i've never played a game that can give me both unbridled childlike joy and agonizing rage within the same hour. if you're willing to put up with levels of bullshit and misery previously thought possible, you'll get alongside it some of the best gameplay, story, and visuals in the entire franchise. it's not even all the werehog stages that are bad, it's just the occasional few that miss the mark of basic game design so hard you'll be surprised a world even exists with such god awful levels. you'll wonder why you even played this game, and then an hour later you'll remember when you're experiencing pure bliss and witnessing peak sonic. this game is truly like an abusive relationship