Fully rendered graphics thrust Sonic into an exciting 3D playing environment. An all new gameplay perspective puts you in the middle of Sonic's 3D adventure! The evil genius Robotnik is after the Chaos Emeralds and it's up to Sonic to stop him. Rescue the innocent Flickies before Robotnik turns them into part of his evil plan! Sonic Blast was the last Sonic game for the Game Gear. The game was also ported to the Sega Master System in Brazil by TecToy and released in December 1997, making it the last game ever made for that system. While this game was released at the end of 1996 in conjunction with the similarly named Sonic 3D Blast, it is worth noting that the two games have little in common. No enemies, levels, or bosses, are shared between the games. The story is also completely different. Sonic and Knuckles join together to collect five of a Chaos Emerald's pieces and confront Dr. Robotnik at Silver Castle.
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That said, this game is a hate crime to the eyes, but I did have more fun with it compared to 8-Bit S1 and 8-Bit S2, somehow lmao
Mandatory "Brasil número um do mundo ☝️☝️☝️☝️", considering the Master System port.
It’s a 2D sonic game where you play as either Sonic or Knuckles, and platform through a few zones. There’s chaos emeralds to find and bosses to beat, it’s all very fundamental.
The game looks atrocious, it was a bad attempt to use the pre rendered graphics of Sonic 3D Blast on much weaker hardware and the result not only looks ugly, but it impacts the gameplay. There is no natural flow to the characters, the zones are completely unremarkable and generic, and the bosses are fairly inoffensive.
There’s not really.. anything I like about Sonic Blast, I suppose it’s cool that Knuckles is playable on the game gear, but his glide isn’t very helpful, Sonic gets a double jump which is better for this game, but it’s this game.
The special stages are so terrible, barely any view and massive amounts of delayed movements, and getting the emeralds just isn’t worth it.
Also shout out to Blue Marine Zone, it’s my least favourite stage in the franchise. It’s confusing, it lags like crazy, there’s not enough water bubbles and there’s invisible currents that push you around making platforming feel impossible.
Don’t play this, it’s awful, one of the worst Sonic has ever seen.