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Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric (2014)

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Why is Sonic wearing a Scarf? Why does Knuckles skip leg day? Why would anyone name a villain Lyric? Unfortunately none of these questions get answered in Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric.

Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric needlessly reinvented Sonic for the ‘nth time, this time with accessories, and threw him into arguably his worst adventure yet. The game was critically panned alongside its slightly less horrible little 3DS brother, Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal.

It’s wasn’t all bad for Rise of Lyric though. For example, it was incredibly efficient in how it was able to once again fulfill the Sonic Cycle, tarnish the Sonic Boom name, cash-in on an unmemorable animated series, and arguably outdo even Sonic ’06 in terms of awfulness in regards to gameplay all in one fell swoop! Wait, I guess it is all bad.


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