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[Gwen]

My argument is definitely not "Just on themes alone, what you're getting into is "All Fantasy is Lord of the Rings" territory, which is only true so far as that stereotyping filtering works out."
It's that on a general level, most people with casual experience, or moderate experience, this looks exactly like a Sonic game. You're able to clearly tell the differences because as you said yourself, you're a rabid fan of Sonic.
Based on the trailer and some gameplay videos I saw, I saw thinks that look directly out of any 2D sonic game. Despite not really caring for the 2D games, I have played most of them, I used to play them when I was little, and back in high school.
Despite being "furry aliens" they still look like Sonic characters, they just look like cats. They have the large eyes an small mouth thing going, they have cat like noses, and they(the main one(purple and blue one) has the HUGE feet with shoes exactly like in Sonic, and while the others don't quite, they still have similarities as well.