The game is really like balancing on a roller coaster. You don't really control where the character goes, just what he touches along the way. Sonic has to touch rings, not touch vases, jump over fire but you have very little control other than speed and angle. Sonic follows a predefined track so if you don't even touch the controller, he seems to do okay during certain parts. Your job is to move the controller in awkward ways to get Sonic to do the convoluted moves necessary to not hit things or jump, attack etc. I also found the Sonic character story at the beginning (which you can't seem to skip) to be torture to sit through. Sonic's ego in the story is huge and not endearing to the character. I'd stick with the more traditional Sonic games and stay away from this one.