this game becomes better when you treat it as a literal collectathon instead of a crime sim sandbox. i mean, there's plenty of shit to collect, there are a lot of side-activities and side-quests, you can jump, you can run as fast as a car, the gameplay loop is extremely repetetive, this is literally sonic frontiers before sonic frontiers was a concept.
ALMOST! let me say this again, ALMOST as criminally unfunny as the reboot but it still has the edge and snark the series used to have initially instead of being as morally black-and-white and substanceless as a mario game. generally plays well except for a few times when i clipped through the floor. enemies are spongy (just in case i'm playing on hard) and the shooting isn't the best in the world, but it's fine enough. not a game i'd reccomend, but if you like the gameplay loop, go through with it. just don't go in with high expectations.