Okay so. I haven’t ever heard of this game. You haven’t ever heard of this game. No one has ever heard of this game!
Here’s why. To quote one of the numerous Sonic the Hedgehog wikis: “Sonic Eraser is a video game in the Sonic the Hedgehog series that was available to owners of the Sega Game Toshokan on the Sega Mega Modem with a Sega Meganet subscription. All the three aforementioned enhancements for the Sega Mega Drive are exclusively released in Japan.” And apparently even after all those caveats, it wasn’t even a popular game on the Meganet! Sooo, yeah.
And I’m here to tell you that you shouldn’t waste your time playing this game! Especially if you’re doing it because you’re a completionist and want to play all the Sonic games. This is not in any way, shape, or form a Sonic game!! It’s just a not particularly good puzzle game that has nothing to do with Sonic. It’s not like Dr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine, which despite literally being a reskinned Puyo Puyo goes to way more effort to actually be a Sonic game. And as far as I’ve been able to determine this isn’t some random puzzle game they tried to market as a Sonic game to sell more copies, it’s a totally original game. And I just. Don’t get it?
The only thing that makes it kind of a Sonic game is that each side has a Sonic sprite and when you get combos yours punches or spindashes the other player’s Sonic sprite. So uh. The only way in which this is a Sonic game is something I HATE???? Yeah. I am very not here for my hedgehog getting punched? Sorry.
Anyway. Yeah. This is nothing.
Here’s why. To quote one of the numerous Sonic the Hedgehog wikis: “Sonic Eraser is a video game in the Sonic the Hedgehog series that was available to owners of the Sega Game Toshokan on the Sega Mega Modem with a Sega Meganet subscription. All the three aforementioned enhancements for the Sega Mega Drive are exclusively released in Japan.” And apparently even after all those caveats, it wasn’t even a popular game on the Meganet! Sooo, yeah.
And I’m here to tell you that you shouldn’t waste your time playing this game! Especially if you’re doing it because you’re a completionist and want to play all the Sonic games. This is not in any way, shape, or form a Sonic game!! It’s just a not particularly good puzzle game that has nothing to do with Sonic. It’s not like Dr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine, which despite literally being a reskinned Puyo Puyo goes to way more effort to actually be a Sonic game. And as far as I’ve been able to determine this isn’t some random puzzle game they tried to market as a Sonic game to sell more copies, it’s a totally original game. And I just. Don’t get it?
The only thing that makes it kind of a Sonic game is that each side has a Sonic sprite and when you get combos yours punches or spindashes the other player’s Sonic sprite. So uh. The only way in which this is a Sonic game is something I HATE???? Yeah. I am very not here for my hedgehog getting punched? Sorry.
Anyway. Yeah. This is nothing.