I'm skeptical to even come close to getting my hopes up for one major reason- they're adding functionality for waggle controls. That's a liberty that just about ruins the retro dynamic for me. If I do get it, it'll be the 360 version to avoid the waggle.
Either way; I'll wait and see. I would love a classic sonic again.
Pretty much this is all I have to say, aside from a few other things. Though I'm betting the waggle will be for bonus stages.
As for the game itself... Can't tell too much. It looked pretty good, but I have some grips already.
First is homing attack. Why Sega? What's the use in it? It kills momentum, which classic Sonic was about.
Second, his running animation. Are they seriously not going to go for the classic "spinning feet/legs" animation? I hope to god that's in the final product.
Third is that the gameplay (from the few seconds we seen) looks pretty stiff. Seems you jump, can use homing attack then get pulled right to the ground, but I guess the running animation doesn't help that at all, it'll probably look better with a proper animation.
Fourth... Eggman? REALLY SEGA? EGGMAN? My god. Why Sega, why would keep the name Eggman in this? His name is Robotnik for gods sake. I don't care if the current gen knows him as Eggman, most of those kids want Silver/Shadow instead of Knuckles for a playable character.
I probably have some other issues, but I really can't remember at this moment.
Now for what I like so far, from what I seen, or rather what I'm not too 'upset' about...
Episodic. Now, this could either be good or bad. It could turn into a common "wait 1 year for another episode" deal, or it could actually work. If I remember correctly, in the Q&A, the guy said the first episode would at least be as long as Sonic 3, which is excellent, and I hope it is.
Next is the actual 2D Sidescrolling gameplay. Finally, my god why did it take them so long. Though it looks too much like Sonic Rush for console (not really a bad thing I suppose, Sonic Rush wasn't that bad).
Sonic's design. Now I'm not that big of a fan of the current gen Sonic's design, but it's not a bad thing as well. It's good, but classic Sonic is just much better. He looked weird in the trailer, but on the website, his model actually looks pretty cool. We'll have to wait for more I suppose.
I can't wait to find out what that 'secret' 4th platform is. /v/ 'found' an image that was apparently taken down right after that said it was coming to iphone as well, but, that's /v/ for you. I doubt it though. A lot of people keep spouting out Dreamcast 2, which would be a gigantic shock, though would work well in a debut at E3 this year. I kind of hope it is. I also hope it's Steam, or just PC in general, I'd love for it to be on PC.
I seen someone mention in this thread about the first stage looking like Green Hill Zone. Wally told me that it's actually called Splash Hill Zone, since they can't really make another Green Hill... since well... it already exists and this takes place in a new area if I recall.
Anyways, looking forward to it, but not putting much anticipation into it.
which used to be located at http://www2.sega.com/sonic4/assets/promo1.png according to Sonic Retro. Could be wrong but who knows.
