I wanted to really love this game. It seemed like the perfect space game that I've been looking for for a long time. I may have gone in with the wrong expectations which led to multiple instances of major frustration. This made me have to look up guides to various things, where half the time I'm wondering how I was supposed to figure that out, and half wondering how I managed to overlook things that were right in front of me. It's still a great game, but it hurts that I missed my opportunity to love it.

Fantastic game. The music, visuals, balancing, and characters are all great. Feels surprisingly modern for a JRPG made in 1995 so a great place to start if you are getting into retro RPGs for the first time. Only gripe is some of the best character moments are optional events near the end of the game with very hard to find triggers that I absolutely needed a guide for multiple times. Overall an awesome game. Also I first try'd the final boss. 😎

Played on PS1 so the anime cutscenes were a plus but has 5 second loading times when going in and out of menus and saving, which slowed the pace a bit. Still a great affordable way to play on a home console.

While this is missing the variety of games that were available in previous collections, this is a fantastic way of playing the core Sonic games from the Genesis as one continuous story. Anniversary mode features the games in widescreen with infinite lives and the Drop Dash ported from Sonic Mania which make for a fun way to play these games with less of the headache. The Museum features a good amount of artwork such as original concept art and awesome classic sonic illustrations, though its sad you can't play songs from the museum while browsing for some reason. The inclusion of Game Gear games is strange to have without Genesis or Master System games included as well. This was my first time beating each game collecting all of the emeralds (and time stones) and it was awesome.
My niece had fun playing as Tails :)