Sonic Runners Adventure "It's out... OK?"

[Shaddy Zaphod]

Looks like Sonic Runners to me, I can barely see any gameplay difference.

 

I'll say the backdrops aren't great, but if that's what we need to sacrifice to keep the gameplay and mechanics not assfucking us for money, it's worth it.

[JosepHenry]

 

[Chris Knopps]

Okay...

So...

It's called Sonic Runners "Adventure" but...

It's just a 3DS Generations version of Green Hill (AGAIN) and Lost World locations...?

On top of that it's the same music, same general game all together save for different menu's and tweaks...

...It works I guess. We clap for that nowadays, right?

Just slap the word "Adventure" in and I guess SEGA thinks it will sell.

[Ryannumber1gamer]

11 minutes ago, Chris Knopps said:

Okay...

So...

It's called Sonic Runners "Adventure" but...

It's just a 3DS Generations version of Green Hill (AGAIN) and Lost World locations...?

On top of that it's the same music, same general game all together save for different menu's and tweaks...

...It works I guess. We clap for that nowadays, right?

Just slap the word "Adventure" in and I guess SEGA thinks it will sell.

It doesn't really need much more? Everyone liked Runners for the gameplay and player friendly model until SEGA slowly drained all of them away with greed. From what I see, apart from the lower quality graphics (Which I think is due to the cel-shading not being present here from what I see), it looks like Runners when it was at the start of launch, which was a genuinely good and fun time waster.

At the end of the day, it's a time waster mobile game, and I have my doubts people will be complaining too much about reusing level tropes, since the main point of discussion will be gameplay, and if technical fixes was applied to the game. 

At the end of the day, I'm really not understanding some complaints here because a lot of them was what people were asking the original Runners to be, a offline, fun time waster that was a small paid app, and in exchange, has none of the bullshit F2P nonsense from the original. From what I've seen, apart from graphics, it's done literally every improvement to Runners I wanted. No stamina/live system, no idiotic roulette to rip people off, no cheap crap to squeeze people for lives, no "timed" mode that basically say "bribe us for an win". To me, it seems like a better version of Runners, and that's what most people wanted.

[Chris Knopps]

32 minutes ago, Ryannumber1gamer said:

It doesn't really need much more? Everyone liked Runners for the gameplay and player friendly model until SEGA slowly drained all of them away with greed. From what I see, apart from the lower quality graphics (Which I think is due to the cel-shading not being present here from what I see), it looks like Runners when it was at the start of launch, which was a genuinely good and fun time waster.

At the end of the day, it's a time waster mobile game, and I have my doubts people will be complaining too much about reusing level tropes, since the main point of discussion will be gameplay, and if technical fixes was applied to the game. 

At the end of the day, I'm really not understanding some complaints here because a lot of them was what people were asking the original Runners to be, a offline, fun time waster that was a small paid app, and in exchange, has none of the bullshit F2P nonsense from the original. From what I've seen, apart from graphics, it's done literally every improvement to Runners I wanted. No stamina/live system, no idiotic roulette to rip people off, no cheap crap to squeeze people for lives, no "timed" mode that basically say "bribe us for an win". To me, it seems like a better version of Runners, and that's what most people wanted.

Keep in mind there's mentioning of a FTP version coming in the future.

My only gripe personally is slapping "Adventure" into the title with nothing relevant to that name in the game save for multiple characters and itemized Chao and stuff. It would have been nice to get a game with stages and/or a style relevant to "Adventure" but...

Green Hills and Lost Worlds round 2/3/4/etc, it's a cheap game so whateves.

Forgive my salt.

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lol at the special stage though. That is something new.

Isn't it just a horizontal version of the special stage from Sonic Jump?

[Shaddy Zaphod]

At least for right now we only have to pay for this one once. Only wish it'd get onto the US store.

[A super No.1 washedupgamer]

It looks...alright. I just wish they'd use a different aestetic besides lost world.  

[Forte-Metallix]

22 minutes ago, Chris Knopps said:

My only gripe personally is slapping "Adventure" into the title with nothing relevant to that name in the game save for multiple characters and itemized Chao and stuff. It would have been nice to get a game with stages and/or a style relevant to "Adventure" but...

ad·ven·ture

adˈven(t)SHər,ədˈven(t)SHər/

noun

1.

an unusual and exciting, typically hazardous, experience or activity.

"Adventure" is a pretty versatile word, man. It doesn't mean Sonic Team have to confine themselves to any particular playstyle. That's like complaining that Super Mario 3D World doesn't play like Super Mario World.

[PickleBrows]

I think the "adventure" naming ship sailed a long time ago (hahahaha because SRA has boats, lovely pun).

"Adventure" is just a generic buzzword for game titles that the Sonic series just so happens to have made use of in the past. 

As for Runners Adventure, as much as I can see why people are disliking the art style change, I can say this is playing just as well as the original Runners did. In fact it's only improved it by completely ridding itself of the nasty bubbles of lag that kept cropping up during runs. The game also seems to load up much faster than the original Runners did as well.

On a side note, I'm loving the splash artwork of Sonic with the couple of chao. There's something that really reminds me of the early 2000's atmosphere of Sonic, really beautiful piece!

[Indigo Rush]

I'm playing this right now and it's so much more enjoyable without all of the baggage that the original Runners brought with it.

It's definitely not as visually... clean as Runners 1, but there's no stuttering or frameskips, no dropped plays because I lost a signal, no mandatory online connection, no gambling for characters and items, no clunky interface, no ranks, no Wisps, nada. It takes the good parts of Runners, trims the fat (a lot of fat) and gives me a no-strings attached mobile Sonic game. Now I can actually have fun bouncing on robots, raking in rings and going fast.

tbh if you're letting the less pretty graphics prevent you from playing it you're being really petty lol this game's fun.

[Your Vest Friend]

Plus I question whether Runners' graphic fidelity is what led to like 90% of its performance problems. Sonic Team tried to do it at an insane level, and this one was passed to Gameloft because they knew how to optimise the performance. 

Edit: Someone's already beat the final boss. I'm guessing this is one of those instances where updates are added periodically. 

[Fletch]

3 hours ago, Joseph Mello said:

You can change the soundtrack to the original in the game

You can??? Yoooooo, that's really cool. I like that. Definitely will change the soundtrack to the original game because again, I really loved the original Runners music. 

[Your Vest Friend]

There seem to be four "levels" in it currently; Green Hill Zone, generic Desert world, generic Volcano World from Runners and Sky Sanctuary Zone. 

[JosepHenry]

7 minutes ago, Mysterion said:

You can??? Yoooooo, that's really cool. I like that. Definitely will change the soundtrack to the original game because again, I really loved the original Runners music. 

 

Sorry I sounded too assure of what I was saying, maybe I misunderstood...

[Forte-Metallix]

5 minutes ago, VEDJ-F said:

There seem to be four "levels" in it currently; Green Hill Zone, generic Desert world, generic Volcano World from Runners and Sky Sanctuary Zone. 

Wait, really? Like, not the Sky Road/Silent Forest theme from the last Runners? If so, that means we might get other Generations levels in due time. *crosses fingers for Radical Highway*

[Your Vest Friend]

Just now, Forte-Metallix said:

Wait, really? Like, not the Sky Road/Silent Forest theme from the last Runners? If so, that means we might get other Generations levels in due time. *crosses fingers for Radical Highway*

Sky Road didn't have a Death Egg glaring ominously in the background. 

[Fletch]

1 minute ago, Joseph Mello said:

 

Sorry I sounded too assure of what I was saying, maybe I misunderstood...

Ooooh, I see. Well I mean, it's not big deal really. Sonic music is Sonic music and I love it all so I really won't be bummed out at all playing through whatever song is playing in the levels here. lol Just that option to flip between the two soundtracks like Sonic CD 2011 would have been really neat.

[Waveshocker Sigma]

Hey, it still looks way better than Sonic Dash 2.

 

[Shadowlax]

That sonic dash video reminds me, is shadow in this. Do I have to gamble for him.This is important 

[Indigo Rush]

6 minutes ago, Shadowlax said:

That sonic dash video reminds me, is shadow in this. Do I have to gamble for him.This is important 

Yes, he's in there. No, you don't have to gamble him. You can buy him with 2,000 rings. It's easy to get 2,000 rings. You don't have to pay real money.

In fact I'm not sure microtransactions are even a thing in this game.

[Shadowlax]

1 minute ago, Indigo Rush said:

Yes, he's in there. No, you don't have to gamble him. You can buy him with 2,000 rings. It's easy to get 2,000 rings. You don't have to pay real money.

In fact I'm not sure microtransactions are even a thing in this game.

THANK GOD

Where Can I download this, checked the site earlier, nothing and I live in the US

[Lord-Dreamerz]

The only bad difference I'm seeing in the new art style is the following.

No black outline on characters. Backgrounds are not separated in color correctly from the foreground. The game camera is more zoomed out then in the old game so it is little harder to see the character models. The character animations are somewhat off.

Otherwise I'm not seeing much other problems that make it look worse then the original game. For example them changing Windy Hill to Green Hill makes no real difference.

[Tenko]

Personal opinion and all, but it just looks so bland. I liked the art style in Runners, it was almost like they mashed the classic style head first into the modern style and created a new one. Nice black outlines and chibi'ish design, it worked well for the title.

Now.. it just looks rather bland. It's borrowing more from the modern style than making it's own thing, but at the same time seems more 2006'ish in style than any recent modern title.

It's been refreshed..but somehow seems like it's lost a little something along the way.

[Ellipsis-Ultima]

So... Does the phone heat up a lot when playing? Asking out of curiosity, (and the game isn't out where I'm at).

[PickleBrows]

In case there's still any queries about how unlocking stuff works:

 

Literally every character, buddy and booster is unlockable via rings. The only ones that aren't are the ones the game unlocks for you at certain chapters.

As of right now the game has the trios from Team Sonic, Dark and Chaotix to unlock and play as.

There's only 11 buddies right now and again they're all attainable in-game.

In fact, the Help page directly confirms no micro transactions as well as there only being a need for an internet connection for external links and not during gameplay:

Hopefully there's more content to come in future updates but for now this is certainly the back-to-basics Runners experience people were asking for, especially after the 2.0 update.