New Sonic Spin-off Causes Fanboy Uproar – First Details, Screens

So this explains what that Sega questionaire was about a while ago. Shadow the Hedgehog appeared on it as an option. I think this is good for Sega and fans because the constant Sonic titles were getting stale. This isn't the first time mind because Knuckles also had a game on the MD.

Some may not be happy but I think Sega are good at what they do and we have little to worry about (cough..! Shinobi ..cough.). Lets hope they pull it off.

This looks like a quite interesting prospect. As long as they don't pull a Sonic Heroes on us it's fine by me.

It's been over a decade since Sonic the Hedgehog was first released, and it's nice to see Sega try something new with it's characters.

Here's a link to the video clicky clicky

I think you'll find the very existence of a Shadow game is the RESULT of fanboys. I don't think any fanboys are unhappy about this decision.

The point is, it bastardises the series completely. I see a problem when this new game only looks set to be a boring spinoff game that looks (and will probably play) as dull as the character starring in it. Never mind the fact that Sonic is all about creating new platforming ideas, not stealing from other games (platform or otherwise), like GTA.

I can see the American SEGA execs now: "We have a bad boy... let's give him a gun! Yeah, we sell million copy!" TBH, I'm worried it's taken them this long to sellout to such a concept as GTA.

Bearing in mind everyone's sick to the stomach of Shadow, except for those people who aren't fans and fanboys. Heck, even the Shadow fans think he should have just died. =i

Still, at least this isn't the new Sonic game Yuji Naka was banging on about. I can sleep easy and forget this "lowest common denominator" game ever happened.


Actually, if you think about it, this game has been in development for much longer than it appears, so any survey wouldn't have made the slightest shred of difference. :P I could hardly see "Tails Adventure: Punishment of Pain" on my screens, lol. XD

And yeah, Knuckles Chaotix was hardly stellar anyway. I have a hunch that Sonic Team Japan have little to do with this, considering the backwards step to Sonic Adventure 2 "straight line" levels, the recognisable SA2-ish pseudo-sickly-RAWK soundtrack, the fact that Sonic Team USA developed SA2 in its entirety (overseen by Yuji Naka and some Japan staff) and the concept of Shadow + Gun being totally American. :P

I wish everybody would stop banging on about the bloody gun and concentrate on the rest of the video. After Sonic Heroes, the majority of Sonic fans that I talked to said they'd prefer a return to Sonic Adventure 2's main stages, without any of the hunting or shooting stages. This new game looks mainly to be about the platforming, which is what people asked for.

I know they meant Sonic fans in their title. Which is quite misrepresentational. My point was it was Sonic fanboys (read: "Sawnik!2121 Ansf teh Shadow!11!1one!") who made this game possible in the first place. :i

Ironic, I'd have thought Shadow with a gun would go down a storm at Sonic CulT.


Note my point. "Bad Boy" gets "Gun". Blows stuff up. End Game. The difference is the "with a gun" part. All other Sonic characters have had weapons, but not guns. Not to mention the fact that Shadow's the first Sonic character to have a GUN (as in, not built into himself/his vehicles, and not as a form of built-in self defence) is most worrying. Again, it's the ethics of it that completely shoves the game (and series if its not careful) from a decent all-ages (kids and adults alike) series to a depressing 'hip' "it's cool to blow stuff up, yeah, I'm gonna buy a gun now!" preteen generation. You understand of course that the proportion of kids recieving GTA as opposed to adults who actually bought the games for themselves is seriously disproportionate in favour of the former?


The fact is the series doesn't need it. I'd sooner see a decent use of gameplay using different forms of Chaos Control-esque powers - that could easily make the game its own rather than a game that's following the crowd. Sonic sets its own platforming standards, not conforming to its own. There are many inventive ways to push the gameplay using Shadow rather than - a - gun *yawn*.


If anything, I'm hoping this game will at least settle something about his story. Then he can just bugger off back to his crater-shaped grave again. Seriously, he's outstayed his welcome.

And what's this? "Choose to be Hero or Villain"? It's like it's 2001 all over again. I thought we were supposed to be going forwards not backwards. AND there's a good chance that, with this "original" gameplay mechanic, that again nothing will be answered much. It's really getting old to see the same mumbling sulky git go on about how "1337" he is and about his past, when it should have been covered in SA2.


Unfortunately, I have a feeling your comment (and my assumption/fears) are right on this one.



I understand that you're trying to be optimistic, but it's very hard to look past the gun when there really is nothing else in the video. The only other thing that's in that video is a few charge moves (Chaos Control-y). Doesn't really account to anything does it?

I believe when people refer to Sonic Adventure 2, they are 99.9% referring to the sole level that does it any justice: the secret Green Hill stage. I know I certainly didn't ask for "straight line" levels again, just who exactly have you been talking to? No, this isn't what 'we' (if I have to use that pronoun) asked for at all. It all looks like some twisted fangame; some demented Sonic/Shadow fanboy's "game idea" that was probably submitted to SEGA. Understand that the actual game concept is fanboyish, not the outrage that Spong so wittingly describes.