Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric

Sonic, Knuckles, Tails, and Amy are fighting with their arch-nemesis Dr. “Eggman” Robotnik when they stumble across a strange temple. The door to the temple is covered in paintings of Sonic and Tails, so they naturally decide to investigate. Once inside, the team accidentally releases the evil Lyric, a part-snake, part-robot scientist who has been imprisoned for a thousand years. Lyric hates organic life; he considers robots to be far superior. So he plans on using his army of robots to collect eight mystical crystals and then use them to wipe out all organic life on the planet. Sonic and his friends must rush to collect all of the crystals before Lyric can succeed. Nature vs. technology is a major theme here, as it has been for most of the Sonic games going all the way back to the original in 1991.

Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric saves automatically at regular intervals, but can also be saved at almost any time from the pause screen menu.

Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric is only difficult because of its serious design flaws. It's easy to get confused about where to go next.

• Why does playing this game make you frustrated?
• Why does Dr. Robotnik decide to ally himself with Lyric, even though Lyric wants to wipe out all organic life?
• What do you think happened to the ancients? Does technology harm a society, or help it?
• Why does Amy make so many jokes about being a girl?