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synchronizer, on 29 May 2013 - 05:42 PM, said:

Surely you can agree that there are so many "coincidences" noted that it's getting hard to call it anything but an intentional move by Sega. I'm sure we'll know more information closer to E3, although I'm not sure if SEGA will ever directly address the comparisons to X-treme.

synchronizer, on 29 May 2013 - 05:28 PM, said:

Jesus christ, this argument again. Okay let me make a couple of points that pretty much cements for me this is Sonic X-treme.

*The game started as Sonic Mars, then Sonic Saturn, then Sonic Xtreme for some reason, and now Sonic Lost World. The naming pattern for the game pretty much alludes to Sonic Xtreme's history.
*As previously noted in pages prior to this, the story of the game appears to be one of the stories for Sonic X-treme
*The open-world gameplay draws more paralels to Sonic X-treme than Galaxy.
*The "gravity-based" gameplay seen in the Lost World trailer (and mario galaxy) WAS IN XTREME. I'm not talking about the fish-eye camera here, but as you see here, gravity based mechanics and full 360 degree platforming were very well in place in Xtreme a full decade before Galaxy was even a thing.
*Speculation: Sega confirmed the partnership with Nintendo had a huge part with Sonic and Nintendo's rivalry, and as you see in the promotional video for X-treme linked in the 3rd bullet, X-treme was definitely aimed at taking down Mario, so now to transform that game into a Nintendo exclusive is like a love letter between Sega/Nintendo. It just feels right and goes with what Sega and Nintendo have been saying about their partnership.
*Speculation: Sega is going for the nostalgia lately with sonic games

Sonic Lost World definitely looks like an enhanced version of X-treme, sure, the art style is a bit different. But even the cartoony art style can be a throwback, seeing as the original concept for Xtreme (Sonic Mars) was a a game based on the cartoon, with cartoon characters.

I found this documentary pretty helpful about the history of Sonic X-treme.
This Lost World thing doesn't appear to be a coincidence.

Senn's not on this project, right? So the chances of Tiara being in this are pretty much nil, right? Good riddance.

Pretty happy to see X-treme being released, I do wonder if Metal Sonic will be a bossfight still. That blue chaos emerald has to be obtained somehow!

Jay T., on 20 October 2012 - 09:05 PM, said:

Let me save you the trouble.

I didn't even know that existed until I replayed the game a couple of months later. No idea why they tucked away something so important to the game's plot, but that was a game full of bad decisions so let's leave it at that.

Jay T., on 19 October 2012 - 06:34 PM, said:

They do, but it's nothing on the level of Shadow the Hedgehog, which, for some goddamn reason, decided to be special and tell you the answer to its biggest plot element in the last 15 seconds of the boss or so. Tons of people probably missed that, as it requires you to get every ring and survive long enough to see it, when you can beat the boss in a third of the time.

Final Hazard, thankfully, is nothing like that. Nobody says anything serious.