Lost Worlds has been an extremely enjoyable experience from what I've gotten to play. It's easily one of the biggest hit or miss Sonic games since SA2 or Heroes. You either like it or hate it.
And if you hate it you're just ****.
Yes.
I enjoyed Colors and Generations, but what I missed about Sonic games was the balance of speed of platforming. All the most recent Sonic games have had the focus on "breakneck speed" but that's not what Sonic is completely about... It's a platformer at heart. The speed is supposed to be a reward for mastering and memorizing the levels. It almost felt like with Colors and Generations that if you didn't completely know the map you were just supposed to blaze through it with the easiest route and move on, and when it did slow down for platforming, it was out of place and clunky.
Sonic Lost World feels much more like a Genesis Sonic game with modern aesthetics and updates, but it's completely unlike anything they've released since that era. You have much more control and you have readily disposable choices in terms of how you want to complete the level and how. The parkour feels amazing and I hope it stays for all future titles. I can't tell you how many times in Colors when I tried to jump to a platform and it just felt like garbage and I died. With Lost World, the jump feels better, AND you have a double jump, AND if you hit the edge of a platform, instead of just falling and dying, he can either grab the ledge or run up it. It just makes so much god damn sense. He's Sonic the Hedgehog, I GREW UP believing that Sonic could run up any wall he wanted to lol. Also, the fact that the spindash has returned over the boost says something about what they were going for. And the figure 8. Just play it.
A lot of people will just write it without even trying it, and some will try it expecting it to be something else and still hate it for not just experiencing what it is. When I tried it at Comic Con, I was really bad at it and had no point of reference as to how to play it since it was so different. But after I got it and sat down with it, I fell in love. Once you learn the new controls and mindset of it, it's a blast.
Also SWF has yellow instead of transparency which is kind of annoying but I also kind of like it because I like Blue and Yellow but I just wish it was less of a mustardy shade.
EDIT: The mustard is gone, also apparently I'm premium and fonts are big now.
