Hedgehogging His Bets: Sonic Fan Remix

Is this allowed? Are shotgun-wielding Sega employees hauling a bound and gagged indie developer to a shed in the everglades even as we speak? Quick, before it's too late: one Mr Sonic T. Hedgehog is wearing his PC hat for the first time in years, in the form of a fan-made remake of his classic jewellery-thieving, animal-bothering outing. Given half the world's frothing/complaining about having Sonic 4 on their eXecutableBoxes this week, it's good to have a spot of blue spiky retro-fetishism on PC too. It's a sort of 2.5D thing: modern visuals, olden DNA.

Here's the 100MB demo, but as it's only hosted on RapidShare for the time being, you might want to stare at the below video while you wait. Pretties, if on the manic side.

That looks... familiar. Even taking the music seems like a bad idea, frankly, but maybe/hopefully Sega are cool with it.