General Sonic The Hedgehog thread

Rental Hero seems to be a second custom character that you can switch to mid level if you want to use a different whispon.

edited 17th Oct '17 9:21:10 AM by Ukokira

Wait, it means a fifth playable character?

edited 17th Oct '17 9:11:03 AM by Luigisan98

I don't really know, it's probably part of the avatar gameplay

It's probably an extension of tag gameplay.

It’s called Rental Hero so it’s likely another player’s (If you’re friends with them) avatar.

Those runways in Space Port look suspiciously familiar...

Anyway yet another great BGM.

The level design still feels iffy. I feel the train part would've been cooler if you just did that via gameplay instead of QT Eing it and trying to look cool. I want to be cool, not just look cool. Not sure why so many game devs don't realize this.

My apologies if I sound irritated, but is there any level design in the game which you like?

Agreed, looks pretty basic. Also, have there been any other enemies shown aside from the Egg Pawn things?

edited 17th Oct '17 12:24:28 PM by ElementX

The jerkiness of the Avatar's gameplay seems really iffy to me. Due to the grapple animation, whenever you use it, everything just completely stops for half a second and it looks kinda bad.

That being said, I look forward to the speedruns of this game because it looks like you'll be able to pull off some crazy movement with the Wisps.

The boss looked really boring.

I like how Infinite has no animations whatsoever when you hit him lol.

Either someone done goofed or it's intentional to make him look like an Implacable Man.

It's having the opposite effect for me.

Looking at the video. The reason he does not have any animations when he is being hit after the first time, is because he is not being hit. Looking closely I see he has a barrier around him. The sounds are the Hero. When Infinite was actually hit near the start. It was pretty clear.

Weird to bring back that Losr World mechanic with those numbered rings...you'd think they wouldn't put something so blatantly slow in a fast paced rigid block game.

Space Port footage looked interesting, although I'm not liking how stilted some of the animations looked. There looked like a section where you needed to grab special rings in a certain order to unlock the Red Ring, which I have mixed feelings for.

And I guess vocal songs are a mainstay of the Avatar levels, kind of like a call back to Knux and the rap songs in his stages back in Adventure 2. Which I find pretty neat; if the Avatar doesn't talk, then having the songs "tell the story" from the Avatar's perspective seems pretty awesome in my opinion.

No comment on the Rental Hero video, although I was confused by what has happening when the screen turned red and everything sounded weird and distorted. I figure that's one of Infinite's attacks, but it just reminds me of shitty creepy-pasta attempts (which oddly seems fitting for Infinite to do).

I think I'll get this game for the Switch, since I just expanded the memory on my system.

Rental Hero just sounds like you can switch hero builds in the mission. You can see them do it in the IGN footage.

I should also point out that this is the first game-play footage that uses the Drill. That leaves the Void Wispon as the only depicted wispon that wasn't used, and the Rocket, Laser, Eagle, Rhythm, Frenzy, Asteroid, Hover, Bomb, and Quake wisps yet to be seen with wispons.

The Drill seems to have good uses, especially with how you can use it for climbing, and at the end there it almost looks like he was skimming over platforms.

edited 17th Oct '17 10:52:55 PM by edvedd

Yeah Infinite not reacting did look weird. I actually quite like the spidermanning with the grapple, looks fun but this game is looking unpolished right now, which it absolutely shouldn't(and was a consistent complaint with the demo). It's looking like a beta somewhat and I'm getting 06 jank vibes...again I feel they have the wrong guy heading this game. This feels more like lacking direction and execution rather than lack of time and resources.

There's another Wisp seen, I believe it's Asteroid?

The second Forces prequel comic is out. Watch as Knuckles and Silver battle the watery Chaos in Stress Test!

edited 19th Oct '17 10:08:34 AM by SonicWind

Ugh I hate how western comics don't utilize sound effects like they use too. Totally dulls the action sometimes

But wow Knux is certainly full of himself lol. Sonic's rubbed off on him :P

edited 19th Oct '17 10:33:52 AM by Vertigo_High

Silver confirmed horribly incompetent.

Eh. It was okay, I guess. Silver's presence just keeps raising more questions.