Shadow the Hedgehog

Seeing as how it's a Nintendo partnership I doubt the guardians will be particularly threatening or serious. Oh well. I don't have a Wii U or a 3DS anyway so this doesn't particularly disappoint me, though I hope this cartoony style is just for the partnership. I'm glad this is more of a spinoff as opposed to a new main series game. At least I hope it is. Makes the exclusivity deal less painful.

It seems like they revived Sonic X-Treme, right down to the rotating worlds. I'm not a huge fan of the whole cartoony style but the gameplay definitely looks interesting.

Correct. You're up.

Nope sorry. I'll narrow it down for you. It's a game character

Guess again

Nope

I messed up on the job and had to be saved by my partner at the last second.

Spectre?

BLASPHEMER!! I'm just kidding. But I agree selecting the music for a level should be in Lost World. Playing Crisis City with His World in the background was great.

That'd be nice. I wonder what they'd do for night stages? I'm hoping if they did go for day and night it'd just be different aesthetically and not gameplay wise.

Pirates eh? That could be interesting. I must admit I wouldn't mind Sonic and the Necronomicon :D. And the 3DS version of Lost World could have a few mach speed style sections, dodging obstacles but not controlling speed. It worked for the Rush Adventure boat sections so it's possible.

There's a possibility for backwards compatibility. They did it with the PS3, at least for a while. And the 360 had it for some Xbox games, so Microsoft might follow that route again. As you pointed out, it enhances their brand image. Sony seems to doing that recently. They said they aren't having always online because of the inconvenience and the fact that lots of places don't have good internet connections. So it wouldn't exactly hurt their marketing to say "you can play your old games on the PS4". Anyhow, do you guys reckon they'll go for a 3D game for the Lost World 3DS, or do you think they'll stick to the 2D style that's been going since Rush?

Well the second game is Sonic and Mario at the 2014 Winter Olympics. Hopefully they'll hurry up and release it along with whatever the third one is so they can get back to releasing things on multiple platforms. Kinda strange they'd go with Nintendo considering the fact that far more people own 360s and PS3s, and aren't exactly going to rush out to buy a Wii U for one game given the expense. You'd think if anything SEGA would have held off and got a deal with Sony or Microsoft for their new consoles.

Yep. Your turn.

Nope

Ok. I waged war to bring glory to my people but ended up bringing about their destruction. Who am I?

Merlina?

KHAAAAN!!! Well that's a kick in the teeth. Oh well, I guess there's always next year.

For some reason I'm thinking he might go back in time. Lost World makes me think of ancient civilisations and such. Maybe he's seeing what the echidnas were up to? This might explain why Tikal sought his help in SA1. Just my 2 cents.

The Wii U? That blasted machine has already taken Bayonetta 2, I don't know what I'd do if the new Sonic was a Wii U exclusive. I'm curious to see if anything from that Sonic Excursion hoax was actually true, like multiple playable characters or something.

I highly doubt SEGA would make it an exclusive. It doesn't make sense for them. They want maximum sales which means to put the game on as many systems as possible.

Treasure Team Tango. I loved the whole concept of the madcap scramble for the Sol emerald. And Bean just made it all the sweeter. I want to see him more often.

Maria?

Bean the Dynamite?

I thought it was alright but the human characters, especially Chris, just got on my nerves and seemed to be far too prominent. The only 2 I liked were Topaz and Tanaka. I think it would've been better if it were set in the Sonic Adventure world, so Sonic and co were already established; Tails has his workshop far from civilisation, Knuckles is on Angel Island, Rouge is working for GUN etc. That way the focus could remain on them with humans only occasionally appearing as secondary characters or plot points, as it should be.