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.

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.