I have seen the various trailers, and it looks AWESOME.

From classic 2-d to modern 3-d gameplay shifts that are pretty much seamless to hack-and-slash gameplay killing shadow creatures, this game (which was originally intended to be the Sonic Adventure 3, as far as I'm concerned, but the gameplay distanced itself enough that it needed a new title,) should roxorz your soxorz for Christmas.

The game's premise, as far as I am concerned, is that Sonic busts into Eggman's spaceship with the Chaos Emeralds, beats up tons of robots, goes Super, and then...gets trapped somehow in a containment device by Eggman. Eggman then corrupts the Emeralds, uses them to split the Earth apart, and now Sonic has to go to the various continents to purify the Emeralds, then go back and rematch Eggman, and this time, beat him and svae the world. Downside/upside is: When the sun goes down, as a side effect of the containment device, Sonic changes into a powerful (albeit less speedy) form as a Werehog.

As such, this leads to a huge amount of interesting things, from a stage based on Egypt and the ancient city of Petra (during the day you go through a city of stone, at night Werehog Sonic goes into ancient ruins and sees some sweet monsters of shadow to owned, and what looks like a mage creature for a boss,) to a stage based on China (During the day, Sonic rips into dragon heads and loops through dragons and races over the Great Wall, taking out the Egg Launcher in the process at night Werehog goes through like a samurai and slashes at more dark creatures, one looking like a large, dark samurai beetle known only as...it hasn't been revealed yet [which you have to see to comprehend its awesomness]) to a stage based on the Big Apple itself (Sonic leaps and grinds over and through skyscrapers in that one, and Werehog uses his stretchy arms to grab edges.) For those who don't know, the Big Apple is a nickname for New York City.

In other words, it was REALLY cool.

Darkaea: YES! It IS awesome! Eggman actually gets a temporary victory over Sonic! Too bad it can't last...

Uh, yes, thank you Darkaea.

Neya Dakraea Out.