This game blows my mind on so many levels. An ancient Sonic SATAM fan game, made for DOS before fan games were really even a thing, ported to the GBA. It's a game that's from a bygone era of the Sonic community, when there wasn't a clear distinction between the mainline and the tertiary media. An era of fansites and watching rips of the show on RealPlayer while people fought about Sally versus Amy.

It's an honest game, and while that might be a bit off-putting at times (it can be pretty edgy), it's done in an earnest way, clearly made by a late 90's teenager. As a slice of history and passion, it's great, as a game, it sucks, and that's okay. I'd much rather a game boldy pour its unrefined heart out to me and fail.

I miss this kind of thing, too much media these days feels the need to be self aware, too afraid to be genuine just in case it comes off as awkward. As if the creators need me to know "Don't worry, we know it's silly!", and fill their work with patronising or ironic jokes. I'm fucking tired of it, give me more games that have scenes where a character tries to kill themselves, the main guy responds with "That's mundo uncool", and it's not played for laughs.