters or pictures on balloons and blackboard with questions. You pick up the answer from the room and take it to the blackboard to unlock a door. This will lead to more questions/doors and then you can collect your reward: either a Sonic play token, a field trip bus token or a key to skip a door. In half of the middle room, there is monstrous Dr Robotnik who will eat the items you have picked up.

You can set difficulty levels from kindergarten to fourth grade (although I have no idea what ages they represent). I found the spelling one on the highest difficulty to be quite hard, especially as multiple words can sometimes “fit” and you have to waste guesses trying various words that would fit the spaces, but isn’t what the game wants.

In the garden are two games you can play: one has you running around collecting rings, the other is the memory game “pairs” with statues. You can also go on a field trip where you can listen to the various characters (all different animals) say facts about themselves.

It’s fine for an educational title, but it really does feel like they took something else, threw in Sonic and put up some Sonic posters in the rooms.