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Correct me if im wrong but is that mf Rev01 on the tesla

 

It should really be its own page on Sega Retro, especially if you have a choice of game other than Sonic.

 

well… fuck

 

She had to be in a chibi-like form, instead of proper human size and proportions. Well... Crap -_-

 

Redesign aside, it's an extremely pretty picture - prettier than I was imagining. Good job Sonic Team.

 

Well, yeah... It's quite nice and pretty, no doubt ^^"

 

Cope Elise hater

 

Awww that's really pretty art, I love the coloring. Elise looks great, too.

 

Elise Sisters stay winning

 

Is it just me or does the new Elise design look like a character from Balan Wonderworld

 

Now that you mention it...
I actually found the style somehow familiar...

 

I have to say, that’s not what I expected. It looks great but I don’t know if it would have even registered as Elise to me in a vacuum.

Also, is she actually an SD/chibi, or is it just simply the younger Elise that Silver interacted with in the past? It strikes me as being a kid.

Regarding the Balan comparisons: I think it’s the proportion of the body to the hands, the proportion of the eyes to the face, and how rounded the face is. They are all pretty Balan-esque.

 

Looks like grown-up Elise based on her clothing, so the former. They've completely abandoned the photorealistic style of '06 (for good reason, it was ugly as sin) so I think it makes sense that she'd need a redesign to bring her in line with the franchise's modern art direction.

 

I guess I can see it either way. I do want a more stylized, anime art direction for the humans in Sonic, so I don’t mind it. I personally thought Unleashed was a bit too western in its designs, so this looks like a good medium between the general anime-ness of SA1 and Unleashed’s “generic 3D kids’ movie” look.

 

I'm sorry to say I still prefer Sonic X style to all those. And it's already 20 years old.
It had a decent balance between realistic and anime style for human characters ^^"

 

Wow, that looks absolutely adorable.

Is that part of another series of cover stories, though? Is anyone translating these?

 

That was something I notoced but I also chalked it up to being because of Japanese design sensibilities, similar to how Balan ended up with a bunch of designs that wouldn't be out of place in NiGHTs Journey of Dreams even though I'm pretty sure none of the staff from that were involved in both.

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Seems like it's intended to be her younger self too with the outfit just being a bit of a reference.

 

I was under the impression she's a kid in this since it was a reference to when he runs into her and takes her to safety when he time travels to the Solaris Poject incident.

 

I get kinda level-5 stylistic impressions from.l that, which is not really a style I'd associate with Sonic in general but if they keep trying it I might come to enjoy it