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  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 SONIC COLORS ULTIMATE ANNOUNCED LESS FUCKIN GO!!! Background and History Like previous handheld entries (in the 2000’s), Sonic rush was developed in part by Dimps. Prior to it’s release, there was a demo game for the DS titled, well, “Sonic DS,” in which the player rubbed the DS touch screen back and forth to make Sonic go faster. As far as I can tell this demo didn’t really go anywhere - most likely it was a demo created solely for E3 and even if that wasn’t the case it definitely didn’t move forward in development. Granted I don’t really think that’s a huge loss considering I don’t really see how a Sonic game where you just rub the DS screen back and forth would be good or fun at all, but whatever. But either way, Sonic Rush would begin development and was revealed at E3 2005. The game ...

  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 we really do live in a society. Background and History I couldn’t really find much about this game’s development, but with this game, Iizuka, who led the game’s development with Yuji Naka, had wanted to attract an older audience for the Sonic series. The team had decided to make a game featuring Shadow that story-wise would build on his characters from the previously unsolved mysteries that were revealed in Sonic Adventure 2 and Heroes. Supposedly, Sega had originally aimed for a T rating, but around that time the ESRB created a new E10+ rating, so they decided to censor some of the content to allow Shadow the Hedgehog to achieve that rating. Honestly it feels kind of odd that this game and Super Mario Odyssey have the same ESRB rating but… whatever. The game was officially announced on M...