Not going to lie, I have a lot of mixed thoughts on this game. While there is a lot to love here, like the music and the introduction of Blaze, the level and boss design is some of the most infuriating Sonic content I’ve ever played.

My biggest issue with this game was how many levels had many hard to see bottomless pits, causing me to unfairly get game overs over and over. This would be fine, if it didn’t send me back to act 1 every single time this happened. It was genuinely so infuriating.

At one point, I almost quit the entire game over this. Last minute, I decided to try out an infinite lives mod since I was playing on my hacked 3DS, and honestly that solved the issue for me.

Bosses on the other hand are just not very good. Most of em are “watch the boss do an animation for 30 seconds, then you can attack” and it got quite old. Doesn’t help that every boss takes 8 hits to take down either.

While I do like a lot in this game like of these issues, they are too big of issues for me to easily overlook. I have heard this game’s sequels fixed these issues, so I’m excited to eventually check them out! Also Blaze rules, she’s so cool.