Alex2Beta

Damn, looks good. Didn't think they'd actually go with 3D models, I thought the polygonal Giant Rings were just a stylistic choice and just and weren't hints or anything, but look at that. I really like the bleak drop shadows everything has and the general look of it with those pillars, the "Emerald Chase" goal of the stages reminds me of Heroes, wonder how this will look in motion. Also loving the snippet of the Special Stage's theme someone was able to record.

This, doesn't sound bad, I kind of enjoy it more than Fist Bump - which grew on me a bit. But man, I think I heard Crawling in there somewhere, was this a scrapped ending theme from Shadow The Hedgehog? :V

I kind of doubt it will win, but wow, congrats to the Boom crew, to think the show itself would get nominated there and put up against Rick & Morty, Steven Universe and Gravity Falls is in itself a win in my book. They could've honestly gotten any other show nominated in Boom's place, so this is a surprise.

Aright, here's everything else then. Sonic 3D Blast (Saturn) Sonic 3D Blast's Saturn soundtrack is pretty damn good. Sonic Heroes I decided to go with mostly stage themes (and one Special Stage), I like the vocal songs and boss ones and all, but I seem to love the stage themes in heroes more, there's just so many good tracks in this game. Sonic Advance 1 Sonic Advance 2 Sonic Rush Sonic Unleashed Unleashed and it's Night themes are to die for, maybe I should've just made the list all about them, honestly. :V Sonic Colours Sonic Generations (PS3/360/PC) Generations' OST is pretty damn good, it wasn't easy having to pick which remi--track was going to be put on my list, but for sure Time Eater wasn't anywhere on my mind though, so I didn't feel too bad not giving it any points. :U (actually it's not too bad but compared to others on the list....eeeehhhhhh, yeah..) Sonic Lost World SLW's OST may be regarded as 50/50 of meh and good, especially compared others, but I gotta say, it ain't half bad. It's not amazing - but I enjoyed it enough. There ya' have it.

I started out hyped, then just stayed curious yet still interested. I remember watching the stream for the party back at last year's summer, wondering what the heck will this damned mystery Project Sonic 2017 be - finally we see a trailer, and it was Mania, and that looked amazing. Real rolling physics right before my eyes, and coming from a guy that once gave no shits about all that jazz, it was crazy to see a new Sonic game produced by SEGA that had had more then just that but other things that were asked for for years: playable Tails and Knuckles, physics, level design and etc. But as cool as that was, that was definitely not of anything Sonic Team was up to, so I thought "I wonder when we'll hear about that ga--" suddenly they tease the new game and I'm just paralysed - up until Classic Sonic, but hey? A new Modern game with a potentially neat setting and story that might be interesting and an adventure with original levels, right? Well, I guess it's still that, but..? The Green Hill footage that was released then was just a hype killer for me, I didn't feel a thing watching it and the flat look of it only exasperated things. Before I even clicked the video I was prepared to count the automation and dash pads in it, and man was that just baaaaaaad. Then the 3rd character silhouette showed up on that Nintendo Direct, and plenty of folks were certain the character looked dull enough to likely be the rumoured OC maker - while I was telling myself "please to god don't do this please Sonic Team" and then one day I see a new video "Custom Character Trailer", and I'm just "WHAT??WHY??". As over dramatic as all that sounds from my point of view, I've accepted everything at this point and still look forward to the game, heck, I sort of liked the OC's play style from what I saw the more I watched gameplays from E3 and I'm happy with the way the Wisps are utilised this time (but preferably I'd rather not have them). I'm glad that Sonic only uses the White Wisps and from what I heard, controls more loosely. Classic Sonic having a Drop Dash is aright I guess. The music sounds fine (not feeling much of anything on Classic GHZ), the premise still interests me, other characters are still involved despite their lack of playability. But kind of like an itch, it really bothers me how they put in the blocky level design, how boosters clearly look automated with set speeds and are peppered about, how Classic still lacks his physics, how linear Modern's level is and I've yet to see anything that assured me his levels will have more depth, how the so far the levels don't seem to have faith in the player and have plenty of automation or boosters - and just how pointless Classic is to this, while the Custom Hero is neat and all, I never wanted to run around as an OC or some crap - give me Knuckles or Tails at least, I won't mind if it's Metal Sonic even. Another thing that bothers me is the implication on the future of the games from Sonic Team's side - since there are problems in the games that aren't being answered to, and likely won't be in this game. Going by this interview, it feels bad that I'll likely won't look forward to the next game if this kind of mindset remains in the team. Again, I still look forward the game, but the problems in the game and the implications of them still fill me with dread over the idea that I'll likely lose interest in the series if this keeps up, all I can hope for is that Mania shows to Sonic Team that you don't all that junk to make a game work. I don't mind some boosters, just don't throw them around everywhere and make them automation gates and don't give me multiple Sonics or an OC again, please. TL;DR: The game still interests me, but please don't repeat it's mistakes from the past games otherwise I don't think I'll be buying any snoc headgos after this game.