Sonic Advance
It was the best of all three, and the gameplay reminded me of Sonic's better 2D days. The level design was great, characters were well balanced, ways of getting into the special stages weren't totally unrealistic, and the graphics were far better than I thought it would be. I still enjoy playing this game. The final boss was downright horrible though, it was rather cheap.
9/10
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Sonic Advance [8/10] This game was quite good in my opinion, but playing as Amy made me want to bang my head onto a wall.
Really? The way Amy handled was actually one of the reasons I enjoy playing it. The other characters accelerated way too slowly for my tastes, and it was frustrating to speed up. With Amy I could just do a quick hop forward and already start running. Using her hammer on enemies and springs was useful as well. I enjoyed actually beating the crap out of enemies/bosses and ring monitors. I'd go on longer about all of Amy's advantages in this game, but I don't feel like it right now.
Sonic Advance 2
I got bored of this rather fast. There was too much running, and not enough emphasis on actual platforming like the previous title. The game also felt extremely dry without a water stage of some sort, LAME. The way to get into the special stages were totally unrealistic, no kid would ever waste their time collecting several well hidden special rings. And all that just to play as Amy. WTF?!
6/10 I gave away my copy to a friend who had recently lost their cartridge of the game, and they lived happily ever after. THE END.
Sonic Advance 3
Great heavens this sucked. The partner system was so poorly executed, I almost wanted to cry. (I was expecting to just be able to swap out characters, but NO...) The level design was outright frustrating, and I had to slow down more often than I wanted to. There were death pits EVERYWHERE as well,
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! That made it even more difficult and frustrating than necessary, resulting in constant cheap deaths.
Overall SA3 was horrible, but it deserves a 4/10 for teh lolz. Lucky for me, I tried out a ROM on VBA before looking for a copy. Still haven't bought it, and won't ever care to, even if someone offered it to me for $5.
Sonic Pinball Party
It's a Sonic-themed pinball game, and Sonic isn't the pinball...HOW **** LAME. I won't ever touch a Sonic game where the blue blur himself isn't even playable.
Sonic Battle
Eh, I first bought it thinking "OMG A 3D SONIC FIGHTER ON THE GO
w00000000t!!!", then that novelty kinda wore off after I beat a few times. I enjoyed it, but felt it lacked the same kind of replay value other fighting games do. And the fact that all of your friends needed a copy to play with you ("Multipak") made it even more inconvenient to enjoy the game's multiplayer. REALLY BRIGHT IDEA THERE NINTENDO...
7/10
IMO, Sonic Advance and Sonic Battle were the only well-executed Advance titles, every other Advance game could die in a fire for all I care, seriously.