Fellas, I must confess: this is my favorite 8-Bit Sonic game, and by a long shot. And this came after playing pretty much all of the other gamegear games. Sonic 2 and Triple Trouble were decent, Sonic Chaos was meh, and Sonic 1 was good, but somehow I enjoyed more my run with Sonic Blast. In fact it got to the point this was the first VC game I ever bought on 3ds. I tend to replay it about once every two years and I never stop having a "blast" if you will. I really dig Sonic's double jump, the music on the latter stages is either atmospheric or catchy, the true final boss theme in particular is the only final boss theme out of the 8bit Sonic games that does feel like an actual emotional final boss theme and is my favorite tune of all 8bit Sonic. Playing as knuckles is kinda jank ngl but still passable. I really can't argue more, it shouldn't be physically possible to enjoy this more than Sonic 1 or Triple Trouble but, to me, that's the case, and I know playing it again won't change my mind nor make me realize the supposed mistakes this game has as I already play this pretty frequently never seeing those mistakes that worsen the experience for others.