Ruaidhri from 7Bitarcade went along to Gamefest this year:
Here are his thoughts on the games and event as a whole:
First up before I get to the games I got my grubby mitts on I should talk about the event itself. The festival took place over 3 days and was attended by 30,000 people. Rumours over the previous 2 days on Twitter were true, queues for the bigger games were on average 3 hours.
Sonic the Hedgehog has a long and turbulent history in videogames, but which are the best games featuring the blue bur?
Generations over Mania? Please… Generations doesnt have any new ideas in the levels/bosses.
Also a top 7 of Sonic games shouldn’t have any 3D crap and contain at least one of the 8-bit titles.
Sonic CD getting snubbed is weird. Number 1 is definitely interchangable between Sonic 2 and Sonic 3 & Knuckles.
Top 7 for me
7 cd
6 mania
5 Frontiers
4 sonic 3
3 sonic 1
2 sonic and knuckles
1 sonic 2
Sometimes I feel like the Sonic Advanced games just didn’t exist with how much it’s always forgotten 😭
Or it's about to leave the storefront like another Capcom title.
The divide between both iterations of Sonic is now reaching spin-off territory, and the way Sega is handling it is both a blessing and a curse.