Sonic Dash
By Sega/Hardlight

I know endless runner games are very in vogue right now and having Sonic in one seems kind of uninspired, but when you think about it it kind of makes sense -all Sonic games are essentially about running as fast as you can around levels anyway, it’s just with Sonic Dash they’ve eliminated the need for any manual running.

As with any Sonic game you dash (hence the name) around collecting rings and spinning in a ball at your enemies. You start off around a Green Hill-esque level- loop da loops included- and after you kill the boss, Zazz (I've never heard of him either) you progress onto a Sea-sidey level. Presumably there's other levels after this but I haven't got there yet.

If the game does have a fault it’s the same fault that all freemium games have – the never ending bombardment of crap you get between levels (no I don’t want to sign in with facebook for 500 extra rings!!). That said it’s a small price to pay for the first Sonic game ive found myself daydreaming about playing at work since Sonic & Knuckles on the humble Mega Drive.

4/5