Sonic Rush Adventure E3 thread

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Or wash fruit and spread rabies.

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Screw it. Watching the video reminded me of Sonic Rush enough to not care if the backgrounds look bland. It’s fun, fast action with DS gimmickry added for good measure. Sonic as he should be. Lets home Sonic and Blaze remain the only two playable characters though…

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Unless that's supposed to be Marine, that's the most ordinary, nondescript name they've had since Ray the Squirrel.

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Is Marin supposed to be some kind of weird nature lover with an incredible singing voice that is usually singing the tune that just so happens to be the key to waking up the Wind Fi- I mean, solving everyone's problems?

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Shadow Hog wrote:Is Marin supposed to be some kind of weird nature lover with an incredible singing voice that is usually singing the tune that just so happens to be the key to waking up the Wind Fi- I mean, solving everyone's problems?
Odd that I just brought up Link's Awakening in the SSB Brawl the other day, eh? Coincidence!? ... Yeah, guess so.

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Ritz wrote:Who the hell is the guy with the hat in the first scan?
Looks kind of like Fang. Kind of.

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Fang's loser brother, Molar.

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"The raccoon girl isn't enough. We need another character. Give us a suggestion."

"Maybe we should bring back an older character, like Fan-"

"NO. Did I not explain our situation? We do not have enough characters. We are sorely lacking in characters. If this is the case, then we certainly don't have any characters hidden away that we haven't used in over a decade. Otherwise, we would use those. But we are not so fortunate. We do not live in a perfect world. Do not pretend that we do."

"But look, this picture-"

"NO. That is a fabrication. That character does not exist. I saw you doodle it. I can see the smear of ink and dishonesty on your hands. Now help me come up with a new character. I'm thinking an armadillo or a tamandua."

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Black Rook wrote:"We will make billions. Nothing will stop us."
"Billions of characters!"

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You know what this franchise really needs? A long-eared jerboa.

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If they didn't change it at all, aka didn't make it Sonic-like at all and photo-realistic... that'd be awesome.

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Green Gibbon! wrote:<img src="/gibbon/rushcast.jpg">
You know, the big head and small body look to Sonic makes him look more rodent like. Perfect, exactly how he should be in my opinion. Those pirates have awesome designs to them, especially the green torpedo headed one.

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gr4yJ4Y wrote:If they didn't change it at all, aka didn't make it Sonic-like at all and photo-realistic... that'd be awesome.
If we're lucky, it'll be Cream with a gerbil tail, and people will wonder what the hell it is.

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DackAttac wrote:The design wouldn't be as much of a disappointment to me had they just been honest and called it Sonic Advance 4. In fact, I'm calling it that in my mind, and maybe it'll meet expectations. Maybe.
Um, Rush 1 is basically Advance 4. I think you mean you see this as being Advance 5

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Post by big_smile »

The Japanese Sonic Rush website is now live. However, there isn't much to see at the moment other than a collection of screenshots and a story page.

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Titan wrote:
DackAttac wrote:The design wouldn't be as much of a disappointment to me had they just been honest and called it Sonic Advance 4. In fact, I'm calling it that in my mind, and maybe it'll meet expectations. Maybe.
Um, Rush 1 is basically Advance 4. I think you mean you see this as being Advance 5
My point was Rush was a legitimate cut above the rest. I'm uneasy getting my expectations up that high without Dimps' involvement.

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Well, taking into consideration that the whole Advance saga was also made by Dimps, then maybe this game wouldn't qualify for that title either.

And it's pretty strange Sonic's the only "extra SD" character in that pic.

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Esrever wrote:You know what this franchise really needs? A long-eared jerboa.
Next you'll be telling us it need a pangolin.

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Of course it does! Man, they even roll up into balls. It's perfect!

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Why did they ever resort to cats and rabbits?

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Because every Japanese series with loads and loads of characters eventually randomly throws in a bunnygirl and a cat girl. The ultimate in Japanese appeal would be a bunny/cat/woman hybrid with a penis.

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Post by James McGeachie »

More recognised by the public I guess, maybe they think that way the characters will be more popular, which is of course pretty ignorant as I doubt the vast majority of players knew what the hell an "Echidna" was.

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Knuckles really does not look anything like an echidna, anyhow. But then again, Sonic doesn't look much like a hedgehog, either!

As interpretations of real animals, they definitely exercised a bit more imagination with the original cast. I think that's the big thing that's missing from the new characters. Cream just looks like any other generic cartoon rabbit. The few unique features she has to distinguish her from the Sonic template look to be inspired more by cartoon rabbit cliches than by any actual observations and interpretations of the features of real rabbits.

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So has anyone, anywhere translated the Famitsu scans or story?

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I kind of wish I knew how exactly to make characters more, well, unique. Personally I'd been toying around with a stoat character (well, c'mon, stoats are somewhat obscure animals!), but the more I think about it, the more I think it's a black-and-white female Tails with, well, one tail, and a tad bit more hair and different shoes (in this case, none)... which is essentially just as bad as Sega's been doing, really. Different hair, different shoes. I believe we've seen this complaint before.

Even her gimmick isn't that unique... she has the ability to swing her tail around excessively fast, essentially using it as a really freaking sharp sword. She wasn't designed to be a PLAYABLE character so the fact that such a move doesn't really fit into the <i>Sonic</i> formula is somewhat excusable, but the fact that, like, every Pokémon since the first generation have had "Tail Slap" (or similar) kinda means that my gimmick falls flat. Even if she can cut down trees with just a flick of her tail, it's really not that original. Heck, Tails even has a move like that in <i>Sonic Adventure</i>.

So yeah, how exactly DID those fellas in the original Sonic Team pull it off?... Coming up with a character that isn't incredibly generic isn't exactly an easy thing to do, I've found, but regardless it's something I'd like to have done at some point. Bodes well for moving on to more original work than fan characters, I'd think.

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