Opinions on Sonic Blast for Game Gear

I like the game, myself. It has quite a few flaws, but it's fun nonetheless. As for the Game Gear itself, I really like it. It ate batteries like a beast, but the games (especially the sonic sidescrollers and the Tails games) were excellent. I still find myself playing Tails Adventure quite often.

 

I enjoyed it up untill the water level, then I'd drown on act 2.

 

My opinions of it in a haiku.

Kinda slow gameplay
Graphics take up the whole screen
Fun afternoon, though.

 

I hate the physics and the graphics, but the final boss has some wicked music.

 

The game itself was alright. Had a bit of fun playing it on Gems Collection.

Or SADX, whichever it was.

I want to raise one point though; this game has some awesome underrated music. Probably some of my FAVORITE songs in the whole Game Gear series.

 

It's enjoyable if you keep your expectations low.. music definitely surprised me, too.

Not sure if it's particularly "valuable" in any regard though

 

I love the Game Gear! It's the platform that introduced me to Sonic (UGZ boss damn youuuu!!!), and though I have all my Game Gear favorites on my laptop, and in Sonic Adventure DX, I still continually opt to play them on the handheld.

I once read in a magazine that game collectors really don't like the Game Gear, because

A) Aside from a few titles made specifically for the handheld, it's still essentially a portable Master System, so most collectors believe MS to be more worth their investment.

B) Early Game Gear packaging was notoriously flimsy, designed in such a way that the cardboard hanging tag sticks out of a hole the shrinkwrap, so the boxes were poorly defended from dust and moisture. It was also hard to get a game out of the box without damaging the box itself, so the boxes were often trashed. So yeah, good luck finding a copy in mint shape with the box and manual.

C) As the apathy towards the system increased, games that were announced for release were later quietly canned by publishers, and nobody took up the task of identifying which games were and were not actually released for it, so the collecting community can't agree on what games exist. U.S., EU, and Japanese Game Gear games were also interchanging territories... which confused collectors even more, trying to sort out which carts belong in which territories. True story, I once bought a copy of Sonic & Tails 2 at a K-Mart, thinking it was an all-new Sonic, only to discover it was just Sonic Triple Trouble with a different label on the cart. There was no box, no manual, it was just repackaged in K-Mart-designed plastic packaging. I later traded that game with a friend for a copy of GG Sonic 1.

As for Sonic Blast, it's the only 2D Sonic game that I outright dislike. I just couldn't play it for protracted periods without turning it off and taking a break from those garish graphics. And that Blue Marine level was just infuriating. It's not the worst Sonic game (not even the worst on Game Gear... Labyrinth... ), but I certainly don't get the nostalgic impulse to play it again the way I do the other GG Sonic sidescrollers.

 

I actually enjoyed Sonic Blast, but I could never beat the first act of that water level. The currents could never take me where I wanted it to.

 

The game is wholly irredeemable in my opinion. I've been known to say that the "G" in the tile (it's called "G Sonic" in Japan, inanely) must stand for "godawful".

I give them points for attempting a pre-rendered style on such a crappy system, though, as misguided as it was.

 

It's a worse game then Shadow.

Nice music though (as always).

 

I find it really difficult to play Sonic games on the Game Gear, since the screen's so blurry. I'm not too keen on this game anyway. I've tried emulating it and playing it on Sonic Mega Collection +.

 

All I remember was finally unlocking this game in SA:DX (I think, anyway) and rage-quitting soon afterwords. I've made fangames in MMF that play better than that crap. Oh yes, that's right, I went there.

Can't say I remember the music either... Guess that speaks volumes about how good it is, eh? :v: Feel free to prove me wrong though.

 

I've only seen it on YouTube. I can't be bothered to download it or collect all the emblems in SADX. From what I can tell the music is okay but the graphics kinda creep me out for some reason. I've only seen the first zone.

 

I own the game, and I've beaten it. It's been so long ago I can't be much useful and tell you why, but I did not enjoy the game.

 

I like this game, I had a lot of fun with it. I own the Master System version though. It's weird how badly this game was converted (I guess it's probably because TecToy did it, not SEGA), there are too many hard-to-ignore glitches.

 

I actually liked the game too, it was under Sonic Triple Trouble, Chaos, and Tails Adventure as my three favorite GameGear titles (in that order) but I actually have fond memories of it. The game is strange and looking back not the most well made but it has a big surreal quality about it which comes from the mixture of the graphics, music, overlarge and strange bosses, and the level design made it seem like something of a dream... That might sound strange but the whole game in my mind came together to have this whole strange surreal quality to it and I actually enjoyed playing the levels. I am not saying "OH MY GOD GUYS ONE OF THE BEST OF THE SERIES!!1!" but I did enjoy it but can understand why others didn't. And yes the water stage was a bitch the first time.

 

The game is OK, but I've never really warmed up to it. Something about the graphical style and pace really put me off.

As for the Game Gear itself ... I liked it. My oldest sister had one, and Sonic the Hedgehog on Game Gear was actually the first video game I ever played. We didn't invest much into it, because once my parents discovered gaming was something their kids liked, they went out and got a Genesis for us. At the end of the day, I think my sister only had 3-4 games for it (Sonic the Hedgehog, Batman Returns, Ax Battler: The Legend of Golden Axe, and maybe one other that I'm forgetting). So, with the limited sample set, I enjoyed it greatly. In recent years, I've played other games (primarily through emulation), but none of them really grabbed me -- Sonic the Hedgehog and Batman Returns could very well be the two best games on the system, so nothing I ever played later could match them.

 

I honestly really liked Chaos, the only problem with the game was it was too easy, other than that it was a rather enjoyable game, and I wouldn't mind seeing the level layout or boss designs ported to a Sonic hack.

Chaos on the other hand was okay, until I got to the ocean level.