- you're arbitrarily barred from opening doors and leaving certain areas even though you totally should be able to go there come on
- very basic tasks are given to you which the task-giver should be able to perform on their own
- super long tutorial
- faulty parser means commands need to be phrased in several different ways even when the interpretation should be obvious
- you have a lot of freedom but not in a way that would permanently affect the plot
- the world is built to a larger scale than your body
- boring unskippable cutscenes
- keeping a bunch of random crap in your inventory in case you need it later
- Sonic the Hedgehog is there
- Lava levels