User blog comment:Mystic Monkey/Mystic's review on Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric/@comment-24067999-20141127162213/@comment-679780-20141127165249

If the game was polished up, perhaps some gameplay elements reconsidered and unscripted missions either finished or remove, it be a better game. Something would need to be done about the rings also.

But other than that the only blame Sega should have is a gamble with BigRedButton.