…God. Incoming rant
After giving it some time, I've basically given up and will just outright state Sonic Lost World is pure trash. I'm going to be "that guy" and say it's trash because doesn't play like webm related, but it's purely based only on what the game presents itself, and it fucking sucks ass. I can't defend it after the first level, like what was warned earlier in the thread. It's just intolerable to go through.
The gameplay is just all over the place. It's far too gimmicky for its own good. The controls are unclear most of the time and actively fight with itself. The game basically makes every action have its own unique "physics" which is absurd. And most of the time, it's near absolutely unplayable in the 2D parts of the game, which is MOST of the time in this "3D" game. If it wasn't mostly 2D with shit controls, it might not have caused me to ragequit as soon as I did. Needless to say, I didn't finish the game, I'm done trying. The game is a mess.
I'm not a storyfag, but the tone is just whiplashing between bad comedy and lines like what Eggman says about eating Zeti hearts or how the Emo fucker says shit not only out of place in Sonic, but outright offense to actual people with depression problems. Doesn't help the game CONSTANTLY repeats these fuckers lines every time you die before a checkpoint that's past the scripted sequence. The Zeti are among the worse villains in the series, I absolutely hate hearing them 24/7 in this game. The only one I actually have a softspot for is Zazz, I think you could honestly make him workable with his current character. Zavok does not deserve the shilling he gets from Sonic Team.
The tone is one thing, but the theme of thet game also sucks. Visually, it's not graphically half bad, looks pretty good. It's just it's so fucking SHAMELESS with how it rips off Mario Galaxy and Donkey Kong Country for the 2D sections. I thought it was all Mario based from the start but after playing it I get far more DKC vibes from the 2D sections, namely Returns era DKC. But the game handles so badly, I don't want to call this a Mario/DKC clone, that's honestly disrespectful to Mario/DKC. It's that bad.
So, yeah, Lost World fucking sucks. To others that enjoy it, whatever, but I cannot defend this game. It's honestly bewildering to me how was this game made the way it was. It's mind boggingly awful as a game. Not just as a Sonic game, as any platformer. To me, the fact the 3D parts of this game is somehow not as unplayable as the 2D parts is just mental. It honestly explains so much why C.Sonic in Forces was so shit. Sonic Team is so bad they can't even make a 2D game. Let that sink in.
tl;rd: Sonic Lost World is one of my least favorite Sonic games of all time. I've never had so much distaste from a Sonic game this bad since ShTH. It's that sever. I actually completed 06 before LW, and that's saying something. I'll likely never touch this game again unless I use mods. Something that's actually fully 3D level design, nothing else.
/rant