User blog comment:Myself 123/Sonic Forces is Generations behind/@comment-25826354-20171208161353

I think the biggest problem Forces has is that it's style over substance. The visuals are stunning, the OST is great (as usual), the plot, while underwhelming, is still the best story since The Black Knight, and the Avatar is surprisingly fun to customize. It's a decent game, and I had a good time playing it, but there are glaring flaws that hold it back from being a great game, mainly the inferior physics and controls, as well as the sub-par level design. The physics and controls MIGHT be excused by unfamiliarity with the new engine, but the level design could have easily been fixed by having the same team of level designers from Generations. I'm not sure why they handed it to three newbies.