A delightful platformer with wonderful progression, music, and atmosphere. Tough but fair challenges make you want to keep coming back. The height Sony platformers and Naughty Dog as a whole, if they had kept this quality up with sequels they could have beaten Sonic.

The one (admittedly big) downside here is the save system which makes no sense. That and the racism, but it's Naughty Dog so you know to expect a little bit of that going in.