Some cutscenes have poor audio mixing (like the music being a tad louder than it should), lip-syncing is terrible because it isn't synchronized with the English dialogue and the character animations in the cutscenes are baffling, with the Sonic and Knuckles' facial expressions and Eggman moonwalking in some scenes being the highlights.The collision detection is very broken: it's possible to glitch through the floor and fall out of bounds, in the town hub world it's very easy to get stuck on a door or a street lamp and colliding with some vertical surfaces at a high speed will stop you dead in your tracks.Thankfully, Tikal can help you if you get lost. Navigating the hub world can be confusing and tedious, especially in the jungle section of Mystic Ruins, where, due to the low-quality of the leaves and the fact that invisible walls are everywhere, makes it a maze to navigate.On that note, the fights against another character, like Knuckles or Gamma, are ridiculously easy.There are only two characters that don't fight Chaos: Amy and Gamma. While the multiple bosses are fun to fight, you'll have to fight some bosses multiple times if more than one character encounters them during the story, like Chaos 4.
Some of the lines sound very weird, like "That's Eggman, I wonder what happened to Sonic?" from Tails' story, and Knuckles’ English voice is so bad it almost sounds like text-to-speech. Poor English voice acting and translation.The frame rate issue was fixed in the DX version. Choppy frame rate that looks barely any better than a Sony PlayStation or Nintendo 64 game.The different characters also travel through the same levels with little differences, making their campaigns rather repetitive.His campaign is the longest, sure, but he never gets to Hot Shelter, a level only accessible by Gamma, Amy, and Big. The large amount of playable characters somewhat takes the spotlight from Sonic.This was later fixed in the DX version, which added a "Free Camera" mode. The camera is clunky, usually ending up getting stuck on walls and other times struggling to keep up with the characters.Speaking of moves, while it’s fun to play as him, Sonic feels sloppy sometimes when running very fast the controls feel extremely sensitive and the homing attack sometimes can either hit a random target from a mile away, miss the one you wanted to hit or make Sonic start spinning in circles around it.The same thing can be said with Amy and her hammer spin.
Sonic's power ups feel useless and (apart from the forced segments) one can complete his story without using them once.
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E-102 Gamma's main purpose is to destroy all the E-100 series of robots while Big the Cat's and Amy Rose's main purpose is to rescue or protect their animal companions from being captured. In fact, the only characters who arcs are actually connected are Sonic, Tails and Knuckles. While the story is decent, it's rudimentary and sloppy at times since half of the character's arcs have nothing to do with the main plot.