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NOTE: This review is part 7 in a retrospective of the Sonic franchise. Feel free to read the other Sonic reviews I’ve done here - https://expithecat.blogspot.com/search/label/sonic%20retrospective Well, guess I’m going back a bit here. I know I reviewed Sonic Adventure and chronologically the next game I would review should be Sonic Adventure 2, but I did say at the beginning of my Sonic Adventure review that I wanted to review Knuckles’ Chaotix and 3D Blast but didn’t feel I had enough to say. Plus another part of it was that I got a Sega Dreamcast of my own as well as a copy of the game so as a result I just kind of went with a playthrough of that. But then I posted that review on the r/SonictheHedgehog Discord and a certain… someone there was going to lynch me if I went back on what I said about reviewing Knuckles' Chaotix and 3D Blast in addition to a couple other games I mentioned, so… I guess here we are now. It’s not exactly as fresh in my mind now, but whatever. Background ...

In April, I did a countdown of my Top 5 Favorite Consoles of All Time alongside a few honorable mentions. But alongside that list, I wanted to take a look at what were my “favorite” games of all time. Thing is, there’s a lot of games out there I love. Even with my relatively niche tastes, I can list a number of games that I have greatly enjoyed over the years. Narrowing down that list to just a few favorites requires some thinking on my part. When I think of favorites, I usually have to think of a few questions - Which games had an impact on me in some way, which games did I spend a lot of time playing, which games do I still have a lot of fun replaying even as I’ve grown older and years have past? And as I answer those questions, I come to a decision upon what are my favorites of all time, and now, I’m here to rank my Top 10. Before I do so, however, I have set a few rules for myself. The main one, one that’s common in these “top favorites” list, is that I can’t add more than one game...

NOTE: This review is part 6 in a retrospective of the Sonic franchise. Feel free to read the other Sonic reviews I’ve done here - https://expithecat.blogspot.com/search/label/sonic%20retrospective To be honest, I kind of wanted to cover Knuckles’ Chaotix and Sonic 3D Blast before I got to Sonic Adventure, but after playing through the former I really didn’t feel like I had much to say and I ultimately came to the conclusion that I wanted to focus on the main series for now. So here’s Sonic Adventure. As we all know, Sonic was once a great series of 2D games for the Sega Genesis. But the series sure has had a rocky transition to 3D. I mean, just look at this game and these weird glitches that happen in this loop dood. And then after this game, Sonic would kiss the girl and turn into a Werewolf. In fact now that I think about it, Sonic was never actually good. Everyone just simultaneously were brainwashed into thinking the series was good when the level design is all wrong. I mean come o...

And with the Nintendo 64 out of the way, it’s time to move on to the next Nintendo console, the Nintendo GameCube. So, the Nintendo 64 was a fairly successful system, selling over 32 million units, which isn’t a bad number, but when you stack it up against the PS1’s over 102 million units sold, it was still blatantly the underdog between the two consoles. This can be largely attributed due to the system’s use of cartridges leading to various third party companies, especially Square, to flock over to the PlayStation. But with that aside, the next generation of gaming began with the release of the Dreamcast and PlayStation 2, leading Nintendo to make their next console. Originally, the GameCube was codenamed as “Dolphin,” and utilized IBM’s PowerPC architecture and ATI’s graphic power. The system was released in 2001, and was available at a lower cost for the PS2 and original Xbox, particularly due to using miniDVDs as opposed to regular sized discs. The system would gain a followin...