Sonic General Discussion Thread v2 - Sonic Has Cleared Facepunch Zone Act 1
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How is sonic mania? As it's £7.99 on amazon
Sega has been trying to make every single new idea or gimmick a thing since Colours (or Unleashed if you count the boost formula and bad 2D sections in 3D stages). Wisps, Classic Sonic, and now Zavok.
I'm not the biggest Sonic fan in the world, and I'm having an absolute blast with it. The level design, style, and controls feel amazing. Definitely worth that price.
It's definitely worthy at that price, if you are even remotely on the fence. I can't highly recommend it enough.
Wisps I absolutely think have a place in Sonic's worlds since they are basically living power-ups and can free up the story from becoming "What gimmick is Eggman chasing this week?".
I'll take Wisps over Chaos Emeralds any day. Fight meeeeeeeeeeee
Except he's still chasing gimmicks. The Wisps themselves were the gimmick of their game, and then Generations had the Time Eater, Lost World had the Zeti, and Forces had the Phantom Ruby. Fundamentally speaking nothing's changed except the writing style and scope.
This isn't even getting into the fact that since Lost World, the Wisps contribute nothing to the story and contribute nothing to level design. Lost World outright had them get used most of the time as level design skips, and any forced Wisp section besides the Drill was harshly criticized. Forces made them skip level design even further, and the Wispon weapons destroyed the game while Sonic was stripped down to boost-only. The modern Sonic Team's incompetence has turned the Wisps from a neat idea to a crutch gimmick that they can't use worth a damn.
Yeah, who needs Super Sonic when you can turn into, uh, the uh, Blue Cube??
What if when all the different types of wisps comes together Sonic turns into the fucking Jinjonator?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPPwUl4a5f4
how are they remotely related? chaos emeralds are an end goal type of deal while wisps are just.. idk, temporary arbitrary buffs or alternate means of travel
Boy I sure enjoy all of these powerups that force me to stop moving and engage in a forced sequence that may as well be a cutscene with how brain-dead they are.
I didnt mind the drill wisp, or the laser wisp.
But the Cube one is the dumbest one.
That honor goes to the Bomb Wisp in Colors.
I am willing to admit that some wisps are far from perfect and should be disregarded, but both the laser and the drill in particular make for some great thinking-on-your-feet type puzzles.
Jasmin being there gives me hope for Sonic Boom Season 3
wouldn't surprise me if at some point they reboot sonic boom as the same show but without the boom theming
I wouldn't go into these Panels expecting anything crazy ahead of time. But do keep a keen eye as some impressive stuff has shown up before.
My personal prediction? I think we'll see some Movie news, Comic details and TSR gameplay or hopefully a Demo of sorts. But if i can hope well, i hope we see a new game (A Mania Sequel would be nice)
Am expecting a jpeg announcement trailer
I am expecting a total old Valve-style curveball.
Even if the movie sucks, at least the soundtrack will be good:
https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1095799784781287424
...as is often the case with the games. Even the shitty games like '06 have some bangers.
how's the Encore DLC? i just picked it up after having not touched Mania since finishing it and I'm fairly excited to play Mighty at least.
I highly recommend it. Mighty and Ray are both fun to play as, and it has some other neat additional content too. For instance, Mirage Saloon has an actual, all new Act 1 (for all characters, not just Knuckles).
Unless you are fairly tepid on Sonic Mania, it's definitely worth the cheap asking price imo.
Anyone remember that Angel Island Revisited PC source port that was being worked on at last year's Sonic Hacking Contest? Well, a new demo's out and it's almost all of S3&K now, only missing Death Egg Zone and &K's final bosses. Also has an experimental drop dash you can enable in the config files. You'll need an uncompressed ROM from the Sega Classics Collection on Steam.
https://twitter.com/Eukaryot3K/status/1099623585562406912
Looks like Sonic's final movie design leaked:
https://twitter.com/tssznews/status/1102702868824498176
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