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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 Now that Sonic Colors Ultimate has come out and I reviewed that, it’s time to move onto Sonic Colors! Background and History After working on the Rush series, I guess Dimps was assigned to instead work on separate versions of Sega’s main console titles. This trend started with the Wii and PS2 versions of Unleashed, but this was the first handheld title developed by Dimps to share it’s name with the coinciding main console release. That’s… really all I could find about the game’s development. The game is often considered the de facto third Sonic Rush game due to using the same formula with some minor changes. And while most people tend to remember Sonic Colors in it’s Wii form, there are many who argue that it’s DS counterpart is just as good if not better than the Wii game. Personal Exper...

  NOTE: This review is… KIND OF 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 Well gang, Sonic Colors Ultimate is out, and being the certified virgin I am, I decided to pre-order it, beat it, and well… now time for the review! I’m going to preface this by saying that I will be reviewing this as a remaster. I reviewed the original game not so long ago, which you can read here . This review won’t take the form of my more traditional reviews where I separate gameplay, presentation, story, history, and so on into their own categories and will largely just be comparing this game to its original Wii counterpart - talking about what I think it does better, what it does worse, and how I feel about it as a remaster and modern port of, well, one of my favorite Sonic games and potentially one of my favorite games of all time. In case you didn’t already know, this yea...