Sonic with all his bones dislocated, desperately trying to survive on the party mode life support console, and failing.
The Bad: Sonic has been annihilated by new-fangled controls and levels, party mode is an uncreative rip of Mario Party.
Full Review: Completed and dead in 3 days. Simple. How was it so bad? Well, take your pick: The new control system has proven the main catalyst for the obliteration of the Sonic that we know and love; the levels have NO side to side movement at all for a start. the enemies don't even attack except for one in, like, 200. Effectively, Sonic has been turned into an easy solo race game with completely unimaginative and uninspired missions. As for the story, well, any not-so-retarded 4-year-old could have dreamt that up. The one redeeming quality is Party mode. The minigames themselves can be fun, but suffer from too much repetition in the control system and the modes are crap too, so it amounts to very little and is nothing compared to Mario Party. In conclusion: this game has to be the biggest train wreck of a good franchise I've ever had the displeasure of "playing" ie. boring myself to death.