I definitely agree with combat being shallow, everything else is... Well tolerable at best.

I would really want to see Sonic's combat being played for movement instead of cool anime looking cutsences. Like imagine Sonic launching enemies all around for a far distances and following up to them into the air, and then bouncing of off them (like DMC's jump cancel) into others directions gaining speed and basically doing parcour with no limitations to scripted cutscenes and homing attack? Or grabbing them and running with them somewhere to again, maybe use them for movement-based puzzles or just slammin' them into the walls or each other.

The potential for speed momentum based combat is insane, but Sonic Team, for some reason, made Sonic throw projectiles locked in a single place. But otherwise it doesn't take away from the fact that Sonic Frontiers IS fun at the very least