first of all id like to wave a proud middle finger to dimps to altitude limit zone as a whole and to those fuckass rocket shits you gotta grab in a leap of faith superman mentality, and the latter special stages REGARDLESS if theyre cool or not. . .mk now i can talk on this with clear conscience

i almost dropped this game SEVERAL times and wanted to but my wife told me i needed to lock-in and i proceeded to be like this game is on that BULL shit though, but eventually... Eventually.. i Did lock-in and got good .. Eventually!

It's got one of the best soundtracks in the series(of the games ive played thus far), and i love the models i love how crunchy they look, i love the aesthetics of this game and the trick system is really cool and the boost mechanic is Probably my favorite of any sonic game ive played that even has one! And Blaze is awesome and I think her individual story ending was more satisfying than Sonic's on basis alone of her being a character that actually developed in this story

You got everyone from knuckles, cream, tails, amy and the eggmen...eggmans?...the eggmeese! But amy's still her weird boychaser self in this era that they loved leaning into for the sonic x and onward structure of the series until Maybe...Generations??????? idek, im still a relatively new fan LMAO thats just a guess i know it dies down eventually though but I love when Amy's like.. cool..
tails is sweet and cream is arguably second most important side character in all this
this really does feel more like the blaze and cream game than it does the sonic and tails show
which im happy about because from what ive been told this is blaze's best and first game appearance and i think thats just s a d but i do see what people meant
Burning Blaze fucking rules and she rapidly shot up in my faves even before I hopped on IDW Comics or anything like that :) !!
Sucks that Knuckles really is just kindof T h e r e for the game but it wouldnt be the first time Knuckles and Amy are just kinda T h e r e with nothin going on but some neat little interactions so im not pressed.

The zone variety is really cool in Sonic Rush as well as the actual enemies you face CARRYING OFF of enemies from sonic heroes and even adventure 2 badnik design, really caught me offguard. The special stages are also pretty awesome and tense, though i think leaning into touchscreen shit for them made me way more anxious about them than I shouldve been tbh. And thats just a Me thing, probably a lot easier for other people.

The bosses in a graphical standpoint look really cool and I dunno I think id take them anyday over 3/4ths of the bosses from the classic sonic era, fuckedup how they got some with instakills going on though
and thts smthin tht kept pissing me off with this game in particular! there's a lotta shit that you wouldnt know about unless you trial and error your ass off, i got A ranks on some of these fuckin zones and acts and that felt more like a sink or swim mentality thing rather than something i WILLINGLY wanted to do
I wound up doing that because of how crazy some difficulty spikes can be in this game and wariness over enemy placements and grabbing as many rings as i can to stack those fucking extra lives.
The final boss surprisingly enough isnt even the hardest boss in the game to me, thatd be the one before it because it has so many moves in rotation that it didnt wanna use in tandem with how to actually Damage the fuckin thing
but i still loved it,
i cant rank a sonic game that samples malcom X anything lower than a 3.5/5 honestly.
Though i do think its crazy how the true boss chapter will just pick up from however many lives you had left with sonic and blaze in their own stories respectively ... like thats kinda HARSH?? but atleast when you die itll pick up from the last check you were at from Sonic's perspective ATLEAAAAST
like the game's not That punishing

but all in all, this game invoked a lot of deep seeded anger within me which is really funny looking back because its got a lot of charm and some of the most fun 2d sonic gameplay ive tasted
It may even shoot up higher on a revisit, but i just cant meatsuckle a video game that makes me do some of the fuckshit this made me do im so salty
great time, higher end of the games ive played
but oh my god for a short game this had to have had kids in the early 00s BUUUUUUUUUUUSY

my friend naomi gave me crack for 99 cents. jesus christ.

Popcap is usually one of those companies where they kind of hit their boom early on and then everything after in the modern age is either Kinda Cool or an utter anti-consumer dumpsterfire
With change
Comes new solutions
Always
With change
Comes new problems

Insaniquarium is kinda like this

I was already versed in plants vs zombies, bejeweled and peggle games
But this kinda just EXISTED to me without me even havin tried it before and it is HELL.

Its fun
But its also hell
I think one thing I wish was really different about it was spicing up the tank gimmicks

You got about four different tanks with five different levels and a final boss to tie it off into a neat little bow
but really I think the fourth one is the only one that does it in a drastic way because its a lot easier to get run up on by monsters and have your fish snuft out when youre relying on Pregos(the like.. the birthing fish tht pump out the guppies)
and the money flow is slower

I like the tank with the starcatchers a lot too though! I think the game atleast is throwing enough aliens in rotation with enough Pet variety to keep it from getting BORING

despite this game not bein too terribly long, i wound up taking a couple breaks and finished it in like 3 playing sessions because my finger was getting tired from clicking. You use leftclick for fucking EVERYTHING in this game, to the point where i think it genuinely mightve been better to experience this as an app game or something. But im chillin.

final thoughts:
its war.
krillions will be devoured and need to be fed to reach the egg of power. an enthralling battle after battle in each tank you set fin in. you may click fast, Strong even, owllunchers. But they are beyond strength.
Death? It's meaningless.

my favorite pets were the clam, the mermaid and the shark
but s/o to Angie the MVP

that final boss goes hard asf

alphafoxtrot 6 has arrived at teh LZ,we are Charlie Brown, hustling&shotgunning towards مدينة الرمال كركند
OORaH, tango down.....but the leader enemy boss of the GLA still lives...OHNo!!! He activated the nuclear missile bomb!!!!!!!!
downloadand play dutycalls starring Kevin McKidd from Dog Soldiers as "Soap" 4free today

ps:the spectre of pnkbstra.exe haunts my machine to this day, because of all those S&Ds I won with my MP5&C4....