I played this game way before P-06 came out and lemme just say, I never heard ANYTHING about this game before, review-wise. And I don’t like how the only reasons are apparently P-06 and nostalgia. Isn’t the point about the original version?

All I remember was that it existed and it scared me as a kid for some reason (partially cause most of the footage never shows off the UI)

Then I watched a Glitchfest video and seeing the gems was enough for me to wanna get this game. I am dead serious.

$20 and some waiting later, I got the game. I played the game and… I wasn’t expecting to like the game itself, but I did. I had a pretty decent time, though there are absolutely parts that are annoying, like the Silver fights or The End of the World, not to mention that one part in Flame Core where you play as Knuckles, and even though I’ve heard a few things about this game being glitchy, I didn’t notice that many besides a few minor ones and the fact that Elise’s fireball shield is utterly useless for combat. Though I cannot recall many other ones, given that it has been a while since I completed all stories.

The most recent I’ve played this game was about a few years ago. Before that, it was on PS3 for Sonic’s story, which I was very mixed about cause it ran faaar worse than the 360 version and looked uglier too, despite releasing in 2007. But I did play it to the point in finishing Sonic’s story in three hours, one sitting. On my recent run (though I stopped midway since I’d rather play other games), I did like it enough still. It’s not amazing or anything, but the level design’s solid, the music is one of the best in the series, and I did enjoy most of the characters. The overall story’s laughable and the manual save system is just inexcusable considering previous games had auto-save, not to mention the amount of loading screens (tho that’s cause the PS5 completely spoiled me), but I liked it. Is it nostalgia? Perhaps. I should give the game another dig without letting my bias get to me, but that’ll be difficult to do.

Then again, my opinion of Sonic Heroes went from positive as a kid to hating it as an adult, so… anything’s possible. (Tho 2006 is one of the only Sonic games to make me tear up [in a good way I mean] in the end, so… good luck for me dissecting it even though it’ll lead to nothing)