A major bug found just one day after the release of has published a video of a sub-hour completion on his channel, which you can see below. Parax0 says "this is my third playthrough ever so I didn't practice much and there's loads of mistakes and optimizations possible".

It is not clear how the infinite jump oversight had made its way through both Sega and Nintendo's quality assurance tests.

Publisher Sega did not issue review codes for Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric, meaning that critics have yet to assess the game.