General Sonic is Terrible Thread

[Kosheh]

* Kosheh scratches head

I don't know about you guys, but it doesn't look that bad to me. Now I'm not Big Sega Fanboy but three things:

1) It's being developed by Sanzaru - you know, those guys who made Sly Cooper Thieves in Time :0)
2) The game actually focuses on SPEED and RACING
a) I don't know about you but considering the last two entries in this game were primarily focused on EXPLORING
b) I'd say they're realizing "oops, we fucked up" and they're trying to get back into traditional Sonic gameplay with speedrunnable levels (this is good)
3) I think being a bunch of 20somethings complaining about "sega ruinin our hedgehog HIS ARMS ARE BLUE" is not their intended audience; it's kids. Have you asked kids you haven't brainwashed with "NEW SANIC SUX" about Sonic Boom yet?

Also, notice it's a NINTENDO 3DS TITLE and not a WII U TITLE developed by Big Red Button. Heck they might be looking into developing another Wii U title with a different publisher so cool your panties, this game might be not be as bad as you're all making it out to be. Stop jumping on the "SONIC BOOM? RISE OF LYRIC WAS SHIT!! LOL" bandwagon and try looking at the trailer again and judging the game on its own merits, this time without a freckly, nihilistic IGN intern talking over the trailer with watermarks and pop-ins.

The fire/ice thing is such an obvious gimmick and from the looks of things, it's less like a gameplay mechanic and more like keys in disguise.

But...isn't that how abilities in games like Metroid and Castlevania work: platform a lot until you unlock this ability which - presto! you can now explode this series of blocks and explore the rest of the game while probably never using this ability for another 50 screens?



That said, this game looks alright - that, and you've gotta consider that the animated series is still going strong, and the series as a whole is probably being considered "successful" due to how the cartoon's doing and not the games. Speaking of which, have you guys seen the cartoon?
It's actually good

tl;dr this game looks good but probably won't pick it up till it goes on sale