Sonic Advance 2: For Game Boy Advance

Sonic the Hedgehog followers gather round to collect the latest feedback on “Sonic Advance 2”, developed by Sega Corporation. On it’s 6th birthday this month, the game was released on March 10, 2003 at an average retail price of $30 dollars.
Released under the action genre, the game has been labeled a favorite for well known Sonic type, full of action scenes, fighting, and featured appearances of enemies like Dr. Robotnik. The game seems to present high difficulty levels for gamers, despite the initial setting, in their goal to complete the game by collecting treasure. Some of the advice given by players include letting go of the Chaos Emeralds in your quest in order to bring down game difficulty to enjoyable levels, and even so you are warned about falling off into many pits and watching the ‘game over’ screen time and time again before reaching any reasonable milestones towards the end of the game.

As far as graphics, the screen view is more like a 2D version of the design used in Sonic Heroes and Shadow the Hedgehog, as higher levels are mined with pits. The player keeps falling into these pits, and will have to continue doing so in the course of the game in order to test the path for weaknesses, trace a route and complete the level. At the end of each level the player faces a battle against one of the bosses, which Sonic will have to face while on the move. Do not expect the battle with the bosses, especially the last one, to be a walk in the park. If you are a hard core gamer, you might consider collecting the emeralds, adding a notch of difficulty to an already challenging game. The process involves collecting each of the 7 special rings within each of the large acts. In order to collect them all, the player will need to get to the end of the act without dying, and moreover, you will have to complete a special stage at the end of the act in order to get your hands on the Chaos Emerald. Considering you cannot claim to have completed this game unless the player accomplishes the task of collecting all the emeralds, better have some time to spare and be prepared to die more than a couple of times.

The levels keep increasing the amount of difficulty as you go along, making it more of a challenge for you to stay alive and actually complete the level you’re on. I must add that the quest for the Chaos Emerald is reserved for the very few, and those who try and get discouraged are many. In the end, however, it’s all about fun and games, isn’t it?