I want Zavok and his friends to be bosses in next Mania game. Sue me, I like the space jam rejects.
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I think so , and are I guess hoping through continued use might make people like them. But I don't think its working.
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Yeah.
Mephilies despite being hot dog shit, for at least one narrative functioned as a character that works instead of not
Nowadays? Maybe
They used to have people... who wrote shit and characterize characters in interesting ways. But nowadays that sort of writing is relegated to comic books, even then its still interfered with in some contexts .
So I'll say this, I wont say its only ever on accident. But I don't think they understand why its good.
Someone at sega decided that the market for sonic was embarrassed adults and not children. And in trying to appeal to hat market created the least offensive characters ever in the D6.
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Yeah, that was exactly it. Sounds like SEGA were way more dickish about it than I remembered. Frustrating for sure.
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Ryan Drummond is a jack of all trades. While most of us will know him as the voice of Sonic the Hedgehog, he's quite prolific on screen, behind the mic, and on stage. But how does such a physical performer translate those talents to voice over? We recently spoke with Ryan about voice over, how...
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So Ryan Drummond was supposed to return
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On a less related note: I swear there was an earlier point in time (that could be bogus) where he was really gunning to play Sonic in Sonic X, even to point of potentially moving to NY, but for one reason or another 4Kids went entirely inhouse.
I do remember hearing about Ryan offering to do Sonic X, but I suspect union issues as well may have prevented that from happening as 4kids was non-union (see what happened with Turtles Forever).
I bought Jun Senoue's The Works III on iTunes, which has a lot of arranged songs from various games he's had hands in, but it's mostly Sonic stuff. It's really awesome. Even has several live performances. The version of Live and Learn with an orchestral backing is my personal highlight. :)
Jeez yeah. What a shitty company. Pay your damn actors. Wish they'd listen to fans the way the movie did for his design!Yeah, that was exactly it. Sounds like SEGA were way more dickish about it than I remembered. Frustrating for sure.
Sonic the Hedgehog speaks! An interview with Ryan Drummond | The Gaming Liberty
Ryan Drummond is a jack of all trades. While most of us will know him as the voice of Sonic the Hedgehog, he's quite prolific on screen, behind the mic, and on stage. But how does such a physical performer translate those talents to voice over? We recently spoke with Ryan about voice over, how...
So Ryan Drummond was supposed to return
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On a less related note: I swear there was an earlier point in time (that could be bogus) where he was really gunning to play Sonic in Sonic X, even to point of potentially moving to NY, but for one reason or another 4Kids went entirely inhouse.
That sounds great. I'll need to check it out.
I just watched the Cinemassacre review of the movie, and they included a screenshot of Sonic's map of worlds. And... that island in the middle, is that the island from the level map in Sonic 1 8-bit? :O
Yep, and there is a lot of references in that image. Check out this article at Sonic Stadium for a breakdown:I just watched the Cinemassacre review of the movie, and they included a screenshot of Sonic's map of worlds. And... that island in the middle, is that the island from the level map in Sonic 1 8-bit? :O
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along with the old Sega Saturn logo, tooI just watched the Cinemassacre review of the movie, and they included a screenshot of Sonic's map of worlds. And... that island in the middle, is that the island from the level map in Sonic 1 8-bit? :O
EDIT: lol, i just noticed the blue sphere planet
Yep, and there is a lot of references in that image. Check out this article at Sonic Stadium for a breakdown:
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I noticed the Saturn logo when I saw the movie, but didn't think of South Island when we got to see the map. Nice easter egg.
Playing more Sonic Rush and DAMN does this game love killing you for ever stepping out of line. Altitude Limit was some of the most punishing level design I've encountered in a long time. Literally every gimmick in that stage is designed to infuriate and/or confuse you. Shoutouts to the lengthy paraglider segment that's totally out of place with the fast-paced gameplay, immediately followed by a bit where you have to carefully jump between a series of floating platforms above a pit. Because it's at the very end of the level, I spammed boost the first time I reached it thinking the end ring was right around the corner. Nope! There went my last life. Act 2 was equally evil.
That being said, I can see why people really enjoy this game, because it's definitely a blast to execute everything perfectly once you know the level layout. I tried many times to get an S-Rank just on the first level but I didn't mind doing it since it's fun to figure out all the spots where I can use that R button to shave off a few seconds and see how many tricks I can do on a jump before I have to do a finisher. It's just too bad that it's a real chore to get to that point sometimes, I find it tough to find shortcuts and time savers on the later stages because I'm afraid to deviate from the beaten path lest I get instantly killed.
Also, not really related to anything else I had to say, but I thought it was cool that the SA2 GUN robots show up in Huge Crisis.
That being said, I can see why people really enjoy this game, because it's definitely a blast to execute everything perfectly once you know the level layout. I tried many times to get an S-Rank just on the first level but I didn't mind doing it since it's fun to figure out all the spots where I can use that R button to shave off a few seconds and see how many tricks I can do on a jump before I have to do a finisher. It's just too bad that it's a real chore to get to that point sometimes, I find it tough to find shortcuts and time savers on the later stages because I'm afraid to deviate from the beaten path lest I get instantly killed.
Also, not really related to anything else I had to say, but I thought it was cool that the SA2 GUN robots show up in Huge Crisis.
I really wanna replay Sonic Rush but every time I think I'm going to I just don't have it in me to delete my save file. I'm not giving up those S ranks dammit! Man why are you only allowed 1 save file. Why?!
Anyways update on my Sonic Unleashed revisit. I have now finished every daytime side act and daytime NPC mission. That Shamar mission was brutal and brought back some great memories. Beat that way quicker than I did the first time round. Way back when that mission was something else and I remember putting in a real shift to master that back then. Very satisfying. It's also a good teacher of a mission. It makes you better at Arid Sands when you go back to the regular level.
I have also S ranked every Act 1 daytime stage. Still gotta S rank the side acts but I'm going for some hotdog missions at the moment. Another aspect of the game that on paper is a great addition to the game but the execution is done in a way that makes the game feel like busy work again. More unnecessary padding. A challenge to beat a set time? Great! Oh you make me beat 2 super easy times before I'm even allowed a go at the challenging one? Lame. Like you cam literally beat the challenge 3 time the first go but you still have to beat it 3 times. Then the same for enemy and ring challenges. It should just allow you to go for the top challenges straight away. This game loves wasting time.
For a day you could've claimed the honor of most-reviled Era member. ;P
Would've been worth seeing all that salt though.🧂
Finally getting to play Colors (Wii) for the first time.
Why is this game stuck on the Wii?
It's such a delight to play. Great aesthetic / level themes, tight gameplay (this feels like the tightest modern 3D Sonic game to me?), actual level design that doesn't just encourage "hold button to run fast", and a really fun soundtrack. The levels may be short, sure, but there are a lot of them, and they feel much more fun to me than pretty much any level in Generations, as well as (the admittedly little I've played of) Forces.
A remaster of this game would kick ass. It's a shame it's stuck on the Wii.
Why is this game stuck on the Wii?
It's such a delight to play. Great aesthetic / level themes, tight gameplay (this feels like the tightest modern 3D Sonic game to me?), actual level design that doesn't just encourage "hold button to run fast", and a really fun soundtrack. The levels may be short, sure, but there are a lot of them, and they feel much more fun to me than pretty much any level in Generations, as well as (the admittedly little I've played of) Forces.
A remaster of this game would kick ass. It's a shame it's stuck on the Wii.
They just got favorable focus group evaluation imo. That's the way it is!
Colours is fantastic and yeah it's my favourite 3D Sonic game. What I'd give for a remaster for modern systems.
OG 3DS is such a garbage platform. I can't play Sonic Rush on this. The placement and feel of the dpad is so uncomfortable. Literally just the act of holding this piece of shit in an attempt to use the dpad is painful.
I just played Colors and finished it too, I liked it too and it's weird there's no remaster for it.
I'm playing Lost World too, near the end, I played like the first mission when it came out years ago but didn't continue, but after playing it again, it surprised me of how good it is, I'm liking it a lot, good worlds and controls, I like how it's not just about speed, it's really good.
I'm playing Lost World too, near the end, I played like the first mission when it came out years ago but didn't continue, but after playing it again, it surprised me of how good it is, I'm liking it a lot, good worlds and controls, I like how it's not just about speed, it's really good.
Lost World isn't bad. But it has a number of problems. Still I was happy they went in a new direction for it and I would have wanted a sequel. It had some interesting ideas. It's a 6/10 game I think.
Bought Sonic Forces on a whim because of the sale. Halfway through and it's not as bad as I was expecting. The physics are a downgrade and the level design isn't great but Sonic is still fundamentally fun. 6.5 so far
Colors is great, but because of the level design being so simple and limited, there's really not much reason to replay it.
I guess if you're just against the design of Generations it's more appealing, but one of the core tenants of the series to me is being able to run through stages over and over and finding new routes and shortcuts. Generations managed to recreate the upper/middle/lower structure from the classic games and I adore it for that, but Colors is pretty much the same route through every time.
I agree with you on liking how levels in Generations have a few different routes you can take. My main complaint is that it just relies a bit too much on boosting in the second acts, at least for my taste. Granted, I know that's kind of the main draw of the Unleashed-style games, but I still just wish it slowed down a bit more for some slower platforming, like Colors does. And because of the over-reliance on speed, Sonic feels a little too loose to control in the moments where he does slow down. Don't get me wrong though: I still like Generations. And I guess I can't really complain too much, considering the first acts are by and large exactly what I'm asking for.
Other than the two reasons given, one being literal, he's not very edgy, in all honesty.
I think there is a simple answer yall are missing that explains his edginess .
Hes satan. No seriously hes just satan. Hes named after an actual mythological demon and in the narrative he acts as satan. Hes a guy that comes through who wants chaos and destruction that tries to trick, entice or kill our heroes to that end. The only way it would get more obvious is if he was litterally a snake that liked apples.
Hes litterally one of the edgiest guys can be in a narrative. Hes satan.
Yes, that does paint story beats in a very specific light. Yes, 06's story is worse than you think.
I'm a little surprised at the moment. My Wii U copy of Lost World came in today. It's the Deadly Six Bonus Edition, and I assumed the code for the Nightmare Zone DLC wouldn't work since the paper slip says it expired on October 22, 2014, but nope. It redeemed just fine.
Him being satan kinda works for shadow's story. But that's because of shadow, the story itself is kinda dogshit. But shadow when written will chews up scenery like sonic in a chili dog eating competition. And shadow took what little nuggets of ok mephilies was offering with his pultry character and turned into..well I wouldn't say gold but something valuable.
And I just want to say in my previous i'm purposefully playing around a bit. Being a demon in sonic isn't inherently bad or edgy, sonic time and again as a series has called on demon iconography to this day for its villains and darker characters. From the chao, to the black arms, to the deadly 6 even shadow looks like a demonic hedgehog. And shadow's "I'm a monster inside story " is quite litterally fighting the demons inside of his own self, if this was a normal ass anime would just be some half demon guy.Sonic likes calling on demons as a narrative and visual reference and its fairly common and mephilies being satan or Mephstophilies isn't inherently bad and at least works for shadow.
I've been playing the Sonic 2 release on Switch and umm... since when did you lose all your rings after a bonus zone?
Like Sonic 2 was one of my first video games and I've played it probably like 100+ hours as a kid and I literally do not remember ever losing all my rings after a bonus zone
It's freaking me out that this might have always been the case and I just never noticed over the course of the 25 years I've had this game
Like Sonic 2 was one of my first video games and I've played it probably like 100+ hours as a kid and I literally do not remember ever losing all my rings after a bonus zone
It's freaking me out that this might have always been the case and I just never noticed over the course of the 25 years I've had this game
Yeah this always happened. I always got in the habit of just before certain bosses after doing a special stage backtrack a little to get some rings just to be safe.
I was just listening to this song from Forces and had a WTF moment when I heard an entire section of music I didn't know existed.
I always assumed the start of the song was just a super short loop of those same few notes over and over until you get to the second phase because the fake out Sonic 1 throwback phase is so easy that I've never heard more than 20 seconds of it, but then out of nowhere it actually gets extremely funky. I would be shocked if anyone has ever actually heard 0:51 - 1:25 in-game without actively trying to.
I always assumed the start of the song was just a super short loop of those same few notes over and over until you get to the second phase because the fake out Sonic 1 throwback phase is so easy that I've never heard more than 20 seconds of it, but then out of nowhere it actually gets extremely funky. I would be shocked if anyone has ever actually heard 0:51 - 1:25 in-game without actively trying to.
Always the case unless you're playing 2&K, for whatever reason.
Yea, the Knuckles part is probably where my memories got confused
Yeah, I like the new ideas in it and I want a sequel.
Oh, apparently mine works too, thanks!
Rush Adventure arrived, since I beat Sonic's story in Rush I feel comfortable jumping into the sequel and coming back to finish up Blaze later.
Two zones in:
- Marine is... surprisingly hilarious? Her "Australian idiot/troll" personality is great, even if it does force Sonic and Tails to constantly play the straight man to her antics.
- The loss of Hideki Naganuma on the soundtrack is definitely felt. Not a bad OST, but it feels like the composers were trying to ape his style and didn't quite have what it takes. Also, the cutscene music sounds a little too familiar...
- The gameplay in levels seems a little easier compared to Rush. It's certainly much more trivial to get boost since the trick system is a lot more generous. I'll have to play more to see if it gets more challenging.
- The boss fights so far are WAAAAY better than Rush even though they murder the framerate. The second boss in particular has a very fun physics-based gimmick that feels like something the classic games would have done.
- I love the sailing. Feels like they took the special stages from Rush and turned them into a major gameplay mechanic.
So far, so good. Also speaking of Rush, I saw that Sonic Runners Revival is having a custom Rush event this week where it plays Right There, Ride On during gameplay. I got back into it and was surprised to see that they've gotten the game nearly 100% up and running now. All of Story Mode works, the roulette works, gifts work, and the leaderboards are to be reinstated shortly. They've even figured out how to get custom backgrounds in and are adding Silent Forest into the game so it'll have every Zone from Sonic Lost World included. Really impressive stuff and even more impressive that Sega is cool with it all.
Two zones in:
- Marine is... surprisingly hilarious? Her "Australian idiot/troll" personality is great, even if it does force Sonic and Tails to constantly play the straight man to her antics.
- The loss of Hideki Naganuma on the soundtrack is definitely felt. Not a bad OST, but it feels like the composers were trying to ape his style and didn't quite have what it takes. Also, the cutscene music sounds a little too familiar...
- The gameplay in levels seems a little easier compared to Rush. It's certainly much more trivial to get boost since the trick system is a lot more generous. I'll have to play more to see if it gets more challenging.
- The boss fights so far are WAAAAY better than Rush even though they murder the framerate. The second boss in particular has a very fun physics-based gimmick that feels like something the classic games would have done.
- I love the sailing. Feels like they took the special stages from Rush and turned them into a major gameplay mechanic.
So far, so good. Also speaking of Rush, I saw that Sonic Runners Revival is having a custom Rush event this week where it plays Right There, Ride On during gameplay. I got back into it and was surprised to see that they've gotten the game nearly 100% up and running now. All of Story Mode works, the roulette works, gifts work, and the leaderboards are to be reinstated shortly. They've even figured out how to get custom backgrounds in and are adding Silent Forest into the game so it'll have every Zone from Sonic Lost World included. Really impressive stuff and even more impressive that Sega is cool with it all.
RE: Deadly Six Edition codes: That's reassuring, since I wanted to get a copy of the WiiU version myself. I had a feeling that was the case since reports as recent as a few months ago suggested the codes just never actually got set to expire (and really, why bother, especially if they're not selling the DLC separately?). Where did you guys get your copies? Specific retailers? eBay?
I swear to god I have seen so few people say anything about this but it's right there in front of you
I bought mine used from someone on eBay, they don't have any copies left though. I was surprised nobody had redeemed the code before the game got in my hands.
