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Grounder Main Character Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: All is for my lord
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#74026: Jun 8th 2023 at 4:50:41 PM

A thought occurred to me.

Might the new character be an official take on Eggette?

Like, a direct take on it, not happenstance like with Sage.

MorningStar1337 The Encounter that ended the Dogma from 🤔 Since: Nov, 2012
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#74027: Jun 8th 2023 at 4:54:54 PM

TBF The Smurfette Principle has been rather outdated for representation and the standard is more Two Girls to a Team now. SEGA could do better natch, but making Amy playable is still a step in the right direction.

which is to say they should also make Honey playable as well

Edited by MorningStar1337 on Jun 8th 2023 at 4:55:14 AM

KuroBaraHime ☆♥☆ Since: Jan, 2011
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#74028: Jun 8th 2023 at 4:58:48 PM

Good idea. Then Honey could join Cream, Rouge, and Sticks in the group of "female Sonic characters who were made a central character at some point so the main cast would be a 3 guys + 2 girls group".

Joshbones Since: May, 2015
#74029: Jun 8th 2023 at 5:09:03 PM

[up][up][up]I feel like any new classic characters would have to be ones that we could get away with never seeing again in the vague time jump to modern. A second Egg daughter is not one of those.

Grounder Main Character Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: All is for my lord
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#74030: Jun 8th 2023 at 5:13:43 PM

[up]While I think they could write her off if she gets fed up enough with him (or vice versa) if they wanted to, yeah, you have a point.

Maybe it'll just be Metal Amy, or something.

Edited by Grounder on Jun 8th 2023 at 5:14:58 AM

Eriorguez Since: Jun, 2009
Grounder Main Character Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: All is for my lord
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#74032: Jun 8th 2023 at 5:21:47 PM

[up]I don't see why they'd go to the effort to get Ohshima for what could easily just be a proportion and eye color change.

Edited by Grounder on Jun 8th 2023 at 5:22:38 AM

MorningStar1337 The Encounter that ended the Dogma from 🤔 Since: Nov, 2012
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#74033: Jun 8th 2023 at 5:25:43 PM

plus i suspect they want to maintain single coherent timeline and enforce a certain segregation betwixt classic and modern charterers. Blaze falling into the latter.

You might have better luck with Cream here, but she also runs into the latter issue.

lalalei2001 Since: Oct, 2009
#74034: Jun 8th 2023 at 5:53:26 PM

It looks really cool! Can't wait to see Fang/Nack in 3D. (He'll always be Nack to me cause a sniper...doesn't fit the [x the animal] name scheme XD)

EDIT: though his species isn't actually a weasel; he's a jerboa-wolf.

Edited by lalalei2001 on Jun 8th 2023 at 9:10:30 AM

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BlackYakuzu94 CHADhan Player. from Easy Coast/NY Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
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#74035: Jun 8th 2023 at 6:46:22 PM

Yea, there is a strict Classic/Modern split; Blaze is segregated to Modern, so she's out.

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kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#74036: Jun 8th 2023 at 6:49:29 PM

Plus it would screw up the timeline. You can't have Blaze or Cream because they haven't been introduced yet.

Edited by kkhohoho on Jun 8th 2023 at 8:49:50 AM

BlackYakuzu94 CHADhan Player. from Easy Coast/NY Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
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#74037: Jun 8th 2023 at 6:51:09 PM

Oh as if they give a shit about the timeline.

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kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#74038: Jun 8th 2023 at 6:53:02 PM

[up]They do when they want to block characters off.

"oh, can't have blaze or cream, not classic"

KuroBaraHime ☆♥☆ Since: Jan, 2011
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#74039: Jun 8th 2023 at 6:58:03 PM

With how little info there really is for the game, my main impression so far is that it's disappointing they're reusing the Classic Sonic model. Tails looks fine, Knuckles looks pretty much the same as normal with a slightly bigger head, Amy is a good translation of her sprite. And then you have Sonic with his baby proportions they gave him in Generations that doesn't capture how is old sprite looked, and now looks even weirder next to these other characters who have better classic-style models.

Joshbones Since: May, 2015
#74040: Jun 8th 2023 at 7:11:16 PM

The best comparison I could think of is the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane trilogy, where they had Coco playable in games she wasn't initially playable in via time travel.

It's just weird cause a lot of people don't consider the classic games to take place in the past, I don't know how to describe it.

kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#74041: Jun 8th 2023 at 7:18:28 PM

[up]Blame SEGA. They're the ones who pushed for the two universes approach for so long.

Edited by kkhohoho on Jun 8th 2023 at 9:44:41 AM

NoName999 Since: May, 2011
#74042: Jun 8th 2023 at 7:21:40 PM

Like it's too late for any consistency considering that Amy will proceed to run slower and not be able to curl into a ball for awhile

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#74043: Jun 8th 2023 at 7:45:51 PM

They made a new Classic Sonic model for the render...

Is the in game model the same? The animations look too good to be from Sonic Generations.

Edited by randomness4 on Jun 8th 2023 at 10:47:52 AM

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KuroBaraHime ☆♥☆ Since: Jan, 2011
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#74044: Jun 8th 2023 at 7:57:43 PM

It's easily possible it isn't the exact same model with no change, but it's the exact same design which is my only point. It's not a bad 3D model, it's a bad design.

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#74045: Jun 8th 2023 at 8:12:52 PM

When I say they changed the model, I don't mean it simply looks better.

They got rid of his "butt brow" that the Generations model had and his eye shape is altered because of it. Proportionately...it looks the same.

Edited by randomness4 on Jun 8th 2023 at 11:13:26 AM

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RadioRavenRide It's Radioing Time from The End of Time Since: Mar, 2023 Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
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#74046: Jun 8th 2023 at 10:07:54 PM

Imagine if the final chaos emerald ability was homing attack

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Eriorguez Since: Jun, 2009
#74047: Jun 9th 2023 at 2:26:43 AM

If at least the classic Sonic design continued to build up from the 3&K design, rather than pretending the original sprite was the only one...

Mullon Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson
#74048: Jun 9th 2023 at 4:15:57 AM

Sonic looks so slow and heavy in that last trailer.

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ViewtifulJosh Since: Nov, 2022
#74049: Jun 9th 2023 at 5:12:53 AM

I just wanted to say I'm so happy and excited and a little overwhelmed, but above all else I'm so relieved. I've felt so alienated from my favorite series for so long that I'd almost come to terms with it, y'know?

I figured Mania really was just a fluke and there'd never be a follow-up and Sonic just wasn't gonna really be for me for a pretty good while. And that was pulling down on my interest in following, well, anything about the brand. It was harder to enjoy Frontiers with this nagging feeling that they'd just let Classic Sonic wither as merely the "past" version of himself.

And having been through all of that and so much more over the past few years, I don't think I really had any way of knowing how hard this would hit me. I mean, it's been a whole day and I'm still processing it, it still doesn't seem quite real to be able to say, "The Classic branch is real, Mania was the start of something, the Sonic I grew up with still matters, and he has more adventures to come."

The trailer wasn't wrong, these really are my favorite characters. And it's amazing to see them again.

BlackYakuzu94 CHADhan Player. from Easy Coast/NY Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
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#74050: Jun 9th 2023 at 5:15:41 AM

[up][up] Its almost inevitable that his top speed will be capped harder to accommodate for the fact that it's a co-op game.

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