A good 3d sidecrolling beat-em-up. It takes advantage of its new combat than it does in platforming so a lot of missions that have you doing precise Wii remote swings or just using the homing attack. Sonic is the only good character going through the game and the 100% run is kind of boring (aside from maxing out the rank and classes) and the reward is only the Fire Crest, an item that lets you blaze through hordes of enemies by just swinging, which literally is what players that think this game's gameplay is, just swinging the remote until the end of a level. My Wii controller is broken so I need to replay this so I could talk in more detail.

This story isn't a modern critique on royal code and mortality but it's still so goddamn great despite the lot of the awkward lines. Merlina is one of the most 3 dimensional characters in the series even if her plot twist is kind of obvious due to how much she lacks presence most of the game. Sonic being a positive figure throughout the game really cements him as one of my favorite characters and if it wasn't for SA2 this would be the best characterization of himself.