Sonic Blast
Sonic Blast is a 1996 platform game featuring Sonic and Knuckles with pre-rendered 3D graphics. The fifth and final Sonic game released for the Game Gear, it introduced new gameplay mechanics but received mixed reviews for its slow pace and technical limitations.
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Notable for being the only Game Gear Sonic title to feature Knuckles as a playable character alongside Sonic, each with unique abilities.
Uses pre-rendered sprites to simulate 3D graphics, a technique popularized by Donkey Kong Country, but criticized for causing slowdowns on the 8-bit hardware.
Features five zones with two acts each, plus special stages. The game was never ported to other systems and remains one of the rarest Sonic titles.
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