An April fools joke as an actual game, and one of the better Sonic titles. Though, that's a low bar. This is a neat visual knowledge that fits the genre well and has lots of personality. It is very feature light, an interactive story that lasts a couple of hours and clearly has limitations.
In that space, there's some creativity. A couple of times the core mechanics are used cleverly but mostly the thing is the writing. It isn't amazing but it is sweet and often funny. It has a consistent voice and the best thing to do is purposefully pick wrong things to get fun responses.
There's also this moderately annoying forced minigame that can be entertaining at times, in a rote 'endless running games are compulsive' way. It is tacked on, though, and disrupts the pacing and pulls that satisfaction away from the novel (in both senses of the word) moments.
In that space, there's some creativity. A couple of times the core mechanics are used cleverly but mostly the thing is the writing. It isn't amazing but it is sweet and often funny. It has a consistent voice and the best thing to do is purposefully pick wrong things to get fun responses.
There's also this moderately annoying forced minigame that can be entertaining at times, in a rote 'endless running games are compulsive' way. It is tacked on, though, and disrupts the pacing and pulls that satisfaction away from the novel (in both senses of the word) moments.