Sonic Rush Adventure

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I'm (still) not a big fan of 2d Sonic gameplay. Similar to the first Sonic Rush, this is a fairly well constructed version of that gameplay, combined with cool 2.5d elements, particularly the boss fights.

The "Adventure" in the title refers to this game having some more adventure mechanics - you can talk to NPCs at your home base for the game, there's a world map you go sail around in to get to stages (but when you get there it's like a classic sonic 2 stages + a boss setup). The wheels fell off though when the game makes you grind and replay the same stages to gather materials to progress the story. I'm just about hanging in with Sonic when I can mostly breeze through it but that really put me off.