Pretty fun! Just a bit repetitive. I used to play this all the god damn time when I was little, spamming the Grand Prix over and over again since I didn't understand enough English to do well on mission mode lmao

I'd rather have Sonic and Co. racing against each other on foot, it just makes more sense to me, but if you gotta add a vehicle in there, I'm glad they went with hoverboards. When I first played Phantasy Star Universe and saw Ethan riding around on one of those, I immediately fell in love with the concept.

The story is nothing worth noting, but props to Wave's voice actress for being the only one actually giving a shit. Legit, her performance was really good.

Also props to the art style! I love the intro cutscene and the character select portraits, it's striking and instantly recognizable. Can't exactly say the same for the soundtrack sadly, but it's not bad; it has a couple of catchy tracks.

Racing felt good, too. It takes a while to really "get" the systems at play here, but once it clicks, you'll be boosting, high jumping and tricking all the way to first place. If only it had more tracks, or a better mission mode, this would be a great single player racing game. Sadly, mission objectives felt kind of repetitive. Normally, I wouldn't let that discourage me, but the requirements for Gold emblems can be REALLY stingy. My patience ran thin on Sonic's Egg Factory mission; I was constantly missing the Gold emblem by like, a millisecond.

Fun little game to revisit. Maybe I'll go for 100% someday.