Like many others here, I’m looking forward to seeing more of the Wii version. By all appearances they are doing it right, taking advantage of the motion controls, building it separately instead of trying to port stuff in the Wii might not handle… but we’ve all been disillusioned by SEGA. I can’t say for sure it will be good until its out.

Otherwise it looks pretty cool, I personally kind of like the design direction of the game though I understand some of the issues others have about it. Sure the regular Sonic levels don’t have *that* much depth, and they aren’t like the Genesis levels where detail and exploration is concerned… however SEGA’s proven with Sonic and the Secret Rings that focusing on the speed and doing it right (or the nearest to right we’ve seen for all you cynics out there =P).

I find Secret Rings has what I like to call an ‘arcade appeal’ to it. I’ll be downright honest, I’ve beaten the Legend of Zelda game and I haven’t really come back to it very often. I didn’t bother starting the Luigi (oh no spoilers!) side of Super Mario Galaxy until recently when I just wanted to try it again. Metroid Prime 3, well I’m still planning on playing it at a harder difficulty but the point remains the same. All of these games were terrific games, but I came back to NiGHTS and Secret Rings more often after I beat them… not because they are better games but you can keep coming back to NiGHTS to get better combos and better ratings, and you can keep coming back to Secret Rings to get better times on all of the main seven. (note that the Secret Rings style gameplay is echoed in Sonic Rivals 2, which I mostly don’t care for because of the bloated story mode and the fact that I can’t play multiplayer with anyone… the levels are awesome)

This is what I’m seeing in regular Sonic levels, and if it works (and if it *still* works in the Wii vesrion) I’ll probably like it. As for Were-sonic, thats a little more tricky but while I like the speed-based stuff, I am a big fan of platforming, which is something thats sadly become more or less insignificant compared to FPS’s and RPG’s. This promises to have a lot more platforming, and if I’m worried I couldn’t explore in the regular Sonic levels, I’m sure there is potential for exploring here.

So I like the premise, but the question is did they do it right? Does it perform well? Does it *still* perform well on other versions? Does it take proper advantage of the unique Wii controls?

Sorry for the long post, I intended to do a short one since comments aren’t like forum topics… a couple announcements later they are unnoticed.

could be dawn as well,perhaps.
I took a look at sonic on the last pic.
He looks like in normal gameplay,but it could be a regular small cutscene.
But there is also a loop in another picture,which confirms it as hub.
Looks awesome.Not bland like soleanna was a bit at all.