Sonic Superstars: A New 2D Sonic Game (Fall 2023)

I'm going to be the dissenting voice and say that I don't really like the art-style--not compared to Mania's pitch-perfect spritework at least--and dear god...Classic Fans have had enough pandering -__-

if this were Mania 2 developed by Headcannon I'd be there day-one, but a 2.5 game by Sonic Team...?

 

This is almost the type of classic Sonic game I wanted after Generations, glad it not only exists but seems to be trying to actually experiment with traditional classic gameplay.

Still holding out for a Rush-style game in the future though, I need my boost fix

 

This looks like Sonic 4 Episode 3 as you truly imagined!

 

From Game Informer

 

Game itself looks really cool, but seeing the grinding with classic Sonic does kinda make me wish this had the modern designs and was a spiritual "Advance 4". Regardless of that, this looks interesting and I'll be waiting to see if the game turns out to be fun.

The new classic Sonic model also looks way nicer than the Generations/Forces one. I hope we get a new "modern" Sonic model that's closer to Uekawa's art like the Adventure promo art and SA2 ones were one of these days.

 

My concern is it playing like Sonic Forces' Classic levels.

 

Heh, you'd think with the in game locale being called the Northstar Islands, the working title would have been Sonic Polaris

 

Ninja’d on Ohshima’s involvement.. I also saw the boosters on the loops.. that screams DIMPS

Still cautiously optimistic

 

Many years since Sonic 4 and they still haven't learned their lesson. There might at least be something of a sweetener here however if they have Oshima involved this time.

 

Apparently the game is $60? I feel like most companies that do 2D games like this make it like $40? Like, I know Mega Man 11 was definitely not $60.

 

FANG IS IN. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. I REPEAT, FANG IS IN.

Instant 10/10 for me

 

These messages basically sum up my initial reactions. This looks like it’ll be really fun so long as sonic feels good to play. As friend of Sonic said:

I don’t mind if the game doesn’t control exactly like the classics. There are three things I care about: 1) that there is some sense of momentum. 2)that sonic doesn’t feel stiff like in sonic 4, generations’ 2D boost sections and forces’ classic levels. 3) that the game is well-designed around it’s controls.
That said, I’m with RetroJordan:

I want to see who is developing this. Heck I hope that this is built off the retro engine.

The four player looks awesome, but I am concerned that the level design will resemble Mario more than Classic Sonic to accommodate for 4 players on screen at once. I hope the game allows for split screen as players gain distance from each other.

 

Looks messy and unfocused to me. I'm hoping for the best but it seems to have too many big ideas to use them all properly.

The first mania trailer blew me away. This one has me wondering how this game will even play because they don't stay on a single snippet long enough to get a idea of how the game flows.

Guess we'll wait and see.

 

Actually surprised by how good this looks. Obviously, we need to see more, but it looks like they may have gotten the physics and controls right?

 

SEGAbits is reporting this is a full $60 game:
https://xcancel.com/SEGAbits/status/1666895741975945218?s=20

 

Looks fun. Dont fuck the physics Sonic Team.

 

Honestly not surprised about boosters. It doesn't even have to be DIMPS; when you see Sonic Origins' mission levels you can see boxy crap everywhere on top of the old stuff and a clear lack of ideas for how Sonic "worked" so they just made blocky things the physics work inside of. Sega and the internal devs seem to want to make an inspired game, not a literal Classic game.

The transformations and Emerald Powers stuff themselves tell me that on top of Grind Rail portions. This is probably going to be bits of traditional with plenty of new stuff thrown in.

 

Lol. Lmao even.

 

This certainly caught my interest, more than the video itself. Playing as Amy looks cool too. We'll see what the new powerups are all about -- they look a little like not-Wisps in their application, which I'd not be a fan of, but we'll see.

 

damn this is really unexpected! looks cool, glad they got Naoto Ohshima to work on this