Sonic Lost World Announced

[Johnny Boy]

Zeena and Zavok are officially my favorites now.

[SweeCrue]

Zeena: Warrior Princess

[Woun]

Official art:

[Barry the Nomad]

Summer of Sonic needs a Deadly Six name matching game. Six images and six name cards, 30 seconds to put the right name with the right picture. 

[Salamander]

Summer of Sonic needs a Deadly Six name matching game. Six images and six name cards, 30 seconds to put the right name with the right picture. 

 

Fair play to Sega: I looked at the names once and now, nearly an hour later, can remember them off the top of my head.  Maybe the Deadly Six are better-designed than I thought.

[LoiLoi17]

More footage of the full zone of Windy Hill Zone 1 by GameXplain:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAA6PYjNYdM

[Dizcrybe]

I dunno if it was just the player being an idiot, but seeing him use Laser has not made me any more confident in how they're handling Color Powers in this.

[Amomynous]

Upon seeign more and more of the game I'm actually not particularly fond of the artstyle, it looks SuperMario-ish to me. 

[Woun]

3DS Trailer:

[Jango]

0:50 ~ 0:54

 

Hey Sonic, what ya doin'?

-Ya know, Dimpsing.

[Blue Blood]

That trailer is clearly old footage. In the IGN gameplay we see these wooden fences, but in the trailer they're just massive black slabs.

Edited June 12, 2013 by Blue Blood

[Woun]

Music from 3DS trailer:

[Cyrus]

3DS Trailer:

0:50 Man, stay off the lightspeed!

[KrazyBean]

Music from 3DS trailer:

 

Thanks. I was wondering what it was.

[DarkRula]

Wow.

They've only just got a play of the demo and they're already trying to speedrun it.

[DiscoDiva]

This isn't trolling or anything, It's just something.. I felt like sharing I had to make it. Yup another Deadly Six Parody.

 

[KrazyBean]

I don't even like Mac 'n' Cheese, but I'll still buy that. LOL.

[Indigo Rush]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym9-2ZYlIBg

 

Let me just say that I absolutely love the jumping animation in this. It looks and feels SO BOUNCY AND FUN. It's like they took the classic Sonic concept of bouncing on enemies and gave it cartoony physics. It's awesome. He bounces pretty high after doing a homing attack, too. I approve. 

 

I'm getting excited for this game again. Kinda wish I had a Wii U/3DS. *sigh*...

[Blue Blood]

Goddamn is the music in this game so pleasant. I love it so far. The music for the candy level fits so perfectly

 

It's that chorus from 1:13. Pleasant is the perfect word for it, cause it just sounds so happy and cheery, and yet so simple.

Edited June 14, 2013 by Blue Blood

[Cyrus]

It sounds like Roger C. Smith got new in-game voice clips. Nothing big, but it's worth mentioning, I guess.

[a mystery]

Is it me, or do they use the Zone term again...

As a replacement for Act (The loading screen makes it a bit ambiguous, but the stage clear message makes it clear)?!

The only other game to have done this, as far as I know, is Sonic CD (Round/Zone), so I really expected it to be Zone/Act for this, considering the classics all (except CD) use Zone/Act, and is pretty much the logical terminology to reuse.

I wonder if this has a deeper implication than this... Hmm.

 

I guess it's Windy Hill Round then, at the very le-

 

...Hill Round.

 

Round Hill.

 

...What do I win?

[Djawed]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym9-2ZYlIBg

 

Let me just say that I absolutely love the jumping animation in this. It looks and feels SO BOUNCY AND FUN. It's like they took the classic Sonic concept of bouncing on enemies and gave it cartoony physics. It's awesome. He bounces pretty high after doing a homing attack, too. I approve. 

 

I'm getting excited for this game again. Kinda wish I had a Wii U/3DS. *sigh*...

Wow that music

[KrazyBean]

Wow that music

 

Tomoya Ohtani is a flippin' genius. Buying the soundtrack on day 1, DAY 1.

[SilentDoom]

Thought just occurred; I think this game would really benefit from having some kind of tutorial to elaborate on the controls and mechanics of the game. This game is so different to so many other Sonic games that there's the potential issue of newer and/or younger players not really getting the gist of how to play. I think even something like Unleashed's tutorial would be great. A simple playground type of level designed to allow the player to adjust to the game. Heck it would even be really cool if said level was revisitable at any point in the game so the player could hone their skills.

[Blue Blood]

One of the acts in the 3DS version is called "Windy Hill: Tutorial" and is littered with hint icons. I definitely wouldn't be against a tutorial stage like Rush Adventure's, where the player can opt to be taught the mechanics of the game step by step or they can just get on with it without a guide.