Title: Hellfire Saga
Published: 30/01/2023
Creator: Red Miso Studios

This has to be my favourite sonic romhack ever, maybe even one of my favourite sonic games in general (yeah, im also counting official releases)! It's a very short game but man the devs managed to make those 50 or so minutes worth so much. The levels are pretty densly packed with several routes and shortcuts you can take, the story, as simplistic as it is its written pretty well (also some of the EX result screens genuinely give me some creeps), the bosses OH MY GOD THE BOSSES, they are just the best bosses around, no "oh wait for the boss to reveal his weak point" bs here (except death phase 2), you can hit em all the time if you know what you're doing and if you know how to avoid their attacks or hell even if you know how to use the instashield properly, they are just very well done. The OST for the game is also pretty nice, even though a big chunk of them are remixes they are really well done remixes, with some of my favs being forest of decay act 1, sin city 1, the credits theme, they are very nice, the original tracks also go hard.

I've replayed this romhack 4-5 times in my lifetime, those being done both in real hardware and on emulators, normal to nightmare difficulty. Its such an amazing game you all should give it a try if you can, its FREE!