Sonic the Hedgehog 4 - Episode I

This game is atrocious. The artstyle is bland and ugly, the soundtrack is a mess, and the level design is just obnoxious. Easily one of the worst Sonic games.

This is absolutely the worst Sonic game I have ever played. At first, I thought the game would have been fun, but I slowly started to figure out the game isn't fun. The game cheats you out of the end level rings when you know you could have jumped into it, and when you're running, you start spinning in a ball for no reason, causing issues with dodging things from the boss. The placement of some of the enemies is just being cheap for the sake of being cheap. The flame puzzle thing was godawful nonsense that ticked me off. Not only does the game suck, but it tries to force you to install Java, which I'll never do on Linux. I had to go on GitHub and get a remade exe just to turn this stupid game on. The graphics are okay, but when you look at Sonic, he looks like someone didn't even care to model him correctly. It feels like a PS2 game upscaled, it really does. Bad graphics on Sonic, auto aim spinball hits are not great on the hitbox, the game puts in so much cheapness it slows you down to the point you don't feel like you're going fast, and the whole point of playing Sonic is to go fast. The last boss needed checkpoints, and the eggs it throws are super cheap, almost impossible to dodge because you'll spinball for no real good reason. It's no wonder they didn't make the 3rd version. This was a very poor attempt to make a classic Sonic game. They took all the fun away and gave you everything you hate from Sonic and thought we'd like it. It took me ages to actually play this. It's been years since I bought this but never played it, and I still feel ripped off. This game isn't even worth being free on Epic Games Store.