Honestly after playing this game for a while, there are a ton of issues that past me was too stupid to care for or realize. Like how unpolished everything is, how the cutscenes have no life or emotion to them, or how fishing with Big the Cat makes the small enemies, the guardians, the portals, and the random objects and surfaces for parkour completely unnecessary.

But the open world is a good idea for Sonic, the music slaps, the boss fights’ insane presentation makes what is admittedly easy fights like awesome, and the written is pretty great.

Unleashed isn’t perfect, in fact I would give this a 5 star rating if the sun and moon medals gimmick wasn’t mandatory to the story mode, and instead used to unlock bonus stages like the Wii version did.

Also I think the pacing could be improved upon. I’m mainly talking about the werehog, just make it a bit quicker and make it feel less sluggish.

And honestly, the English dub for Chip could’ve been way better. The voice we got makes Chip sound kind of uncomfortable.

But aside from those issues, Sonic Unleashed is genuinely a good game with possible the best experience out of any Sonic game. Sonic Colors is still better.