Sonic Lost World Announced

[Celestia]

Iizuka confirmed six acts, I think.

[Space☆Tomoki]

Does anyone here know for sure if there will be more than 3 acts per level in Lost World?

It was confirmed to have 6 acts per zone, just like Colors.

 

EDIT: Ninja'd.

Edited July 29, 2013 by Tomoki

[Narukami07]

^^Woah, this is the first I've heard about it. While i speculated that there could be six, i never knew it was actually confirmed lol.

Is there a source/quote from Iizuka/Aaron referencing that??

[Space☆Tomoki]

It was from some interview, IIRC. I think it was from IGN? I don't remember. But yeah, there's 6 Acts per zone; 2 Parkour Platforming stages, 2 Speed Stages, and 2 2D Side-scrolling Stages.

[Celestia]

It was implied in the Nintendo World Report interview:

 

TI: The candy stage sticks out as a little more unusual, even more than the other stages actually, but it still comes from what we were saying. You're in the Desert Ruins world now. Even though you might get tired of the desert after two stages you're going to be in the desert for six stages now. Players might get tired of that. So that's coming from the idea that we want to try something different. More variety, especially in the worlds that people might get more tired of.

 

And I think it's been more explicitly stated elsewhere (maybe by Aaron?), not sure though.

Edited July 29, 2013 by ElementofChaos

[Narukami07]

.......My confidence in this game has fully increased.

Yay! <3

[CrownSlayers Shadow]

Aside from the setting, and I guess the part where not-Knuckles was going to kill himself (that happened, right? I'm not making that up somehow?), there's nothing about SatBK's story that I don't think would fly in a main series game.

Sonic fighting rivaling characters, Sonic actually getting tricked by a so-called ally, fighting against said initial ally who's a sympathetic anti-villain, and other forms of magic?

 

There's quite a few things in SatBK's story that could fly in a main series game, some of which has been done before. And others that haven't been done would be a breath of fresh air for the main series.

 

At any rate...

If you can't think of any way to improve a character to make them work better, then you're giving up to easily!

Guess where this is going?

Edited July 29, 2013 by ChaosSupremeSonîc

[SilentDoom]

With regards to "Mario fans enjoying Lost World", didn't they say basically the same thing about Colours as well?

[Woun]

Sonic Lost World DX Version for Japan available pre-order now: https://twitter.com/Wounkun/status/361773977573670913

[Tani Coyote]

But yeah, there's 6 Acts per zone; 2 Parkour Platforming stages, 2 Speed Stages, and 2 2D Side-scrolling Stages.

So a Generations-esque division but with a whole new system. I like this idea!

I'm guessing there are seven zones, one for each of the Six and one for whatever final boss there is?

My best thing I've heard about it is the game seems more difficult than the more recent ones... thank goodness, since I'd like more play time.

[Chaos Warp]

Oh for the love of I am so sick of this

 

New Super Mario Bros was less frequent and recurring than the back-to-back Classic Sonic games we got in the first half of the 90s, and they are just as samey in context with one another. 

 

The fact that they are "rehashes" doesn't make them any less good.

 

MOVING ON TO SONIC LOST WORLD, NOW.

At least all of the classic Sonic games bothered to have different level aesthetics, while NSMB U is the only game in the NSMB series to do that (surprise surprise it's the one I really like). And things were added to the gameplay in each game: Sonic 2 introduced the spindash, while Sonic 3K introduced playable Tails (complete with flight) and Knuckles and his climbing and gliding, as well as new powerups. Not to mention the level design was refined through the three classic games. 

 

And I believe that the fact that they are rehashes does make them less good. Other then U each NSMB game feels like it could be a DLC pack as opposed to a new full game if it was not for the small change in graphical fidelity when moving from console to console, and that makes me believe that they aren't worth me paying more money for the next instalment when I already have one of the games in the series. (of course U is exempt from this because it actually changes things). 

 

Is there a NSMB topic we can take this into?

Edited July 29, 2013 by Chaos Warp

[azoo]

Hate to get off-topic, but comparing the NSMB series to the classic Sonic series is apples to oranges.

 

Each of the original Sonic games had dramatic progressions in style for art, music, atmosphere, gameplay, and way of storytelling that made them seperate from each other enough to realize they were successors and predecessors of one another. You could play any of the NSMB games in any order and the only purely notable things you can point out is that NSMBU's backgrounds are a bit more detailed, one game has COINS!!!!!, and 2 out of 4 games have 4-player.

 

But yeah, hearing that they wanna attract Mario fans is no surprise. Focusing on platforming more is good, but I hope they don't keep that mentality of reeling in Mario peeps for every upcoming game. Considering how game-y Mario games feel (especially nowadays), thats beyond what I don't want Sonic to hold onto.

Edited July 29, 2013 by New Age Retro Azoonky

[Wraith]

It would make more sense to compare NSMB to Sonic 4.

 

 

Basically, NSMB is Mario's Sonic 4 equivalent except it was   done right.

[Narukami07]

NSMBU and maaaaybe the DS one were the only titles i personally liked in the series. Otherwise 3D Mario is where it's at for me.

[Crazizzle]

I don't know why it's so bad for 2D fans to be thrown a couple of games here or there. There are a lot of gamers who still prefer 2D gaming to 3D gaming. There's more than enough games to go around for all of us, we don't need to purge games not marketed at us out of the industry.

[Endy]

So, I'm not sure if this is new news or not, but someone on Sega Forums looked up the game on the ESRB site, and it turns out they posted some reasons why it got a E10 rating today. It says the games' cutscenes feature some pretty questionable dialogue.

 

 

 

Rating Summary: In this action platformer, players control Sonic the Hedgehog as he attempts to stop an evil villain's plans. As players zoom through fantastical landscapes, they collect items (e.g., gold rings and power-ups), avoid hazards, and use spin attacks to defeat robotic enemies; enemies break apart amid colorful explosions. During gameplay, characters sometimes use aggressive language (e.g., “You're going home in a box,” 'I'm going to skin you alive,' and 'I long for death's cold embrace.'). Cutscenes also depict laser fire and explosions, as well as dialogue that references violence (e.g., “I'll get fat from eating your black hearts,” “One second you're contemplating genocide,” and “As long as I can still strangle a Zeti, my hands are fine.”).

 

http://www.esrb.org/ratings/synopsis.jsp?Certificate=33024&Title=Sonic%20Lost%20World%25u2122

 

Sounds like stuff the Zeti shout out during boss fights, and the stuff that appears in the cutscenes seem awfully grim too.

Edited July 29, 2013 by Enderwoman

[Soniman]

Can i just say I love the sadistic dialogue? I mean, we haven't heard stuff that bad since Shadow the Hedgehog , but at least with this game they're gonna take it somewhat more seriously and a the same time, more hilarious and over the top as well.

Edited July 29, 2013 by Soniman

[Milo]

I've never heard of such language and violence in a Sonic game since Sonic dressed in ninja garb and started shooting up aliens with pistols while yelling profanity practiced by 12-year olds.

[azoo]

Haha, what??

 

Well now you can really tell Ken Pontac has worked on this, then.

[spinny]

Well this is quite morbid compared to the likes of Colours and Generations but hey, maybe this could be a good thing. As long as "DAMN NOT HERE" doesn't start popping up, we're fine.

[Celestia]

Some of the dialogue is sounding about as dark as some of the Eggman P.A. announcements in Colours were, the main difference being that it sounds like they'll be more serious rather than for dark humour (well, we'll see once they're in context). That's fine by me.

[C4k3]

I just hope the writers aren't forcing this type of dialogue. I will admit, it's a nice change of pace over what we've had recently, but let's not forget what happened after a certain game tried doing this.

[Cyrus]

Dark dialogue in a visually lighthearted game? You know what this means. BLACK COMEDY IN A SONIC GAME!

[Diogenes]

haha what

What the hell is this game even going to be.

[spinny]

Really, I'm wondering if the writers have been changed. Then again, it isn't completely out of the MadWorld writers to do this.