Honestly, sorry to say this, but anyone who tell that this is the only good modern Sonic game is objetively wrong, I mean the timing of obstacles are just not there, even if you are perfect in the way the game want you to be it still blocks your flow in awful ways anyway, not challenging ones, plus enemies and their patterns are very repetitive and boring and the vent that generate wind from below you are also so slow to lift you up to keep an interesting flow. I mean look at the videos of people getting S rank without a bug or a glitch and you will see that's true. Even putting aside the Sonic games, there are way better budget games that are difficult but where you can have a great flow if you play perfectly, one of the firsts that comes to mind being Lunistice as an example, but even older ones than both games

This game is so good for it's price, it's fun, engaging, and has barely any plot, making it a silly game that everyone can enjoy! 9.5/10

I'd give this a neutral rating if I could.

I played through all stages and got all the stars and unlocked Macbat. Then I started playing through a few of the levels again as Macbat but once I realized I couldn't use that character to improve my times I also realized I wasn't really having fun. The idea of speed-running the levels over and over again to try to get S ranking didn't appeal to me. I assume that's how you unlock the 3rd character, but I didn't even care enough to try looking it up.

Can't complain much for $1. It's not a bad game. But I did everything I wanted to do in under 40 minutes and it had no replay value for me. My one real complaint is that even with the camera sensitivity turned all the way up I felt the camera was moving too slow for me to be able to quickly point it in the direction I wanted it to face. So I ended up just using the "snap camera to direction I'm facing" button all the time instead.

Also, it's not obvious from the store page, but when the game says it has "a few weird elements" what it means is that this game was originally made for a game jam where the theme was something like "Haunted PS1 Demo Disc" so there's some very mild "creepy" stuff in the game. Mostly it's just benign-looking things changing and making a sound effect when you get kinda near them. It's as if it's going for jump-scares, except I never found it even remotely scary or even startling. Many times I didn't even really see it because it would happen kind of in the background or in the distance (i.e., in the periphery of my vision) and I was focused on getting the stars right in front of me or making the next jump which was in the other direction so it was often out of sight almost as soon as it began. I'm not even sure if any of the "scary" things can actually harm your character. None of it ever touched me.