Sonic The Hedgehog 4™ Ep. II 9+

I am giving this game 5 stars because of so much reminiscing from the classic Sonic the Hedgehog games. I was 8 years old when Sonic came out in 1991; if it weren’t for Sonic, I wouldn’t have developed an interest in video games, and have loved his games since then...not including a few past and present flops (Sonic Boom the worst of it all). I’ve even done much fan art and my own story writing/graphic novel work, as many fans of pretty much *anything* will do.
However...I am removing a star because of the “update”. When I first got this game I had to buy it...but it was ad free and wonderfully enjoyable. Now with the downgrading “update”, I have to, in a sense, buy it a SECOND TIME just to remove the ads! I tried to restore the purchase of the game, but I only got an error, telling me that there were no purchases to restore. That takes the enjoyment of the game and tosses it in a pit of fire.
This issue is apparently a very large problem for all players who have already paid for the game. And if this “update” moves to episode I, which I have as well, there’s going to be a lot more upset players who have already paid for the game(s).
Please, Sega, either refund all purchases that were done to originally buy this game, or automatically upgrade the game to premium for those players who have already paid for the game. It would make a whole lot of rather unhappy players feel better.

(Best to read if played game before, might spoil) Well well well, sonic 4 episode 2, do I have to say more? The stages are so good as well as the music! however some stages are pretty bad. The final boss is okay and the Sky fortress act 1 is a little boring. But EVERY stage besides those are just pure fun to run through. Sylvania castle zone is a great discount of green hill zone, white park is amazing! (Besides act 3) and oil desert is EXTREMELY UNDERRATED as well as sky fortress. it’s like a ban-aid was put on the physics, there kind of better BUT NOT REALLY. some bosses are so irritating as well but the music is amazing, but the final special stage is the WORST. It requires so much trial and error… instead of you getting 300 rings, you have to get from 100 to 400 rings or else you lose! But the other special stages are good too, and when you get super sonic, he feels so refreshing. Sadly u get nothing for the good ending when you get all the chaos emeralds. With a few shortcomings it by far one of the best sonic games ever.

So I first got this hame when I was around 7 or 8. I enjoyed it a lot especially with there being no ads. Eventually I finished the game, stopped playing it as I started losing interest in sonic and eventually deleted it. I then went on to switching devices when I got my first phone and I decided to download Sonic 4 again to play it after a long time. When I get into the app, it gets infested with ads everywhere. When I open the game, there’s an ad, when I unpause the game there’s an ad. And I know what you’re thinking, why don’t you just click out of the ads? I would, if the exit button actually worked. Every time an ad pops up, I simply wait the amount of seconds there are before I can click out of the ad. But when I do, it acts as if I’m not pressing exit (not on the video ads but on the picture ads). So in order for me to get out of the ad, I always have to press get and then exit out of the App Store in order to keep playing, but when I do all the sound goes away and the only way to fix it is if you press pause and go through all that stuff again. I couldn’t even get passed the first level because of this. To make this long review short, please fix this and don’t update it to have more ads cause no one wanted that.