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Sonic the Hedgehog Community Thread: Green Hills and Laughing Iizukas
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Dragoon En Regalia
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Crazy Gadget's more like Crazy Camera Angles, mainly in that last third of the level. Weird level it is, and I never did like it very much at all. Eggman was funny as hell in it, thoughnever thought a Sonic game could get any more melodramatic and silly-dilly.
PhantomOfTheKnight
Member
Looks like SA2 is definitely coming to XBLA.
October 3rd. I guess this is going to be their Sonic game for the year.
Safe bet it'll be on PSN, too; one of the screenshots shows the Dualshock's O button. Hope that means it'll be playable on VITA alongside Jet Set Radio HD:
Seven Force
Banned
The Light Dash being... well, the Light Dash and the Block Puzzle in Crazy Gadget were what bothered me the most. The Block Puzzle in particular stumped me for a few days.
It's almost like a precursor to Colors' PA system now that you mention it.
Dragoon En Regalia
Member
Definitely trying to emphasize the goth hair, aren't ya Iizuka?
PhantomOfTheKnight
Member
Yeah. You can tell due to the length of Sonic's quills.
Shadow Hog
Member
Y'know, if they redid the controls to be more like Generations, I could really go for that. No changes to the handling, mind, but you press X while in midair to bounce, press Y to Light Dash, B to somersault, X on the ground to spin dash... Not sure where Magic Hands would fit into this, but hell, we've got buttons to spare, might as well use 'em.
Seven Force
Banned
I completely forgot the Magic Hands were even a thing. Most useless upgrade ever.
Nocturnowl
Member
Let us relive one of the most shocking moments from the riveting tale of SA2.
"because you just told me fox boy"
And then Eggman finally murdered his life long enemy, no grand theatrics or killer robots, he just got it done, too bad Sonic plot haxed his way to surviving which was even odder considering I played through the Dark Story first and had no clue as to why.
Sonic seems pissed at Amy for getting caught but okay with Tails screwing everything up.
"because you just told me fox boy"
And then Eggman finally murdered his life long enemy, no grand theatrics or killer robots, he just got it done, too bad Sonic plot haxed his way to surviving which was even odder considering I played through the Dark Story first and had no clue as to why.
Sonic seems pissed at Amy for getting caught but okay with Tails screwing everything up.
PhantomOfTheKnight
Member
LOL Microsoft:
BlazeHedgehog
Member
If you were in homing attack range of an enemy and selected Magic Hands, you would grab them in to a weird little orb and Sonic then throw that enemy as an attack.
It was super awkward.
Shadow Hog
Member
It turned nearby enemies into orbs that you could then throw at other enemies.
In theory, that could be pretty fun, like a pseudo-Kirby or something. In practice, you had to stop and press Y four times to get the menu to highlight the option before you could use it, and the flow broke so much that it was utterly worthless. Having a one-button bind for it could potentially make it usable again, although there might be other problems with its implementation that I'd never noticed by virtue of never using it before.
I don't remember this existing
Nocturnowl
Member
Magic hands were found in the first stage was it? you needed the bounce bracelet to smash through some metal boxes on the floor after the bit where Sonic runs down the skyscraper. Loved the idea but the execution was poor.
PhantomOfTheKnight
Member
The only thing worth throwing in SA2 was Omochao.
Seven Force
Banned
Yeah, you had to have the Bounce Bracelet and the Fire Ring, IIRC.
Wait. Why does it say Sonic 21st Anniversary Deal of the Week when there isn't a single Sonic title or item on sale?
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PhantomOfTheKnight
Member
They're most likely prepping those Avatar items that were leaked a while ago and put the deal up too early. SA2 was first released on June 23, 2001, so that is most likely when it'll acually star, and when the XBLA/PSN port will be announced.
One thing I noticed about Shadow throughout the years is that he hasn't had a single quality in-game running animation since Adventure 2. Even in his own game the rocket shoes just flicker off a tiny almost needle like fire.
Ah.
Ah.
PhantomOfTheKnight
Member
His running animations in Black Knight and Generations are pretty good.
Dragoon En Regalia
Member
Into the gutter. Worthless piece of scrap metal!
Magic Hands sounds more Mr. Hands, in practice.
Haven't seen Black Knight, but his animation in Generations isn't that great, but it isn't bad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK_Z1qqlpdk&t=1m3s
Look at this from SA2.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za5vC7ct9Ko&t=1m8s
It's just a different level of quality.
The puzzle at the end drove me insane.
Puzzle?? I don't remember, it's been ages since I've played that level haha. I might go back and play SA2B tonight.
It's the anti gravity switches you had to pull. It was fucking evil when you didn't know where to go.
PeakPointMatrix
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I guess there's no chance of Sega going back and fixing the Adventure 1 port they shit out? It's seriously a crime how bad it is. True HD widescreen support like this would be great.
There's no chance they would do that, we're talking about a publisher that delays a game that is ready to be released for over 6 months for no reason at all, they delayed it from a period where there's close to no big titles to a period that is way too crowded with big titles (talking about Anarchy Reigns).
Dragoon En Regalia
Member
Nonot you, Beef. I never took you as one to explicitly hate Chao
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It was all about the emblems, wasn't it?
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It was all about the emblems, wasn't it?
Professor Beef
Banned
What? I've expressed my utter hatred for Chaos many times!
And yes, tying emblems to their activities is one of the reasons why.
Dragoon En Regalia
Member
Oh. Never noticed.
So why do you hate them, and raising them, again? It's one thing to dislike the activity itself, but hate's a strong feeling.
So why do you hate them, and raising them, again? It's one thing to dislike the activity itself, but hate's a strong feeling.
PeakPointMatrix
Member
True, but this is also the same company that is releasing Jet Set Radio with full HD, full widescreen, fixed pop-in, went out of their way to re-license 99% of the OST, with new user created spray tags to boot, on the vita, PS3, 360 and PC.
Sega confuses me.
Hot Coldman
Banned
"on the Vita" is the weirdest thing about that
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
It's too bad they won't put that much effort into it. I expect the bare minimum. Still, I'm very glad we're getting SA2. Too bad it isn't Vita-compatible, but oh well.
It's the only game in which I find Shadow absolutely tolerable.
(And I'm glad my bro and I made up cuz neither of us hold grudges.)
That's what I had originally assumed how we were to refer to it. Everyone refers to it so differently.
"The Vita"
"Vita"
"VITA"
"The VITA"
Someone needs to clear this up.
Hot Coldman
Banned
Eh, that goes for every platform, I say "on the" and "on" interchangeably for everything constantly.
Instead of fawning over a game with mostly shit levels, here's a great thread over on Retro about what constitutes good level design.
They're only doing that because of the complaints of SADX being a lazy port and the complaints of the new Crazy Taxi soundtrack. It's like, if people don't complain, they do a minimal effort job.
BlazeHedgehog
Member
Seven Force
Banned
I can't remember, was it even ever used for the side missions?
BlazeHedgehog
Member
Nope, nothing required the Magic Hands. It was the only upgrade that you had to backtrack to get, too, I think. You needed both the flame somersault and the bounce bracelet to get to it, and it was all the way back in City Escape.
More of an easter egg, I think. It's a reference to the idea that one of the original Sonic concepts was originally about a rabbit that could pick up and throw things with its ears (which, that idea in itself originally evolved to become Ristar).
More of an easter egg, I think. It's a reference to the idea that one of the original Sonic concepts was originally about a rabbit that could pick up and throw things with its ears (which, that idea in itself originally evolved to become Ristar).
Professor Beef
Banned
I always missed when I tried to throw stuff at enemies. Sonic's spastic movement didn't help matters.
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