Sega Announces new 2D Sonic title

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tell me why this isn't what you were wanting or expecting.

If I'm reading this correctly, you're asking me the question that I just answered.

Yes,

Sigh, yes they did say if you've been waiting for this game then be glad it's come back. The formula is the same as last though. Green Zone, Water Zone, Casino Zone, Marble like Zone, Sonic has a new move, Sonic hunts down Eggman rinse and repeat. Every side-scroller installment was like that (Tweaks hear and there).

is how every game is. I'm not complaining about the gameplay formula at all, because as I've said, I haven't played it so there as absolutely nothing for me to judge it on. (Though just from watching the videos alone, the homing attack looks as though it breaks the game.)

What I'm complaining about is the game itself.
Sonic 4 is supposed to be a sequel. A follow-up to S3K. What happens next in the story.
This is none of that. This is a bad mashup of the first two games that tries to pass itself off as something it's not: A sequel.
Sega themselves said that this is the game we've been waiting 15 or more years for. This isn't supposed to just be a sonic game. It's supposed to be THE sonic game. The sonic game that everybody has been wanting for all this time.

It isn't.