Now seriously, can we at least wait for Aki to analyze the gameplay trailer before we make any judgments of our own? I thought it looked solid enough, running animation excluded of course.
Thus far, the music sample is great, they've brought back the checkers, they've knocked it down to one character, they brought back the bonus levels and the graphics looked amazing to me.
I have nothing to complain about, except I think Iizuka is in charge of this, but I may be wrong. In either event, he was also a big part of Sonic 3 & Knuckles, Nights into Dreams, and he directed the Sonic Adventure games, so he's had some hits with his misses. And he's kind of due for a hit.