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Sonic the Hedgehog Community |OT| There’s no end to this franchise!
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First second and I already know it's spring yard zone. If it isn't, well, I'll give up my sonic club card
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i hate that mario maker has trained me to expect nothing but shitty kaizo levels, so this is a fantastic change of pace
Act 3 to be specific, with a few bits here and there tweaked to accommodate the fact that the level size can't match up perfectly.
Spotlight again? Play Sonic Generations
My immediate thought was Chemical Plant, but pretty soon after I was able to recognize Spring Yard
My immediate thought was Chemical Plant, but pretty soon after I was able to recognize Spring Yard
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Sonic Chronicles, worth the curiosity as an RPG fan or nah? Got a chance to get it dirt cheap
Sonic Chronicles, worth the curiosity as an RPG fan or nah? Got a chance to get it dirt cheap
Maybe.
It doesn't go as far with trying to be a unique RPG experience utilizing the IP for my liking, but it is interesting to get a brief glimpse of "what could have been" when it comes to a game that actually tried to build up the game verse's lore in a way we'll likely never see again.
But in another context, you could say it was this was the game that changed everything, thanks to the ensuing lawsuits that followed!
My memory is that the Ouendan-ish inputs made the battles slower than I really like in an RPG but the Sonic style world exploration was kind of neat and some of the snarky dialogue choices were fun so... maybe?
Sonic chronicles is kinda just wack in general. Folks try and praise the story but it's actually pretty bad and gives you the option to make it worse.
Please dont do this to yourself
Oh no
Please dont do this to yourself
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Big is the saving grace for a lot of Sonic stuff (ask me about how I feel about SA2 sometime)
... Fuck , you aren't wrong.
I would like them to attempt a sonic RPG in the style of a final fantasy game kinda?
You can like give the characters jobs and they would dress in fantastical outfits. Some characters couldn't do all jobs but it would be neat
Sonic Chronicles was maybe the only Bioware game where I enjoyed being "bad". It was kind of nice to be a snarky Sonic after years of "REAL SUPER POWER OF TEAMWORK!" The battle system was a total drag, though. I think I got up to Big and kind of fizzled out from there. I remember the overworld map being kind of clunky too.
Sounds like a spiritual successor to the Storybook series in some ways. They could even bring back some of the outfits.
Sounds like a spiritual successor to the Storybook series in some ways. They could even bring back some of the outfits.
Eh more so an evolution, the only costume I would bring back is sonic's . I would expand on everyone's roles , in that game everyone was like a knight but in this hypotheical games everyone would be their own specific take on a knight because it isn't soley based in sonic's mind. I guess the would be like alts you could choose but like I would want like the characters to be their own interpetations of the classes ifthat make sense?
And you could have like the characters be " classes " from other sega games.
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There's a lot of missed potential in Sonic Chronicles to be fair (maybe not in the music though), but the team just couldn't stop dropping the spaghetti.
I've been watching Game Grumps Sonic Boom series and.. what the heck did they do to Amy's face in that game? There is something really wrong there. Like, her mouth seems very weird at times.
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Nah. It's a pretty lousy game with awful music, sound effects, forgettable story, and a very slow battle system. The touch screen controls when exploring the world feel awkward also.
My memory of Sonic Chronicles is that it was one of the best Sonic stories of its era but everything else around it was working against it.
The music was foul, the menus were clunky, the touch control stuff wasn't always super responsive, and the character models were downright embarrassing. I've thought about going back to it a few times and I just can't ever bring myself to do it.
The music was foul, the menus were clunky, the touch control stuff wasn't always super responsive, and the character models were downright embarrassing. I've thought about going back to it a few times and I just can't ever bring myself to do it.
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Also, the ending is boiled shit because they were clearly banking on being able to make Sonic Chronicles 2 even though that game came out almost six months after EA bought Bioware.
Talking about bad Sonic games let's plays, Matt & Liam recently finished theirs on Sonic 06 :
Guess I'll give Chronicles a pass, then. I completely forgot that kicked off the whole Penders shitstorm, though.
The funniest thing regarding that game is
" The only thing canon from chronicles is a lawsuit "
I laugh and then I get really sad.
Speak of the devil, here's a preview of the Pender's glorious new comic
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Endless Possibility is the greatest track a Sonic game has ever ended on. Sonic Unleashed had a killer soundtrack in general. I have a hell of a lot of problems with Sonic Unleashed, but regardless of what you think of the game nobody can deny the soundtrack is straight fire. Discuss.
why the fuck there's an actual real image on the backgroundThe funniest thing regarding that game is
" The only thing canon from chronicles is a lawsuit "
I laugh and then I get really sad.
Speak of the devil, here's a preview of the Pender's glorious new comic
Speak of the devil, here's a preview of the Pender's glorious new comic
Everything about that image is just repulsive.
I refuse to believe Penders is actually working on that on a regular basis.
Easily in the series' all time top five, and I'd entertain arguments for it being the best soundtrack.
I would say of all the game's regions, Shamar has the most consistent level of quality music. The day hub and day stage music are both great, the night hub is alright and the night stage is fantastic.
I could only fully appreciate the lovely nighttime music by listening to it via the OST seeing that in-game it's constantly interrupted by
Who is the audience for this comic?! It feels like this is one big troll by Penders.The funniest thing regarding that game is
" The only thing canon from chronicles is a lawsuit "
I laugh and then I get really sad.
Speak of the devil, here's a preview of the Pender's glorious new comic
I don't think he's working on it much at all, he's been talking about an app and his comic for years. Though ta SDCC he did show off a moving version of it, which according to him elicited gasps of awe
So he's working on... something. What it is I don't know. The Cynic in me thinks that he' not working on that regularly. The bigger cynic in me think he is and it will be worse than anyone even thinks.
My friend, the comic is for Ken. Simply put , while the new book isn't perfect and its most recent issue as... drawn some ire on various sites, but in general its much better than the old one. And a lot of people like it, infact so many people enjoy it some of its issues regularly sell out. One of the reasons comonly sites is " this book has characters I know it it because they are from the video games I didn't really like any of the Archie characters " . And this is antithetical to all the shit penders talks on twitter. Besides the weird and phobic shit .
This is a man who claimed from rumors forged in the depths of his own ass that allegedly that comic shops wouldn't pick up the new sonic book because the freedom fighters weren't in it. And while they have their own fans, they are largely characters from a dead cartoon that has been not relevant to the franchise in multiple decades and is so old that me , grown as man who pays taxes didn't grow up with that cartoon. Give the older sonic fans a moment to turn into skeletons.
Anywho , this is a man who believed this so much he spread fake rumors... or tried to suggesting this. Why? He went to court over this , he burned his bridges over this. Then continued to do so over twitter with multiple members of the comic book industry. And then recently effectively burned the bridges of the Archie characters that weren't in legal peril by associating them with his weirdness. He's isolated. And the thing he hangs his hat on, has largely moved on with out him. So it has to be worth it , because if its not... what did he do all that for. So how do you make it worth it? You make the big cool book than you think, no you know will prove to everyone that you were right. You are infact a big smart writing genious and not a low teir writer who couldn't get jobs anywhere else so he took a sonic job and was allowed to exist because there wasn't much in the way of other sonic material at the time outside of the games and sonic teams brand management was... lax to say the least at the time.
The more he talks on twitter the more his tenure over the book makes sense. There's a scene with shadow, that basically explains his entire philosophy on sonic. The man is fascinating the same way a giant dumpster fire is facinating
I'm reminded of the Open Your Heart music video that IIRC ol' DocFuture did however god damn many years ago it was
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wait what
what in god's name is thatThe funniest thing regarding that game is
" The only thing canon from chronicles is a lawsuit "
I laugh and then I get really sad.
Speak of the devil, here's a preview of the Pender's glorious new comic