Wraith

They are fantastic. And Knuckles has his hat. WOW.

yeah I'm starting to see the appeal a little, hat's off to hero.

The lack of molded creases for Sonic's brow is worth it alone, it's like Generations model...

But better.

Also appreciative how the model's shading is influenced by the JPN artwork's soft coloring, like with the slight blue on Sonic's gloves and such. In a way, it's a slight breath of fresh air compared to the majority of 3d fangames that just take the Unleashed/Generations models f̶o̶r̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶f̶i̶r̶s̶t̶ ̶s̶t̶e̶p̶ and make either hyper realistic or give it a cel shading that just looks fake.

I'm still biased for the modern sonic aesthetic.

I prefer Modern Sonic too but it's not like someone out there is going to make the Sonic game I want exactly the way I want it for me for free. 

If you're less interested now that's completely understandable, but I think the game deserves better than to be caught up in this dumb classic vs modern war at the very least. There are a lot of reasons changing to brighter colors and simpler, more expressive designs could be a good call for an action platformer. 

I have a lot of thoughts about Classic Sonic fans and how deeply they've harmed this community in the long run but I don't think this game has much to do at all with that. I might make a topic about this later.

I woke up and thought these were official screenshots until I saw knuckles hat. Then I was like, "Sega would never..." 😒

It's also worth noting that it's not a case of going for the same look as say, Generations; beyond just the shaders, P. Hero Sonic is, well

long 

(This image is from the game's Discord, which is public) 

I love how Tails finally has a cartoony pinwheel effect on his helicopter tails. The 3D games have always just had them slowly rotate as a normal 3D model, and it always looked so bad I've wondered how no one has actually managed to pull off some actually cartoony animations for, y'know, a cartoony two-tailed fox who can fly like a helicopter somehow.

Wait which fan game are these from? I just hopped on and suddenly everyone is going on about classic and modern Sonic and I'm just here confused.

This is Project Hero now.

If this is a game set in the OVA universe and we see Sara, I'm gonna flip. 

Oh I was thinking this was something related to Sonic Utopia.