Had this game as a kid, never in my life have I heard another human being ever mention it tho, and since I never finished it I thought, why not? And you know what, it's a shame nobody knows about it, because this is a really solid 3D platformer.

Gameplay is fun, and has a ton of variation with all the different forms and mechanics. The levels are laid out really well, and even when you go for 100% you really don't have to backtrack much. Difficulty def spikes towards the end, but otherwise, great progression.

Story's simple, but sweet and enjoyable. Soundtrack is, there, probably the weakest part of the game, but eh, put on a podcast and you're good.

The environments are where this game really shines. Closest I could compare its overall vibe to is Xenoblade X, which is INCREDIBLY high praise. Like, man, this world is super cool to just look at, it's insane.

Basically, real hidden gem, def worth looking into if you want a decent 3D platformer to waste an afternoon on.

I'm sorry, this game goes so hard and I'm tired of acting like it doesn't. I acknowledge, some of it is a little bit jank, some of it needs work, but I can look past that to see what it was trying to do. If remade by people who truly get it, we would have one of the best games ever made, something that would EASILY rival Sonic Adventure 2.

This game couldn't exist these days. A game where a Sonic character is given a gun, can ride a motorcycle through a burning city while gunning down human military with heavy metal blaring. It really is incredible that it exists at all. You can MURDER THE PRESIDENT in one level.

I will again admit, the gameplay can be jank at times, but once you get the hang of the guns they do genuinely elevate the experience. Vehicles are hit or miss aside from the spinny disc, but they're infrequent and usually optional. Some of the missions do drag on and can be frustrating, but this could be easily solved with a remake, I fully believe this. If the controls were as tight as Adventure 2, everyone woulda loved it, but even coming right from that game I was able to adjust pretty quick.

The story is convoluted, and stuff can just go totally crazy with certain routes, but all and all it really isn't that hard to see what they were going for. And I never understood why having a "true ending" upset so many people. Again, with some polish, you could have something really special here, and honestly I think this might be the last Sonic game to have a real entertaining story before things just got "lol quirky!"

That's what really grabs me; this game, despite everything, has heart. It has SOUL. No matter how ridiculous it is, it's completely genuine. It takes itself 100% seriously, and there's a charm in that that so many modern day "tongue-in-cheek" games just don't understand. It's beautiful.

Do you know how difficult it is to find twink BL games in general, let alone ones that have been translated into English? This Backloggd page didn't even exist before I intervened. Hell, before I discovered someone made a Ren'Py remake a few years back the only place I could find this game in English was some shady Spanish WordPress site that probably hasn't been updated since Obama was in office.

Let's get this outta the way first, this game was fan-translated in 2014, and as such it makes heavy use of the word "trap", which while at the time was used as a term for femboy/crossdresser, is now more or less universally accepted as being a slur for transgender people. While I'm sure there was no ill-intent on the translator's part, as that was at the time the generally accepted English equivalent to the Japanese "otokonoko", it's definitely jarring seeing it with a modern perspective. Thankfully, there's a patch for the Ren'Py port that fixes this, but you have to do some digging for it.

As for the game itself, it's a bit all over the place. The art is nice enough, but the voice acting and music are kinda insufferable. Outdated terminology aside, the writing is kinda weird, and characters (Aoi in particular) sometime feel completely different from scene-to-scene. Still, the game did occasionally make me feel good with some wholesome moments along the "good routes", and I gotta admit those bad endings do make you feel absolutely terrible, which I guess is a success.

The dialog in H-Scenes is painful, even by eroge standards, and the mosaics are so intense unless you're an appreciator of twink ass and tummy they probably won't do much for you. The game's biggest sin is making the hottest boy the main character's older brother, so you can't even be mad about him not having any scenes.

But yeah, I'm pretty sure I've put more energy into this game's existence than the collective population of Earth has in the last five years. Much like Captain Ahab, I will continue my futile quest to find the White Whale that is a good twink boylove game.