Played this on real hardware for a change and holy fuck I finally get the appeal. Much like most other DS titles, Sonic Rush is just one of those games that works at it's best in a portable fashion and in that context, it's an excellent platformer that evolves the mechanics of the Advance games while inovating vastly on them and setting the ground for the boost formula. It's not a perfect game by any means, the bosses are fucking terrible (like in most Sonic games), and there is an overabundance of bottomless pits among other smaller stuff, but overall Rush is a great game. Also jesus christ the aesthetic here is amazing why did Sega never try something like this again for Sonic.