The 2-D Sonic games are a nice blend of speed AND platforming; a lot of the recent console titles have just been about blazing speed. If they can keep the former in mind, then this will be quite promising. My favorite title from recent history is Unleashed, and I think it pulled it off quite well even if the Werehog levels were not as desired nor executed as well as they could have been.

You know, dare I say it, this is actually looking rather good. I'm completely ready to revoke that statement if need be, but Sonic Colours, unlike recent Sonic titles, has a strong concept. Doing it well is another thing altogether -- can Sega do it right this time? I really hope so.

I actually believe their statement this time! Unlike those other times when I actually believed it!

But I played the game for a while, it wasn't a buggy mess, momentum carried on from jumping and there was actually platforming and a bit of exploration at certain points.

Like Star Fox, Sonic is at that point where the reputation is so tarnished in my mind that it has to meet higher expectations to get me to pay attention to it than other franchises.  The devs can say whatever they want and I remain skeptical.  Sonic doesn't need a good game to get my attention it needs a GREAT game.  It needs the sort of game that gets GOTY type praise and unanimous 90%+ reviews.  Just being decent or okay is not good enough to win me back as I will naturally assume that diehard fans are overrating it out of a desire to see the franchise be good again.

Plus once something has ruined its reputation with me I become much more critical of it.  Don't know why exactly, I just seem to work that way.  I notice the flaws more so again the comeback has to be huge.  I have to think that things have completely turned around and not just experienced a fluke improvement.