Rule 1 of Backloggd: Never expect quality from a game Sonic fans are calling "surprisingly good".

Superstars is a mediocre 3DS game walking like a 60 dollar release. Just because they copied Sonic Mania's physics doesnt excuse the massive downgrade in level design, horrible boss fights and tone deaf soundtrack. I do like some ideas here, like Emeralds giving you powers you can use during levels, but they're half broken and half useless, so I see why it hasn't been done before.

This game would be fine if it came out in 2014 for the 3DS or Vita, but it's kind of pathetic to play now after Mario Wonder. Arzest and Sonic Team continue to be the most incompetent game developers still in business. To give it some credit, I enjoyed it far more than last year's "Sonic First Unreal Engine Project."

Reviewed on Oct 25, 2023


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