sorry I haven't been in this thread for a while.
But with my Sonic and Secret Rings Experience, I actually enjoyed it, and found it to be the best Sonic Game in a decade. Sonic and Knuckles to me was the last great Sonic game I remebered and I went back to Nintendo in 96/97. Sonic has had a bad run ever since he's hit the 3d world. But I felt Secret Rings they finally found something that works nicely.
And just hearing that line at the end: "I'm not a rat, I'm a Hedgehog". Sounds so cool and reminds of what Sonic used to be like once... Cool!
What I liked most about Sonic and the Secret Rings too is that most of the stages have their freedom and you can just run and flick by a stage like that.
The thing about Sonic games in the past is that you always had a choice to explore or just do a run, and I felt Secret Rings brought me back to that deal. Though it did enquire you to explore and get to know the area there were still these awesome skills you could pick up, use them to blaze through stages.
Sonic can get so fast when you get the necessary skills. And that's why I loved Sonic he was all about Speed again. And he didn't have tails or anyone to slow him down like we saw in Adventure. Plus there was nothing here that made his experience cute. No Chao, No tails, no Amy Rose, No Cream. It was Sonic the Lone Hedgehog.
And I thought the graphics were pretty good too, and I loved what they did with the Wii-mote.
By the way I got nothing against there was a time when I loved Tails I just feel bad cause Adventure really misused him and as you grow up and watch the cartoons, you realise Tails was picked on so badly, and that Sonic was always and will always be cooler. Because Sonic can Run. Tails was much better when he couldn't keep up.
Quoted for effin' truth.
Secret Rings was a throwback to when games used to be...you know, HARD. When game companies would make a game that you could expect to die in a whole hell of a lot.
I think we're being spoiled by non/easy games which are immensely lenient on the player. Failure should typically be punished and while you're guaranteed to fail a lot in SR, you tend to start back 20 feet from where you were instead of the beginning of the level.
By no means was the game perfect, and while it could become frustrating in some points, it's definitely an improvement from where it once was. There was nothing better than when Sonic is moving at full tilt and you need to slam the Wiimote left/right to dodge out of the way of an obstacle at the last second. That was always a thrill...
As for Sonic in Brawl, I think he has an immensely good chance of being in. I don't believe he's confirmed, but the inclusion of Sonic is not only suggested by the Mario/Sonic Olympics, but also by the fact that Sega and Nintendo used to be rivals, and people have wanted to see a true Mario vs. Sonic fight for a while. I'm sure even Miyamoto sees it this way, what with the blue hedgehogs which ran really fast in that one level of Yoshi's Island...
That and the fact that he was the #1 choice for 3rd party characters in the Japanese poll. If Nintendo ran the poll, then they did so because they actually wanted the input of their fans (just like how Pit was a write-in favorite on the US poll and now he's in the game).
All things considered, I'd be more surprised if Sonic didn't show up in Brawl than if he did.
