Rev Up Those Sonic Cycles

[GrooveMan.exe]

Just jumping into the whole characters debate, the main reason people dislike the use of multiple playable characters these days is that it nearly always turns into a Genre Roulette - Sonic Adventure 2 was practically three different games in one. Heroes had the opposite problem - all four teams were almost exactly the same. Sonic 3&K used the same style of gameplay for each character, but Sonic, Tails and Knuckles each had abilities that made them stand out. The ONLY game that did this in recent memory was Sonic and the Black Knight.

And all the handheld games, pretty much. Which you're aware of, since you mentioned Blaze.

Sonic Adventure did show that drastically different character gameplay styles can work in the same stage; but SA2's seprate level schemes, focused on making stages tailor to each gameplay style, which worked just fine, TBH.

Hm, I remember there was a hack of SA2 where City Escape was played as Eggman. It would be neat to see that with the other characters.