rev up the sonic cycle: Sonic Mania

[TomGuycott]

The main problem people have with the "too many characters" thing isn't necessarily that the characters are bad (most of them are in my opinion, but that's not the point here), but by having so many characters with different play styles it makes the core gameplay (Sonic's gameplay would, for all intents to and purposes is the "core gameplay") suffers as a result and you end with a jumbled, broken mess.

Basically if they kept focus exlsclusively to sonic and THEN. when that was solid they could have moved on to alternate gameplay styles.