This was a delightful ride from start to finish. The story was basically nonexistent, but it came together with the excellently designed stages to make this a breezy romp through Sonic's history.

Basically every stage owns. It's pretty easy to get S Ranks for the most part (saying this as someone that was not very good at SA1 and 2), but the difficulty kicks up well enough in the last few stages to balance it out. It never really feels unfair like SA2 could be at points. The only stage that sticks out as being the least good is Planet Wisp, I didn't like most of Act 1 and the 2D portion in Act 2 is...fine.

Still, just excellent overall. The bosses are all great too.