>>538029467
You want to talk about the game's content? Fine. Let's talk about the content, you fucking retard. The fact you think the "meta talk" is irrelevant shows you don't understand that the broken, unfinished state is the content. You can't separate the shit from the shitter.
Let's start with Sonic. My boy. The embodiment of 90s American rebellion and freedom. What did Sonic Team do to him in this "game"? They made him slow. He controls like a greased-up shopping cart. His legs move, but he's got no momentum, no weight, no physics. He gets stuck on a pebble. The classic games were all about mastering momentum on smartly designed playgrounds. This is about holding forward in a hallway and praying the homing attack doesn't send you into a bottomless pit, which it will, because it's fucking broken. The "mach speed" sections are a literal on-rails movie where you occasionally press a button. It's the illusion of gameplay, made for drooling idiots like you who just want to see pretty colors.
And the "friends"? My god. They took Tails, "Kid Sonic," the cool little bro who can build and fix planes, and what's his gameplay? He flies for five seconds before getting tired and throws fake rings that do fuck-all. It's pathetic. He's not a hero-in-training; he's a liability.
Then there's Knuckles, the "Authority" figure, the goddamn neo-con to Sonic's Clinton. He's supposed to be Sonic's equal and opposite. In '06, he's a bumbling idiot who can barely glide and gets stuck to every wall like a piece of shit on a blanket.
And who the fuck is this Silver clown? "Light Sonic"? Get the fuck out of here. His gameplay is the antithesis of everything Sonic stands for. It's about stopping dead in your tracks, slowly picking up random junk with wonky telekinesis, and chucking it at enemies who just stand there and take it. The entire game grinds to a halt every time you're forced to play as this future-faggot. It's a shitty tech demo, not a character's gameplay style.