Blue Wisp

Because evil needs hugs too.

Hmmm....

One of the Shadow figure molds was defective, and some enterprising business man said: "Not a problem!"?

sonic 06 2 elctirc boogaloading

I'll laugh if its "Blue Shadow" Mephi and not Crystal Meph.

That'd just be all kinds of messed up.

So you can "toy" with him! Haha!

Was it not every 7-12 year olds' fantasy to live out the tragic murder of our blue rodent in cute dolly form? 

Infinite, a character literally designed to be hated, got a plush, so the more charismatic Mephiles would of course later get one.

Cause I deserve a win for once.

Infinite is at least a recent character. Mephiles is from the considered-by-many worst Sonic game who got literally no representation whatsoever after 06 besides a scene here and there in the comics. Like, why give him a plush over anyone else lmao.

Where's my Solaris phase 2 plush. I'd buy that.

Forget Mephi, what about Emerl? He's been killed off from the only spin-off game he appeared in like 18 years ago, was re-built as someone else, and somehow he's getting a toy?

Gemerl spinning in his grave right now. WTF?

I really doubt they're redoing the voice acting. Everything we know labels this as a remaster, not a remake. My guess is that they're just adding in the German dub.

German, French, Spanish and the others that they've been doing some Generations. More if @Jango is right. I don't think they'll redub the game. But depending on what this remaster entails, it might be necessary. 

The italian voice direction for Sonic games since Generations has been questionable with VAs being miscasted at best, so i dread how they'll handle a redub of Colors with this style.

Keep in mind this came from a portfolio website with a date of December 2020. Not sure how long a localisation project like this would take but it'll definitely have been completed in December 2020 assuming that date is correct in the first place. If there was any new content requiring new English voiceover as well it's entirely possible Roger and any other required outgoing cast members were contracted for a short time in order to do this and it turned out to be their final Sonic performances.

It's part of the reason that I think this is due for announcement in the next week or two, German localisation being completed feels like it'd be quite far along in the pipeline. Admittedly I don't not game development so I'm mostly guessing.

The slim chance it will get redubbed with the new cast does heighten the possibility of a expanded and/or retranslated, de-Pontaffied script in exchange so...

@N000

Kate Higgins did say she ain't done with Tails just yet, so it's possible this is the project she refers to

@Supah Berry Kate voiced Tails in Colors, but you are talking about Colleen who is the current voice, she said she's not done yet...

It really depends on what the extra content is, if any.

@Teoskaven I'm italian, I've listened to the dub of various games... honestly they are fine, we have a voice actor world that's very talented, yeah some things are weird though, like Amy, Eggman and even Shadow's current VAs. I don't think they are fitting although very talented in general. Claudio Moneta as Shadow does a good job though, it's the other 2 I mentioned... heh. The rest are great, I'm not convinced about Jasmine Laurenti as Rouge though maybe?

@Blue Blood regarding the stuff I heard, only text localization, not dubbing, at least not yet... 

Colours paradise

Probably just around the corner...

Must be waiting for Sonic Prime to release so they'll have Modern Sonic, Classic Sonic, Boom Sonic and Prime Sonic all playable + playable Avatar. 

SEGA are geniusssses.

Serious thoughts; will the avatar ever return?

Eeeeeeeeh it really depends what they want to do with the franchise going onwards gameplay-wise imo. 

Considering the Boost formula is most likely gone because god damn SEGA can't hold a playstyle for more than three games reee, I don't think the Avatar style that Sonic Forces had will return. I can see a create-a-character thing happening for a platformer but I'd really rather have the rest of the already existing cast as playable characters instead.

What I do wonder is if the Wisps will return or not, considering Iizuka mentioned by Generations I think that the Wisps would be a regular part of Sonic's gameplay. Is Iizuka still even at Sonic Team? After Forces I'd imagine everything at Sonic Team got flipped upside down.

There's no such thing as Sonic Team officially anymore. It's just the brand logo that's slapped on Sonic games created by SEGA CS2, and involving key staff like Iizuka and Hoshino. That's been the case for several years now. 

SEGA lies to me once again.

SEGA is the new Konami to me

Well at least Konami is licensing Silent Hill to other companies (rest in peace Castlevania and Metal Gear).

Sonic Forces 2 will be mobile exclusive

No 

I'd honestly be surprised if we didn't have the create a character system back for the next game. 

Kinda surprised they didn't already try to splice it into the spinoffs like TSR. 

Willingham left before TSR came out and was replaced.

Wait he's gone?

Damn I loved his Knuckles. Haven't played TSR so didn't have a clue.

Well guess the voice actors for the main cast are all gone. Again.

The new guy in TSR is... some of his lines are fine, and other times they are actually legit awful. Skip to 15:34 here:

In that little scene, Knuckle's VA sounds like he's trying way too hard with the whole tough-guy act. And Rouge's VA sounded just fine in both Generations and Forces, but her TSR performance is ghastly. At least Omochao is alright in that scene? lol

A lot of the cast largely sound off in TSR. You can tell that their lines were given to them in the same disjointed way that we seem them presented in the cutscenes. The production values for the story are so low that I have to wonder why they even bother. 

@Blue Blood from what I had listened to I got the impression he was more directed to imitate Travis who was already being directed to imitate Dan Green so it just sounds really weird. It sticks out more when Papenbrook and Lindbeck got to interpret Silver and Blaze differently and they sounded better for it.

I know Silver was pretty different, but Blaze? All three of her VA's has been incredibly similar.

Even the guy who replaced Travis could be gone, too. This would leave TSR as his only performance.

Eugh that voice acting. Team Sonic Racing always felt off to me but I never saw the """"""cutscenes""""" until now.

Feels extremely cheap. 

The "cutscenes" in TSR are so inconsequential, so removed from the gameplay and so low quality they the game would have probably benefitted from not having them at all. The least that they could have done to improve these scenes would have been to not include a stupid whoosh sound effect each time the character portrait changes. In one of the first scenes they talk about taking a rocket to Planet Wisp so that they can enter the first race, but they're soon dotting around all seven zones from the game like it's nothing. Why add a story if it's meaningless?

The default/normal way to start a race in story mode skips the story anyway, which is really bizarre. Like, pressing A will go straight to the race and pressing X will take you to the cutscene and then the race (Switch version). It's unusual, and suggests that the development team thought little of the story scenes.

Some of the dialogue alone is pretty nice. I enjoy watching Sonic try to trash talk Silver only for it to go way over Silver's head and annoy Sonic in the process, or Big being the only one who isn't super racist against tanukis and the fact that he calls everyone out on their shit simply by being a nice guy. But yeah... Super cheap. Free Riders' cutscenes don't even feel as cheap as TSR's.

Even Free Riders's cutscenes had more love put to them. That game would've worked wonderfully with standard controls as an alternative without the obligatory motion controls imo. 

What is it with Sonic and static .jpg VisualNovel-like cutscenes like come on SEGA. Sonic Rush (Understandable due to being a DS/3DS handheld series but even they had some cutscenes using the ingame models), Sonic Rivals, Sonic Free Riders, Team Sonic Racing.

I'll give Rivals a free pass because it was also a side, handheld game. Rivals 2 had full voice acting for it's static portrait cutscenes too. But there's no excusing Free Riders and TSR, even if the they budget side productions. They weren't handheld games. Even Boom F&I had proper cutscenes (but not Shattered Crystal):

Although ngl, I actually preferred the portraits/models with text boxes in Generations 3DS to the super ugly, highly compressed cutscenes of Lost World 3DS. That game just took some of the Wii U cutscenes and cut out the rest. Not only were they incredibly ugly, but they also some random plotholes. The first time that Sonic and Zeena meet in the 3DS version, she accuses him of messing up her nails during their last encounter. 

Rock bottom production values have been pretty common this decade.

They are pretty fucking good. It's just too bad that the synth and them just overall being tied to Sonic 4 makes them severely overlooked a lot of the time.

sega keeps a closer eye on the comics so that things don't spiral off in weird directions the way archie sonic did and some people don't like the direction/limitations they've imposed on how shadow is written.

Is he too edgy as expected or what?

It should be noted that Sega was already keeping an closer eye on Archie Sonic after the Penders Lawsuit and was calling shots on it before IDW.

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It's borderline for the best at this point. Sonic loves going to casinos anyhow

There are fates worse than death.

Oh right Team Sonic Racing was a thing.

God damn when's my mainline Sonic title SEGA come on. I'm starting to feel like a Silent Hill fan with all this news drought.

Green Hill is looking more like Silent Hill now

Silent Hill Zone

Only if they can find a way to justify a way for non-Super Sonic to fight that thing. Of all the excuses Perfect Chaos had, for one he couldn't fly.