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Has it been confirmed that Sonic will automatically go to the set speed? I may need to rewatch the videos, but I thought Sonic jogged a bit before going at full speed. My only complaint is that he should gain speed as he goes along, even if it's a slow gain.

Mr Lange, on 10 June 2013 - 04:46 PM, said:

The problem is though, that whilst Sonic GDK accomplished things the official games haven't in 3D, the execution sucks. Sonic looks weird the way he controls, the levels are bulky and massive to accommodate the fact that you slip around all the time, and collecting rings and doing fun things looks like a massive chore. Rolling down the hills I saw in the GDK video looked fun for a minute, but you soon realise you're doing nothing else and it's adding nothing to the game in a meaningful way. It doesn't matter if SEGA don't do it 'MegaDrive-accurate', because you're never going to have Spring Yard Zone style curvy walls in 3D third person that works well, because you're not getting a good enough view of where you want to roll. Even if that were the case, you'll be rolling either too slow to care or too fast to do anything.

I don't think having a run button is mechanical at all. I could argue this for eternity, but I still need to play the game to give you a true reflection of how it feels. It doesn't take much to imagine though that it's fine to play.

There's never going to be a true 3D Sonic game which emulates the 2D games, because the way the 2D games work is so different to how it would work on a 3D plane, that it will never feel totally right. So what if we don't get sections where we can just roll down hills aimlessly in 3D, or if we need a run button- let's just wait to feel what it's like first.

There's a reason Sonic Generations allowed rolling physics, and it's because the classic sections were essentially 2D and completely separate from the 3D sections.