I really wanted to like this one, I really did, but it's at best a very basic Sonic game.

I do appreciate some of the levels and the music can be quite good, but I found myself very annoyed at level gimmicks. Gimmicks can be fun, but there are so many of them. And they waste your time. Wait for this, wait here, don't move, spin slowly in a circle. Older Sonic games have the same types of gimmicks but they flow so much better than they do here.

Boss fights also suffer from this problem. My classic Sonic brain tells me I can exploit bosses if I am fast enough to do so, but here, nope. Wait, hit boss, wait, hit boss. It's slow. I did not come to Sonic games to be slow. Mania had a couple bosses like this, but this game, every boss is like this. And it sucks. At least Mania didn't waste as much of my time with waiting.

Trip is pretty neat as a new character. Love their design, maybe they'll come back in another game who knows.

It's not a bad game, trust me. It's not a great game either. It's right down the middle where Sonic games usually sit.