Somari the Adventurer
Somari the Adventurer is a Sonic the Hedgehog port for the NES, with a
twist. Instead of Sonic, the player controls Somari, which can be described as
Mario in Sonic’s shoes, literally.
Overall, the gameplay is quite faithful to the original game, though Somari
can spindash (by pressing down and A or B), a feature fist introduced in Sonic
the Hedgehog 2. Somari has to collect rings, but unlike in Sonic , if he’s
hit by an enemy, only three rings will fly out of him, no matter how many
rings he’s currently carrying.
The level sequence is faithful to the original game, with the exception of the
Scrap Brain level, which wasn’t finished and thus was removed from the final
product. The level design ins’t faithful to the original version, with
constant changes throughout the game. The items and monsters are the same
found in the original game, and the music is as faithfully translated to the
NES as possible, with some tempo variations.
Somari the Adventurer