I get that pretty much any 3D Sonic game is a risky deal with how shaky the quality’s been over the last (15?) years, but it seems pretty bad faith to ignore the surprising amount of positive feedback from people at the show (not just Sonic fans) and claim all the positive press feedback is because they were paid off to focus solely on the one critic who thought the game was bad
You are saying nothing different that hasn't been said for other Sonic games in the past, it's all the same nonsense about how I am ignoring the non-Sonic fans brought and paid for, or were impressed by some planned build that's not representative of the actual game, the hype builds up, red flags come in, anyone who points them out are called haters, then the excuses come in: give them a chance, you must not like games, Sonic fans don't know what they want (even if it's not a sonic fan), you don't understand, why are you anti-Sega, it's bad faith to ignore the surprising amount of positive feedback, the press loves it, hand-on impressions are good, are you a casual, they try something new and you still don't like it, look at the graphics, the game looks functional, throw a beach ball at your mom, there's no cats in china they eat sandpaper to survive in the desert, there's a lot more done to the combat, they added more depth to the speed, they are only making it seems simple as an option because they want kids on board, it's a kids game what do you expect, they need to appeal to all audiences, they kept the boost formula what more do you want, can they shove apple sauce up your ass, there's no way to fix the piano if you don't bow down to Kims dad, it's the good team within Sonic team making the game so it'll be good this time, it's not the B team, It's not the Z team,, the movie/comic/show/toys are popular so they want to take advantage of that with a good game, just log off social media, the games actually better when you hear from the unbiased, they are being more communitive (no they aren't) so that means the game will be good, did you see Sonic do that move shown in the gameplay, look at the cutscenes, it's perfectly fine it doesn't have to be Mario or Crash and actually score well or sell, Sonic Team sometimes misses but at least they take risks and I appreciate that, where in the world is Bowser San diego, Oh Gex killed him with Duke Nukems gun in a homicide, Big Red button is formed from ex-Naughty dog guys so it will be good, it was the Wii U that made the game bad, it was the Wii that made the game bad, if the game was on PC it would work because Sonics too fast for consoles, it's a $40 game so don't expect much, I think the game is great because it doesn't have any bugs, Forces has no bugs so it's a good game, why do you not give Sonic Team a chance they are just getting it right 4000 years later baby steps, no other studio under Sega could handle a Sonic game, one thing about Sonic is that you play it for the Shonen, one thing about Sonic is you play it for the attitude, it's been 5 years or 10 years after release, and looking back, it was actually an underrated game, we need to wait for more gameplay, we got more gameplay but we need to wait for more gameplay, we got more gameplay some more, but we need to give them a chance to give us a demo, we got the demo, but it's not the final game, we got the final game, but you need to trust the next game, why won't you trust the next game? give Sonic Team a chance.
I've heard it all man, stop. Same patterns over and over at some point somethings got to click.