[Mystic Mock]

Has anyone been seeing trailers for the upcoming Sonic Game that's being teased as the next "Breath Of The Wild."

Youtube video

This video is one that Nintendo sent out on their channel a few days ago.

For me personally I have respect for the Zelda franchise, and I am a massive Sonic fan, it's one of the only franchises controversially that I never go in really negatively in Gaming because I normally get some enjoyment out of each installment, even the weaker ones.

However this Game looks really, really bad imo, Sonic looks like it's taken Breath Of The Wild, Shadow Of The Colossus (from the bits that I've seen of that Game) put Sonic's character model into that type of world, and this ugly thing has been born.

Don't get me wrong I know that I'm being a little harsh on a Game that hasn't come out yet, but I'm in the camp that thinks that this looks wrong for a Sonic Game, Sonic is meant to be a fast paced Platformer that at best can do Sandbox environments (it's probably the wrong way to describe Sonic Adventure 1) but it's closer to Sandbox than Open World imo.

To me Open World Games are slower paced experiences (which is fine) because it works for most of those Games, but to me it will kill what a Sonic Game is supposed to be which is fast paced Platforming.

I honestly don't get this obsession that certain franchises have of wanting to change their identity irreparably? Resident Evil and FIFA are other franchises that spring to mind on starting out a certain way, and then changed for the worst imo, especially FIFA with their Microtransactions.

It's really sad if Sonic really does come out like the trailers make it look, because that's a franchise (like FIFA) that I have very fond childhood memories over, and it'd be a shame to see them try to become a knockoff Zelda Game.

Zelda does it's thing well, and Sonic does it's own thing well, neither franchise should be copying the other so blatantly though, ever.