Sonic Colours Discussion

[ezodagrom]

Website is up as seen in the front news page.

Loving the music

Here the music all ripped for those who'd like to download  them. All in one pack.

http://www.segaloco.com/!crap/retro/Colors_Music.7z

I DL'd this over at TSSMB, great tunes!

The unknown track is Asteroid Coaster, the unseen presumably final stage with a Halloween vibe.

edit: looking over the stage listing for Colors got me thinking about past 3D Sonic games and how their stage counts compare (not counting boss battles):

Sonic Adventure
10 Stages, 35 variations spread over 6 characters

Sonic Adventure 2
36 unique stages spread over 6 characters

Sonic Heroes
15 stages featuring four difficulty levels (58 slight variations)

Sonic 2006
10 stages, 29 slight variations over 8 characters

Sonic Unleashed
10 worlds, 79 acts (including DLC, many are reworkings of the same day/night stage)

Sonic Colors
(early estimate) 6 worlds, 7 acts each = 42 total (not including multiplayer levels)

In the sonic stadium videos, in the zones maps, it can be seen that the player doesn't have any red rings in any of the 7th acts, I'm guessing that the 7th act is possibly a boss act.
Assuming that it's actually 6 zones with 6 non boss acts each, that would make 36 non boss stages.

[Barry the Nomad]

Good eye! I also have yet to take into account the multiplayer stages which appear to be playable with an ai second player

[Sharky]

9/10 from Nintendo Power for Wii version

"an unequivocal success."
"Best... since the Blue Blur's 16-bit heyday."

DS version got a 7.5

[CrazyT]

Would be surprising if this game ended up getting 8's and 9's from most websites. This game deserves it, hope it will

[Shigs]

9/10 from Nintendo Power for Wii version

"an unequivocal success."
"Best... since the Blue Blur's 16-bit heyday."

DS version got a 7.5

Source please!!

[Aki-at]

I am pretty sure Nintendo Power also gave Shadow the Hedgehog and Sonic and the Black Knight an 8 out of 10, so it's not really that much of a great achievement.

[Barry the Nomad]

9/10 from Nintendo Power for Wii version

"an unequivocal success."
"Best... since the Blue Blur's 16-bit heyday."

DS version got a 7.5

[Sharky]

9/10 from Nintendo Power for Wii version

"an unequivocal success."
"Best... since the Blue Blur's 16-bit heyday."

DS version got a 7.5

Source please!!

Neogaf Nintendo Power thread.

If there was a better saurce then just another forum post I'd have provided a link. But using my better judgement I'm pretty sure he isnt lying.

[Sega Uranus]

Nintendo Power gave every Sonic game released in the past... 5 years an 8 out of 10, even stuff like Shadow and the Wii spinoff games. It is no sign of quality.

Iizuka not developing this and people outside of Sonic Team working on the game is a sign of quality. I need to admit though that the Mario inspiration in this game just pisses me right the fuck off. Seriously, so many of the sounds are incredibly similar, let alone art concepts and stuff too. I do not hate Mario, but it is really annoying how every single Sonic game being released now barely even feels like a Sonic game anymore.

[Autosaver]

Ok, for one. This was a different reviewer.
2. IT WAS A 9/10! Not 8/10. :<
"I do not hate Mario, but it is really annoying how every single Sonic game being released now barely even feels like a Sonic game anymore."
I agree, Sega should start making 360 Exclusive Werehog GoW rip-offs instead. Ha ha.. just kidding

[Barry the Nomad]

I believe the writer of that Colors review gave his own personal scores for Heroes, Shadow and Unleashed and they fell in the 4-6 range. So yeah, he personally thought it was a big improvement.

[Sharky]

Sonic Colours hasn't been trying to emulate a classic Sonic game... I think that was established right at the start.

I don't give a shit if it takes some ques from Mario. The original Sonic was designed because Yuji Naka played Mario games he admitted recently and frankly Mario Galaxy is a great game to emulate. Better that then any of the recent 3D Sonic games.

Sonic Colours is also made entirely in Sonic Team...

[fluffymoochicken]

Sonic would look fabulous in one of those cute and frilly cloud power up suits, even though Mario looks plain retarded when wearing one.

In other words, Sonic can afford to take a page or two from Mario's fashion sense, because he actually makes it look good. Who even needs Mario anymore? Sonic and Tails are much better characters. ^__^ Let's just replace Mario altogether!

(Copypasta from my post on Sega Forums)

[Autosaver]

In other words, Sonic can afford to take a page or two from Mario's fashion sense, because he actually makes it look good. Who even needs Mario anymore? Sonic and Tails are much better characters. ^__^ Let's just replace Mario altogether!

Damn it, if there was Mario and Tails pair ups you would go for it.

[fluffymoochicken]

Nah, I'd rather keep Ron Jeremy away from the cute fox boy.