Okay, so, in my eternally persisting moderately futile hope for a decent Sonic game since the plotzing of Sega's hardware development, I gave a download to the demo for Sonic Generations.

I am not whelmed.

And I don't feel like I've been "demo'd" on what Sonic Generations is all about. I mean, the whole boast of the game is that it involves playing as both classic and modern sonic in stages that reflect their eras. So Classic Sonic is all side-scrolly, and modern Sonic is all Adventure-style.

Now while I like Sonic in both flavors, I do not generally feel like travelling at mach 2 in a direction in which I am unable to swing the camera is any fun. As such, I really feel like the jump to 3D was a net gain for Sonic's gameplay, but even leaving that by the wayside, the Sonic Generations demo consists of...a 2.5D remake of the first stage from Sonic the Hedgehog. That's it. That's the whole demo. So not only do I not get the slightest taste of what is presumably -half- the game for Sonic Generations, (and the lesser half, according to my tastes) But I don't even get an -original- level on the part that they do show me. And what seems truly goofy to me is that there's a time limit on the demo. After 8 days, I won't even be able to play that one level anymore.

Sega, is your game really so empty of content that you're afraid that if people have open access to a 3D remake of one stage of a 20 year old game that they won't want to actually buy Sonic Generations?

This is -not- how you do a demo, guys. Not at all.