If you ask me, less, but yeah I guess you could say that.
Shattered Crystal is a 2.5D platformer for the most part. There are some "racetrack" stages, just like in Rise of Lyric, though they seem much simpler.
And the platforming stages seem a lot slower paced than even the retro titles.
And you can't walk in water, but Super Drowning Skills are averted with characters losing rings and hastily leaping out of water instead.
It has some things that slightly bother me, but nothing really major, like Tails' inability to fly (instead he can use updrafts to get on high ground) and I haven't seen Knuckles glide at all. (though him doing that with his new physique would look weird)
Though Rise of Lyric might actually have some of the characters signature abilities more intact, atleast judging from the trailers.
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A echidna that glides with its dreads only now seems weird to you?
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Referring to the bigger body.
I realize that. I'm asking if an echidna that glides with his dreads isn't weird... until he gets beefed up.
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Its weird, but it looks like it could work.
It would make even less since since his bigger body takes away more space for his Dreads to catch the air.
edited 25th Jul '14 2:48:18 PM by randomness4
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How do you guys know so much about the game already? as far as I've seen, there haven't been that many videos of the game beyond those really high-profile previews.
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There was a bunch of footage people got at E3.
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Ah. Well, I don't tend to watch that stuff, so there ya go. If I'm gonna be watching a camcordered video of someone playing a video game badly, it's gonna be a Retsupurae.
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Not very surprising though...Classic Sonic design was pretty much modeled after those types of old cartoon characters.
edited 27th Jul '14 6:23:59 AM by randomness4
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It sure looks like Classic Sonic was directly related to the 30's toons though. Maybe he decided to get a job on a different stage from them when he had the chance and never looked back.
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I still don't see the resembelment of him and Mickey. Mic looks a lot fatter and string-like.
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That's not Mickey.
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It's not, but Sonic's original design was directly inspired by Mickey.
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Humans have been in Sonic's world since the very beginning. The concept art and old animated short have confirmed this.
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Not necessarily.
Some of the comics feature Robotnik being responsible for Sonic's "creation", giving him super speed and blue fur. In others, the world itself belonged to Mobians.
In the games, Robotnik is the only human of note apparently.
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I think the original manga showed he lives in a sort of Dragonball Z humans and anthro-based society.
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That never happens when I play Sonic 2.
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The DBZ comparison worls doubly so considering the stuff the games have taken from it.
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Yeah, that's from the Temporary Duality album the site released a few months ago.
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Maybe she'll be an unlockable PC.
Shattered Crystal, if I recall correctly, plays more or less like a 2-D Sonic game, right?
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