We like it when things come in threes. Three blind mice, three Stooges, dead celebrity, the list goes on. Our psychological attachment to threes is hard to explain, but easy to exploit. Trilogies abound in our media landscape, but being third is a lot harder than being first. The bar is always higher, the hindsight is always 20/20, and even when you stick the landing, some fans just can’t accept the end of something is as good as the beginning. Such is the case for Sonic Advance 3, one of the most underrated titles in the franchise.
