Sonic X Shadow Generations thread, movie level out now

The designs kinda peaked there all across the board, really.

Please bring back upgrades so Sonic and his friends can just have absolutely useless stuff cluttering their designs. Fully powered up Knuckles in SA2 brings me a level of glee no other character design can.

 

I'm all for them shrinking the hands and feet for the characters, especially Knuckles' hands.

But at the end of the day the characters are still going to have that "humongous" effect next to the human characters. You can see this as well in the Sonic movie or other stuff like Roger Rabbit or Space Jam.

I think the only way I can see them getting away with it is if the humans have more exaggerated proportions than the anime or Unleashed characters from the past. And even then it's still going to be noticeable since the characters can't look too small.

 

With all due respect to Stephanie Sheh, I think this is my least favorite voice for Maria. The performance is fine (although the line read of “That robot was heading toward Grandfather’s lab” sounds weirdly contemporary, almost Valley Girl), but there’s a nasal quality to her voice that I personally don’t care for. I think there should be a timeless pureness and innocence to Maria’s voice that I missed here.

 

Source upload for the Dark Beginnings teaser. There's that 2D art again...what's your game here, SEGA?

 

I heard that as well. I flashed back to Lythero's Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) playthrough.

 

I think the nasally voice fits a girl who's deathly ill

 

If I had a nickel for every time Shadow had a random premonition of an upcoming disaster, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

 

New lore drop, the primary symptom of late-stage NIDS is a stuffy nose. May those who were congested never be forgotten.

 

I think this is the best between this, SA2 and Shadow, honestly. SA2's is...well it's Dreamcast era voice acting. ShtH's is a lot better but still has a lot of stilted takes. I can understand why people might not like the more nasally take of this version and I admit it's taking its time to grow on me, but the deliveries are far more organic and Maria actually sounds like the child she is.

Anyway, I've been having a hard time hearing the PA alert that plays when Emerl appears, so I turned on captions and it states that "multiple subjects are free of containment". Can't help but wonder if there are any other surprises in store for us, or if this is just going to be stuff like Artificial Chaos and maybe some Black Arms test subjects.

 

HIV fucks your immune system right up so sure, why not right?

 

Now that we have it in proper resolution we can see that they did in fact preserve Maria's massive fivehead. The fan service here is awesome.

 

Totally agree. This definitely not the story of voice I would pick for a character such as Maria. It's not a bad performance, but it just feels totally wrong.

 

This time paying more attention to the voices...
Erm... Nope, gotta check the japanese version.
The characters felt a bit off to me, almost like they had little to no emotion in their voices.

 

One thing I always loved about the SA2 model is how round his face is. Say what you will about overly pedantic terms like "muzzle curve" but I really do think the rounder face just straight up looks better. Sonic's face is made of soft round circles that contrast with his sharp edges. Without the curve he just looks kind of square faced.

I think this is true, I hope they give the human characters exaggerated designs. Make a human character who just straight up looks like Dennis the Menace (the british version)

 

The taller eyes, soulful pupils and lack of mouth really go such a long way. I think the subtle erosion of things like that are why Modern Sonic's expressions often look so awkward. He just doesn't really have a proper 'neutral' face.

 

In other words, they fixed what is not broken.

 

Y'all talking about how Maria's voice doesn't fit her character, but all I fucking hear is Kyrie and Orihime and I'm like "Yea, that makes sense"


If you've ever heard Stephanie Sheh's prior roles, she's basically pigeonholed to voice demure female character, especially if they're paired with a broody boy counterpart.

 

Yeah, I'm a massive fan of the SA2 models for most of the characters. They're just rounder (and more Uekawa accurate than the models that would come later), and more expressive just in a standstill. This is a big reason I've been making high poly versions of the SA2 models recently (aside from the experience I'm getting)

 

I don't even think Maria has had enough lines in the series to even have an impression of her voice tbh.

Yeah same, add in Hinata too. Her typical roles match up pretty well with Maria

 

Now the HD sneak peek is out, I can say this is the best-looking animation Sonic have had, and this might be even better than the Sonic Frontiers: Prologue. Every frame is so eye-cand and could be easily used for a wallpaper. And I still think the CGI mixed with 2D is fine from what I've seen in this preview.

Also, this is the most Arcane shit Sonic have doing so far:

This is both so freak and cool, and I LOVE it. We really need a Sonic animated series in this quality. Which in-game cutscene could be like this too sometimes.