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Is this a dream am I actually typing in my dream and when I wake up it turns out Hbomberguy and TSR did not cross over in reality. 

Question: who is that.

Sonic heroes and Sonic Mania?

Or

Sonic Mania and Sonic Forces?

Prolly Mania and Generations. Both top notch games

What games are you referring to by the way? 

Regardless I don’t think my answer will change: if that’s what you like then of course not. Even more so if you find it fun as that’s the objective of video games, right?

I honestly don’t have a problem with nostalgia and therefore Mania using a lot of it didn’t bother me at all as it was done well. Pretty much everything with Forces irritated me because it wasn’t done well. 

There's nothing really wrong with that no, I just think it's harder to get someone attatched to a new idea so I respect that more.

What if King Boom Boo existed since Sonic 1

What if your Sonic 1 cartridge is H A U N T E D

He's the secret boss fight in scrap brain zone act 3. To trigger his boss fight, you have to get to the very bottom of the act, then activate the drowning countdown at exactly 9"59"99. If you do it right, a message will appear on screen and you will be sucked into a vortex taking you to king boom boo. Now go try it!

OG Sonic Team: S3&K

Current Team that's mostly gone now: Unleashed

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Sonic Adventure

3&K and it's not really close. Generations is probably second, but outside of gameplay, it has nothing particularly great, and Unleashed and Adventure would be contenders if not for their glaring and well-known flaws.

It's SA2B come on now

Puyo Puyo Tetris

(it's nights into dreams)

Sonic Mani-oh wait. I couldn’t even type that with a straight face. 

Seriously though I gotta go with Sonic 3 & Knuckles. As much as I love Sonic Unleashed and am blown away with it I am not oblivious to its glaring flaws. Can’t say this is applicable at all to S3&K.

I'm not sure. I'd really like to play Billy Hatcher again, I remember enjoying it back in the day. But I can't recall much on how it played. Curse my old age!? My memory ain't what it used to be...I think?

NiGHTS was okay, I wouldn't say it was gold but it was bloody good fun. I've always found it difficult to get into the Phantasy Star games. Feel The Magic XY/XX and Rub Rabbits! were pretty damn weird... I never got to play Burning Rangers of Samba de Amigo.

Y'know...I remember it being free at the time and looked rather strange but I did enjoy it. I'm gonna say Chu Chu Rocket. Though Sonic Adventure is only slightly behind it.

@Zaysho Wrong. It's Phantasy Star Online.

Technically, probably Generations. Great graphics, great OST, good gameplay, alright physics, no major bugs, pretty polished, and no framerate dips and such.

Personally, SA1, Unleashed or Gens.

In before the always online announcment.

...s-shut up

i will destroy everything you thought you knew and make you watch

"What you didn't know Woody was when I was turned into battle mode, my mind was killed, splitting me off into a nobody and a heartless!" 

"I am now Buxzz!" 

Old Xehanort: Join me Luke, I can save your legacy

Luke Skywalker: You must be a Sith Lord, I don't trust you

Xehanort: They're making Star Wars Episode 8 and it'll have Yo Mama jokes in it

Luke: (Mark Hamill is confirmed new voice of Xehanort)

I imagine the resulting fight goes something like this.

The Squirrel Suit's my favorite flying Mario power-up in quite some time, which makes it all the more baffling that Nintendo chose the Propeller suit over it for Mario Maker.

Funny how the Flying Squirrel is basically Knuckles in Mario. 

And Ray would later go on to return the "favor" 

It's probably the best of the "new" series, but in my eyes that doesn't amount to much. They're easily the least interesting platformers I've played.

It's fun. Another game to get me some variety. DKCTF beats it by 1000 miles. I like the flying squirrel suit. I also enjoyed Morton's airship battle.

Considering they screwed up the last 6 preorders or so to me...I'd consider your options 😛

I find what KH3 is already planning to do is pretty good already. Disney elements are incorporated into the main story with the Organisation instead of being shoved to the side as fodder to fill out game time. I don't literally need Hiro fighting alongside Woody and Buzz in Hollow Bastion to get the feeling of crossing over. As long as they're actively tying into the other story elements, it's enough for me.

Eh, them actually getting Disney worlds involved more is a start. But man, the advertised magic of SE meets Disney has kind of been lost. That's the base crossover that this was founded on, and even that's become a bit lost.

I have no doubts it'll at least feel like the Disney worlds matter this time. But to have such a huge culmination and yet once again, not even have the Disney characters show up at the finale will feel kinda lame this thrice time.

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I don't literally need Hiro fighting alongside Woody and Buzz in Hollow Bastion to get the feeling of crossing over.

I hope you're not implying that such wouldn't be awesome though. XD

It would be awesome, but it would also be somewhat vapid in my eyes. I don't need them literally fighting next to each other to get the feeling of crossing over, and I want them to actively be smart about it too. I don't want it being as totally worthless and meaningless as what it was in Kingdom Hearts 2 where the stories meant little to nothing and were there for what was basically flavour text at best while you awaited the original stuff, but I also don't want the original stuff being placed on hold so we can have random Disney characters meeting for what would just be the novelty of it. 

In terms of the crossover, all I want is just them implementing the Disney characters into the main plot itself and making it feel like each of them actually had an impact on the story. The Disney worlds in KH1 achieved it well by having the villains in an alliance, and having them work towards trying to get the keyholes, even if you only saw them together once or twice. KH3 looks to be doing a fantastic job, especially by having Jack Sparrow having a role in the mysterious box plot and going against Luxord, or Buzz having constant doubts about Sora and co, and going through something of a crisis when he has to fight other toys who are being controlled, which directly foreshadow his forced brainwashing in TS3. It's more than enough for me, and a perfect enough balance.

There is no Final Fantasy anymore, and for some that's a good thing, but the ONLY reason I got interested in the series was because Final Fantasy characters were in. And that upsets me cuz the Disney stuff is what people are in for and I could give a crap about those.

A spinoff  of a spinoff

Not really, All Stars games are their own main thing

Yet they have sonic in the title 

Truuuue but Sega Superstars and Tennis weren't Sonic spinoffs, they just added Sonic in the next game cuz it would sell... So truuully isn't a Sonic spinoff :v

"sonic boom killed the sonic series"

a different timeline

???

i cant read the rest of this status because my eyes are closed wtf

What was Sony's "original plan" and how am I supposed to believe it wouldn't be just as bad as what we're getting

*closes eyes* 😴

What? I’m really tired, okay?

I thought their original plan was to basically make it like the Smurfs.

It's crazy how Spider-Verse managed to change people's minds about Sony so quickly. I thought most people didn't really like them...

Close your eyes.

You now see Sonic dancing with a sentiant turd with arms and legs

Considering how much backlash Young Gohan's voice gets, probably, yeah.

Just found an example of what it'd be like, I actually saw this episode a few weeks ago, probably during the marathon

Yeeeeeah, I'm not sure how I'd feel about that voice tbh.

Colleen's Gohan is so much better than Nadolny's horrible raspy voice it's not even funny, but her Goku is just a worse Luffy.

I know Nadolny is matched by Courtenay Taylor for most of OK KO, so that'd be my vote for a re-dubbed Kid Goku, since I can barely tell the difference in that show.

I'm surprised Funimation hasn't hit Courtenay Taylor up for a job tbh, specifically for the Kid Goku role, unless they aren't aware of her.

Frankly, I'd like a redub of Z. Kai's music problems make it difficult to fully enjoy. 

Eh, I usually watch most DB in Japanese anyway so a Kai style redub (or any shitty recut of the old shows) doesn't catch my interest much.

Nah, kid Goku's appearances these days are few and far-between to the point where someone like Colleen who's a regular on almost all of their dubs is just easier (and probably cheaper) to keep around.

As for the music, I know there was someone editing all of Kai to just have the original score placed properly, and ALSO a guy editing Z to have no filler and Kai's dub (which is almost the same thing???), but really my only problem is the Buu saga's horrible use of Sumitomo's worst tracks. Yamamoto's 1.0 score is fine enough, you just have to jump through hoops to get it in the English version.

Either way, I'd rather see a DB Classic redub, since that's not something that can already exist through fanedits.

I feel like the game being delayed has really caused them to scramble at the last minute to scrape new marketing material and strategies together.

Probably because what they have runs poorly and they literally shouldn't show it off.

Also speaking from experience the last couple of concept art we've seen from previous games looked better than the final product

Perhaps Jim Carrey still can. Even more hopefully that movie won't need saving.

going through the 5 stages of grief aren't we?

Not me. I'm just gonna wait and see how it ends up.

That was an enjoyable review and as in depth as ever. The highlighting of the theme of family driving through the whole movie was also nicely put together and really showed how important the theme was to the movie. As for the continuity concerns, I hadn't consumed anything Turtles in such a long time that I never noticed and the subsequent in story time skip actually worked for me as a result. It's kind of one of those cases where being away from the franchise for a long time actually probably enhanced my enjoyment compared to someone who followed it closely. As a result while for dedicated fans it was probably more confusing than it should have been, for me it was like a nice welcome back along with Leonardo.

Boy though, even though this was the last turtles anything I've consumed was seeing this movie review nostalgic. Kind of a shame that I've never tried to get into the turtles, but it's unlikely anything I've heard recently could pull me in like this particular movie did. Still, thanks for an enjoyable trip down memory lane Failin'.

Glad i can give you a good nostalgia trip, dude!

I recommend the 2012 series, it's also pretty good at the themes TMNT digs into and has some nice nods to all parts of Turtles lore.