Expi Feliton's Corner

  NOTE: This review is part of 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 Yes, I am still doing this. Background and History Like the first Sonic Advance game, Sonic Advance 2 was developed by Dimps over a period of eight months. With this game came updates to the Sonic Advance engine that, along with the game’s level design, allowed for a greater emphasis on speed and a faster pace for the game in general. Cream was also added to the game - originally planned to be introduced for Heroes but was added to make the game easier for newer players. And that’s about it, I… really don’t have much to say regarding the game’s background and history. Personal Experiences Like the first Advance, I don’t have too many personal experiences with this game to share. Along with the other Advance games, this was just one I wanted to play but never really got around to it until ...

 Last time, I did the first part of my eighth console generation retrospective on the systems themselves - or, at least, the major home consoles. But… what about the games? What games did I really like from this generation? What games did I not like so much? On that note, what about the companies developing the games - what practices have come into play that have resulted in some level of controversy? I think before I start, I should detail what I consider to be an “eighth generation” game. The eighth generation technically started in 2012 with the Wii U (or 2011 with the 3DS if you want to count that), but didn’t really get into full swing until a year later when the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One was launched, plus the Wii U was getting a strong library of games, but even then the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 were still going pretty strong too - both systems were still officially being manufactured until about 2016 and 2017, as well as some minor releases for them through 2018. And the...