Controlling Sonic to the sides with a thumbstick at high speeds is such a retarded design choice. There is a REASON Secret Rings worked so well with tilt control, because you had a fixed position based on how much you tilted the controller, he didn't just start running off to the side when you did.

Here it's the same wonky, sluggish side-to-side movement witnessed in the similarly rubbish high speed sections in 06. In this particular level there doesn't seem to be quite as many obstacles bent on getting randomly Havoc physical with your hedge-head, but I'm sure it'll do plenty its part to be hair-jerkingly infuriating.

The sixaxis/dual shock 3 could easily offer a Secret Rings like control environment making this game into a given success (within reason), but catering to a one size fits all approach (with the Wii version forsaking tilt control aswell, in favour of analog stick slug-mess!) it's bound to be an equally ham fisted experience across all formats.

Luckily whenever it goes into trigger based insta-dodge mode it seems to fare way better, and the Sonic Rivals-esque pseudo 2D sections should stay relatively harmless if said PSP endeavour is a good measure of this game's results.

As far as I can tell though, the proper Sonic Adventure like, slower (yet normal Sonic) platforming bits seem to be the most enjoyable element of this game, so I hope there's plenty of that. As for Werehog arm wobble fest, I think it's impossible to tell if it's any fun or not. As with all brawlers, the actual feedback from kicking ass determines whether it's a good time, and you can't really tell from a video.

*tries to hide hopes and dreams by over-analysing and speculation*

Please be good. :|