YMMV / Sonic Dash

• Awesome Music: A Sonic franchise staple. This game features trance-mix versions of songs found in Sonic Heroes (fitting, since the visual level design is lifted from the Seaside Hill level of that game). Later updates would introduce even more hits from Sonic's library to accompany the new zones including the Modern Remixes of Sky Sanctuary and Mushroom Hill for their respective zones, Escape From The City for Golden Coast and Livin' In The City for Emerald Bay.
• Contested Sequel: While most would agree that Sonic Dash 2: Sonic Boom improves upon the mechanics of the first game, some of the additional new mechanics are seen as a bit divisive, such as ones relying on motion controls. The game's lack of characters has also been a sore sticking point, having a mere 7 characters compared to Dash 1's 70. And that's not even going into the game being a tie-in to the already divisive Sonic Boom subfranchise.
• Game-Breaker: The Dash Boost becomes this when you upgrade it's filling and use time enough. It allows you to plow through the game with little effort and fill it up quickly enough that it can regularly be used, and it helps that it doesn't take long to get the rings needed to buy the upgrades.
  • The Magnet Barrier can easily become this depending on when you get it. You'll either be sucking up huge clusters of rings that would require you to pick only one lane of them to gather, making a joke of the Bonus sections which would require you to switch lanes during loops to get all the rings or, if you're really lucky, grabbing up rings in a loop section you may have missed because the loop wraps around on itself.
  • Amy becomes this in the sequel. As there's a glitch in the game that's easy to activate and have her dash powerup constantly active throughout an entire match
• Harsher in Hindsight: As mentioned in Memetic Mutation below, this game would end up becoming the final official appearance of Ms. Pac-Man due to the legal limbo with AtGames.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Back in 2015, the game would host a limited-time crossover event with Angry Birds Epic. A few years later in 2023, Sonic owner Sega would purchase Angry Birds owner Rovio Entertainment, making the crossover seem prophetic in hindsight.
• It's the Same, Now It Sucks!: The general reaction on the Updated Re-releases Sonic Dash+ on Apple Arcade and Sonic Prime Dash on Netflix Games was that they are too similar to the original game with very few changes. And past limited event characters can no longer be earned unless they get another event, and only in Dash+. One agreed upon benefit is that these versions have no ads and no microtransactions, and they are included with other subscriptions with numerous other content such as Apple Arcade and Netflix.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • #Rally4Sally, as a response to the inclusion of Tangle and Whisper. If they can get into Dash and Speed Battle, then why not Sally Acorn?'
  • #SaveCosmo to a lesser extent.
  • Among fans of the Pac-Man series, expressing both bafflement and sadness that this, of all games, was Ms. Pac-Man's Swan Song. ^note With the legal issues surrounding Ms. Pac-Man preventing her from appearing not only in new games, but even rereleases of games she did originally appear in, some fans have commented that this game, for all intents and purposes, marked the End of an Era.
• Unexpected Character:
  • Out of all Crossovers, Hello Kitty was the least of expectations.
  • Back in 2015, a limited-time event had no one but Red, Chuck and Bomb from Angry Birds (in their Angry Birds Epic iterations) as playable characters.
  • Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man were huge surprises. Even more surprising? They even got their own boss.
  • While "Teen" and Baby Sonic were expected, Longclaw, Sonic's motherly owl guardian, was not, as she's a minor character in the film. Even less so, given that the majority of other Speed Battle characters weren’t carried over with them.
  • The authentic Content Leak (and later Sonic Forces: Speed Battle announcement) of Tangle and Whisper from Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW) pretty much shocked everyone from head to toe. Considering the Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics) characters never got an appearance within a Sonic game, besides the Freedom Fighters' cameos in Sonic Spinball, everyone expected 0% chance of a comic character appearing in another continuity.
  • Nobody expected that Sonic Dash 2: Sonic Boom would ever get new characters because of the divisive nature of Sonic Boom, so everyone was surprised when Vector the Crocodile was added to the game in 2020, three years after the series ended and the Boom subfranchise was all but over.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: The graphics in Dash are very highly detailed for a multiplatform mobile game, with high-poly character and enemy models roughly on-par with the console version of Sonic Colors, or at the very least the Nintendo 3DS edition of Sonic Lost World.
  • It looks even better when you're playing it on a PC, as it was available through the Microsoft Store for users of Windows 8.1 and the (then) just-released Windows 10.

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