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Here is our famous blue hedgehog, Sega's essential mascot since the origins of the firm and emblem of a whole generation of players, for the first time on a console belonging to its former enemy. A page in video game history has just been turned, and Sonic fans are now joining Mario fans on GBA to satisfy their common passion. In such a context, Sonic Advance is the perfect opportunity for all players who had missed out on the speedy adventures of the blue hedgehog to make up for lost time, and for all others to reconnect with a playful experience that dates back to that time. blessed with 16-bit consoles.

Because if time has passed, the recipe has remained the same since the first episodes. Sonic is always paths strewn with pitfalls governed by a single law: speed. No sooner has the player taken a few hesitant steps on the unreassuring ground of the first level than he suddenly sees himself thrown into a hodgepodge of steep slopes at supersonic speed. The sensations are the same as a first descent in a roller coaster, and it is without really understanding what is happening on the screen that we link crazy loops and jumps above the void. The level architecture is surprisingly well thought out, each stage full of branches and shortcuts, not to mention the multitude of hidden bonuses that only a player who knows each level inside out will be able to collect in their entirety