it isn't a marked improvement
it's still glitchy
the camera is still awful (just in a different way)
and the only improvement they really made - the fact that sonic doesn't say anything with that awful, awful voice - is overruled by the music being terrible (the music being, at times, the only good thing about previous sonic games)
after listening to people's opinions build up, I have decided that the worst thing about the game is no longer the music - it's how people are still
STILL
convincing themselves that it's worth something simply by virtue of it being a sidescroller
basically this game turns out to be shitty but every single sonic fan is going to see a single modicum of improvement from the last game whatever it was and use that to justify actually purchasing this overpriced piece of junk
sega is going to take that as 'continue to make sonic games, don't really need to make them very good'
and they're just going to keep pumping out shitty ones
way to be a part of the problem