This is way worse than 06 idc what anyone says. At least in 06 you can actually move around and have freedom. The best part of this is the Mario party rip-off they added.
The controls of this game are very very clunky but is something you can get used to with time. The game overall is pretty good I really don't understand the hate. The story is good, caracter design is good, the music is great. The level and boss design is also very good. Still remember the boss fight with erazor djin.. Even the skill/level up system was kinda in-dept.
Also the minigames are hella fun ( don't know how they didn't got sued by nintendo since that was literally mario party ).
This is probably my least favorite 3d sonic game but i still respect it somewhat,also the mobius strip level here is actually better than Starlight Carnival
It took me ten minutes to understand the controls and make them work. The real complaint should be how slow they are until you upgrade every single one of them twice and you can't even do that till Sonic reaches level 25. By that point, you will need to have completed every available mission in every level before Skeleton Dome. Yes, there are separate upgrades for each and every movement in Sonic's control and you need to upgrade them individually. Sonic Team could've made many better approaches to fixing this but chose not to likely because they didn't believe new players could handle Sonic's control at his best and thus decided to nerf him threefold. There are so many upgrades that I don't think it is possible to bring Sonic to full potential before finishing a single playthrough of the game. The game also forces the player to complete 15 minutes worth of tutorial sessions before reaching the first actual level of the game. Based on what I'm reading on this page, I'm assuming all that time left no impact on most people. I don't know. Maybe motion controls that attempt to do any more than be virtual hands or substitute a button press confuse more than impress. Maybe I just really like motion controls.
Also the minigames are hella fun ( don't know how they didn't got sued by nintendo since that was literally mario party ).