I tend to watch every video that appears from E3 just in case I miss out on a gem of a game but I was horrified by the footage of the new Sonic game on the 360. Once upon a time (if you’re old enough to remember!) Sonic games were all about managing to complete a level in an insane time such as 11 seconds with the skill being taking the right shortcuts and flying effortlessly through the air at the right time and speed avoiding the pits of deadly spikes but now…well now it seems that Sonic has turned into a demonised version of the original tomb raider – just blue and minus the breasts. In the game play demo for the new release I saw Sonic picking up items to solve puzzles that needed weighting down, climbing walls by pressing a climb button (what happened to the springs?!) and loads of quick action button presses to move Sonic out of the path of danger. I must admit I have been ignoring Sonic over the last few years so I am a bit out of touch but seriously what has happened to this spiky blue hedgehog with attitude? All I can do is urge the younger audience to go and find a way to play the older games just so you know where this game started because it was such a long way away from where it currently is, and I am honestly clueless as to where it’s going to end up!
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