Sonic COLORS / Colours

[LLDL]

Depending on what region you're from it's going to be either Sonic Colors or Colours.

Sega's at it again!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWS-9m1zlYM

Discuss... LOL

 

[finalark]

**** it Sega! I thought you were fixing it with Sonic 4! Oh well, it looks like it's going to be Mario Sonic Paint or something to that end...

 

[Firus]

I raged the moment I saw those...creatures.

WHAT ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO BE?! AND WHY DO THEY HAVE TO EXIST?!

Well, Kotaku has some more info, apparently:

http://kotaku.com/5548219/sonic-colors-streaks-to-the-wii-and-ds/gallery/

Good god they're focusing completely on speed again and using boosts, yet again. WHY WON'T YOU LEARN YOUR LESSON?! Sonic was NEVER about going as fast as you possibly can.

I guess I can't fully complain with Sonic 4 on the way, but...come on, Sega. Is this another one I'm going to have to wait until it's $15 or less to buy?

 

[finalark]

Okay, it's official, Sega should axe this project, axe Sonic Team and then put DIMPS in their place. I want to play a new Sonic game that doesn't make me want to break my face.

And then after that they should pay more attention to franchises other than Sonic and Phantasy Star...

 

[Sariku]

You guys should stop being so pessimistic about it. Apparently each of the Wisps give Sonic a new ability which creates new paths in the stage. They're just power ups, like Mario with his many costumes, and you don't hear people complaining about that. I'm not really a fan of the boost gauge aspect of it, but.

This to me just looks like a spiritual successor to Sonic Unleashed. I'm sure it'll use the same engine, but cut out the Werehog, of course. It's a cool idea, so try and not look at it so harshly.

I, for one, am excited. Let's see some gameplay.

 

[SolarChimecho]

wtf@people already bashing the game even though theres NO gameplay or info yet.

Don't judge a game based from a trailer/teaser.

 

[SuperBowser]

Honestly, 3d sonic can't possibly get worse.

This might be a positive point in the series.

 

[Spire]

Sega needs to stop beating around the Sonic Adventure 3 bush.

 

[Thrillhouse-vh.]

Sega just needs to let Sonic die. I mean there hasn't been a good one since Sonic& Knuckles ffs, and even that was not that special. EDIT: Except adding another game on the top that was pretty awesome, but the game is expanded Sonic 3.

 

[Firus]

You guys should stop being so pessimistic about it.

Um. We're talking about 3D Sonic here. It's pretty much guilty until proven innocent at this point.

wtf@people already bashing the game even though theres NO gameplay or info yet.

*Ahem*

Well, Kotaku has some more info, apparently:

http://kotaku.com/5548219/sonic-colors-streaks-to-the-wii-and-ds/gallery/

I wouldn't be saying anything if we didn't already have information that this is Unleashed fused with Rush, i.e. boost fests galore.

If they JUST have boosting stages, it'll be somewhat of an improvement, at least. Better than Werehog.

Also, SERIOUSLY GUYS. This is 3D Sonic, they've been screwing this up for how many games now and you guys are still being optimistic every time a new one is announced and getting angry because people are pessimistic? Seriously?

 

[Gates]

Good god they're focusing completely on speed again and using boosts, yet again. WHY WON'T YOU LEARN YOUR LESSON?! Sonic was NEVER about going as fast as you possibly can.

Wait, what?

 

[Firus]

Wait, what?

"What" to what part? The fact that they're focusing on boosting or about Sonic never being about speed?

Because I linked to a Kotaku article with that information and if anyone actually went back and played the original Sonic games anymore they'd know that Sonic was not going as fast as you possibly can.

There's a reason boosts didn't exist until Rush.

 

[Lore]

Wait, what?

Sonic has never been about going as fast as you can, it's about going fast and keeping your momentum while navigating well-made levels and fighting creative bosses.

Going light speed in wide open areas and having sudden surprise stops in tight areas to compensate for a crappy camera does not make a good Sonic game.

 

[finalark]

Perhpas they're just trying to permenently kill 3D Sonic so that way nobody will miss it if they switch to 2D-only Sonic...

/wishful thinking

I remember hearing a joke once that for new Sonic games they just have a dart board filled with random words that they throw darts at. Whatever the darts land on they stick with, this game proved this.

EDIT: The Sega of America blog post on it: http://blogs.sega.com/usa/2010/05/26/introducing-sonic-colors/#more-5124

 

[Matt07]

After reading the info on the Kotaku it looks alright.

 

[Lovely]

I'll hope for the best. I only saw Wii and DS on the trailer, are they not going to make it in more systems?

 

[Segtendo]

I read on Sonic Retro that it was Wii/DS only.

Doesn't look that bad. More gameplay would be nice.

 

[Minato]

Don't know what to say to this. But that's mostly because the teaser didn't give us a good idea on how the game will play. I'm also sad that it's made for only Wii and DS so I'm unsure how much effort Sega will put into this.

 

[Sariku]

Nintendo Power puts their exclusive for Sonic Colors on the front page rather than Super Mario Galaxy 2. Sounds fun. Images below:

Interesting how SEGA itself says that Sonic games haven't been on track, and that this one has no gimmicks. Gotta love it.

 

[SolarChimecho]

I will bet myself that the whole game will be colorful @_@

 

[LLDL]

I have a feeling this game might be good

 

[finalark]

No gimmick? Then what do they call those power-up aliens?

At this point, I'm curiously pessimistic. I guess we'll wait and see.

 

[OizenX]

what is this i don't even

 

[Joeadok]

I find it funny that the reaction almost everywhere is that It'll be bad by default.

Also: I'm really digging the BG in that render.

Also again: GANVAS.

 

[The Real Gamer]

I laugh at everyone trying to defend this.

It's Sonic... in 3D. Therefore it will inevitably fail.

 

[Mr. Johan]

And I laugh at people that say it will suck when there is no gameplay for it. :D Don't knock it until we have some gameplay footage.

Sega just needs to let Sonic die. I mean there hasn't been a good one since Sonic& Knuckles

Sonic Advance 1 and 3.

 

[Deleted member]

People are seriously overreacting to this. While I'm not the biggest fan of the name or the gimmick, it should be a good Sonic game. Somewhat looking forward to it.

 

[finalark]

People are seriously overreacting to this. While I'm not the biggest fan of the name or the gimmick, it should be a good Sonic game. Somewhat looking forward to it.

Based on what? The last three Sonic games that were all very poor? We don't have enough information to deem it possibly good, but being 3D Sonic, it's as Firus said. Guilty until proven innocent.

 

[Deleted member]

@finalark: I personally liked the Wii version of Sonic Unleashed. If they can remove the Werewolf and further improve on the Sonic we all know and love, it could potentially be great.

 

[Firus]

I hated the Wii version of Unleashed, and that was supposed to be the best version. I wrote a blog review of it, though it's incredibly long and you probably don't want to read it.

Werehog segments were flailfests (the best strategy in battles was to just flail your arms and hope you kill things -- I tried actually trying to legitimately strategize or even use a different controller and I ended up dying) and shake for homing attack killed me on more than one occasion in the daytime levels.

And then delving more into the gameplay itself, it was...lackluster. The daytime stages were boring, you just ran and ran until suddenly a WALL OF SPIKES occurs or maybe an endless abyss and you have to redo the part and know ahead of time to jump. Which is why you don't run as fast as you possibly can and boost constantly in the original games.

Of course, if you personally liked it that's fine, but objectively, the game had...many flaws.

 

[Lovely]

The nighttime levels were a nightmare in the HD consoles because how long it took to complete it. T_T

But the daytime levels was amazing. Since there's more nighttime levels, you pretty much know why the reviewers rated Sonic Unleashed.

 

[BSP]

Sonic...Colors?

I lol'd at the name. Let's see how STH4 E1 goes, and then come back to this.

 

[CodeBlack]

^^ There were more daytime stages than Nighttime stages, I believe. Every area had one night stage and at least three day stages. The night stages weren't that bad... sure they took forever to complete, but they weren't really boring, especially as you went along. Granted, Atopos was boring because it was easy and Mazuri was just boring, but the other ones were pretty good.

Anyway, those color powers remind me of the elemental shields in Sonic 3, and that makes me very interested.

 

[Hyper_Ridley]

In the Wii version of Unleashed, there was 1 daytime act and 3-5 nightime acts per world, but the nightime acts were just the 1 night level from the HD versions split up

Colors looks decent enough so far. I'll take Mario-style powerups over complete genre changing levels. I wish they would stop using "Sonic's the only playable character!" as a selling point though...Sonic 2, 3&K, the Advance games, the Rush games, and Black Knight have all used multiple characters correctly, and ever since Sonic 2 there was more than 1 playable character.

 

[finalark]

I finished reading the article in Nintendo Power and it sounnds like they're going to change from a 3D perspective to a 2D ones thoughout the levels. The 3D bits sound like they're going to play like Secret Rings (in other words, on-rails BOOSTING!!!!) while the 2D ones are traditional, momentom-based platforming. It could be good, we'll see.

 

[Ryu Shimazu]

Sega just needs to let Sonic die. I mean there hasn't been a good one since Sonic& Knuckles ffs, and even that was not that special. EDIT: Except adding another game on the top that was pretty awesome, but the game is expanded Sonic 3.

Sonic needs to die. Sonic Adventure 2 Battle was the last of their success. I never liked the blue hedgehog, so maybe I'm just being mean and biased, but bar-A2B (which was amazing), I always felt Sonic was a failed version of Mario. =/ (I'm refering to 3d)

So I guess I am pessimestic >< In terms of 2D it was amazing, so Sonic4 looks neat. If they found away to make 3D like 2D (like read above) it would be cool, but I lost hope. I haven't played a Sega game in ages...

 

[Sukai]

Sonic needs to die. Sonic Adventure 2 Battle was the last of their success

That's completely subjective.
Shadow the Hedgehog, 06 and Black Knight are the only ones, that are on the record of being unsuccessful.

According to critical reception, most of the 3D titles are average to good.

Go back read some reviews, just to reflect on how these games are viewed today.
Taken from wiki

• Sonic Adventure~ overwhelmingly positive
• Sonic Adventure 2~ very positive
• Sonic Heroes~ mixed to positive
• Shadow the Hedgehog~ mixed to negative
• Sonic the Hedgehog~ panned by critics
• Sonic and the Secret Rings~ mixed to positive
• Sonic Unleashed~ mixed and average
• Sonic and the Black Knight~ mostly mixed reviews and was moderately successful

Of course some games came out bad, but look here, these games were average to good.
Now Sonic is terrible and all his 3D games blow, what happened?

I hate how the Sonic games are always a 'make it, or break it' case, they either have to be perfect, or trash. People are just being pointlessly harsh.

I'm hype for both Colors (both versions) and Sonic 4.

 

[SolarChimecho]

New vids
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEqfP2RVA5c&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHMHMupoSDE

Sonic Colours = Sonic Unleashed 2
This game looks amazing! I hope Sonic Team doesn't screw up(>_>)

And talk about pushing Wii graphics......(as usual for sonic team now)

 

[SolarChimecho]

Better

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfQv-UB2aEg&playnext_from=TL&videos=OSCDZ673ymE&feature=sub

 

[Hyper_Ridley]

Looks awesome so far.

2-act worlds return, and I liked how it focused on the 2d segments.

Drill powerup looks fun, it can bring you to slightly different paths.