Well, Sega has now officially confirmed Sonic Generations is coming to HD consoles this year.
I think I’ll focus on the most definite stuff for this game. First off, the 3D Sonic still looks like he plays very on rails. Classic Sonic, meanwhile, seems to be relying too much on classic level design, while still carrying the baggage of poor vertical scrolling camera programming, and sub-par details – why does Sonic uncurl when he goes off a ramp?
In general, though, I think that Sega needs to REALLY look back at the old games and think about what it was that made them so great, not throw in old gimmicks. Yes, the fully functional gameplay looks nice, but with all that we’ve learned about gaming in the past twenty years, it depresses me to no end that Sega really hasn’t beaten their old accomplishments in the most basic areas. Sonic Adventure on the Dreamcast was received like the second coming of Christ (not to be sacrilegious, this was just how people reacted) for certain reasons; Sega needs to look back at the core, heart and soul, of those games to figure out why it is that people loved – and LOVE – those games so much. If they just do that, it won’t matter if it’s 2D, 3D, classic, modern, HD, retro, if he’s got green eyes, belt buckles, or what. People will love it for the work of art it is.
