the kind of thing that can only really be enjoyed as baby's first video game. controls are clunky, camera is vomit-inducing, level design ranges from decent to terrible, and the team gimmick gets old pretty quickly.

the most interesting part of sonic heroes is how directly it signals the beginning of the end for this franchise. everything bad about the games that come after start to rear their heads in sonic heroes. to be fair, there were moments when i felt myself enjoying parts of this game. i can see how there's some satisfaction to mastering each of the character's abilities and seamlessly switching between them. but would i recommend this game to anyone? only if i hated them.