1/28/2024 0 Comments Video game dunkey sonic maniaThe Mania crew might not be able to make a 3D Sonic game, the Sonic comics creatives (Flynn, Hesse, Thomas etc) might not be able to offer game design tips, but they could definitely offer ideas that would make a 3D Sonic game much better.Ĭlassic feels like a ball of lead. Sonic needs unification before it can truly move forward, and Sega has access to the right people to do that-they just need to let them. The later Archie comics were the most unified Sonic had ever felt. Part of what appealed to me about the Archie comics was about how well the creative team folded countless disparate elements of Sonic from various sources (cartoons, the classic games, the modern games, etc.) and weaved them all together into one world that truly makes sense in a way the games often don't. There's no base to work with in Modern Sonic games. There isn't really any idea of what "familiar" is with Sonic because the style, tone and world of Sonic is entirely different every single game. I know this comparison might invoke some ire, but while Mario Odyssey does some very new and outlandish things with Mario's world, it works because it's in direct juxtaposition with familiar Mario elements. This is much, much more than just a gameplay problem-and if anything, I think a lot of Sonic's gameplay issues would fall into place if they sat down and came up with a solid idea of what Sonic's world is like and what the tone and feeling of a Sonic story should be. Sonic's big problem is that it's inconsistent and all over the place and no one actually at Sega seems to understand him the way fans do. Of course we'd want a company like that to not be "proven wrong" by Nintendo's relatively conservative practices. On some level they seem to understand what fans want and expect out of them. Their social media campaigns are completely on point, and unlike Nintendo they seem to welcome fan projects of the games (I mean, they funded a fan project group that released a widely appraised game a few months ago). And AFAIK, they have been in development for a long time, and have a long ways to go before release.Īs an aside, Sega's "customer service" is probably one of the reasons people still want Sonic to succeed. I can only really think of 2 "extensive" 3D projects that aren't just modifying the physics of already good parts of a sonic game: Sonic Utopia, and That one '06 remake (god bless those poor souls). and that doesn't necessarily translate to 3D very well. There definitely are groups that can "do sonic better", but these are almost exclusively 2D mods. There's no denying that Sonic's record is about as consistent as his physics.It's the 3rd and 4th groups who really grind my gears. Yeah, The first groups is completely understandable.
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