It's Sonic Colors but worse. To me, Sonic Colors was already an extreme product of its time, answering complaints that fans had constantly had over the series until that point ("Sonic has too many friends" "Sonic's plots are too serious and moody" "Sonic games should just be the daytime stages from Unleashed" to name a few), but those complaints don't really exist in todays day and age so I think remaking Colors of all things was just a bit of a strange move. This game is up there with Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania and Sonic Origins as HD remakes that kinda sorta become less than the sum of their parts due to lack of polish and strange development choices. They overhauled the visuals to be FULL of bloom and oversaturated lighting, they kept the controls pretty much the same as the wii game despite the clear opportunity to allow sonic to control exactly as he did in Unleashed, Generations, and Forces, and they shoehorned in some weird race with metal sonic mode that only happens on one level in each world and never again. The game is also buggy. Very buggy. Even on the latest update, which is what I played. Planet Wisp didn't have a skybox once. I fell through the floor on multiple different occasions. There just doesn't seem to be very much polish put into this game to give it the same merits as the original, and even then I think the original was kinda eh. That all being said, if you HAVE to play sonic colors and don't have a wii, or if you are a kid or have a kid that wants to play sonic colors, this is sonic colors. I played Sonic Adventure DX as a kid and that games graphics were butchered to all hell and back and I wasn't aware, so I'd imagine to the casual player, this is as good a sonic colors as any. I just wish they put a bit more effort, and picked a different sonic game to remake.