[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

The game deleted on me when I got a new phone and it doesn't even give me an opportunity to link the game and it really pisses me off that the game was fun but wants you to link an account but doesn't even know where to link the account and id rather just stick to console versions of sonic games because this one is just bad

Sonic Rumble is certainly a phone game, and you can't take that way from it. You may be able to play it on PC or the console of your choosing, but it's a phone game alright, meant for the lowest of the lowest common denominator and no one **** local multiplayer, so if you were hoping to play this on a couch with your friends you can get **** pitiful amount of low effort single player content, which still requires you to play online to grind for the currency necessary to purchase it. You can't even unlock the single player hard mode of each course without playing it in co-op first. The courses themselves didn't receive any kind of change that would make them more practical to traverse solo, **** in-game store forces you to spend a **** of money in nonsense you don't give a **** about before you can even get a whiff at the interesting stuff, which is randomly selected, because of course it is.Genuinely impressed that there's even graphics settings. You can't modify certain things individually, like anti-aliasing and all of that minor stuff, but the game does tell you if those things do improve depending on what settings you choose. It's not a big deal but... why?One last mobile-slop related nitpick that is very small in importance but very big in comedic value: you can't see where your opponents are ranked when playing a mini-game, you can see only your own position. This is likely because a full scoreboard would have made the UI too cluttered on phones. They didn't bother to rectify that for the console versions, but they kept those stupid buttons on the botton right corner meant for touch screen only. This game was made with lots of care and **** that's of course not considering all the pay-to-win practices capable of invoking that incredibly specific yet morbidly accurate feeling of poking at a roadkill cat with your naked finger the more you keep playing. I won't get into details when it comes to what you'll encounter: if you've played one phone game, you've played them all. FOMO timed events, season passes, inhumane grinding, yadda yadda, same old same old. I love mobile **** can't directly write messages in a guild's group chat, only use pre-written sentences, something that i'd understand if it was made that way in an attempt to not get children in unfortunate situations, but with all the popups demanding real money from them, jumping out of the screen at every possible occasion, i don't even know why they bothered to keep the **** gameplay is really fun, and while i have some problems with it (the one boss i got to play kinda ****, for example), if they decided to charge for 40 bucks for Sonic Rumble and formatted its rewards and content like it's a real videogame and not just a sleazy mean to spill money out of children and autistic adults, this could have been something i'd see myself playing for much longer than i ended up doing.