Sonic X Shadow Generations announced, releases Autumn 2024

I expect the Shadow gameplay to just be a Sonic Forces Episode Shadow kind of thing. If they bring back the Adventure gameplay style for this I'll actually eat my shoe, that's way too good to be true and probably too ambitious for extra content in a remaster of a game from 2011.

and there's also the possibility that all of this was fake and we were all duped
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

Episode Shadow is about where my expectations are for new content, both in terms of quality and quantity. A few short, moderately enjoyable cookie-cutter levels, and some dialog or maybe even cutscenes to string it together. But this is Sonic Team so I'm sure they'll find someway to surprise me, not necessarily in a good way.

Edit: I have never been proven so wrong, so quickly.

 

IT'S HIM!

 

HOLY SHIT

SHADOW 2005 STUFF

 

THEY REALLY DID IT, THE ABSOLUTE MADMEN

Those controls though. Hoo boy. Frontiers physics and homing attack.

 

Well, that was more budget/effort for a Shadow portion added to the game than I was expecting, though it still fell into "floating level geometry" stuff, plus whole extra boss fights and everything.
The actual Generations part looked nigh identical until people do comparisons though.

 

God fucking damnit it's real.

 

Trailer is up on social media:
https://twitter.com/sonic_hedgehog/status/1752817294135476462

 

So they actually went with that title, huh

The "Sonic" part of it just looks like a straight port though

 

Looks like Shadow's campaign was built off Frontiers, and this description seems to confirm that. I'm curious what exactly those upgrades and bonus content for Generations are, cause I'm not seeing it.

 

That logo is AWFUL but I'm HYPED

 

Well I was expecting A LOT LESS than this. I'm officially intrigued.

 

Shadow is so cool

 

Man. Sega was cooking. No phoned in remaster today, that's for sure

 

So they are just going to just keep Classic Sonic’s physics the same? I like the Shadow content from what I see so far.

 

This is 100% "we saw Bowser's Fury and want a piece of the pie" and I'm fine with that.

Base game looks identical to the original, new shit looks like Cyber Space but balls to the wall insane with much better production quality. I'm hyped.

 

Funny title aside it looks interesting. The Shadow stuff looked substantially more... substantive then I expected. The part where Doom's Eye comes in and the whole stage psychedelically warps and distorts looked excellent. Hey, I'm all for it. Looked better than any of the new Colors Ultimate stuff by default.

I just hope the actual level layouts and sense of speed in the new stuff are better than Frontiers / Forces.

 

Can't muster any excitement as it looks like it will play like Frontiers. Also assuming the level design will be complete dogshit...

 

Base game looks the same as the PC version so far. Shadow content is running at 30fps instead of 60fps, though. Have to wonder if they'll make previous owners purchase again on Steam or Xbox. Switch performance will be interesting to see.

 

I felt like a child again watching those Shadow segments, especially when Doom's Eye showed up as an infinite knockoff. Fuck. As someone who held off on buying Frontiers and SuperStars, I might end up buying this just for the nostalgia alone.