After listening to the Soundtrack for months without playing it, this ended up being a nice surprise. We all made fun of the hanging rails out of nowhere and the "Breath of the Wild" style focus but it ended up working pretty nicely for the Sonic gameplay loop, making the game totally addictive as the best open world games are able to do.

On the negative side, the pop in is ridiculous in all islands, the cyberspace levels end before you can even enjoy them and, as usual, sometimes Sonic controls in 3d like ass. Overall, this was a very enjoyable game!