"Approaching the big 40, I find myself sitting comfortably in my arm chair playing Sonic’s latest adventure on the Nintendo DS. It feels like I have grown up with Sonic; he has been a big part of life from my early 20’s to now and has given me both gaming pleasure and despair. The early games on the Megadrive were exhilarating, colourful, addictive and mind numbingly fast. Through the years though, the Sonic franchise has lost its way and has failed to deliver the thrills it once did."

"Raise your hand if you remember Fake Voltron. You know, the one made out of cars instead of righteous lion statue robots? It was not as bad as the Transformer’s ugly cousins, the GoBots but whenever you came across it you always felt a little let down. This is kind of the way I feel about the Sonic gang. It always felt to me like Sega’s answer to Mario and company. And where I love Toad, Luigi, and Bowser I am disenchanted by Tails, Knuckles, and Dr. Eggman. However, this does not mean ..."

Here are review scores for a load of recent Nintendo DS and Wii games.

Naruto has made a slip, only achieving a 6.5.

Samba De Amigo (Wii) and Kirby Super Star Ultra (DS) held the spotlight by achieving a 9 each respectively.

The lowest score was for NBA Live 09 All-Play (Wii) with the poor achievement of 4.

The average for the game was around 7-8.