It does look appealingly similar to the Adventure Series. However, the Final Fantasy-type story seems to be a sore spot for many. The glitches are pretty obvious in many parts, making certain things unplayable, and others awesomely broken (Silver with his flying boxes; skip pretty much everything.) ...

I remember a certain Hero Chao of mine would constantly do this to Eggman, although the two had never interacted before. She had received nothing but affection from everybody else, leading me to believe that this was more or less a trait of a spoiled Chao rather than an abused one. Like Crazo stated...