The improvements to the physics make this game much easier to play, although the vastly improved controls do make the relatively simpler platforming segments feel a bit lackluster as they were obviously designed with the more finicky controls in mind.

The entire games colours are much more vibrant, which looks distinct from the original, but good in its own way. The new levels are OK, they do standout as obviously seperate from the orginals, but they look brilliant even if the level design is a tad hit or miss.

The new characters are cool, although I did stick with Sonic for most of my playtime.

One thing I did find very strange is the way they changed collecting the chaos emeralds, reverting the game to have a special stage system similiar to the 16bit version. I was never crazy about needing to find the emeralds in the original version, but it was something unique to this game, and was quite satisfying once you had figured out the spots they were hiding in, so I find it very odd they stripped that away from this remake for a more boring traditional system.

If you want an easier time, this is the way to go, but it is honestly different enough from the original where I wouldn't say its an immediate replacement.