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It means the team behind the shorts loves Sonic and makes references to the thing they love

I liked how when the bird came out of metal sonic, it reminded me of amy's story from sonic adventure.

Amy has a soft spot for robots that kidnap and imprison her.

It means that they just wanted to draw these locations, nothing else.

There's nothing that suggests that there's another DLC in the making, not even SteamDB. Just sayin'

No, what I meant is... that Ice Cap music is forbidden, but as a level is OK at SEGA. Basically what we all thought. 

@Pelvic WOO! engine after all, it´s Sonic Mania Adventures. There were minor, but easily recognizable bits.

Sonic Team never really has a plan - just shit they're instructed to do by dumbass executives =V

“Weird” is a severe understatement.  I just hope they get it together among their plans as this lack of direction, indecision among other things has gotten way past old. 

Well, after seeing Sonic Forces - Emerald Coast mod and the statuses shared on twitter (Mania with keys from SA1/2 etc.) I do believe they will try to reimagine (at least) the Adventure games. Another reason is the movie and I don´t believe they would miss such an opportunity, when the movie revolves around a story akin to the Adventure games, if not the same.

yup. I'm in the top 100 atm, pwning dem n00bs.

I don´t really care about arena. I think it´s useless.

I will share my "team". Consists of Cpt. Onishima, Sonic, Big and Beat.

Cpt.Onishima: Deals quite good damage. And reuse of "Send in the choppers" sounds good in my ears.

Sonic: Starts with 3 mana. With 10 mana you have MAX attack that creates blue super star. Blue super star cleared = extra turn.

Big: Heals himself with Star Attack. Deals damage to all enemies and converts 5 green (not stars etc.) into blue (=more power for Sonic).

Beat: Star attack deals damage. MAX Attack enhances 2 Green and 2 Blue tiles into Star Tiles (=more power for Big = more power for Sonic, Blue Star Tiles = even more power for Sonic) and heals himself and allies.

This tactics only fail if Sonic is killed first.

Trust me, it's better that way.

Well SEGA is leeching off of Crash's benefits in Japan.

And one could argue Sonic made a fortune out of the porting market LONG before either of them did.

More like we're spared a horrible fate.

Technically Sonic did it first but in a more subtle level with the Taxman remasters anyway (which use the same graphics, but on a new engine with extras and other bells and whistles), just SEGA won't utilise that and rerelease them in a compilation.

SEGA won't greenlight a remaster of Sonic 1, 2 & 3 with modern graphics because of how much it would cost.

I wouldn't trust Sonic Team with a remaster because we know they'd make a mess of the physics. So it would need to be in the hands of Team Mania etc.

They seem to be fine with loads of lite remakes like Generations and Mania however.

One could argue that might be the better direction, since such games are less likely to rated according to how they add up in every detail against the originals.

Why Mania Team ? Sonic Orca engine that is used to build Sonic 2 HD would be certainly capable of remastering all classic titles. But you are right, SEGA would have to pay the guys to get it done and that´s what they won´t ever do.

that looks pretty sweet

C'mon it's not that bad, I got to zone 5 and unlocked 10 characters in a week.

It´s not bad in any case. I am playing second day and in zone 4... & KNUCKLES.

I just find it a bit irritating that soon after you complete tutorial, you can hardly get through any level. Basically I just went further after "looting" previous stages, thus getting higher level and that is a bit odd in my opinion.

Sounds like a typical "Annoying you with little progress so you pay money" Free to Play game to me.

I would it kind of is, but if you don´t care, you don´t have to pay. Anyway, there are 2 unlockable chests with coins, XP and a special thing every 3h, lots of stages to try - Campaign, Premiere Event, 2 "Hunts" and "Wanted Poster".

And about characters - you get Death Adder almost at the beginning (far more powerful than others), Sonic needs 50 Hero Shards to unlock and is "Epic" (I have 16, basically for quests and achievements), Tails needs 65 shards and is "Legendary".

I'd prefer Sonic 3 Angel Island, Hydrocity and Lava Reef in S3AIR

How about making the Mania remixes, along with Mania mixes of all the other music, an unlockable bonus for achieving neat stuff, like speed running the levels you want music for?