Sonic Forces *insert original character joke here*

Today Sega announced who the mysterious new third character in Sonic Forces is, and it's, drum-roll please, .............. THE PLAYER!

Yeah, so the third character is a customization character that YOU the player can make look (almost) however you want, you can change their color, species, clothes and probably some other things I'm forgetting. Naturally with something like this, tons of people (including myself) have been making "Original The Character" jokes, but, jokes aside, what do I think of this whole situation?

Well, I think it's actually kind of cool, as of late, Sega has been very connected with their fans and Sega knows that, for better or for worse, their fans enjoy creating characters and incorporating them with cannon characters in their own stories, so in a bit of fan service, this has emerged.
Even from a game design aspect it's still pretty neat, the last time a Sonic game had a customizable character was in Sonic Battle with Emerl, and this time it's in a platformer and not a Fighting spinoff game, and it won't take away from Class or Modern Sonic's gameplay, Classic's stages will be about 2D platforming, and Modern's stages will be about Speed, But Custom's stages will be a mix of both, platforming like Classic but with the 3D aspect of Modern and with some new stuff thrown in too.

If you're still on the fence about this whole thing, then consider this: I saw a comment on one of GameXplain's recent videos on the topic saying something to the effect of "If you don't look at it as an OC generator and instead as an Avatar creator, you'll probably enjoy it a lot more", And I completely agree.

Personally, if developers give me the ability to customize my in game character, I can almost guarantee I'll be 100% on board. that's one of my favorite things about TF2 or even the recent Pokemon games, and since this announcement, my interests regarding Sonic Forces has been piqued. It looked interesting before but, of the two upcoming Sonic games, I was more interested in Sonic Mania, And while I am still more interested in Sonic Mania than Sonic Forces, I do now have a new found interest in Sonic Forces.

Whether or not this game is good, and whether or not the character creator churns out some of the worst things since...well...deviantart (Insert Seinfeld theme and laugh track here) we'll really just have to wait and see how it all turns out.