Rev Up Those Sonic Cycles

[Azure-Tranquility]

You're complaining about a fucking instruction manual for a rather straightforward game.

I'm old fashioned like that.

You can often tell the quality of a game by the quality of its packaging. A'lot of effort put into the packaging often implies it's at least a good game. Now that black & white manuals are almost the standard, the gap between quality is changing. Even so, I've sold games that had black & white manuals if I felt it wasen't good enough to justify shoddy packaging.

Sonic Generations is one of those cases where the game experience is good enough to overlook the packaging.

Off-topic but I viewed a video on Youtube of a guy unboxing Super Mario 3D Land, and it seems the manuals will also be 4-page "pamphlets", with in-game digital manuals or something. But it's in color at least. I'd attribute it to Nintendo always printing their manuals in color, and they don't want to ruin their consistency, and I can respect that. I hardly ever read the manuals anyway, but I still like seeing an acceptable substitute in its place, and this seems like an acceptable substitute in my eyes. It only furthers the idea that an all-digital game future is not that far away; In fact I wouldn't be surprised if next-gen the Wii-U is the only console to have "retail" games.