An unpolished mess that attempts to mimic a AAA game. While this game does try to do good things, all of those good things are undermined by the general lack of direction, lack of cohesion, and lack of any quality control. If I wasn't falling through the floor every 5 minutes, I was finding an extremely boring and/or tedious puzzle to waste time with. Nothing in this game feels good. Sonic's movement is extremely stiff, he constantly gets stuck in the floor, his speed resets when you jump, and there's no sense of flow at all. Combine this with a very boring story filled to the brim with needless references and you have a mediocre experience. If this is a "first step in the right direction" as fans say, then I'm not looking forward to what this series has in store for the future.