Sonic and the Black Knight

Looniju said:
Sonic was meant to be "badass" when Sonic 1 came out. One could argue that Mario has taken his Mario-ness to the extreme.
Sonic was a game about a blue hedgehog saving woodland critters in Sonic 1.

Sonic and the Black Knight is about Sonic going into King Arthur's storybook, and hacking things up with a sword.

SMB was about a plumber saving a princess from a turtle.

SMG was about a plumber going into space to save a princess from a turtle.


Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...
 
Also, something I forgot to mention in my previous post. The voice acting has improved ALOT. Jason Griffith is getting alot better, and did a VERY good job as Sonic in this game. Caliburn (Sonic's sword), and King Arthur also have great voices.
 
Looniju said:
Dude, if you think that's a lie, you may as well think Mario is Italian and try to get Samus out of your SNES. Sonic was made to be "cool" to compete with Mario, just like all of Sega's stuff at the time was suppose to be "cool" to compete with Nintendo's "kiddy" stuff.

Anyone remembers the "sega does what intendon´t?". Selective memory that is, because even before the redesign, Sonic was meant to be cool.

Despite some half assed games, which basically are sonic 06 and... I dunno, maybe the rivals ones, the rest are good. Not great but good.

I think he is trying to say that every time Mario tries something new he gest the benefit of the doubt, while Sonic, even if his games are good, always gets bashed even before the first screenshots are announced.

In my personal opinnion, the only thing I don´t like in Sonic these days is how Sega is heavily focusing on speed. Unleashed was a good game but seeing how those HUGE levels they created, are practically empty raceways, really saddens me. Where are the enemies that actually aren´t just puppets waiting to be smashed with a boost? where are the item capsules? why the score is mostly based on speed? (heck, the wii version is not mostly but ONLY based on speed in day levels. You can ignore every trick zone, ignore rings, die a lot and just run like hell and you can still get an S.)

By the way, Black Knight is an OK game. I tried it and it´s good. Actually it´s the kind of game I expected from Secret Rings. Instead of being an on-rails racer like Satsr was, and even if SBK still has a pre-defined route, you can move when you want with the stick, you are NOT forced to kill enemies (unlike IGN says), you have items and stuff in the levels (not only rings and pearls like Satsr), you have more characters to play as (but done in the RIGHT way, aka, going to the goal classic style, not fishing or emerald hunting), you have a decent multiplayer, good graphics... in short, the game is good.

Fun fact about Sonic and the Black Knight: everything is "Arthur-ized" to fit the medieval style. You have vasses and chests instead of item capsules and balloons. You have yellow fairies instead of shields. You have apples and red fairies instead of pearls (the things that filled your boost gauge in Satsr). Instead of springs and dash panels you have "wooden springs" and wheels to launch you off in the air, etc etc. Small details that are well done and kinda get you in the "Arthuric" mood.
 
Master Lucario said:
Also, something I forgot to mention in my previous post. The voice acting has improved ALOT. Jason Griffith is getting alot better, and did a VERY good job as Sonic in this game. Caliburn (Sonic's sword), and King Arthur also have great voices.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

The sword...

talks?

BULLS#$%
 
By this time, I think about 90% of retro gamers have given up on sonic. The other 10% live in their mother's basements.
 
Easmo said:
Looniju said:
Dude, if you think that's a lie, you may as well think Mario is Italian and try to get Samus out of your SNES. Sonic was made to be "cool" to compete with Mario, just like all of Sega's stuff at the time was suppose to be "cool" to compete with Nintendo's "kiddy" stuff.
Despite some half assed games, which basically are sonic 06 and... I dunno, maybe the rivals ones, the rest are good. Not great but good.

SatSR was mediocre, Sonic Heroes was average, Rivals 1+2 were OK, and StH was a disaster.