I've been watching all these videos, and following this, but, for some reason, I can not get hyped. This game just looks very "meh" to me. Generations was cool, cause it pulled at our nostalgia strings, and was fun, but it wore thin after a while. This is just some shameless clone using the same engine. Oh, and look, filler characters and story, and mediocre gameplay (WOW use the shoulder buttons while flying through set pieces. Is this a Ubi-Soft game?). Yeah, we spent more time on making huge background assets, shitty script revisions, and animations for contrived cut-scenes, in yet another big-budget Sonic game than actually making good levels that aren't recycled 10+ times. Sorry, but not sold. Waiting for Sonic Mania over here. I don't play Sonic for the fucking story, or characters. I play it to have fun. To go fast, and make hair-pin-trigger decisions. This looks like a boring, contrived, slog and it breaks my heart as a Sonic fan since Sonic 2, but come on, I WANT there to be a good 3D Sonic in the last 10 years that isn't a nostalgia cash-in.
And this whole "make your own character" aspect on top of two Sonics just screams to me, "We have no idea what we're doing or what fans want! Plz buy this!".
This preemptive review gets the Anthus Seal of Quality. Angry, slightly-informed, and to the point!