"It’s clear Sega doesn’t really know what to do with Sonic but they’re getting there. Sonic Forces is surprisingly a good game. The price is attractive and the gameplay is fun for the most part.
The divide between both iterations of Sonic is now reaching spin-off territory, and the way Sega is handling it is both a blessing and a curse.
Game Rant Writes "Sonic Forces is now five years old, and while it has plenty of flaws, there are things the 2017 release handles well enough to affect future games."
Sega aims to release 2D Sonic games alongside the 3D ones each year, but it's questionable how the company plans to continue this trend.
I got the game today and so far it's been great. It won't beat Super Mario Odyssey, but until now it's been a good experience. My two main complaints are that the Avatar buttons configuration can be a bit overwhelming at first (though I'm getting the hang of them), and that Modern Sonic's boost is basically an Invincibility/Skip-parts-of-th e-level button... but in that case I can simply choose not to use it.
I wonder if the reviewers giving SF a low score basically just copy-pasted the usual "Sonic sucks" reviews without actually playing this new game. Just my opinion, though.