most characters played like shit (especially knuckles), the difficulty was increased heavily for no reason whatsoever, every single new character starts with their own skill tree plus all 4 stats at lvl 1 (causing you to have to either wait for the meteor showers for stat upgrades or search the map to max each of their stats), and the story didn't interest me much up to the boss rush trial (which was my last straw because i couldn't be bothered to relearn how every mechanic works just to beat something that wasn't enjoyable to me.) i may eventually revisit this but as of rn i highly doubt i will honestly.