Mania is Sonic without 20-odd years of slowly accumulating bullshit. The wider pantheon of sidekicks - Shadow, Silver, Big the sodding Cat - have been cast headlong into the screaming cosmic abyss ...

That feeling of wasted potential doesn’t stop at my obsession with Sonic Mania though, as it completely skips over some ...

Sonic Adventure 2 was a game-changing moment for the series. This 2001 entry saw the Blue Blur share the spotlight more than he ever had before — at least outside of certain bean-centric spin-offs.