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Sonic 4; Now with more Jumping.
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Otherwise it looks like an old Sonic game, a.k.a. the kind of Sonic game that people actually want to play.
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Bad.
Hope it plays as good as it looks.
I'd assume his crowd is too busy reverse-engineering the contest to actually enter it.
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Agreed. Get back to me when there's something new in there.
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So they go to make a re-boot of the 2d Sonic style, capturing that feel and look of the old (good) Sonic games, and now the response they're getting is it's too much of a re-hash? I swear, some people.
EDIT: To be fair, I did see the bit in the video where Sonic is fighting the exact same boss from the first world in Sonic 1. That's a bit far--maybe if you knocked that off of his ship and then something more deadly popped out I'd be cool with it.
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Its attack does change when you do enough damage.
He starts doing another attack where he spins it around rapidly after they hit him a few times
at this point, I'll take uninspired but solid as a significant improvement to what they've been doing
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Yeah that's bugging me too. They still have the problem that when he starts from a dead-stop the movement of his feet don't seem to match the speed at which he's moving.
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Wasn't that always the case with the originals, though? Also, yeah, regarding the boss fight--I need to stop skimming videos and just watch the damn things.
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By originals i asume you mean the Genesis ones? I always thought the animation for those were top notch, actually. Nothing mind blowing or anything but good enough that you don't notice anything out of place.
I was never one of those people clamoring for Sonic to return to 2D. I liked Sonic Adventure a lot, and the other 3D Sonic games were not bad because they were 3d, they were bad because they were just plain poorly designed. Mario went 3D and he did fine. The games just have to be, you know, good. People just wanted to go back in time for nostalgia purposes.
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sonic curled into a ball looks weird, the overuse of lock-on and floaty lazy physics is really offputting
I'm looking at Sonic Colors more than this.
The original Sonic is what, fifteen years old? Maybe this isn't aimed at old-school gamers like us, but at people who never got to play an original Sonic game?
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I'm trying to think of anything they could do with it.
3 and Knuckles had far more complex level design than any of the leaked Sonic 4 videos.
I don't want Sonic 2 part 2. That's pointless.
And the series doesn't need to return to its roots, just as it hasn't needed the countless reboots and new starts they've given it over the years.
What it needs is good game design.
All this constant PR of "no, this will be just like the classic games, honest", which was exactly what they said about Heroes, Sonic 360 and Unleashed, is simply an effective way of funneling fans and nostalgia without actually having to design a good game to back it up.
I know we have to automatically think the worst of every Sonic game to protect us from inevitable disappointment but complaining that the generic grassy stage that almost every game starts with isn't up to Sonic standards is a ridonkulous thing to say, considering they've never really been as good as later stages.
Also not too sure about the homing attack making bosses your bitch with hardly any effort. We'll see how that turns out.
Like a horizontal double-jump
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Mmm. Fire Shield and Lightning Shield combined!
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I have extremely low expectations, as should everyone by now. The gaming community needs to escape the sonic cycle by completely shitting on a game for once in the chance it will be a pleasant surprise.