I’ll admit… It was definitely one of the things on my bucketlist to see.

I was obsessed with the lore and the “holy grail” nature.

And running around in the prototype was kinda fun for a good 8 mins.

If the whole game was like that or the boss battle stuff sure.

And by that i mean running through environments like this

https://youtu.be/Lh5hL1rSSes?si=LOmvHx8c9q-7LdUf

But, when I think about it…

I understand why Naka flipped.

If this was a random experimental platformer … whatever.

But, hot off Sonic 3 he likely felt it was not representative of what the evolution of sonic should be.

This was a crown jewel then…

And as cool as the fish eye stuff looks in a trailer… a whole game like that I doubt would be fun.

It’s confusing… I have no idea what is going on. The levels don’t differentiate themselves enough to make for exploration.

It’s a confusing mess.

And people would have never bought Sonic Adventure.

It’s interesting but not a professional game. It’s a tech demo at best.

I think it’s probably better it in that form wasn’t a thing.

Maybe if they had time to experiment more… sure.

But, honestly that would’ve been years more and by then Saturn would be a thing.