The more I think about this game's story the more upset I get. It's a complete mockery that acts pathetic all the time and sucks off the older games. It makes sense why Sonic Team chose to completely rewrite the script for Japanese audiences. While I do love the older games, I don't love them because they would obsess over the classic games. They were original and had ideas they wanted to explore. This game is extremely surface level in terms of story and the voice acting perfectly exemplifies it. They try to make it a more "mature story" by having the English voice actor put on a deep voice. That's it. It's all performative. There's nothing of narrative substance here. The music is great but the music is always great when it's a game made by Sonic Team. The writing and english voice acting is the opposite of witty, and frankly painful to sit through. It reeks of Sonic comic writing and the characters act like their comic counterparts rather than the versions of them this game is trying to ape.

I hope this new "era" of Sonic doesn't last too long.

Good gameplay. Great bosses. Horrible story. Bad English voice acting.