History VideoGame / SonicBlast

* BonusStage: Acts 1 and 2 of each world have one, with Act 1's bonus stage giving you a 1-up for beating it, while Act 2's bonus stages will give you a Chaos Emerald for beating them.

* BossOnlyLevel: As with the other Game Gear games, the third act of each Zone is a small platforming area and then a boss fight (this returns to the first game's MO by having Robotnik fight instead of his flunkies). The TrueFinalBoss is a separate part of the game from the Silver Castle boss.

** Silver Castle, while indeed large and chrome in appearance, looks absolutely nothing like a castle inside or out.

''Sonic Blast'' (''G Sonic'' in Japanese) is a 1996 UsefulNotes/GameGear ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' game, and the penultimate game Creator/{{Sega}} released for that system, preceding ''VideoGame/TheLostWorldJurassicPark''. (As usual, it was also converted to the [[UsefulNotes/SegaMasterSystem Master System]] for the Brazilian market.) The title allows the player to pick from Knuckles, with his signature gliding and climbing, or Sonic, who can double jump. The game is unusual in that the amount of rings one loses from a hit varies from 10 to 30 depending on the source of damage, and [[BigBad Dr. Robotnik]] (aka [[IHaveManyNames Dr. Eggman]]) [[InCaseOfBossFightBreakGlass only takes damage if he gets hit on the windshield of his Egg Mobile]].

Being released near the end of the console's lifespan, the game experiments with pre-rendered graphics ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry'' style, with limited success given the reduced horsepower behind the system. ''Sonic Blast'' is often seen as the worst of the five main ''Sonic'' platformers on the Game Gear and Master System, with its slow speed, muddy graphics, highly inconsistent difficulty and far clunkier gameplay (even with the addition of [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Knuckles]] as a playable character) being common complaints. Even then, Sonic's next portable outing -- the UsefulNotes/GameCom version of ''VideoGame/SonicJam'' that was released the following year -- is even worse in those regards.

* CollapsingLair: Silver Castle crashes into the ocean in the ending.
* ConvectionSchmonvection: Featured in Red Volcano.

* FakeDifficulty: What little challenge the game has comes from this due to the cramped level design combined with the huge sprites and wonky hit detection, the limited view of what's up ahead and the fact that you have zero room for failure when it comes to the Chaos Emerald sidequest; lost even once, and you're locked out of the TrueFinalBoss and Good Ending. Playing as Knuckles adds more due to his low jump height and his gliding ability being nerfed to the point where he covers practically no distance and can't even damage enemies by gliding into them anymore.

* JokeCharacter: Knuckles is, to be frank, as useless as a man's nipple in this game. The levels are clearly designed with Sonic in mind and there are few opportunities for Knuckles to truly take advantage of his gliding and wall climbing abilities. And even then, Knuckles' glide has been ''heavily'' nerfed to where he can barely fly any distance at all with it, sinks like a rock in the air and can only turn around mid-air slowly. His climbing is as slow as molasses, and trying to use the glide often can actually make the game harder because of the small screen resolution combined with offscreen enemies that Knuckles can accidentally buffet into... oh, and did we mention he can't hurt enemies by gliding into them in this game[[note]]With the odd exception of, ironically, Robotnik himself during boss fights[[/note]] any more? On top of that, Knuckles' rotten jump height means he can't reach some areas Sonic can, and some of these areas ''can't'' be accessed by either wall climbing or gliding -- at least without sometimes risking getting hurt in the latter's case -- which defeats the whole purpose of using the abilities (and thus, Knuckles himself) anyway.
* JokeItem: The Robotnik monitor, which, unlike its ''Sonic 2''/''Sonic 3 & Knuckles'' counterpart that hurts you, instead reduces your time limit by a bit, not that you're aware.

* BossArenaIdiocy: The Silver Castle boss consists of Robotnik using mirrors to reflect lasers down at Sonic or Knuckles while they're stuck running on a giant wheel. Said wheel in question moves a third mirror around that can deflect said laser attack back at Robotnik.

* BonusStageCollectibles: There are five Chaos Emeralds to collect, which can be acquired in Act 2 of each level by getting 50 rings, finding a giant ring and completing a bonus stage. Getting all five allows you to fight the TrueFinalBoss and get the Good Ending. Act 1 has bonus stages as well, but they only reward you a 1-up on completion.
* TheCameo: While Super Sonic is not playable, he does get a rare cameo on the level's goalposts, which will grant you a 1-up and 30 rings if you get him. It's notably the ''only'' appearance of Super Sonic in the Game Gear Sonic games.

** Green Hill Zone is a mashup of, obviously, [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog1 Green Hill Zone]], along with [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2 Emerald Hill Zone]] while having similar setpieces to [[VideoGame/SonicTripleTrouble Turquoise Hill Zone.]]

** Blue Marine is similar to [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2 Aquatic Ruin]] with elements of [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog1 Labyrinth Zone]] sandwiched in.
** Silver Castle's exterior is identical to the [[VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles Death Egg]], although the inner level design and setpieces are more like [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog1 Scrap Brain Zone]].

* FakeDifficulty: What little challenge the game has comes from this due to the cramped level design combined with the huge sprites and wonky hit detection, the limited view of what's up ahead and the fact that you have zero room for failure when it comes to the Chaos Emerald sidequest. Playing as Knuckles adds more due to his low jump height and his gliding ability being nerfed to the point where he can't even hurt an enemy by gliding into them anymore.

* IdleAnimation: Leave Sonic or Knuckles standing around, and they'll do their own distinct idle animations. Sonic will glance at the player and motion with his finger to get on the move, while Knuckles will just punch while in place.

* JokeCharacter: Knuckles is, to be frank, as useless as a man's nipple in this game. The levels are clearly designed with Sonic in mind and there are few opportunities for Knuckles to truly take advantage of his gliding and wall climbing abilities. And even then, Knuckles' glide has been ''heavily'' nerfed to where he can barely fly any distance at all with it, sinks like a rock in the air and can only turn around mid-air slowly. His climbing is as slow as molasses, and trying to use the glide often can actually make the game harder because of the small screen resolution combined with offscreen enemies that Knuckles can accidentally buffet into -- oh and did we mention he can't hurt enemies by gliding into them in this game[[note]]with the odd exception of, ironically, Robotnik himself during boss fights[[/note]] any more? On top of that, Knuckles' pathetic jump height means he can't reach some areas Sonic can, and some of these areas ''can't'' be accessed by either wall climbing or gliding (at least without sometimes risking getting hurt in the latter's case), which defeats the whole purpose of using the abilities anyway.

* KaizoTrap: If you run out of air during [[UnderwaterBossBattle Blue Marine's boss encounter]], you have to fight it all over again, even if you're in the victory pose.

* PermanentlyMissableContent: Only one Chaos Emerald can be collected per zone, and you only get one shot at getting each one in the second act of each--if you slip up on any of them, you'll have to replay the entire game in order to get a shot at collecting all five Chaos Emeralds.

* SpritePolygonMix: Pre-rendered 3-D models for Sonic, Knuckles and the Badniks, but 2-D sprites for everything else.

* ThemeNaming: Each of the five worlds is named after a color: '''Green''' Hill Zone, '''Yellow''' Desert Zone, '''Red''' Volcano Zone, '''Blue''' Marine Zone, and '''Silver''' Castle Zone.

The game can be found on ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure DX'' and ''Sonic Mega Collection Plus'', and as an unlockable demo on ''Sonic Gems Collection''.

* GoldenEnding: While both endings are identical, the real ending doesn't show Robotnik escaping from the Silver Castle.

* ClassicCheatCode: There is a level select code that can be accessed at the title screen by pressing '''Up, Up, Up, Down, Down, Down, 1, 2, 1, 2''' (a chime will play if you entered it correctly) and then pressing start. You can access all of the levels this way, but skipping anywhere past the first act of Green Hill Zone [[NoFairCheating will make it impossible to get all of the Chaos Emeralds]], thus meaning you can't fight the TrueFinalBoss and get the good ending. And if you get a Game Over, you have to reset the game to put in the code again.

* DubInducedPlothole: The western storyline leaves out the part where a Chaos Emerald splits in 5, turning the opening sequence in which we see just that happen into a BigLippedAlligatorMoment.

* LongSongShortScene: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-_PzxwiR2o The music for the game's opening cutscene]] is 33 seconds long, but the actual opening cutscene is only six seconds long. This implies that the game was originally going to have a longer opening cutscene, but due to either time constraints or hardware limitations, it had to be reduced to six seconds.

* DoubleJump: Sonic has one in this game.

* AbsenteeActor: One of a handful of games in the franchise (not counting games that predate him) where Sonic's sidekick, Tails, is completely absent. Justified in the West, where he is said in the manual for ''VideoGame/TailsAdventure'' to have gone on a solo vacation to Cocoa Island after the events of ''VideoGame/SonicTripleTrouble''.

* ShoutOut: The Yellow Desert Zone boss fight has Robotnik's mech patterned after Sun Wukong, a character from the Chinese epic ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest''.

* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: The Coconut Badniks from Green Hill.

JustForFun/TheOneWith Sonic trying to be ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry''.

* JokeItem: The Robotnik monitor, which, unlike its ''Sonic 2''/''Sonic 3 & Knuckles'' counterpart that hurts you, does absolutely nothing at all upon smashing it.

''Sonic Blast'' (''G Sonic'' in Japanese) is a 1996 UsefulNotes/GameGear ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' game, and the second-last game Creator/{{Sega}} released for that system, preceding ''VideoGame/TheLostWorldJurassicPark''. (As usual, it was also converted to the [[UsefulNotes/SegaMasterSystem Master System]] for the Brazilian market.) The title allows the player to pick from Knuckles, with his signature gliding and climbing, or Sonic, who can double jump. An oddity of the game is the amount of rings one loses from a hit varies from 10 to 30 depending on the source of damage, as well as [[BigBad Dr. Robotnik]] (aka [[IHaveManyNames Dr. Eggman]]) [[InCaseOfBossFightBreakGlass only taking damage of he gets hit on the windshield of his Egg Mobile]].

Being released near the end in the console's lifespan, the game experiments with pre-rendered graphics ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry'' style, with limited success given the reduced horsepower behind the system. ''Sonic Blast'' is often seen as the worst of the five main ''Sonic'' platformers on the Game Gear and Master System, with its slow speed, muddy graphics, highly inconsistent difficulty and far clunkier gameplay (even with the addition of [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Knuckles]] as a playable character) being common complaints. Even then, Sonic's next portable outing -- the UsefulNotes/GameCom version of ''VideoGame/SonicJam'' that was released the following year -- is even worse in those regards.

Not to be confused with ''VideoGame/{{Sonic 3D Blast}}'' (''Sonic 3D: Flickies' Island'') (although the two were marketed alongside each other). Nor ''VideoGame/SonicRoboBlast2''. Nor ''VideoGame/SonicBlastMan''. Nor the UsefulNotes/{{NES}} hack ''Sonic 3D Blast 5''.

* BonusStage: Act 1 and 2 of each world have one, with the first act stage giving you a 1-up for beating it, while Act 2s bonus stages will give you a Chaos Emerald for beating them.

* BossOnlyLevel: As with the other Game Gear games, the third act of each Zone is a small platforming area and then a boss fight (this returns to the first game's MO by having Robotnik fights instead of his flunkies). The TrueFinalBoss is a separate part of the game from the Silver Castle boss.
* BonusStageCollectibles: There are five Chaos Emeralds to collect, all of which can be acquired in Act 2 of each level by getting 50 rings, finding a giant ring and completing a bonus stage. Getting all five allows you to fight the TrueFinalBoss and get the Good Ending. Act 1 has bonus stages as well, but they only reward you a one-up on completion.

* LawOfOneHundred: Collecting 100 rings gets you a free one-up... but seemingly resets your ring counter back to zero. The game's [=HUD=] doesn't go past 100 rings, but will still count them as such.

* TimedMission: Each stage has a ten minute time limit. However, you wouldn't know this unless you paid attention to the pre-stage introductions, as there's no clock in the game's HUD. During the last 30 seconds of the time limit, the words '''[[StalkedByTheBell HURRY UP!]]''' appear onscreen and the music becomes more frantic. Then, during the last ten seconds, '''HURRY UP!''' appears onscreen three more times, and the last ten seconds tick away before Sonic or Knuckles loses a life.

TheOneWhere Sonic tried to be ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry''.

* LawOfOneHundred: Collecting 100 rings gets you a free one-up... but immediately resets your ring counter back to zero.

The one where Sonic tried to be ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry''.

* [[OneHundredCoins One Hundred Rings]]: Collecting 100 rings gets you a free one-up... but immediately resets your ring counter back to zero.

* SequelDifficultyDrop: Bits of FakeDifficulty, Blue Marine and the tough TrueFinalBoss aside, the game is significantly easier than the previous Sonic Game Gear titles, even ''VideoGame/SonicChaos'', due to Sonic's double jump, the sparse level design, only losing 10 rings per hit, with the only real challenge coming from the tricky Chaos Emerald sidequest and the Blue Marine stage.

* OxygenatedUnderwaterBubbles: In Blue Marine Zone.