Don't even bother buying this horrible glitchy game!! Sonic's 1st appearance on the next gen is just plain AWFUL!!
The story in the game is just plain boring. And you know what's my biggest grape about this? You got it, it's Princess Elise, Sonic having a romantic relationship with a human princess? Elise is the most worst character I never seen in a Sonic game. NO!!!
Enough of this rant and let's talk about this god awful Sonic game. Now then finding where you are supposed to go next around Soleanna is just soo boring. You get lost soo easy and you had to wander round and the radar you have is useless. If they added a big 'M' on side of the map that would be useful. Yes! There are those stupid 16-second load times as well. Let's take an example on accepting the town act missions from people which are stupid. Say I walked up to a ripoff guy named Sonic Man and he asked that he wanted a race against me. I say yes and then the load screen appears, then he tells me what to do, then a another load screen appears, then I complete or fail the town act, load screen appears, then he congrats me or say better luck time pal, and OMG! Another load screen appears. WHY DOES THIS GAME HAS TO LOAD THE TOWN ACTS TWICE!! I MEAN COME ON CAN IT JUST LOAD ONCE THEN THAT'S IT. BESIDES, TOWN ACTS ARE JUST PLAIN STUPID AND BORING!
Now about the main thing. Action Acts as we call it levels. These have not been improved this time and there are load times in between. Yes! Sonic Adventure didn't had that problem and either did Sonic Heroes. Here is the one I really really hate. Sonic runs way too fast and crashes into everything. And yes, they are really frustrating and you keep crashing into everything all the time and one false move and you're dead!! Even in the boarding stages of Sonic. The controls are seriously awful! Even in some stages of Sonic. You sometimes carry Elise. Ugh! Sega for crying out loud why do you have to make your mascot fall in love with Elise?? In some levels when you play as any of the three hedgehogs, you sometimes play as other characters for a while as well like when you play as Sonic, you sometimes play as Knuckles or Tails but, all of them have really useless attacks, bad voice acting and really bad controls. Like Tails using ring bombs when he can use his Tails to attack just like in SA. And also, this game has these damn glitches too like when Sonic falls off a level, he falls through unsoild scenery at the bottom. By the way, if you blame Sega, blame Sonic Team too. This Sonic game is really disappointing .
The music is kinda not bad though but some of them do suck and also. SEGA is focusing way to much on the graphics. Sorry SEGA, You just totally ruined Sonic's 15th anniversary. What a disgrace.