Mal abgesehen davon dass die riesigen prerendered Sprites eine saudumme Idee für eine Konsole mit Screencrunch sind, hat man auch das Gefühl dass man auf halber Strecke bei diesem Spiel aufgegeben hat weil der Game Gear eh kurz vorm Sterben war.
Zum einen wirkt es einfach so uninspiriert (ich meine, nach Green Hill Zone kommt Yellow Sand Zone, Red Volcano Zone und Blue Marine Zone), Level wirken oft einfach so als latscht man durch ohne das viel passiert. Features sind entweder auch uninspiriert, wie etwa so ein Spindash betriebener Aufzug, der wenig bringt wenn man mit Knuckles daneben herklettern kann, ohne einfach frustrierend. Letzteres geschieht besonders in der Blue Marine Zone, wenn Sonic-Unterwasserlevel mit diesen grausigen Röhrenlabyrinthen kombiniert werden, garniert mit lustigen Wasserströmen, die einen bei einer falschen Bewegungen mit der übergroßen Spielfiguren durchs halbe Level zurück torpedieren. Wofür man halt so Sonic spielt.
Nichts an diesem Spiel gibt einem das Gameplay, was man haben möchte, wenn man einen Sonic-Plattformer haben möchte, oder eine gute Zeit.

It has a Double Jump, so I have to give it +1 star.

That said, this game is a hate crime to the eyes, but I did have more fun with it compared to 8-Bit S1 and 8-Bit S2, somehow lmao

Mandatory "Brasil número um do mundo ☝️☝️☝️☝️", considering the Master System port.

Urgh, hands down one of the worst Sonic games I’ve played, Sonic Blast is an ugly mutt of a game that barely warrants discussion.

It’s a 2D sonic game where you play as either Sonic or Knuckles, and platform through a few zones. There’s chaos emeralds to find and bosses to beat, it’s all very fundamental.

The game looks atrocious, it was a bad attempt to use the pre rendered graphics of Sonic 3D Blast on much weaker hardware and the result not only looks ugly, but it impacts the gameplay. There is no natural flow to the characters, the zones are completely unremarkable and generic, and the bosses are fairly inoffensive.

There’s not really.. anything I like about Sonic Blast, I suppose it’s cool that Knuckles is playable on the game gear, but his glide isn’t very helpful, Sonic gets a double jump which is better for this game, but it’s this game.

The special stages are so terrible, barely any view and massive amounts of delayed movements, and getting the emeralds just isn’t worth it.

Also shout out to Blue Marine Zone, it’s my least favourite stage in the franchise. It’s confusing, it lags like crazy, there’s not enough water bubbles and there’s invisible currents that push you around making platforming feel impossible.

Don’t play this, it’s awful, one of the worst Sonic has ever seen.

Honestly, this game feels like a bootleg, every part of it is just horrendous. First of all, there are the graphics, which goes for a “Donkey Kong Country” style of making sprites from a 3D model. But this is running on a Game Gear, which is not made for detailed sprites. The animation is also very limited, so Sonic just looks completely wrong on slopes. The backgrounds are just an ungly mess as well, with little consistency to the style.

The levels are also either boring or frustrating. Due to the graphics, Sonic can’t move fast, so Sonic Blast instead focuses on more maze-like levels, making you guess at where you need to go next. This goes beyond frustrating in the Blue Marine level, which features currents and pipes to go through. You just get thrown about a lot, just hoping that the next pipe will let you progress. The length of time Sonic can hold his breath also changes depending on what part of the level you are on.

The final level features lots of teleports, so it’s trial and error to find your way through it. It’s not fun in the slightest. You don’t even have any nice music to make it bearable, the music in Sonic Blast can be described as “background noise” if you want to be polite. Sonic Blast is just an awful game in every aspect.

Sonic Blast is just unremarkably bad. The graphics are an ugly mish-mash of nasty crunched 3D effect sprites and recycled assets from different games with clashing artstyles, the levels are very basic in design made up from very simple square shapes and tubes, and the controls/physics/momentum just all feel weird and bad. It plays like kinda like an NES bootleg platformer but laughably easy. Once again the Chaos Emeralds are a stupid treasure hunt except this time if you fail the special stage you have to restart the entire game to try again because the big ring won't respawn, I did about four laps of the game before just giving up. Music was a whole load of nothing, forgettable but not grating. Look!