Sonic Generations Megathread

I am absolutely in love with that Mega Collection remix... dat slap bass, man.

 

Tried making C.Sonic Jump a la Sonic CD. Didn't Work.
Also, I've noticed that if you die and have used a checkpoint, your timer is the same as you died, not the time you get to the checkpoint. Why did they do this and has this been recently added (Unleash or Colors)?

 

Jimmy's re-doing his room right now. Repainting all the walls and putting a new floor in. I know this because we're special friends.

(Not like the's the only one capable of ripping assets, anyway.)

 

Sounds like someone was playing Puyo. I heard Klug's voice in the bunch of Omochao.

 

Doesn't the fact Omochao is there mean this is the easy mode? He was talking about in harder areas how I'll see red warning signs too

 

No Omochao is just a general guide from what we understand...

 

You can turn him off though, right? There's an option to disable the warning signs and the on-screen button prompts, so I'm assuming you can turn off Omochao.

 

Yes you can turn him off. Just can't shut him up in the demo.

 

I'm surprised, Retro. You're all drunk and orgy'd on the music that you haven't made a big deal out of this yet.

When you say top speed, that's without spindashing, right?

 

I've got to say, the Team has really done a stellar job of tweaking Modern's physics. I always felt like they were WAY too heavy in Unleashed...running around hubworlds like Mazuri felt like you were a rolling barge on ice!

This feels leaner, lighter and far more responsive. Drifting (rolling in Generations' case) feels VERY organic. It will definitely take some time to get used to the Adventure-style A-button homing attack again and I'm not at all liking that L & R triggers have been dropped for changing rails...but these are pretty minor and easily adaptable (you wanted a challenge assholes? there you go!!) Classic Sonic feels much better overall - the jump has been tweaked just enough - he doesn't feel quite as heavy anymore...not that I mind that he's a little heavier here than on the Genesis! All in all, this is a work of art.

There's a massive pissing contest going on over at SSMB about this level being an introductory/tutorial stage...WHICH IT IS...but it certainly doesn't play like Windmill Isle Act I...I'd say it's somewhere between WI Act 1 & 2 in design/difficulty. And that's OKAY! We had so few Daytime stages in Unleashed they were right to give us a suitable challenge every time. But with Generations we have A HUGE FUGGIN gamesworth of 'Daytime' levels, Classic and Modern, so it only makes sense that they stagger them in difficulty. I don't think this is a new concept or remotely unreasonable...those who are bitching and calling the game a failure are merely attention whores at this point...IMHO!

 

So I just went through all of Omochao's voice bank, which includes all his hints from the challenge acts, and posted details in the IRC. Here's a distilled log of that. Spoilers ahoy!

Spoiler

<Hinchy> I'll probably go through the omochao voice clips later
<Hinchy> as there might be interesting tidbits
<Hinchy> he has hints for the various challenge acts

[...]

<Hinchy> okay doing it now :P

<Hinchy> there are time trials that have powerups that give you more time (think Mario Galaxy 2, probably)
<Hinchy> the doppleganger race is not against the other era version, it's essentially a ghost race
<Hinchy> complete with translucency

<Hinchy> in the race with Knuckles he will burrow underground to cheat I mean use his unique abilities to take shortcuts

<Hinchy> in the challenges with the giant enemies you just knock them over instead of killing them, but then they can be used as platforms

<Hinchy> the official name for the speed shoes is Power Sneakers!
<Hinchy> Omochao calls them Power Sneakers

<Hinchy> in levels with tails, you press the Y button to call him to you, similar to how the elemental shields were shown with Y in that one screenshot. likely all those little powerup icons we saw are things you can use with Y

<Hinchy> that icon with the motobug and the ring is for Ring Time, which changes all enemies into rings (presumably for just a few seconds)

<Hinchy> "Collect 10 Chao and reach the goal before Cream!" (...explains itself.)

<Hinchy> Rouge tries to stop you with bombs in her race

<Hinchy> there are apparently challenge missions with multiple animal capsules
<Hinchy> and you have to release all of them

<Hinchy> all of this is coming from Omochao's voice bank
<Hinchy> I'm listening to his terrible voice so you don't have to

<Hinchy> you can call Espio in a fashion similar to Tails.
<Hinchy> he has a grappling hook.
<Hinchy> huh.

<Hinchy> apparently there's a mission where you have to carry the sign post to the end
<Hinchy> and knock it around
<Hinchy> presumably like the end of Sonic 3 act 1s where you could juggle it
<Hinchy> you have to knock it to the end of the level without it falling into pits

<Hinchy> there's also Vector calling. He throws you

<Hinchy> there are single-ring challenge missions

<Hinchy> the Tails race is with Tails in a plane

<Hinchy> jump panels are in at least one challenge act
<Hinchy> presumably as in sonic adventure

<Hinchy> there's a time trial in which your boost meter is 3 times the size of normal but it doesn't replenish
<Chimera> Hinchy: That explains "300% Boost"

<Hinchy> there's a team-up mission with Amy, she gives you the hammer jump

<Hinchy> there's a treasure hunt for buried metals. you call knuckles who digs into the the ground for you

<Hinchy> there's an espio fight, in which you have to shine a spotlight to find him while he's invisible

<Hinchy> there's a team-up mission with Cream, in a level with no rings and the only way to get rings is to call on Cream to throw you some

<Hinchy> Rouge team-up: heavily armored robots block you, call on rouge to take them out

<Hinchy> Blaze team-up: level has walls of flame, she can extinguish them

<Hinchy> Charmy team-up: ...he can make a vortex at your feet. What?

<Hinchy> and that's it for the challenge hints.

<Hinchy> there are endless boost missions but you die when taking any damage, rings or not.
<Hinchy> "YOU CAN USE ENDLESS BOOST HERE! ENDLESS BOOST LETS YOU USE BOOST ALL THE TIME!!"

You don't even know how happy that last line made me.

 

Don't like sliding? Don't worry. Sonic slides automatically when he needs to.

 

I think no one's really talking about this because we all want to play it and judge for ourselves.

 

Classic Sonic still feels a little heavy/stiff, and Modern can be difficult to steer. Otherwise, decent demo.

 

Man, I can't seem to figure out how to transfer the demo onto my USB and then onto my XBox 360. Just doesn't want to read it.