Spark the Electric Jester

Very cool game. High speed action platformer with an emphasis on gaining powerups that completely your movesets, including traversal. For example, powerups that let you float, walk on water, do a lot of airdashes, triple jump, shoot huge lasers, summon starstorms, etc.

It has a fun story with an excellent combination of goofy characters and edginess, and there are some very cool handdrawn cutscenes including action cutscenes.

The game suffers a bit from being too easy in the beginning, which sounds like a silly complaint or like I'm trying to brag, but you'll kill the bosses of like the first three or four levels in just a few seconds by hitting them with one or two charged attacks.

However, by the end of the game, the level design gets really good, nice and difficult without ever getting too BS or anything like that. Recommended if you like 2D platformers!

I actually never liked 2D Sonic games, despite playing them in my childhood. I often just ran towards right and hit spikes/enemies I couldn't see due to being too fast, which I never found fun. I was a bit sceptical towards Spark due to this. However, I absolutely fell in love with this game. Gameplay is top notch. You don't get damaged when you touch an enemy, only when they attack you. That doesn't mean you get to move towards right without any obstruction, though. Level design is top notch, with tons of verticality and obstacles on your way. Each level has different gimmick Spark gets power ups but they are more like Kirby powerups than Sonic shields (they even have movesets in pause menu, like Kirby games). You need those power ups though, because this game turns into a balls to the wall action game during boss fights. Don't expect to "dodge a ball and chain and hit the enemy 3 times" kind of bosses.

There are 2 playable characters with slightly different levels. Soundtrack slaps too, and graphics look nice. I'm kind of sad that this is the only 2D Spark game, but I'm looking forward to playing 3D ones in the future. I'll probably replay this one to try other modes too.

TL;DR: Sonic but good, justice for Unit-0. Also, you can walljump

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pretty cool, very fast. I think bc of the games engine issues I cant play it on my desktop due to constant slowdown. I saw there's a mod that fixes it but haven't tried it myself. I play these types of games on my steam deck and I had no issues there :)

I bought this collection over sonic origins and I do not regret it. It was really cool jumping into this being a big sonic fan.

Starts out great, devolves into literal cancer.

Starts off well as a "Sonic the Hedgehog game that doesn't hate you" but towards the end turns into that very villain. Fark campaign is tedious.

I managed to get my hands on all three games, but now having played the first one all the way through, I can say that it's pretty solid. It has quite a few bugs, and a few of the stages can be a bit more frustrating than others. However, I would say the overall experience is a positive one. Yet another entry I get to add to the "directly inspired by retro games list" with Bug Fables and Eastward.

This game is reaall fun and a really good kick off for Lake's career as a game dev! There were admittedly a few problems here like how hard the game got by then end, one sloppily designed enemy by then, and a few bugs, like how the Sunburn Forest music stopped looping and how I wasn't able to enter the pause screen, but those are small mishaps seen in an otherwise amazing game that I wish more people knew about, and that goes with all of the non-sonic projects Lake has made over the years.

so THIS is peak fiction...

its a fine game and if u say its a sonic copy ur kinda right 6.5/10

Its like sonic but way cooler and from Brazil