sure, maybe flexing on your competition in-game is a little gauche, but really how much more beyond the pale is it than doing it in magazine ads, and anyway, you get a pass when you're, yanno, actually as good or better than the thing you're ripping off. cliff had the right idea; amiga platformers looked amazing and boasted incredible music, but they were boring, doofy, repetitive, and too hard with too little payoff. console wars rhetoric and american attitude may be unpleasant and toxic, but given how fun and playable jazz is, it's hard to argue that they weren't precisely the steroid shot the amiga platformer template needed. I'd rather play this than 90 percent of sonic games; nearly every world is an aesthetic treat, the soundtrack is all killer no filler, it does sonic cd's bonus stages better than sonic cd did, and if you have to deal with some hacky crap like how low eva earlong's dress is cut or a boss that's literally just a mashup of sonic and zool, well, at least those things are easier to explain than figuring out whatever the hell puggsy is.