Sega's not one to shy away from awful cheese metal and lukewarm butt rock in its video game soundtracks. Thankfully, Sonic & The Black Knight looks to stay true to that hammy musical tradition.

The latest trailer for Sonic the Hedgehog's next Wii outing has everything you've come to love about recent games in the series: a potential human....oid love interest, a chaotic camera, and gameplay that looks to deviate widely from why you started playing these Sonic games in the first place.

Yes, we're hard on the old blue blur, but we've also probably be conditioned to think "Hey, maybe this one won't be so bad. I mean, the music's nostalgically painful, so maybe this one's on track!"

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