I remember this being very good but the challenges or whatever they were called (and the story) being stupid. Will replay on PC on nightmare soon and see.
As a kid this game gets away with it, at least until you try to fight a boss with any character other than the one you're supposed to play the stage as. Awful.
Don't really get the nostalgia for this era of sonic games. At the time it was just bad, if anything I like it more now that I recognize how funny stuff like the president's picture of sonic is