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I got Lost World recently during the brief moment it was on sale for $15. For that price, I don't regret the decision. It was flawed certainly, but it was gorgeous, had a lot of fun bits for all the frustration it introduced, and all around wasn't the trainwreck I expected from reputation or how little fun I had with the demo. I actually came away from it feeling way more satisfied than I was with Colors, because I never felt mislead about what kind of game it was trying to be.

I generally pick up all the home console releases with a few exceptions (like Free Riders, because of the Kinect requirement and Black Knight, because I hated the core gimmick of Secret Rings) while only getting the handheld games if they aren't ports (aside from the Taxman/Stealth ports!) or the companion games to a "better" console release.

I probably won't pick up either Sonic Boom game, the console version for being a broken mess (without the underlying "watching a sports car crash in slow motion" fun of Sonic 06) and the handheld game because it just didn't seem like the kind of game I'd enjoy from the demo.

So um, just theoretically, how BAD of a financial hit does Sega take from two games and a TV show* (and by extension, the toyline based on it) all tanking?

*I still have hope for the content of the show, but that early morning timeslot smells like death.

As long as they're in the spirit of the character and don't disrupt his shapes too much (the drifter scarf seems fine in both regards), I'm open to clothes on Sonic. Even the Zelda clothes above don't break his silhouette much aside from the hat.

Tiller, on 30 March 2014 - 11:00 PM, said:

Yeah, that also confused me about the whole blue arms thing. I'd understand it being done to bring Sonic's design more in line with the rest of the cast, but not if they were going to leave Amy as the odd-character-out anyway.

No matter how hard I try, I can't see chins. Probably either a mistake or a conscious decision by either the artist or his director to make him look more gruesome/blend the gradient better.

In defense of the late Greg Martin, it was probably only the second orthird time he had to draw the character, and in both those examples you can't see his lower jaw. In fact, one looks traced from the other.

Sodaholic, on 18 February 2014 - 08:00 AM, said:

It hadn't immediately dawned on me that this now means Amy's the odd-one-out in the group for keeping her fleshy arms intact.