sonic robo blast 2 - 9/10
by the mania, for the mania, but not mania, because it's robo blast 2 you idiot
please note: this is a game i have reviewed multiple times! the prior versions of this review will be included below. enjoy!
wowww man. did a repeat playthrough as a palette cleanser after mario 64, this time playing as knuckles, and with that first playthrough down as sonic, seeing this game as knuckles was fucking mindblowing. i dare say that this is toe-to-toe with adventure as being the best 3D sonic, perhaps even exceeding it dare i say. these levels breathe, man, what a truly expansive landscape each offers you. its like having the best parts of sonic's campaign of adventure 1 - red mountain act 1, is what's drawn to mind at present - for an entire game. that degree of open, free-flowing movement, the world being your playground and you having the tools to crack it open as much as you'd like to. knuckles, of course, heightens that feeling; though, there are still paths built around his kit, due to his smaller jumps necessitating alternate paths due to him being unable to reach some obstacles, and frankly, i adore that attention to detail, its just like 3&K and it makes me so happy to see, man. a lot of playable knuckles appearances post-3 just sort of made him have the glide and no other attributes, mostly due to him largely getting unique sections or stages to himself, whereas here, the stages are all the same layouts, just that knuckles can access the different routes. gliding around also lets you take in just how pretty it all looks, i really love the artstyle of this game. its like a dream saturn game that we lost or something, its super cute and charming, especially with the 3d models turned on. this whole game fucking shreds, please play the absolute shit out of it like i have, its worth it if you like sonic, trust.
MANNNNN this shit is tight as hell. genuinely an exact translation of the classic sonic formula into 3d. i personally run a few mods to make it the best it can be to me: AirOptions, ClassicSpindash, ManyMinorTweaks, MovesetTweaks, and L_SapherosDropDashMidSpin. this game, with those mods, and even just the stock campaign, is killer. even if nobody else in my vicinity geeked out nearly as hard as i did over the fact that the special stages are you playing nights into dreams levels which is cool as hell. genuinely unmissable game, please play this if you love Sonic the same as my freakazoid ass does. literally my singular criticism is that the bosses in the latter half of the game kinda blow chunks a little. except that metal sonic race! that shit is fire.
hats off to sonic team junior for still supporting and updating the game to this day, and hats off to the vibrant modding community who gives this game new levels every single day, and has kept me plenty busy since i first found this game when i was 8. so long's passed and yet it's still so kino; even more so, now that it's gotten polished up so much. impresses literally everyone i show it to, and boggles their mind even more when i drop the bombshell on them that this shit is a DOOM mod. fucking crazy amazing work man
