BastementSparkle

Is said alien species intelligent enough to consent, and of proper sexual age, and all participants are of course willing? Then it's allowed. I don't care if said alien looks like a human with green skin, or if they look like a magical cartoon horse, there's no reason for me to outlaw it. The important aspect is the mind, the physical body and appearance don't matter nearly as much, even if I found the concept of relationships with a certain species gross, personal feelings do not give me the right to dictate others lives in that manner.

The third gameplay style has been stated to be "Sonic-Like" by Izuka as well. So, that makes me imagine it'll also be rather fast-paced. https://twitter.com/BlueParax/status/856267256233381888 You can see plenty of places where the Classic level there splits off into upper and lower paths. It's not quite as explorative as something like CD or 3&K, but it's not fully linear either. We've only seen 40 seconds of Modern gameplay too, and in both cases we're likely seeing either the first levels, or very early levels of both gameplay styles. It's too early too tell really, might be kind of linear, might not. I actually rather like the Red Rings. When I was trying to grab them all in Generations they forced me to look all around the stages and take different routes than I usually would, making me explore the stages more. They encourage exploration and I think that's a good thing. As for them not giving worthwhile rewards, in Colors they unlocked those optional game-land levels, which if you managed to beat all those you'd unlock Super Sonic. Now, I'm not the biggest fan of Colors, but plenty of people really love that game, I've seen it top more than a few top ten lists, and a bunch of extra levels and the ability to play as Super Sonic sound like some pretty good rewards to me. They also unlocked new skills for the Sonic's in Generations, along with the art and music like you said. The emblems aren't really much better though, for the most part they just unlock new items for the black market in the Chao Garden's. That's great if you like chao and I certainly do, but if you aren't interested in them? Not much for you. In the Gamecube port of Adventure 1 they'd also net you a bunch of Game Gear games, but that's only one port and otherwise you just get Metal Sonic once you've got all 130 and he's just a Sonic skin basically. In SA2 you can get the 3D Green Hill Zone with all 180, but before that not much, except different cart skins for getting the all A-Rank emblems. Besides, not giving good rewards wouldn't be a fault of the Red rings themselves anyway, since any collectible could theoretically suffer from that, and it could be fixed just by making better rewards for getting them. It'll still likely happen though, since Sega is a corporation and thusly will try anything to make a quick buck with as little resources/ effort as possible -.- The Super Emeralds has a way better chance of happening imo. I can see them incorporating some kind of unique bonus stage similar to CD too. Yeah, the Chao garden is mostly wishful thinking at this point. Wishes are Eternal though...I'll hold out hope until I have the game in my hands and see for a fact they aren't there. Christian Whitehead and his team obviously know the classics, so I wouldn't put it past them to bring the Super Emeralds back. But last I heard Sega had decided that the Super Emeralds were now "Non-Canon", so that makes me wonder if they'd even let him bring them back or not. I hope so, I kind of loved just wrecking the entire game with Hyper Sonic in 3&K after finally getting all those Emeralds.

Well, I don't know what's proved Sonic Team as incompetent lately. I have my issues with them, but Colors and Generations were both received pretty well, and I really enjoyed Generations. Lost World might be considered a misstep, I haven't even played it yet so I can't comment on it, but from what I've seen nothing seems blatantly incompetent or broken with that game. As for Sonic not spindashing...Well, he already barely does that anymore anyway. Which is a bit sad, so maybe they could find a way to work the Spindash in with the boost in some manner...Or Sonic could play with both play styles, which is also kind of weird but might work. It'd take some work to get both styles of gameplay working together for sure, but I don't think it's impossible. Well, I assume the tight platforming controls and momentum would come with the 3rd character if they really did adopt an Adventure-like gameplay style and Sonic Team put effort into it. Of course, if it's not that it's a moot point. Red Rings can act as a sort of Emblem substitute, as they're what's been used to unlock new things in more recent Sonic games. Though obviously they're a different kind of system, since you find them in levels instead of earning them for completing missions and such. As for the Chao Garden, who says it's not in Forces? Nobody's deconfirmed it, and for all we know it's going to have one and they're just keeping it secret as a nice surprise. Probably a long shot there that won't come true, but who knows? Maybe they'll also bring back the Super Emeralds in Mania.

Not necessarily. There are some things about Forces that Adventure fans certainly might like. The game has taken on a darker tone than the last few Sonic games, with the return of a main Vocal theme as well, and while those two things aren't Adventure specific, they are things that have fallen in prominence more and more as we've gone further into the modern era. With Colors-Lost World having the very comedic light-hearted tone, and no vocal theme since Colors. Izuka apparently even confirmed in a Famitsu interview that the tone and story for Forces were "Adventure" inspired. There's also that mysterious third playstyle that we know nothing about, and while it's not confirmed, it could be a playstyle based off of the Adventure era games, which I'm sure many Adventure fans would be happy about. I think 3 separate series is a bit much, and might cause some problems. How would they do that? Have Sonic team work on both the Boost and Adventure games? Make a new team for the new Adventure series? I think it'd be smarter instead to only split the series into two. One 2D and based off the Genesis games, and one 3D that combines the Boost/Adventure games together. Multiple play-styles was one of the defining things about the Adventure games after all, so they could have levels that play like the Boost games of today, and levels that play more like Sonic and Shadow's stages from the Adventure games. Throw in a few extra playable characters for both styles, go for more balanced stories with light and dark elements, put in some Chao garden's, and there you go. Well, at least, that's how I'd do it.

Honestly, I wonder if Sonic's really ever been "Broken" as much as people like to think he is, because to me the most broken thing about the Sonic series is his fanbase. Now, I don't mean that as an insult to the fans, but just look above at the answers you have in this thread for an example? "Continue with the Boost forumula", "Go back to 2D!", "Be more like the Adventure games!", etc...Everybody's got their own idea on what would fix Sonic, or if he even needs fixing at all. The series has changed so much over the years and done so many things, in terms of gameplay, story, characters, tone, music...People have grown up with or just fallen in love with so many different things, you're never gonna get them all to agree. Now, how would you fix something like that? Try to pick something and be consistent, probably leaving quite a few fans behind? Or maybe, trying to please everyone, as Mania/Forces seem to be an attempt to do? That might work if done well, or people might just get annoyed at having to share the thing they want in a Sonic game with other things they don't. Honestly, outside of a few games like 06 or Rise of Lyric, I don't think there's really been that many truly "Terrible" Sonic games, mostly good games that have a few flaws, and are usually in radically different styles which of course leads to controversy. Even those two games I just listed as terrible have their own fans though, so...yeah. Sonic's Fanbase is what's really broken, they're a broken bunch glued together by a blue hedgehog and not much else.

None, I enjoy a few other shows, but none of them nearly as much as MLP. With most of them my interest comes and goes, while MLP I've had on the brain since I found it, and haven't lost interest at all.