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mstorzil Crimson Helios Since: Nov, 2019
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#74201: Jun 12th 2023 at 2:09:25 PM

I'll be honest, 3&K was the Classic game I found myself playing the most (Though I've only ever played 1, 2, 3&K, and Mania, with the latter 2 being the only ones I've ever finished). I think it's purely because of Hyper Sonic and Super Tails. Just killing everything on screen with the Hyper Flash and watching bosses get utterly obliterated by the Flickies amuses me a bit. Don't expect me to ever fight the Doomsday Zone boss again though, I'd rather try to S Rank stage 1-2 of Cyber Space in Frontiers again.

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#74202: Jun 12th 2023 at 2:11:11 PM

Oh my god, Stage 1-2.

Took me over a fucking hour to get. And the problem with a difficulty spike like that is that it left me very unimpressed by all subsequent S-Rank challenges.

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WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#74203: Jun 12th 2023 at 2:11:35 PM

I played the crap out of Sonic 3 and Knuckles, not just because it was my favorite, but because it had a bunch of save files, and I wanted all of them cleared with every possible combination of characters and emeralds. That meant clearing as Sonic with no emeralds, clearing with all the chaos emeralds, and clearing with all the super emeralds.

Edited by WillKeaton on Jun 12th 2023 at 5:00:16 AM

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#74204: Jun 12th 2023 at 2:18:49 PM

I'm using Naoto Oshima/Arzest's involvement as a negative because Speed Jungle Zone looks like slightly better version of Stardust Speedway.

It's not the best first impression of the game's level design.

Edited by randomness4 on Jun 12th 2023 at 5:19:36 AM

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#74205: Jun 12th 2023 at 3:37:20 PM

I saw a family picture of Cream's family with Gemerl included in the Minecraft video by Game Apologist.

It is curious how Gemerl was practically forgotten until IDW came along, now you see artwork of him from time to time. I'm happy about it, as I love the robot.

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#74206: Jun 12th 2023 at 3:39:46 PM

Sonic is the one series where you can say this.

A character is introduced, they don't die, they seem like a mainstay, and you just never get to see them again.

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#74207: Jun 12th 2023 at 3:59:06 PM

In fairness, Emerel and his imitation are from a couple of handheld games that have yet to see widespread rereleases.

Remember the New Guy? is gonna be in full effect for a lot of kids if he reappears in a main game before that happens.

Edited by Grounder on Jun 12th 2023 at 3:59:14 AM

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#74208: Jun 12th 2023 at 4:03:44 PM

Accessibility in a narrative sense is the one thing that doesn't really matter for episodic video games.

If people don't want to read the story of Sonic Battle, that's their own fault.

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Joshbones Since: May, 2015
#74209: Jun 12th 2023 at 4:14:47 PM

Emerl was also in Sonic X, because Battle was one of the games they did a full adaptation of, which is weird to me.

MorningStar1337 The Encounter that ended the Dogma from 🤔 Since: Nov, 2012
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#74210: Jun 12th 2023 at 4:20:19 PM

Is it? Cream didn't have much spotlight in the rest of the stuff X adapted, and I doubt they covered the Advanced trilogy.

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#74211: Jun 12th 2023 at 4:24:54 PM

Some documents regarding the creation of AOSTH, SatAM, and Underground were recently shared online, along with an unproduced 4th show called Super Sonic Sisters, about Sonic's polar opposite twin cousins, Monica and Isabelle. They run their high school's TV news show, solve mysteries, and push back against Robotnik's rule. Oh, and they're in space.

No art of Super Sonic Sisters or the other scrapped ideas from the shows has surfaced, but a fanartist was nice enough to provide some visuals for this video.

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MorningStar1337 The Encounter that ended the Dogma from 🤔 Since: Nov, 2012
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#74212: Jun 12th 2023 at 4:26:43 PM

I knew Sega was hands off with DiC, but I had to wonder if they would've intervened in this show if it got off the ground?

WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#74213: Jun 12th 2023 at 4:30:52 PM

[up][up]Brought up two pages ago.

[down]There was no video thumbnail. Probably could have used one though.

Edited by WillKeaton on Jun 12th 2023 at 5:50:07 AM

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#74214: Jun 12th 2023 at 4:37:30 PM

Oh, well I was looking for the video thumbnail and didn't see it. Sorry!

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KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#74215: Jun 12th 2023 at 5:30:19 PM

along with an unproduced 4th show called Super Sonic Sisters, about Sonic's polar opposite twin cousins, Monica and Isabelle. They run their high school's TV news show, solve mysteries, and push back against Robotnik's rule. Oh, and they're in space.

Oh, god. That's like the picture of an awful American 80's/90's adaptation. It's like they mashed every cliche thing you'd see in those shows into one.

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#74216: Jun 12th 2023 at 5:31:18 PM

I couldn't help but chuckle. Its so 90's, it hurts. You can really tell they cashing in on Sonic badly.

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BorneAgain (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#74217: Jun 12th 2023 at 5:57:42 PM

It is remarkable how further and further away from any the core games these subsequent shows seemed to get in their conception. Presumably if DIC had kept the media Sonic contract in the 2000s, we'd have had a show about Sonic's 2nd cousin Kyle who doesn't battle Eggman over the Chaos Emeralds but does have relatable coming of age stories with his quirky friends at the mundane high school he attends.

Edited by BorneAgain on Jun 12th 2023 at 8:58:05 AM

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#74218: Jun 12th 2023 at 7:16:36 PM

So, DIC would have created a fourth Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon series, if they had the chance to.

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MorningStar1337 The Encounter that ended the Dogma from 🤔 Since: Nov, 2012
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#74219: Jun 12th 2023 at 7:22:07 PM

by some metrics, yes

I wounder if this alt timeline would had led to a Penders analogue for hedgehogs and in turn SEGA stepping in what that goes pear shaped and deciding to make no more hedgehogs for the foreseeable future and to forbid any dueterocanocical authors from doing likewise?

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#74220: Jun 12th 2023 at 7:26:57 PM

Speaking of DIC weirdness, I always kind of wondered why Sonic Underground didn't really tie itself to the then-current Sonic Adventure at all—no Big, Gamma, Chaos, or even any of the existing characters save Knuckles for whatever reason. Kind of assumed it was some ass-backwards mandate on SEGA's part, because it was certainly developed concurrently.

Super Sonic Sisters, funnily enough, would have had an excuse being that it likely would have come out during the start of that mid-90s lull period where the franchise's Saturn debut got fumbled and nothing big really happened.

Edited by Chortleous on Jun 12th 2023 at 9:39:37 AM

WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#74221: Jun 12th 2023 at 7:33:54 PM

Speaking of concurrent development, I heard that when Archie was being asked to adapt "Sonic Adventure" into comic format, Sega refused to give them a plot synopsis or any material whatsoever, so all they had to go on was one of the artists who took notes while paying through the Japanese version.

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#74222: Jun 12th 2023 at 7:38:10 PM

I can easily believe they didn't treat DIC much better, so I suppose that would explain that.

Edited by Chortleous on Jun 12th 2023 at 9:41:17 AM

MorningStar1337 The Encounter that ended the Dogma from 🤔 Since: Nov, 2012
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#74223: Jun 12th 2023 at 7:44:06 PM

With that precedent, it could be argue that SEGA did attempt it, but likewise failed to give DIC any reference material. And unliek withc Archie the wrtiers didn't care enough for the project to look at the JP version.

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#74224: Jun 12th 2023 at 7:48:07 PM

Speaking of concurrent development, I heard that when Archie was being asked to adapt "Sonic Adventure" into comic format, Sega refused to give them a plot synopsis or any material whatsoever, so all they had to go on was one of the artists who took notes while paying through the Japanese version.

That seems like an odd way to get an adaptation done. Like, if it was a question of not wanting Archie to change anything, giving them zero information on the script would actually ensure Archie would end up changing a lot.

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KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#74225: Jun 12th 2023 at 7:49:23 PM

I can easily believe they didn't treat DIC much better, so I suppose that would explain that.

On the other hand, I can also easily believe DIC just didn't give a crap. DIC was crazy like that sometimes.

I mean, they almost made a show where Sonic had twin sisters who solve mysteries in space.

Edited by KnownUnknown on Jun 12th 2023 at 7:49:51 AM


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