The Sonic cast's AD is what it is and there's no way around it. Honestly, it wouldn't be as egregious if we didn't have canon material trying to portray the characters in a more grounded fashion.
In all fairness the AD is something that most people probably don't notice for the most part.
The shit that writers do is really annoying cuz they ignore the games themselves to artificially create stakes.
The worst and funniest part is that they make some of the most contrived stakes possible and yet
almost every time they could write a situation where stakes can be believably high and make perfect sense they waste it. With some exceptions. They do get stakes right sometimes like with the Urban Warfare arc or certain parts of the Metal Virus Arc. In particular I thought the part where the cast needed to get the Chaos Emeralds from the Zeti was well handled. But for some examples where stakes could have been believably made but got squandered.
Master Overlord, what did the cast need to do to beat him? Did Sonic need to reach the Master Emerald on Master Overlords body to try and go super with it because Master Overlord is too powerful for them to beat? No. Did they need to defeat him with a clever strategy? Also no. Instead they jumped him and tore him apart in 3 pages even though a giant metal dragon who can probably still copy people's powers should be a huge problem.
Or in Bad Guys when Starline needed to break into a prison to aquire his team. Did Starline need to go through some interesting process to successfully infiltrate the prison? No he just hypnotized the warden and that was it. When Zavok, Mimic, Rough, Tumble and Starline needed to escape did they need to go through some extreme obstacles from the prison that is presumably designed for super powered inmates Tai Lung style? No it was just a regular prison so it's dumb that it could even hold Zavok to begin with.
For reference here's Tai Lungs prison break from Kung Fu Panda. Super powered villains breaking out of a prison that is designed to contain them can be really cool and yet the prison in IDW was just a normal prison that got torn through like tissue paper.
Overall the stakes in IDW are just fundamentally backwards as situations that should generate believable stakes get resolved quickly or aren't utilized while situations that have absolutely no buisness being a challenge to the cast get attention even if it makes members of the cast less competent to do so.
Like with IDW Sage recently
I should have felt the monkey's paw curl when I was excited to see Sage in IDW.
They put my girl on fraud watch just so she could be cute with Belle as quickly as possible
