Nast

Ok, I finished Sonic GT; I liked it for the most part, but boy is it rough around the edges. 
I appreciate the focus on momentum, but it often feels like Sonic has no weight to him and will be airborne at the drop of a hat. 
Also, the level design of the first two levels is obnoxiously large, and there's really a cohesive flow to where you're supposed to go. 
Also voice acting is bad; I know unprofessional fan actors and all, but oh man. 
Music is also kind of forgettable 
Other than that though, I thought it was pretty fine. Once you get a solid flow going, it's pretty damn exhilarating, and the last two levels were better designed for what they were going for. Graphics were pretty on point, though I think the lighting was off in a few areas. I like the idea of having the Motobugs try to snipe Sonic while speeding. 
Its good to actually have a finished fan game for once. 

Two new Chaotix mockups, because I can't stop I guess.

yet another Chaotix remake mockup

context, you ask? nah

Here's a 2 second clip of my demo animation, not actual gameplay fotage:

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(Tweet) my icy heart be melting 

More pixel art:
Chill hill zone:
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An 80+ person rendition of My Hero Academia's "You Say Run" plus a special Sonic-related musician participating at 6:53.
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Honestly? I really REALLY dig this. 
 

Made a pixel art beach:
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Remember the fangame project I'm a part of, which remakes Sonic Chronicles?
One of the original developers, who worked on the core design of the game, gave us a nod of approval.
 
...w-wha...?

3d sonic games have yet to implement the badnik destroy animation where a flower pops out instead of a small animal. I'd like to see how that would look in 3d. Like, you could destroy an entire swarm of enemies and it'll decorate the stage. They could get creative and use them to help you travel the environment somehow.

just remember that it wasn't SEGA hyping this up; it was some "insider" or something

So how many people are going to conveniently forget who was actually hyping that thing as "Revolutionary" and default to the typical blame game?

Another one.

I did it. My very first completed animation with music and sound effects. 
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I got bored, so here: have a Knuckles render.

I miss the cast of the Sonic series so, so much. They're a really fun and enjoyable bunch. I've been rewatching X lately (and watching past the SA1 arc for the first time). Rouge is an awesome character In this show. She, Knuckles and Sonic are the best parts of it. Actually, for the most part all of the characters are really good, both the human guys unique to X and the game cast X. Tails is too much just the tech guy who only gets involved in the action when he's piloting his plane, but his personality is leagues above the smart alec he's been ever since Colours. Decoe, Bocoe and Bokkun are so much more enjoyable and more believable as Eggman's henchmen than Orbot and Cubot. Even the humans, supporting characters like the President with his two aides, or the more important humans like Mr Stewart, Topaz, Ella and Tanaka are really fun. They don't steal the spotlight, but they also don't feel like deadweights as they all bring fun humour, subplots and personalities into the mix. Rouge and Topaz are a brilliant combination.
The only one who's particularly bad is Chris. He does steal the spotlight and brings nothing to the table as a character. He serves a purpose early in the series to establish the scene and set up the story of Sonic settling on Earth, but after the first arc of the show when Sonic and Co start to get treated as citizens his purpose is done and he only really exists to be rescued every episode. 
I'm getting all nostalgic not for X specifically, but just what the series was in the early 2000s. I love the characters and stories on display here. Sonic as a plot, action and character driven series is awesome.

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Wow, the toilet paper shortage has really got that bad, huh?
 

“Why does Ken Penders write all of our dialogue like this, Sonic the Hedgehog?”
“Now that’s not very fair, Princess Sally! You know as well as I do that Karl Bollars also writes our dialogue in a similar vein!”
“But only Penders likes to finish most of our sentences with exclamation points! He’s also prolific when it comes to putting emphasis on random words!”
“That is true, Miles “Tails” Prower!”

Fun fact: if you type certain English Pokemon names into Google Translate and translate them to Japanese, it will come up with their official Japanese name. For example:
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More S3D music demos!
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Yeah, definitely NOT a good idea to joke about a virus that has infected and killed so many people already.

You can so often tell when someone isn't familiar with platform games, but they play other games. They only ever tap the jump button, and then wonder why their jumps are so much shorter than expected. And the thing is, variable jump height in platform games is pretty unintuitive when you think about it. It doesn't make any logical sense that you keep a hold of the jump button to keep ascending on the air. Once you understand it, it works nicely and it's second nature to any platform game players.

Sally luvs her Sawnik: