sonic fans are gonna crucify me for this, but this game in its entirety is not very good at all. some of the sonic levels are a lot of fun... and that's it. if this whole game was just sonic levels, this would've been a better game, albeit with kinda buggy levels but you could look past that. there's this AWFUL overworld and the path to the next level is super cryptic in an already empty world that's zero fun to explore. voice acting and animation that borders on laughable (came out the same year as metal gear solid so not a time period excuse) but good god, it's once you do the other character campaigns where shit hits the fan. people shit on big the cat's stages but everyone forgets how AWFUL Amy Rose is to control. she's so slow, her hammer stops her in place, she is the most UNSATISFYING character to control in a platformer EVER. BUT, the chao garden is pretty damn cool.