Honestly, what ultimately holds me back from rating this any higher comes down to how incredibly short/how little it has to offer, a racing game with only 5 stages. The music I adore, every track in this game is vibrant, catchy, and just good. the stages are also vibrant, and overall nicely crafted, each having decently cool branching paths (though some stages do this way better then others). The coins/emerald collectables are a decent completion reward, and the roster is pretty diverse. The roster is definitely super unbalanced stat wise, Super Sonic is to overpowered, along with Metal Knuckles, and characters like Amy, Egg Robo, and Tails Doll are far to weak/slow to compete. The controls contrary to popular belief are fine(I'm playing on the Sonic Gems Collection so that might be why I differ) and can be pretty fun depending on the character you pick, double jumping with Sonic, flying with Tails, gliding with Knuckles, all feel good and certain characters like Metal Sonic can hop repeatedly on water, while some characters will drown. Each character has stats and attributes unique to them(for the most part). The side modes like the tag, or balloon hunting seem like they can be ok fun with 4 friends, and the varied weather/atmospheric effects that change the environment/certain effects of the stages is personally really awesome, but aside from that my main gripe is really how tiny this game is, would have been grateful for at least 10 stages and the obvious character balance. Aside from these gripes this is a pretty well put together game with so much missed potential imo.