This is one of the best worst games I've ever played. In terms of a game that encapsulates to games what the term "B-Movie" is to movies.
I think looking at this game purely as a racing game is a flawed lens. Sonic R perfectly embodies what I think the concepts of Sonic were, including "Being a bad/flawed concept" lol. There's one Sonic game I actually like, Sonic 3 & Knuckles, but what I especially appreciate about this game is that it doesn't really have a devious hook to mentally addle me into doing things. forever feeling unsatisfied. I recently discovered this streaming on Twitch and just messing with a Satiator mod I have for my Sega Saturn.
The game is just charming and easy to pick up and put down, which I value given the landscape of games that want to compel me to do a bunch of dumb stuff for a long duration.
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