The only thing that could have saved Sonic Gems Collection is the extra content, and it fails in this respect too. The only ones worth more than five minutes of your time are the mildly interesting Skypatrol - which, despite being unique in its aerial puzzling action, is still a frustrating chore of a game - and the reasonably competent, but no less tedious, Triple Trouble. The final nail in the coffin has to be the collection of awful Game Gear games, which were pretty terrible the first time around. It's painfully slow and unresponsive, and while there's plenty to master in terms of move sets and combos, we can't imagine anyone wanting to put in the effort when the fighting genre has been refined significantly over the last decade. Sonic R, the Mario Kart-style racer of the pack, while reasonably speedy, is an absolute pig to control, with each racer skating around the circuits with all the grace of an inebriated toddler.įighters isn't too hot either, shoe horning Sonic characters into the frankly decrepit Virtua Fighter engine. Which leaves us with the rest of the disc to consider, and we're sad to say it goes downhill rapidly.īoth Sonic R and Sonic The Fighters both look reasonable enough, and the clunky 3D engines powering them both lend a certain charm, but actually playing them is another matter. In fact, the only thing that has stood the test of time is the excellent music, which is hardly a reason to buy Sonic Gems Collection in itself, and will probably only be interesting for the people who played the game the first time around. That's not to say it's a poor game, mind - it's still a very solid and enjoyable platformer, it's just not as good as we remember it being, and we're not quite as forgiving as we were back then. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.To be perfectly honest, some of the level design is also a bit of a mess, feeling unnecessarily slap-dash, unfocused and as it lacks the streamlined purity of the earlier Sonic games, it can often feel like too much of an effort to play. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here.

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