The only Sonic game I have fully played before this, was Forces (yeah, I know...)
I will say, I am enjoying the Open Zone stuff here. it is not amazing by any means, but it is simple and fun.
The actual stages are horrible tho
Is this how 3D Stages usually are in Sonic? I... struggle with them, for so many reasons. Sonic moves by myself a lot, and then touch the controlls and Sonic instantly zooms out of the stage or something.
I am not as used to this as long time Sonic fans of course, but it really feels like the stages have very poor readability for what is going on, with colors and stuff eveyrwhere, and boom, was a spike ball there, while I was going fast. I assume it is a lot of 'play many times to learn it by heart', but even with that in mind, the stages are the worst part of the game so far, for me
Overall tho, it is fun, and as long as I do not HAVE to get a S rank on the stages to beat the game, I do not mind the stages too much.