Many people around my age grew up with a SNES. I grew up with a Megadrive, and I have been a Sonic fan for most of my life – through the glorious 16-bit days, the passable jump to 3D with 3D Blast the first two Adventure games, the thoroughly cringeworthy period of the mid-to-late 2000s, and to the present day where Sonic still hasn’t really found his niche but does a pretty damn good job at putting out a good game when effort is put into it, and into being painfully self-aware. If you haven’t watched the Sonic Boom cartoon, you really should. The comics have remained consistently brilliant, too.

I bought this off eBay a few years ago and I can’t remember if I ever actually finished it before now, though.

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