Sarcasm is so thick in this thread, I can't tell what has been said truthfully.

Lost World looked so promising. I played the demo that came out before the final release, didn't get too invested in it, but I liked how Sonic controlled, and while the level design as a whole tried to take many notes from Mario Galaxy, it seemed somewhat different enough on its own. Was a surprised to see it generated such a mixed reaction. 

I really liked the first level of Sonic Lost World. It felt like the revival of Sonic Xtreme on Saturn and a revival of Genesis-era-level design. Branching paths and momentum-based gameplay just like Genesis games not the HOLY SHIT SPEED gameplay almost every other Sonic 3D game did. After that, the game kinda falls apart.

BOTW probs took some inspiration from SOTC anyway, but I reference BOTW because of the:

-music & tone.

-the alien look/feel of the technology.

-the apparatus which seems to similar to a Sheikah tower.

To me they are more likely taking ques from the massively successful BOTW rather than SOTC even if Zelda didn't invent most of these tropes. I was a bit harsh with my first comment. In isolation it looks decent as far a tease goes & I've been calling for an open world/huge level sonic for a while in order to utilise his speed... but they really need to stand on their own feet whereas this feels like they've forced sonic together with something which tonally/aesthetically belongs in s different IP that is more RPG than fun platformer. I'll wait to see more

My concern is that other people understand Sonics Brand better than Sonic Team. Please no weird God like villain and just thrown in another Hedgehog or Critter, whos teaming up with Eggman. A late game Biolozard type evil, will be tolerated though :p

Hopefully this is good but I mainly just want the Chao Garden to come back in a new Sonic game since it's probably my favourite part of SA2.

I'm just holding out hope for a chao garden. I thought I read somewhere they brought one of the key people behind the chao garden idea to do something with Frontiers?

Update actual gameplay

Maybe this isn't the best trailer, since all we can see is Sonic going for one place to another and solving a few puzzles. It makes the world looks empty, but I understand that they can't show everything since the game still has some months to release.

But I like it.