I grew up playing the Sonic Rush series and Sonic Classic Collection on my DS constantly growing up. The fact the classic games were as difficult as they were meant they were ever more satisfying to beat. I later had the original Sonic Adventure on my Xbox 360, and remember begging my parents to let me upgrade to the Director’s Cut because I wanted to unlock Metal Sonic. The Sonic series was a huge part of my childhood, which only made it sadder for me that the series ended up constantly putting out mediocre garbage after Adventure 2 and didn’t improve until Mania, which wasn’t even truly a Sega game. Thanks Ken Pontaff and Warren Graff (Pontaff, if you will) for the awful writing in most 3D Sonic games!