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Still don't know what to think about this.

The spin animation- looks terrilble :(

I think if I'm gonna play anymore Sonic, I'll see what games are included in that old sega collection.  This doesn't look terrible, but I just don't really care about Sonic anymore.

I still don't like that they are using 3D models (makes the animation look crummy) but it sure looks like old-school Sonic, speed and all.

Looks pretty bad. Thanks for the post!

looks like slow shit

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maybe if the guy playing was good it would make me want the game, but based on that no thanks.

That did look pretty bad. I can't lie.

Looks terrible.

" I still don't like that they are using 3D models (makes the animation look crummy) but it sure looks like old-school Sonic, speed and all. "

Well, it didn't help that the person playing was terrible at it.

It looks so slow and floaty... Oh Sonic, why do you repay my love for you like this?

Spin animation looks too slow which makes the whole thing feel too slow. It just looks jerky and weird.

Looks kind of.....heavy

Good thing the game isn't coming out for a long time, huh guys.
 
Anyways, it would have been great if we actually saw someone decent playing.  This game looks is going back to its roots indeed, I'll give it that.  I hope it doesn't suck in the end, though.

That looks unplayable. Sonic Team strikes again!

Animations definitely look too slow.

If they can fix/tweak up that poor animation I'll be game. It's not that difficult to do. 
But yeah, let's wait for something more than a minute clip, taken from a video camera by some guy who doesn't know how to play.  
 
Anyone know why it's called "Episode 1" yet?

I would be interested if this was 1995 or so..

" The spin animation- looks terrilble :( "

It looks like an old Sonic game. 
 
Which isn't necessarily something I want.

Guy playing is terrible, but visually that looks like shit. Art direction was a huge portion of why I love the original games, so off the bat this game has very little going for it.

This still doesn't look like anything I want to play. Why were so many portions of that level so cramped looking? I understand that Sega wants to milk it for all the nostalgia its worth, but I'd rather they take the old gameplay and go in a new direction with it. Simply trying to recreate "the magic" of the old games is making it come off like a bad fan-hack. 

" I would be interested if this was 1995 or so.. "

I am liking the gameplay so far.

...you can stick to walls in it? when has sonic been able to do that?

This is alpha footage.. the animation and physics definitely look off, but I'd like to think these are things that will be fixed before release. 

The actual level design and speed of Sonic look perfect.  The Rush/Advance games suffered badly from terrible level design and having little gameplay besides holding right.  At least here it seems there are proper platforming elements, but it still seemed Sonic could move at a decent speed, if you managed to keep him going.  For those complaining about this..  that's exactly what the old games were like!

Fuck SEGA.

Why won't Sonic die already?!
 
It's impossible to make a decent Sonic game in this day and age. Sonic in 3D has been proved not to work, and an old school 2D throwback just ain't enough. Please SEGA... just let the old school go... and focus on new stuff.

Yep... that's Sonic...
  
Still not sure what made that so great in the 16-bit era. *shrugs* Oh well, thanks for the video link!

Way to slow.  Looks like a bad fan made game.

Nice to see it in action and kinda sad too... everything looks really plasticy. 
 
I think what they should do / should have done, is go back to Sonic 2, take that engine, and make a game starting with that and do it in all HD sprites... but that would maybe be awesome for just 1 game though. 
 
This leaked video looks awesome enough for about 0 games worth. 

" Why won't Sonic die already?!  It's impossible to make a decent Sonic game in this day and age. Sonic in 3D has been proved not to work, and an old school 2D throwback just ain't enough. Please SEGA... just let the old school go... and focus on new stuff. "

Sponsored videos suck so muck cock, every time I watch one makes me remember why I love this site.
 
Oh and Sonic 4, whatever I'll give it a shot in a kind of morbid Sonic autopsy-like study.

So four stages, three acts. Yeeup, definitely seems episodic. The stage art looks great, the models.... not so much.

That did look awfully shitty. I've been kinda "what the fuck are you talking about...running animation, who gives a shit" about everyone's reaction to the original trailer, but this... does not look like something I ever want to play. 

" Way to slow.  Looks like a bad fan made game. "

*I* can spin faster than that ffs.
 
And that isn't even fucking Sonic!  That's some other totally different hedgehog that looks totally different!  Fuck!

Everything about this (with the exception of the loading screen with 2d sprite sonic running) looks awful. Way to go Sega!  Yet another title for the archives.

Wow, you guys sure are hard to please brats.
 
This looks like a perfectly sonic-y sonic game with everything you loudly demanded was lacking from the new titles - the only thing different is that the animations aren't as fluid. boo hoo.
 
You: "Weh, weh, why don't you make a classic 2D Sonic game without all the unnecessary crap?"
SEGA: "No."
You. "Weh, weh, this too fast. This is too action-adventuery. This is too racery. This is too slow. Weh. Make a classic 2D Sonic game!"
SEGA: "No."
You: "Weh, weh."
SEGA: "Okay, here you are."
You: "... weh, weh this is a little to slow, and the animations are a little off. Weh, weh."

Looks like a 2D sonic game.

It looks... unimpressive. It's alpha footage, so we can take it with a grain of salt, but that run animation... is so bad.

I'm kinda into it. The running seemed alright to me, but you're not really focused on that anyway when you're playing. The biggest thing that stood out was the jumping animation. It needs to be a lot faster. I like where they've went with the level design too; that was a big factor but it looks much better than at least Sonic Rush. It seems so far like it's what it 's supposed to be.
 
It's still alpha though so gonna have to wait for some better footage.

So what part of the Sonic Cycle are we at now?

Likes: 
Sega Intro 
Looks like a Sonic game 
Sounds like a Sonic game 
Colorful 
 
Dislikes: 
Looks like slow shit 
Running animation is just a shitty walking animation 
Spin animation is fucking insulting 
Hit collision is off 
Just plain shit

"Dislikes: Looks like slow shit "