Sonic and Mario: Lovers at last?

Post by **Segaholic2** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 1:00 pm

The latest issue of NOM Magazine has an interview with Yuji Naka, where he discusses some of the new projects for GameCube and DS.

Sonic Team head, Yuji Naka, revealed two new Sonic the Hedgehog games for Nintendo in an exclusive interview with NOM in London at the end of last year.

Ã¢â‚¬Å“We are in development with a new GameCube Sonic game, which we hope to release before the end of 2005,Ã¢â‚¬ï¿¾ Naka exclusively revealed to us. Ã¢â‚¬Å“Sonic Team is also currently making a Sonic game for the DS. We are taking our time to make sure the game makes good use of the DSÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s many new features.Ã¢â‚¬ï¿¾ Double whammy!

We pressed for details and Naka revealed that the DS game will incorporate parts of the screen-rubbing Sonic tech-demo shown at E3 last year. Naka expects both titles to be playable at this yearÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s E3 and, as always, weÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ll be there to see it all.

Pick up NOM UK next month for the full interview, where Yuji Naka reveals his secret conversations with Shigeru Miyamoto about getting Sonic and Mario to appear in a game together.

Thanks to <A HREF="http://www.gearlive.com/index.php/news/ ... 0740">Gear Live</A> for the tip.

SegaSonic · Post by **SegaSonic** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 1:06 pm

Mario and Sonic.

it is not Desired.

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 1:14 pm

Sonic would problably give Mario a shitty venerial disease he contracted from Shadow.

Double-S- · Post by **Double-S-** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 1:17 pm

It would be awesome if done right.

Post by **Delphine** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 2:01 pm

Zeta wrote:Sonic would problably give Mario a shitty venerial disease he contracted from Shadow.

Double-S- wrote:It would be awesome if done right.

*snicker*

Post by **big_smile** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 2:29 pm

Isn't this the same as this?

^_^

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 3:35 pm

This is very old news. The full interview has been out for a month, and was already reported about on this site.

Baba O'Reily · Post by **Baba O'Reily** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 3:40 pm

Your reading comprehension blows (Unless you took an hour to write that post, in which case I hope that it was well worth it to waste an hour thinking up a genius plot to discredit Segaholic2.), and you can't even log in correctly.
...RAWR.

Opa-Opa · Post by **Opa-Opa** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 12:26 pm

"secret conversations"? Sounds pretty gay to me.

Kishi · Post by **Kishi** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 1:21 am

"Secret conversations" is double-speak for whispering into one another's ear from behind while together in bed at night. Miyamoto's the top and enjoys waving around his Master Sword replica while getting down on Naka.

Opa-Opa · Post by **Opa-Opa** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 1:44 am

I guess this explains a lot about the Nintendo DS and its "rubbing" system...

muke · Post by **muke** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 1:46 am

All this hype will most likely just end up to be another Smash Bros. but this time with Sonic, which they will make the game's main selling point. "Two life-long rivals come together in one awesome game!!!" will probabily be one of the lines they'll use to rope us in to make us buy a game that is pretty much just like melee but with the Blue Blur tacked on to everything.

EDIT: Oh, and Sonic DS will most likely suck too. Pessimisim to the MAX!!!

Kishi · Post by **Kishi** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 2:15 am

It'd be nice if they actually made a game where Sonic and Mario's distinctive play styles meshed together in a clever and enjoyable way, but it's about a million times more likely that they'll just cop out and do a fighting game, yeah.

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 2:56 am

Sonic's playstyle is generally just a faster version of Mario that can't jump as high or as complex. So I don't see how that would work out well.

Sonic would be zipping all over the place, and Mario would be - wall-jumping. Who wins in that situation?

Kishi · Post by **Kishi** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 3:27 am

Mario can grow many times his normal height, throw fireballs, disguise himself as a statue, hop around in a huge invincible shoe of death, swim, and fly.

Not that I know how any of that would change things. I'm just saying.

Omni Hunter · Post by **Omni Hunter** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 1:43 pm

Yeah, but for all that shit he needs power ups while Sonic is fast from the go. Heck even Cream could probably whip Mario's arse.

JessicaPadkin · Post by **JessicaPadkin** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 2:31 pm

I reckon some sort of Eggman/Wario platform game could be pretty decent. I mean, both characters are more evenly matched in terms of personalities and potential abilities, and what with them both being comedic bad guys you could get away with the game being a bit more wacky and tounge-in-cheek. Think about it.

Nova · Post by **Nova** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 2:32 pm

Omni Hunter wrote:Yeah, but for all that shit he needs power ups while Sonic is fast from the go. Heck even Cream could probably whip Mario's arse.

Without the Chao demon from the underworld, Cream is useless. Cream needs Cheese to do the atacks.

Omni Hunter · Post by **Omni Hunter** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 2:53 pm

Nova wrote:Without the Chao demon from the underworld, Cream is useless. Cream needs Cheese to do the atacks.

True, Demonic Chao Cheese could kick Mario's arse but Cream would struggle.

Hmmm, Wario... and Eggman... they would just argue who has the best tache.

Eggman- "Mines bigger."

Wario- "Do you know how long it took to make mine THIS wavy!?"

Mario- "But neither give off the pornstar vibe as mine does!!"

Spazz · Post by **Spazz** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 3:04 pm

Omni Hunter wrote:Mario- "But neither give off the pornstar vibe as mine does!!"

Opa-Opa · Post by **Opa-Opa** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 5:22 pm

I think a nice thing they could do was give Square the rights to make an RPG with Sonic and Mario. Maybe in that way, we wouldn't have a giant lizard in the end, like a Perfect Bowser or Koopa Overlord or something like that and the game wouldn't have tennis or golf or fishing, only, uhm, chocobos maybe. And summons. And, magic and weapons... Yeah, forget what I said.

j-man · Post by **j-man** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 5:37 pm

[xZibit] · Post by **[xZibit]** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 6:29 pm

Opa-Opa wrote:I think a nice thing they could do was give Square the rights to make an RPG with Sonic and Mario. Maybe in that way, we wouldn't have a giant lizard in the end, like a Perfect Bowser or Koopa Overlord or something like that and the game wouldn't have tennis or golf or fishing, only, uhm, chocobos maybe. And summons. And, magic and weapons... Yeah, forget what I said.

Don't EVER, EVER, EVER mention that again.

Opa-Opa · Post by **Opa-Opa** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 7:02 pm

Yeah, I know. It would look like crap.

Baba O'Reily · Post by **Baba O'Reily** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 6:39 am

One would think that you could switch between Sonic and Mario for certain things, like Mario for wall jumps between two conveniently close buildings, and Sonic for curling up in tube sized objects. Plus, both of them have the nifty ability to cross large gaps by jumping on stuff...
Yeah. This is starting to suck.