MykonosFan

So someone who is curious about a simple matter should go through the bother of buying the game, looking at the options, then refunding the game as opposed to coming to a discussion topic about the title and asking a simple question? Why should we have a topic about this port at all if the attitude is just to buy it ourselves and see? EDIT: Dodged my point, called someone's calm simple question moaning, and condescended. I'm done with this forum. I'm tired of this attitude being perfectly acceptable. Such a shame that this is permitted and endorsed.

From @Margolis64 on Twitter:

It's got around 4 more hours until it unlocks according to Steam.

I would highly recommend looking back over the first 3 Advance games, and seeing how much script/dialog played a role in those games, then whittle down what you're doing to get to around that much. I haven't even gotten to the controls, much less the dialog, and I'm already seeing way too much for what would be attached to an Advance title. If you don't want to whittle it down, maybe breaking it from the Advance naming scheme would be a good step. As for the plot, I'd cut out the Chao Island/Chaos thing, and just have the introduced Terios character wreaking havoc somewhere in its place. Introduces Terios much earlier and cuts a lot of explanations about Chaos' character. The dialog isn't great, there's a lot of meandering and playful banter that just feels a bit empty. The playful quips seemed to cross the line to vitriolic like Indigo said.

The closest thing I could relate to that bottom Sonic image would be 90's cartoon Sonic running, but I can't find any similar art and I highly doubt that's what it is anyway. Definitely interesting. EDIT: Googled "sonic running"...surely it isn't this fanart...? What makes it look similar to me is the shape of the white inside of his running feet, otherwise it is kind of a typical Sonic pose.

the announcement of this bunch of coding has taken literal years off of my life

I hate that anything Sonic Adventure makes me want it, nostalgia is a cruel beast.

If it's any consolation about Stick's weight, she's probably too paranoid to ever set foot on a scale.

My personal line of thinking, and hope, is that all the "green hill" usage in games in the last 5 years hasn't been primarily to appeal to nostalgia (though that's definitely part of it, Sonic Generations), but rather to help pin down a visual identity for the series. We've seen checkered hills and Badniks a lot lately, and whether it's Splash Hill, Seaside Hill, Windy Hill, Whatever Hill, it's at least consistent, if arguably boring in how little things are actually varied. We see similar objects concurrent in the Mario series, those get a pass because those are part of the series identity for Mario. My fingers are crossed that we're just in the early years of seeing Sonic Team lay the groundwork to establish the same thing with Sonic. Right now we might be sick of it, but if/when the rest of the series quality rises up to par, years from now we might look back and appreciate what they're doing. ...unless they just decide to throw all of that out the window because it is Sonic Team and you can barely ever predict what they're going to do next.

Gonna be road tripping it with a few of the FTCR boys. This is pretty odd but I'm not gonna complain.

I'm so pumped to play on more N64 stages. I'm not being sarcastic either.

As far as the gaming aspect goes, I'm rooting for Lara-Su's Master Amethyst Hunt with some rap BGM, don't fail me Ken

Pitched in some. Sorry for not being too constructive about your progress in our Sonic United PMs a good while back, my personal life started demanding more and more from me and I just had to take care of those things.