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Sonic Mania (August 15th 2017, Christian Whitehead, PS4, Xbox One, PC, Switch) - The New Classic

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36 minutes ago, VEDJ-F said:

Yup. And by the looks of it Japanese fans aren't that interested in it. 

Boom or Mania?

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I've always imagined that Whitehead, Thomley and everyone else working on Mania aren't a bunch of cocks and that they actually have a great deal of respect both for Iizuka and SEGA at large. You know,

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It's still so weird that Sonic Boom was called Sonic Toon in Japan. It reminds me of the old days when names were different for each region: Mega Drive/Genesis, Robotnik/Eggman, Super Nintendo/Super Famicom... It's 2016, dude! :-/

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49 minutes ago, VEDJ-F said:

Yup. And by the looks of it Japanese fans aren't that interested in it. 

Most, if not all of my Asian friends all seem to prefer their games to have high spec graphics, even to the point where they would argue that visuals are more important than the gameplay, so they tend to ignore indie games and anything "old school" and retro, unless they are "popular" enough, (read : all over social media etc) to be given a chance. So if the Asian market as a whole is anything like the handful of Asian friends I have then it doesn't suprise me. That and we know Sonic has never been as popular in the Asian markets to begin with, so that adds to the overall lack of interest.

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19 hours ago, BenderMania said:

You know how this version of Sonic art:

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...is based off-of this art from Sonic CD:

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Think I prefer CD's version. The blue color looks nicer, stands out better.

I hope we get some new Mania Sonic art which isn't just based on art from the classics.

Not quite; it's based on licensing art.

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Milo Miles ‘Tails’ Prower

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A bigger image of the retouched Mania artwork of Sonic without the banner, courtesy of Famitsu.

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If one looks closely, you can see a subtle brown tint around Sonic's eyes, just like in past artwork for the Genesis games. Good attention to detail.

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Jango Amy Rose

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The only major difference is the shade of blue. The Mania art looks a bit washed out, while the old ones have higher contrast.

A minute in Photoshop and voilá!

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As much as I love the brightness and intensity of Sonic's original blue, I think the blue-green is really super nice. I especially love the way it jibes with his red shoes, as the two are complementary colors, to create an awesome look.

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Thing with the brighter shade in the edit above is it hangs closer to the shinier style seen in Sonic 3 onwards, whereas what I think they were going for was the more muted Sonic 1 style:

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I have tweaked Sonic's colours slightly for my Saturn Mania boxart, but it hangs much closer to the original colours than the Sonic 3 style.  7RxFTTx.png

I've no idea why they'd go back to the Sonic 1 style instead of 3 onwards given it's obviously after 1 and the Sonic artwork used for Mania is from much later to my recollection (This set may be around '95-97? Similar material appears in SpikeOut IIRC) -  but I also don't care because I much prefer the Sonic 1 shading style to Sonic 3's. :P

 

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20 minutes ago, Doctor MK said:

Trailer for the Sonic Mania Collector's Edition:

For all your stubborn stain handling needs!

I never knew how much I needed this in my life.

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22 minutes ago, Mysterion said:

I find it hilarious that Hoshino-san is wearing an "Iizuka-san Fan Club" t-shirt in the video. 

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How do we pre-order that!

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Milo Miles ‘Tails’ Prower

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Surprised nobody's pointed out the the trailer is a deliberate throwback to this "showroom" Sonic 2 commercial. =P

 

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3 hours ago, Doctor MK said:

Trailer for the Sonic Mania Collector's Edition:

For all your stubborn stain handling needs!

This...this is fantastic! I got notification of this video as I'm subscribed to Sonic the Hedgehog YouTube channel and as soon as I saw the title as well as the thumbnail that commercial for Sonic 2 came to mind and sure enough it was a throwback to it. Even with the whole tackle box thing although they had to change it up a bit because that big box isn't going to fit in it like Sonic 2 did! :P 

The whole "Alone on a Friday night" gave me an immediate case of the giggles :D. And there's more...

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"Eggheads sold separately." Well, where can I get them?! Because I want them and I want them now!  

And at the end of the infomercial I noticed this:

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The "suggested price" of $6,231,991 looks like it is based on the wonderful date Sonic debuted on 06/23/1991 ^_^. So much good stuff here even with the references! All in line with Sonic Mania as a whole with what we've seen so far :).

I feel that SEGA is hitting all the high notes when it comes to Sonic Mania so far from the initial trailer to this "infomercial" for the Collectors Edition and everything in between, the more discoveries are made and the more things are revealed related to Mania, the more my hype for the game increases as everything looks amazing! I can only imagine this continuing as time goes on and we learn more about Sonic Mania. Spring 2017 needs to hurry up and get here as I can't wait until Sonic Mania comes out!

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1 hour ago, Doctor MK said:

Trailer for the Sonic Mania Collector's Edition:

For all your stubborn stain handling needs!

YES! I was hoping there would be some sort of cheesy throwback ad for the game, and this is just fucking perfect. I bet this was 100% Aaron's idea, Chaos bless him.

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0:07 "Alone on a Friday night?" That reminded me of this:

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Since Webber is in this I wouldn't be surprised it was suppose to reference it. 

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27 minutes ago, YuTwo said:

0:07 "Alone on a Friday night?" That reminded me of this:

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That's the joke, yes.

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