It's basically pinball. If you're a fan of pinball, you'll like this game.
I mean to start it already controls lightyears beyond the garbage that is Sonic Spinball so this is more fun by default. The best way to get enjoyment out of this game is to play Arcade mode for a bit and put it down until you wanna pick it up again. Story mode is actually ridiculous. Starts off kind of alright but the final 2 stages (Metal Sonic and Eggman) are such a cruel unforgiving steep difficulty spike that you start to go insane and wonder if they even bothered to playtest these campaign missions at all. These missions are just WAY too strict and WAY too precise and demanding to be handled with pinball controls and physics. There are many out there who haven't even beaten this game because of these 2 missions and honestly I don't blame them.
I mean to start it already controls lightyears beyond the garbage that is Sonic Spinball so this is more fun by default. The best way to get enjoyment out of this game is to play Arcade mode for a bit and put it down until you wanna pick it up again. Story mode is actually ridiculous. Starts off kind of alright but the final 2 stages (Metal Sonic and Eggman) are such a cruel unforgiving steep difficulty spike that you start to go insane and wonder if they even bothered to playtest these campaign missions at all. These missions are just WAY too strict and WAY too precise and demanding to be handled with pinball controls and physics. There are many out there who haven't even beaten this game because of these 2 missions and honestly I don't blame them.