kapellosaur's review
5.0
I read this after hearing it was a surprisingly well-thought-out time travel story given that it's a video game tie-in for children, and indeed it was! It was written at some point after Sonic 2 came out, and full of lore-in-the-making, some of the ideas in it were strangely reminiscent of future entries in the Sonic series (eg (minor spoilers) ) — did the author have a time machine himself?
The dialogue had 90s cool embedded in it, and the book was surprisingly self-aware too, and happy to make fun of itself. Lots of early Sonic references sprinkled around. Sonic and Tails' voices were a little difficult to pin down, but the awkward attempts at American slang mixed with Britishisms just endeared me to the narrative more.
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an Echidna character, and the notion of Robotnik travelling to the past to alter the presentThe dialogue had 90s cool embedded in it, and the book was surprisingly self-aware too, and happy to make fun of itself. Lots of early Sonic references sprinkled around. Sonic and Tails' voices were a little difficult to pin down, but the awkward attempts at American slang mixed with Britishisms just endeared me to the narrative more.
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