Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25826354-20170316232415/@comment-26921306-20170428061841

About the third character, a lot of educated speculation has been going on that the 3rd playable character is a custom character, as cringy as that may initially sound, in reality, it probably wouldn't be that bad.

Here is a snippet of an interview with Iizuka-san, by Dengeki Online Translation courtesy of @SonicJPNews on twitter "I received opinions saying 'Green Hill is a stage too familiar!', but this is a place where I wanted to appear when looking at the whole game. The reason is… I cannot tell you yet..." ahh, mysterious!

About it looking like a downgrade, it's definitely improved over the last 3 different looks we have seen of it, the newest being the screenshots which have better lighting than the videos. Polishing comes last in development which can go a long way.

Either way still excited, there's not enough negative for me to be that worried.