So plenty of people had responses to this video when Hamza posted it and many of them are correct. QTE can be fun and could work well in a Sonic game but if there is a dependence on them then it's going to fall flat. Let's all remember that the original Sonic Adventure maintained much of the core Sonic gameplay from the 2D days and was actually a lot of fun to play. Sadly, the games went in the opposite direction of what they should and I believe the true signal for this was craptacular songs with lyrics.

Sonic's music has sucked to the point of becoming camp since he went 3D. In an effort to make Sonic cooler than cool Sonic Team thought that really bad songs with generic lines would do it. I'd question their judgement but they were also designing the worst games ever at the same time so you can tell they weren't thinking straight. Since then Sonic's level music has gone from bad to awful culminating in "Seven Rings in Hand" (below) the single (uggg) off of Secret Rings. I personally enjoyed Secret Rings despite its many flaws as it was about speed and timing and knowing how to manuever through a level just like the old Sonic games, so I got plenty of time hearing that song and it dawned on me that the piss poor music was really the sign that the game was not all that it could be. Sonic the Hedgehog was even worse with throbbing techno beats that could only compliment a game as terrible as it was (below the below). The music really signals how incredibly out of touch Sonic and Sonic Team is (was?) with gamers or reality in general.

But now I have hope. The music in this trailer is actually catchy and suprisngly reminsicent on Green Hill Zone. So I now put to you that this is how we will know if Sonic Unleashed will suck or not before it ever comes out. If the trailers continue to have great classic Sonic music we'll know they've actually changed their ways but if the next one has some unknown band singing about "unleashing their speed all over the world" or "speeding down the roadways of life/a blue blur trying to end strife" then we will know it will fail.