First of all, mine is 2957 grams so almost 3kg, which makes it quite light. When you hold it it feels like an ikea pressboard table top, depends on what you like, I don't care either way. But I prefer one that is light. A solid nice chunk of wood I can deal with on an SG, but this would go into 4-5+kg range so I prefer this feel for the weight.
The blemishes:
The guitar is imprerfect, the binding is kinda broken, looks chipped off where the body meets the neck, it's not very noticeable, but it's there. The "gold" bits came in already kinda worn off, the neck pickup has a visible silver circle in the middle, but for the price? It's totally fine. I did not expect a guitar with no blemish at this price and It's good.
The tuning keys feel cheap and clunky to move, but hold tune as far as i've experienced. The nut is decent, cut alright, the neck is straight, no bends. The ferrules holding strings going through fall out, but you can glue them in yourself if you so wish. So in the guitarness it's good too.
The sound?
I don't think its emulating anything? If you like it you like it. It is very subjective. It def sounds metal and I'm okay with it.
Overall:
It's good for the price, there's no point I can see in upgrading this guitar to the "higher" shelf guitar if not for having wall art with zero imperfections. If you plan on using it this is perfectly fine, and a good base for upgrades.
Overall I vote 5 stars cause it's beyond what I expected for the price point.
Features 5/5 it is what it claims to be, I think it's cool to get gold hardware and frontal input jack so it's all the features i'd want for it
Sound 4/5 as it didn't blow me away, it's about what I expected maybe a little underwhelmed.
Quality 4/5: it's overall better than expected, but there is enough room for improvement to subtract one point. There are Harley Benton guitars at this price point I would give 5/5 because they have no visible flaws but it may be luck of the draw,