Just today I learned about Project Needlemouse. Now some of you may be thinking "How did you just figure it out today? You livin' under a rock or something?" But in truth, I don't keep up with video game news that much.

Anyways, getting back on topic, if you don't know what Project Needlemouse is, I'll fill you in. It's basically going to be the next Sonic game which will be released this year. Basically it's going to be a 2D side-scrolling game. They're trying to give long-time fans what they want by giving them a game similar to the old school style. And on Sega's blog, they confirmed that In Project Needlemouse you will only be able to play as Sonic. A good thing? Yes, certainly. As stated on their blog, people play Sonic games to play as Sonic! They want to play Sonic games for the sense of speed! Not to have to go through tedious collecting and shooting levels. Now you may be thinking I'm slamming on the Sonic Adventure games, but I'm not. I'm just saying the shooting and collecting levels either could've been omitted, or have been made better. Getting back on topic, playing only as Sonic is a great idea. People love Sonic games for the speed! Now of course, playing as other characters isn't entirely a horrible idea if it were to allow you to play as Shadow or some other speed-oriented character.

Hopefully, in this game, Sonic won't be changed in any way, shape, or form. We don't want another frickin' Werehog (Sonic Unleashed, I am talking to you). But it seems that Sega has been listening to the fans and figuring out what they want. They even stated so on their blog.

Now as some of you may know, there have been many dissapointments in the Sonic franchise. Shadow the Hedgehog (a perfect example ofkilling potential),Sonic Unleashed (Werehog... seriously? What the heck were they thinking?!?), andSonic and the Black Knight (Since when do animals use swords??). Now I'm not going to say Sonic and the Secret Rings was a dissapointment because it was actually a good game, it just that the controls take some getting used. And of course there was the Sonic the Hedgehog '06 dissapointment that I'm not going to hop on the bandwagon for because I haven't been able to play it because I don't have an XBOX360 or PS3. But to sum it up, none of these games have been able to give Sonic the reboot it needs, and my hopse are that Project Needlemouse will give it the reboot and return Sonic to the glory days, but then again I don't want to set myself up for dissapointment. But right now, my hopes shall remain high, and they may change when more is revealed about the game.

Now I'm sure hardly anyone is going to read this since I'm not a popular Gamespot user, but oh well. This ends my second blog post.