Base game was decent. Haven't written a review for that yet but tl;dr: some good bits mixed with some bad bits and some jank with awkward story delivery. More fun than frustrating. This DLC though is just awful.
Tails and Knuckles challenges are far more obnoxious bullshit than anything from the base game. None of the other characters start with even a basic attack. Knuckles is some straight up Sonic 06 jank. Sometimes when gliding into a wall he just doesn't cling and goes into a free fall instead that you cannot act out of. When you are climbing, the designated red climbing walls only (which is super dumb, he could climb on anything in past games), if you touch anything other than the red surface it flings him a mile off the wall. His glide turning radius is so wide as to be useless at recovering from that "mistake," by the time you turn around you're below what you were trying to climb so back to the start. You get to Tails' section and have to deal with bullshit like "break open a crate only for there to be a boost pad inside that launches you off the platform and start over." Also the game cannot remember where your character last was when you upgrade abilities, despite the base game never having that problem, so it resets you to the nearest auto save point, wtf
The three of them are also still in glitchy ghost mode despite that being dumb and un-fun, and despite Sage saying she'd reverse them giving up their bodies, and despite the story previously making a point of them being unable to interact with the world like that.
And then you have to do towers as Sonic that conists of BS like cylooping around a thing surrounded by boost pads that'll launch you off, and no short cuts back up, followed by a boss rush that requires frame perfect parries to animations unsynched to the parry timing required, that force you to re-do tedious running sections when you fail one, and without a single ring replenishment.
Fuck this DLC, its not even hard in a fair and fun challenging way. I love a good challenge. It's just nothing but obnoxious bullshit that does not respect your time or your efforts. Oh yeah, and the draw distance and pop in is even worse than the base game too
Tails and Knuckles challenges are far more obnoxious bullshit than anything from the base game. None of the other characters start with even a basic attack. Knuckles is some straight up Sonic 06 jank. Sometimes when gliding into a wall he just doesn't cling and goes into a free fall instead that you cannot act out of. When you are climbing, the designated red climbing walls only (which is super dumb, he could climb on anything in past games), if you touch anything other than the red surface it flings him a mile off the wall. His glide turning radius is so wide as to be useless at recovering from that "mistake," by the time you turn around you're below what you were trying to climb so back to the start. You get to Tails' section and have to deal with bullshit like "break open a crate only for there to be a boost pad inside that launches you off the platform and start over." Also the game cannot remember where your character last was when you upgrade abilities, despite the base game never having that problem, so it resets you to the nearest auto save point, wtf
The three of them are also still in glitchy ghost mode despite that being dumb and un-fun, and despite Sage saying she'd reverse them giving up their bodies, and despite the story previously making a point of them being unable to interact with the world like that.
And then you have to do towers as Sonic that conists of BS like cylooping around a thing surrounded by boost pads that'll launch you off, and no short cuts back up, followed by a boss rush that requires frame perfect parries to animations unsynched to the parry timing required, that force you to re-do tedious running sections when you fail one, and without a single ring replenishment.
Fuck this DLC, its not even hard in a fair and fun challenging way. I love a good challenge. It's just nothing but obnoxious bullshit that does not respect your time or your efforts. Oh yeah, and the draw distance and pop in is even worse than the base game too