[Toto]

I'd like some people to buy this. Although it won't affect my purchase (I'll be buying this launch day in Australia, March 2nd) I'd like to hear what people think. Consider this thread the place to do such things.
I'm ridiculously excited about this game. I know for a fact that it will be better than Sonic 360, simply because of how it controls. If anyone here has played the Wii Play minigame with the cows, it controls almost exactly like that.
Ogawa has said in an interview the control is inspired by the simplicty of the original Sonic, as both the Megadrive game and this Wii game use only one button, the jump button.
There are extraneous characters in the plot, but I'm almost positive the only playable character is Sonic, which is how it should be.
Froth with me please.

EDIT: Some relevant links.

http://www.sega.com/gamesite/sonicrings/index.php This is the games US siite.

http://www.officialnintendomagazine.co.uk/news_060207_sonic.html
Interview and impressions by Official Nintendo Magazine UK

http://www.sonicstadium.org/articles/116/
Impressions by a Sonic fansite (they seem critical of Sonic 360, just fyi)

[Rud31]

Toto, it is too late.
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[Toto]

Rud13 why?

[Rud31]

Sonic Heroes.

Sonic Advance.

Sonic Rush.

(not Shadow the Hedgehog)

Sonic Adventure 2.

Sonic The Hedgehog (Xbox 360 and PS3.)

There's no hope!
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[Toto]

Rud13 you've exposed yourself for the negative nancy you are. There is still very much hope for a series if fans continue to give feedback. The more of an Internet Fracas we create about certain games, the more we can impress upon Sega the fact that...
Actually fuck that, I don't even love the original Sonic games on Mega Drive, I'm just really excited about this Wii game.

[Toups]

It's worth pointing out that this game was NOT made by Sonic Team!!
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[Toto]

Really Toups? What's your source? I will do some research on this.

[Renfrew]

Its coming out this early? I am not yet prepared!

Edit: its the 20th. Your title mislead me.

[Dark Age Iron Savior]

[Toto]

Fixed. Sorry about that folks. But that's good, it means that America only has a couple of weeks to play this by themselves.
Funnily enough, this game comes out March 15th in Japan, so even later than the PAL territories.

[Renfrew]

I may end up waiting for a price drop on this.

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[Toto]

I reckon you'll be able to find it hella cheap hella quickly if that's the why people think in Japan 108.
108 if I wanted to geniuinely ask you questions about Japan is it better to PM you or make a Forum Axe thread?

[108]

emails are pretty good, usually.

i got one of those email addresses yeah.
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[sethsez]

[Toups]

[another coma]

as far as 3D Sonic is concerned, we might term this a last stand.
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[JamesE]

[Cossix]

I don't get how it takes so long for Sonic fans to be kind of resigned to the fact that maybe just maybe their series has kind of fallen from grace or whatever. I mean, this game looks like it could be an okay kind of Sonic Adventure game without the Tails and Big the Cat and Knuckles parts, but it's not really going to be an interesting throwback to back when we had Sonic going really fast through some interesting levels with multiple paths through them.

I'll probably rent it or something, anyways. I kind of gave up on Sonic long ago though.

[FortNinety]

Since I believe the embargo is well passed....

I've played two different iterations of the game. The first was last fall, the build they had at E3. It was pretty decent! Controls were kinda weird, but I always allow withhold judgement, at least immediately so, on any Wii games since the controls are going to be (or supposed to be) inherently different, and therefore needs time for adjustment. But the bottom line was that it was playable.

Then I tried out a later build a few months later, this past... I think it was December? Pure crap. Seriously. Why? The controls were exactly the same, it was what they did to the camera.

Previously, the camera was pretty much behind you all the time. Occasionally it would switch to some wacky camera angle automatically to emphasize a particularly death defying move or something, which has been happening since Sonic Adventure 1. And while its always disorienting, all you really had to do was hit forward on the controller and you were more or less good to go.

But the camera angles changes just does not gel with the Wii controls. And I don't think its an instance in which I just need to get used to things, the fucking camera goes all over the place, spins around, goes in & out, pans left & right, etc. Just fucking atrocious. And I wasn't the only one who had problems with it; the Sega PR demo person kept dying and dying and dying because the camera was just out of control. Maybe it was just this one instance, and maybe it'll get fixed. Maybe not.

Oh, and the "motif" was kinda cute, but kinda dumb, with all the characters wearing turbans, and I most certainly am not the kind of person to play the "its culturally insensitive" card.
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[SplashBeats]

It looks about as culturally insensitive as Prince of Persia.

Hey, Rud13. Sonic Rush was actually a pretty good game, with a few level design issues. Of course, it was made by DIMPS, so that's why it's actually decent.

[Rud31]

[winkerwatson]

It's rubbish rud13

trust in me
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[NightsB]

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[guest253]

i've never extensively played a sonic game in my life and i have no idea what i'm talking about, but after seeing some vids of this game i can't help but want it. and a wii.

[firenze]

[Leau]

I liked the original title, "Sonic Wildfire" so much better than "...and the secret rings."


I wonder if Sonic has garnered so much ill-will over the years that some people won't let themselves get excited about a new one.
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[Mr. Pointy]

So, March 2 in Oz. Sorted.
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[JamesE]

Tim we still need to do that article ok man

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[JamesE]

[Leau]

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