I sure do love the Old Sonic, that's why I haven't bought any Sonic game since Sonic Adventure 2 for the Dreamcast!
My complaints, as always, are these:
- Controlling Sonic 3rd-person in a 3D environment is about as effective, and enjoyable as trying to ride a Razor scooter along the median lines of Lombard Street with no brakes.
There is no such thing as precision control while whizzing down a pathway in any of the "REAL PHYSICS!" environments. Half the time I'm running Sonic along a wall, as if I was scraping his face into it like Blade did to Quinn with the Subway train in the first movie.
Not to mention that the upcoming rings are about as easy to see, let alone maneuver into, as the ISS in front of the sun, at noon. From earth. Without a telescope.
This has made Sonic Adventure, Sonic Adventure 2, Sonic Heroes, Sonic and the Secret Rings, Sonic the Hedgehog (2006), Sonic and the Black Knight, Sonic Unleashed, Sonic Colors, and I'm going to bet Sonic Generations, completely unsatisfying to play.
- You think 2D controls will be/are any better? Have you ever played Sonic Rush?
Again, no precision control because the games was in a 3D engine, and thus had to have "REAL PHYSICS!" so that you got completely screwed over when the momentum of blasting off of a speed pad makes it nigh impossible to to pull backwards to keep from sliding off the edge of the platform you just launched yourself toward.
I am an old-school Sonic fan. I cannot tell you how much fun it still is to pop Sonic 3 & Knuckles (Lock-On Technology!) into my Genesis and sit down to play.
I haven't tried any of the Sonic Advance games, so they might be better, considering they are 2D sprite-based games.
I can tell you I will forever seethe at the thought of what BioWare did in Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood. Ugh, I can only imagine that concept draft was approved in the same drug-addled brainstorming session that the Sonic and the Secret Rings gameplay mechanic of DRIVING SONIC LIKE A CAR came out of.
Now, where's my Genesis...
