Sonic 4 Episode 2 worse than Episode 1

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Anyone think this too, or am I alone? I hate the team actions with Tails, or whatever the land/air/water special moves are called. For example, it's too easy to accidentally trigger the land move when underwater. The moves generate an unnecessary game halting delay (the transition animation) and the land move is nasty to cancel.

Level design is more annoying too (so far I'm up to Sky Fortress zone). More crushing, drowning, falling out of the level and such trickery. Sure, the physics are a little better but but that doesn't outweigh the game's relative nastiness (compared to Ep. 1) in my opinion.

And I don't know about the PC platform problems, since I bought Ep. 1 for Xbox. I planned getting Ep. 2 for PC, but thanks to extra Metal Sonic content and not supporting resolutions above 720p without scaling it kind of forced me to buy Ep. 2 for Xbox too.