I was just going to make a post on this. Haha
This is looking like it will be the best Sonic game in a long time. Mainly because a majority of the 3D ones sucked balls due to poor gameplay, boring gameplay, or plain stupid ideas. (lol-werehog) Sonic Unleashed's normal Sonic levels are awesome, even the Tornado game is fun, but the Werehog levels are a HEAVY rip off of God of War and are clunky and slow. Which is why I hated it, because Sonic is about SPEED. Which they are bringing back with this sequal to my FAVORITE game of the series.
The stage they show in the trailers is looking alot like Green Hill zone, which could be good or bad, I don't want a full remake of an old game, I want a new game, with new zones, but with the same feel and speed of Sonic 3/Sonic&Knuckles. Plus, I swear to god, they better have FREE-ROAMING Super Sonic again, I'm getting ticked off at their Super Sonics being locked down to the final levels in these games as of late. Seriously:
Sonic Advance: I never got all the Chaos Emeralds, but I can guarantee it was locked to a special level.
Sonic Advance 2: Special level for Sonic only after collecting all the Chaos Emeralds, only in that final level.
Sonic Advance 3: Same deal pretty much
Sonic Adventure: After beating everyone's story, Super Sonic for Perfect Chaos only.
Sonic Adventure 2(Battle): Same deal, last boss only.
I could go on and on about this, but you see the problem there. What happened to the free roaming Super Sonic of Sonic 2 and Sonic 3? It was awesome just blasting through the levels in full invincibility (beyond pits and getting crushed) as long as your rings lasted. Anyone else feel this way too? Wow, this may have been my longest post ever on all of the ZFGC boards. <_<