*Sigh* I wrote all this before seeing that this topic was started over 6 months ago, ah well.
I A ranked the entire game and I disagree, too many annoying things botch it up.
Like how the second cannon in world 4 never actually funtions as it's supposed to, instead you always bounce off the rail you land on and have to be ready for that so you can steer yourself onto the lower left one to not die. Like if you touch the controller during loops, or don't touch it quite the right way you'll go flying off or run straight into a wall. Like how the flying formation sucks and feels way too limited and mechanic. Like how the 3 main stories are presented as difficulty levels yet you still have to trudge through the boring easy mode and the tedious mission mode if you want to reach the true ending. Like when the game stopped you for a minute or two, killing your momentum, so you could fight those big robots where you basically just stood around waiting for them to expose their weak points. Like how the pulling switches were way too cumbersome to line yourself up with most of the time. Like the completely stupid team on team boss battles. Like how you weren't always level three in speed form because that was when the game was actually fun. Like how obvious the triggers for the chatter (or anything else that you might otherwise pass off for a visual trick, like those in the scary house level) was in a level, and how audio will repeat if you cross the same point twice.
I believe there was even a point where a voice clip was so poorly timed in its triggering that it skipped over the one directly after it unless you did everything in your power to slow the team down during a rail sequence, and the only reason I suspected it was there was that it wasn't broken like this for the other team that passed through that same point in the level.
Being the first 3D Sonic game I played and coming in with very low expectations (thought the game was over at stage 4) I managed to enjoy it somewhat at the time, but I can't go back to it these days. It has a few neat ideas, but man is it shoddily put together.
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