The blue blur is at his highest point in these titles. Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic 2 are, without doubt, a huge highlight. Now onto the positives, and boy are there some positives! Sega Genesis Classics Review: The Good Boys Streets of Rage 2 is still one of the finest beat ’em ups ever created. Sonic 3D is the Sega Mega Drive Classics’ example of the Sonic brand during a low point and Flicky? Flicky makes me angry just thinking about that stupid bloody bird. The fiddly, drab shooter-type doesn’t have quite the saving grace of Altered Beast because it continues to become more and more repellent to play with every passing year. A game that does Space Harrier with a helicopter, is another infamous ever-present. Considering the side-scrolling scrappers it finds itself alongside in this collection, it’s almost shocking to see its continued presence. It has had a cult appeal over the years, which would be baffling if you didn’t know the game was often bundled for free with the Mega Drive and in a cheapo game collection. Age has unsurprisingly not helped it become any less so, but the 2D nature of the era means it’s not got much worse in the thirty years since it first released. So let’s get the bad eggs out of the basket first. Sega Genesis Classics Review: The Bad Eggs Alex Kidd is an important game in Sega history, if not a particularly good one now.
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