Sonic Dream Team Unleashed Upon Apple Arcade - Hardcore Gamer

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Apple Arcade has played host to a variety of outstanding games over the years – from Konami’s release of a new side-scrolling Castlevania adventure to Fantasian bringing back the classic Final Fantasy feel to more recent games like Samba Di Amigo getting an exclusive version with a storyline for the service. Today, Sega releases an all-new Sonic game exclusively to Apple Arcade in the form of Sonic Dream Team. This lightning-fast adventure sees a new 3D Sonic game created for the service and allows players to play as Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Cream, Rouge, and Amy Rose.

The game’s premise is that Dr. Eggman has locked Sonic’s friends into a dream-like state and put all of these courses in front of them, it’s a new twist on the long-running franchise and offers up a surprisingly high amount of fun for a game that is mobile-first in theory. The emphasis on speed and speedrunner for some of the stages that become a bit like an arcade racing game with checkpoints. The blend of stage variety is impressive, with each set of characters has their own pros and cons.

Sonic and Amy are fast, Rouge and Knuckles can climb, and Tails and Cream have the ability to fly. Each stage has their own perks for each character type, with exclusive areas to enjoy depending on who you’re using. The sense of speed is impressive and playing on the newest Apple TV reveals a game that runs quite smoothly, but does suffer from some technical shortcomings.

There are a ton of jagged edges everywhere for larger parts of the environment and it actually gets somewhat distracting after a while because they’re so prominent. Still, the core game never slows down and things like rail grinds, boost jumps and jumping homing attacks allow it to feel like a