

And it also makes you think about how some characters change with the times, while others become also-rans."

I'm sure it will make an awful lot of money. Sega seems to find it hard enough to make a decent Sonic game these days, and then it goes and publishes something like Sonic Dash - which with a little more polish could be great, but is instead rushed and spoiled by greed. "There is a good game here, and enough nostalgia to mask - for a while at least - the obnoxious shilling.

Here's what our reviewer Rich Stanton said about Sonic Dash 1, which was downloaded over 100m times: Sega promised "more content, more action, and more challenges, all of them fitting right into your pocket" for the sequel. Sega soft-launched Sonic Dash 2 a few months ago in select countries, and has since improved the interface and the tutorial, it said. Hardlight, maker of the first Sonic Dash ( which we awarded 6/10 to back in 2013), is once again on development duties for the mobile endless runner. Sega has announced Sonic Dash 2: Sonic Boom.
