[Phoenix Gamma]

But Unleashed was unvieled the same way. Oh shit, old school Sonic! Wait...you're holding forward an awful lot...and those are Quick Time Events. Okay why am I playing a bad beat 'em up and werewolves do NOT do THAT.

Plus, this is a tiny development window. Unleashed came out last year, so either they started this immediately after their last game (they would. It's not like Sega makes much money from other games these days) or they waited a few months to start it, resulting in about a year of development time from a company that has done everything it can to rape its mascot dry of any potential sales it can bring them.

There was a post written up about a year ago by a guy from Sega Europe who met the Japanese dev team, talking about how they didn't even want to make Sonic games, but had to because that's the only thing that sells in western countries for them (Sonic bombs in Japan).

I really have no reason to believe this is different from the last reboot (Unleashed) or the reboot before that (Sonic the Hedgehog 2006) or the reboot before that (Secret Rings) or the reboot before that (Sonic Rush).