Sonic's spindash is replaced by giving Kirby a fairly useless vacuum ability that sucks in any enemy on the screen, but even after admitting this, there is no catharsis. My punishment continues to elude me and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself. No new knowledge can be extracted from my telling. This confession has meant nothing.

I'm bad at Sonic 2, worse than in Sonic 1, so I didn't get too far, but there are some weird things about this one.

The game is very difficult, since every time Kirby gets hit, it loses a life, and the monitors are randomized, including even bad effects, which is just bad design, since you don't want to risk losing a life.
Kirby is very nimble with his double jump, but the lack of a spin dash-like ability makes the game slower.