A sub-standard Sonic game. What went wrong?
The third of the conventional Sonic the Hedgehog games for the Master System and by this time he was well enough know to drop the ”the Hedgehog” part of the title. This was the game that delivered on the promise to have Tails as a playable character, many were disappointed to have him appear in Sonic the Hedgehog 2 only as a non-playable character. Even with this addition the game managed to disappoint, it’s only a 1 player game and Sonic and Tails are only playable separately, not the tag-teaming to be found in the Genesis games. Unfortunately there’s something lacking in the gameplay. Technically it’s by far the superior of the three Sonic platform games on the Master System so why isn’t this the pinnacle of the series? Aside from a graphical make-over and Tails being playable, there isn’t much new that improves on the already successful formula. The aim is still to find the Chaos Emeralds and defeat Robotnik. This time he has stolen the red Chaos emerald amidst the confusion of a
