Sonic Spinball Hits RealOne Arcade, Sonic 3D Coming Soon

Regarding the characters for those that want to just cheese the platforming understandably make sure to immediately get Tails his mech as it's literally SA1 flying levels of broken in being "forget the level design" and can get his skill tree fully unlock the fastest. I was off put by Knuckles glide at first, but it's doable and became better once it upgraded to the infinite version which felt to me at least that it improved the control so not sure if the only one. One of the go-to issues I think is Sonic Team really ought to have showcased in it the Kokos give out experience points as otherwise some players are going to wander around aimlessly as I've seen from some streamers. I do need to call out this thought into the level design they did being shesh they really should not have had sign posts in a limited space in some areas as otherwise no joke had to go into my settings and put my initial speed (or in general speed) all the way down and plus if you feel a slipperiness that you first get as Amy you need to slide the deceleration up all the way to the right as for w/e reason anything less won't compute. The 2nd trial is gotta be patient as got no choice it seems but to do cyloop (no quick one as it's disabled) and attack 3 times only rinse and repeat. Anyway I'm at the last trial now which definitely switching it into easy mode as heard get extra frames for the parry. Best combat character = Knuckles Best traversing character = Tails And Amy is between of them.

Oh myyy, each season more and more interesting! (And unlike others, I want Chaos Sonic back, to be as annoying as ever) And I just got in my head, well, the chances are very low, but maybe we'll see Shard??? (From Archie) Like, from another dimension, based on Archie? That'd be ultra cool!

I just had a thought.  It has of course been discussed here that there was a conflict between people who became Sonic fans in the Genesis era and people who became Sonic fans in the Dreamcast era, but something we have heretofore neglected to consider is the part of the audience that doesn't even remember that conflict, at least some of them not even having been born yet at the time when it occurred.  Those are the people SEGA has said they at least intend to be their core demographic with the Sonic series, although I can't speak to how well Sonic does with them compared to other games aimed at their age range.  Nevertheless, if you never experienced any of the games containing any of the things that made anyone hate playing as characters who weren't Sonic and only experienced the more recent games that still contained those characters, then playing as characters who aren't Sonic is easier to see as a novelty rather than a liability.  It probably also helps that Classic Sonic has led the charge in reimplementing multiple playable characters, both in terms of highlighting the pragmatic way to do it and reaffirming that multiple playable characters have actually been part of Sonic games for a long time.