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taotruths Live Jet Reaction (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded) Relationship Status: I sleep in a big bed with my wife.
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#78226: May 30th 2024 at 4:24:36 PM

probably to no one’s surprise, Midori says Sonadow Generations is having a summer date at Summer Games Fest next week.

Edited by taotruths on May 30th 2024 at 4:25:09 AM

Sid-Starkiller Since: Jan, 2021
#78227: May 30th 2024 at 5:34:42 PM

Maybe that will finally give us a release date

TheLivingDrawing Lucas the Dreamer from The Town of Clayton Since: Apr, 2019 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
Lucas the Dreamer
#78228: May 30th 2024 at 5:38:20 PM

Since I'm still hyper-fixating on Sonic, I started playing Lost World and am about halfway through. It's alright. Edit. It took literally the next level, Frozen Factory 2, to make me regret calling the game decent. Holy shit this level is horrible.

Edited by TheLivingDrawing on May 30th 2024 at 8:55:44 AM

Once Upon A Time.
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#78229: May 30th 2024 at 6:09:33 PM

Many such cases.

I learned today that appearently that's a Trump quote, of all people. Oh well, it does the work.

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JankyKong He's finally back to kick some... wait from a Secret Base on the Moon Since: May, 2021 Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
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#78230: May 30th 2024 at 6:14:44 PM

I consider Frozen Factory the low point of that game, but the rest of it is still very mixed.

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TheLivingDrawing Lucas the Dreamer from The Town of Clayton Since: Apr, 2019 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
Lucas the Dreamer
#78231: May 30th 2024 at 6:24:29 PM

[up] Seriously, these Red Coins where you need to hit the billiard balls into the holes and you only have one shot before the game forces a checkpoint are the worst and made me ragequit before I snapped my Steam Deck in half. I'm actually considering just quitting because the game is just super mediocre and underwhelming.

Edited by TheLivingDrawing on May 30th 2024 at 9:25:59 AM

Once Upon A Time.
IvanovTroping97 Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
#78232: May 30th 2024 at 10:17:02 PM

[up] Still, could be worse. (points to the 3DS version of Lost World)

Edited by IvanovTroping97 on May 30th 2024 at 8:18:02 PM

TheLivingDrawing Lucas the Dreamer from The Town of Clayton Since: Apr, 2019 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
Lucas the Dreamer
#78233: May 30th 2024 at 11:25:35 PM

[up] Speaking of which I have had the masochistic idea of finding a copy and playing it to completion (all red rings and Chaos Emeralds). I kinda see it as a challenge.

Once Upon A Time.
lalalei2001 Since: Oct, 2009
#78234: May 30th 2024 at 11:40:19 PM

What was bad about the 3DS Lost World?

The Protomen enhanced my life.
randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#78235: May 30th 2024 at 11:48:49 PM

The level design, bosses, and additional special stages...

Gyro Controls.

Edited by randomness4 on May 30th 2024 at 2:49:04 PM

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TheLivingDrawing Lucas the Dreamer from The Town of Clayton Since: Apr, 2019 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
Lucas the Dreamer
#78236: May 30th 2024 at 11:54:36 PM

[up][up] Every level is a gimmick level that goes on for 15 minutes. Also finally beat that snowball level with the red rings. That would've been way more bearable if the game didn't insist on automating everything.

Edited by TheLivingDrawing on May 30th 2024 at 2:55:58 PM

Once Upon A Time.
Keybreak (Long Runner)
#78237: May 31st 2024 at 1:35:01 AM

I still haven't finished Lost World. That one ice level just kept kicking me...

Also, I sold Unleashed and 06 because I didn't think I'd ever play them again, though I finished 06.

That Silver fight was so hard I forgot how I ever beat it.

You gotta believe me when I scare you away, all that I wish for is that you would stay
TheLivingDrawing Lucas the Dreamer from The Town of Clayton Since: Apr, 2019 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
Lucas the Dreamer
#78238: May 31st 2024 at 12:46:15 PM

[up] I haven't finished Forces (awful game), Heroes (childhood classic), Sonic Adventure 2, or Sonic Unleashed.

Once Upon A Time.
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#78239: May 31st 2024 at 12:52:47 PM

I don't think I've started any Sonic games and not finished them, except maybe some of the game gear ones via Mega Collection Plus? A lot of them are so short that I just don't see a place to put them down.

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KuroBaraHime ☆♥☆ Since: Jan, 2011
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#78240: May 31st 2024 at 1:21:07 PM

I did a marathon of Sonic games back around the time Frontiers was coming out to try and finish as many as I could, so I've beaten every Sonic platformer except for Lost World 3DS and Rise of Lyric. I just wasn't up for playing through a worse version of Lost World right after beating the regular version, so stopped after getting to the second desert level. And Rise of Lyric was just so bad that after only playing it about a couple hours I decided I had seen enough and turned it off.

And I suppose I haven't finished Superstars either if we count finishing it as beating the Super Sonic boss, since I got as far as Trip's final boss and after like three dozen attempts at it I decided I'd rather be spending my time on something else.

Sid-Starkiller Since: Jan, 2021
#78241: May 31st 2024 at 1:35:38 PM

Off the top of my head the only Sonic I played but haven't finished is the Game Gear Sonic 2. Not only was it my cousin's system so I couldn't put much time into it, unlike the above-mentioned Superstars Super Sonic boss where it's the last boss that's absolute hell (thank goodness thats in a completely separate mode so I never have to touch it again), in GG Sonic 2 it's the FIRST. It's to the point where even decades later I never one bothered emulating it to see what comes later. Not even the significantly easier Master System version.

Rabbitearsblog Movie and TV Goddess from United States Since: Jan, 2014 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
Movie and TV Goddess
#78242: Jun 1st 2024 at 5:35:24 PM

Do you guys think that it was a good idea for the Sonic TV shows (like Sonic Prime) and the comics (like the IDW Comics) to be apart of the game canon?

I love animation, TV, movies, YOU NAME IT!
HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#78243: Jun 1st 2024 at 5:42:49 PM

Honestly, Sonic's thing was originally just everyone doing their own thing.

Now they're just doing it with the actual game canon rather than letting everyone make up their own shit.

One Strip! One Strip!
randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#78244: Jun 1st 2024 at 6:05:19 PM

The games suck.

So...

Any TV show following the games is handicapped not having a real setting to work with.

Just be a thing that exists and does its own thing and make its own world with unique characters, land marks, and...lore.

The games have nothing.

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Joshbones Since: May, 2015
#78245: Jun 1st 2024 at 6:57:26 PM

I think nobody really gets anything out of external media being canon to the main series, because it can only go one way.

Like, over on the MCU thread we see people constantly talking about how they're forced to care about the Disney+ characters because they appear in movies, and I can't see a world where that doesn't happen if they just introduce Tangle or Whisper like they've always been around.

KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#78246: Jun 1st 2024 at 9:16:39 PM

To be fair, most of the time regarding stuff like the MCU when people claim they need to watch extraneous media to follow along, they're mostly talking out of fear or of the idea of a problem that isn't generally there in execution.

That is to say, people react to the existence of multimedia content with the perception that they need to watch all that content to understand what's going on, when in actuality they don't since everything involved is specifically written so that the audience will know what's going on without having to do that.

It's not particularly difficult to avoid Continuity Lock-Out, and most works that have multimedia continuity are very good at avoiding it. Sonic, with its largely light continuity in the first place, would have almost no problem avoiding it whatsoever.

Edited by KnownUnknown on Jun 1st 2024 at 9:32:38 AM

Keybreak (Long Runner)
#78247: Jun 1st 2024 at 9:26:21 PM

Frontiers has Sonic referencing a bunch of past games...

So at least everything in there should be canon.

You gotta believe me when I scare you away, all that I wish for is that you would stay
randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#78248: Jun 1st 2024 at 9:35:53 PM

As well as Tangle the lemur and Sticks the badger...

That's great...

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king15 Have Faun Since: Mar, 2024
Have Faun
#78249: Jun 2nd 2024 at 2:11:09 AM

I don't think there's ever been a Sonic game where you need to know the events of previous games (maybe early games involving Shadow need you to play previous games, but even then there should be enough context within the games themselves). So while have the comics and shows be set in the main sort of continuity is maybe limiting for them, it shouldn't ever cause continuity lockout.

[down]Exactly. Sonic games have always been good at summing up all you need to know for the game, while still providing nice little continuity nods and continuing character arcs (though character arcs were mainly a thing in the Aventure-06 era, mainly with Shadow).

Edited by king15 on Jun 2nd 2024 at 12:50:01 PM

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#78250: Jun 2nd 2024 at 5:47:48 AM

A good franchise writer knows how to recap information that's necessary to the plot without making the audience feel like they're sitting down and listening to someone explain the franchise to them, even though they are. And also when not to recap because even though that thing that happened in Issue #147 lends interesting context to this scene and fans who read it are going to lose their minds, it's not necessary information for understanding the scene.

It's a skill of the trade.

Edited by TobiasDrake on Jun 2nd 2024 at 6:48:47 AM

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