This game, though. Oh, man. This game I had to force myself to make a little review for. I wanted to make one back when I was looking for a mere Review Maker staff position, but couldn't get around to it since the game is so bad. This, in my opinion, is one of the WORST games that Sonic has ever starred in, without a doubt. The game was a glorified easy money project, compared to the other hand held projects Sega gotten, and now I'm going to exploit my opinions of the monstrosity of a port. Now, let's dive right into this game.

Difficulty: 10
Firstly, I do think that the difficulty has both eased itself, but more so gotten really unfair, and that one reason is screen crunch. It is horrendously bad, and more often than not, you will not see anything that will come towards you, and that is a pain in every zone in the game. All of them. Especially in some bosses like in Labyrinth Zone, which you don't know what's going to hit you, Eggman or spikes coming right at you, and this can be rage enduring. It kinda ruins the game on it's own.

Depth: 4
The Depth isn't really changed from the original game, so I didn't really change much, and it is just as short as the original. Just a handful of zones, but the slowdown the game has makes the game a bit longer than it should. I believe that the stuff that they did is pretty much exactly the same thing as you did play it on the Sega Genesis.

Story: 5
Again, the story is the same as the original, Dr. Ivo Robotnik, or Eggman, is gathering critters to have them as robot slaves to have him power up a Death Egg, and Sonic must stop him before he unleashes his weapon of mass destruction. I think the Emerald collecting, which is extremely easy compared to the challenge you had on the Genesis, is quite different. You can get it without a sweat, since it's still plot heavy with Eggman.

Addictiveness: 1
You couldn't have torchured me to play this game like I did. The game not only has slow-down and screen crunch, it has a real bad case of motion sickness. Not the case where I feel I'm going to vomit, but the case that I get a splitting headache of the constant speed up and slow down. The game was made in the Sonic Advance engine, which can't handle so many objects on screen, and it lagged, terribly. It kills me. This is only half the reason I hate this game.

Sound: 2
The music got butchered. Point blank, the remixes they do for the game is absolutely terrible. It doesn't mix at all. The signature music that most of us have grown up with, is now a gargled mess of nothing. It's quite disgusting. However, I'll give it credit, they made...superior remixes exclusive if you beat the game, which is stupid. But that's what they did. Meh. That's the only reason it's a 2 instead of a 1. And with that, is the second half of why I hate this game.

Graphics: 7
Thankfully, they didn't butcher this part of the game. They basically recycled the sprites and everything to go with it from the original. Except the internal mechanics and music. Speaking of mechanics, they also have an Anniversary edition, which brings the spin dash to the game, where it makes most obstacles your whipping boy. Places you weren't suppose to go is now to your disposal. It's pretty broken.

Overall: 4.9
Pretty terrible overall. You can definitely say that most of the categories have pretty much butchered the game that should have been fixed. Luckily, I have heard that someone out there fixed the game with hacks, and actually made this game playable, which sounds amazing. If only Sega did something like that instead of barely trying. Oh well. Just another failed project.

All in all, the game is bad and should be avoided, unless you feel like daring somebody to play it. I'm sure you can buy this in a local store for maybe $5, and if you do, good luck playing that without an emulator. But if you do decide to play it, hey, I won't stop you. Just as long as you don't really get robbed from what you should pay for the game. Enjoy, if you can.

Dang, I don't think I have ever read a review in which somebody did NOT like the game before. I absolutely agree with you on the difficulty part. I have never really been a fan of Sonic games, but if I knew one thing about them, they are really hard to play for me. In most instances, I feel like Sonic is actually moving fast than the screen, and it seems like to me that this game is a prime example of that. How can you move forward in the game when you can't actually see what is coming? Its not possible! But even though you did not like this game, I still think you came through on the review overall. Its the first time a saw a review when the bad tremendously outweighs the good. It was a very interesting read for me. Now I'll have an idea of what a review should look like, should I run into a game I didn't like.