While I thought Archie's Sonic was pretty fun, I much prefer Fleetway's book, which I think had more interesting storylines and characters, and was better-illustrated. Fleetway Sonic also stayed truer to the game settings, with less of an influence from the slightly cheesy Saturday morning cartoons.

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There was also at least one Japanese Sonic line, although I haven't read much of it.

I think this criticism is perhaps excessively harsh. The sentence you quote is meaningful: it explains that the game is 'innovative' and 'complex, but worth persevering with' in less cliched, more readable terms, as well as concisely stating the name of the development team and their project aims.

That said, I do agree with your essential point that Edge reviews under the current administration often state a conclusion without developing a strong argument supporting it. I would like to see much more detailed exposition and analysis of how a game's mechanics and systems function, enabling the reader to judge whether that conclusion is logical or fair. The reviewer's perception of the overall game experience is valuable, but a more developed explanation of how that experience is produced would be much more so.

Note that I think Edge is still head-and-shoulders above the majority of other major game reviewers, who often don't even try to achieve insight into the game experience, instead writing overlong reviews full of superficial, generic or irrelevant information.

Of course, our view is that Scotland should have control of key fiscal levers in order to do more. This is a clear example of the need for radical change which at least provides full fiscal autonomy for Scotland.

The SNP fails again. Intensifying an economic race to the bottom is in nobody's best interests in the long-term. A functional 'radical' political solution here would be an EU government with the power to set uniform taxes across member states, eliminating beggar-thy-neighbour tax breaks.

(No disrespect meant to ace dev RTW, which is simply reacting sensibly to the current situation.)

I am pleased to see this level-headed re-evaluation of the Prime games. MP was a huge technical achievement, and very well-designed in some respects, such as its control system. However, in spite of its sequels' incremental improvements, the Prime series never came close to achieving the brilliant pacing, structural design and player manipulation of the Intelligent Systems games. Those aesthetically impressive visuals also came at the cost of 2D Metroid's destructible environments and clearer graphical communication.

It's a pretty unfortunate situation. For example, many people were highly critical of the graphics tech shown in the internal Last Guardian demo leaked a few weeks ago. When the public version was revealed at E3, it was much more polished, but by that point it was 'old news' and the game's overall reception may remain coloured by the lesser quality of the early reveal.