Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1

[Barry the Nomad]

As long as the homing attack works, I'm happy. Considering the devs are dealing with one less dimension, I think the downgrade from 3D to 2D will benefit the attack. Make it easier to code and function.

I played some Sonic 3 yesterday with the Game Genie cheat that allows for Sonic to have the flame shield attack at all times (minus the shield). It really did play like Sonic with a 2D homing attack and worked rather well!

[Sega Uranus]

I think people are missing the point of the complaints of the homing attack.

It will just significantly hurt the game. In the original 2D games you had to actually aim yourself over enemies or item monitors, etc, now you can just keep pressing the same button to get everything done. It was specifically added to go against platforming and to add speed. Iizuka just used it because he wanted more FASSSSSST, you can tell he wanted the boost in the game too.

Sharky, stop mentioning the 3D games, the homing attack is fine and makes sense in those. Especially in 3D Blast, where it was a shield you had to find... Which is what it should have been in here. Sonic Rush is a completely different style of a game, so do not bring that up, either.

[MadeManG74]

I agree, Sonic in 3D needs a homing attack, because it's so much harder to aim in 3D than it is in 2D. The homing attack is just going to kill off platforming to make more room for SPEED. Because Sonic is all about SPEED and nothing else. Mabye they should add a SPEED button that just lets you SPEED through the levels without having to worry about jumping or enemies or anything that detracts from the SPEED.

Yes, I know I'm being a bit negative, but really... it's Sonic Team.

[Waffle]

http://soundcloud.com/bigthecat

Durr, sux.

[Sega Uranus]

None of it sounds like Sonic music at all, it is closer to a mix of WonderBoy and Crash Bandicoot.

Not buying this crap, they obviously do not know what made Sonic good, and they do not care to try and fix it. They are literally not even trying to do anything even remotely good, just copy all of their past work and try to blend it in with the new series too much.

I had hope for this too, it is a damn shame everything revealed thus far just completely sucks and we all know it will not get any better.

It is ridiculous to think that you could ever make such a cheap game about a character I like so much and make me not want it at all. I really rather get Sonic and the Black Knight over this, at least they tried new concepts in that and it actually has pretty good music.

Sonic Team is never going to be fixed I guess, I cannot believe I have bought so many of their products over the years thinking "Maybe the next one will be better" or "I will just remain cautiously optimistic!".

[Sharky]

Sounds fine to me, I like about half of the tracks and it sounds sonic-ish enough.
There were no tracks I dispise as much as marble garden zone or green hill zone so it's fine by me.

The only one I'm not that impressed with is the Boss music, I would much prefer if they just lifted the boss music from one of the older sonic games. It didnt strike fear into me like the old
'DUN-DUN DUN-DUN DUN'DUN DUN-DUN'

[crackdude]

Sanus, Sonic will always be what they want it to be. It's just a videogame, don't have a cow. When it comes out, download the trial and try it. If you like it buy it. If you don't then fuck it.

I still think it's bogus to diss a game on pure speculation. Has anyone actually tried out the homing attack? No? Well then what are you complaining about?
It's like saying you don't like grapes, without ever trying some, cause one time you ate some olives and you wouldn't like olives to go with your fruit salad.

[Dr. SEGA Monkey]

I doubt anyone here but me cares, but the "Boss Music 1" is exactly the same as the unused beta music from Sonic 3D Blast.

http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVbSwD2I8eY

Doesn't even sound like a boss theme. Sounds like a spooky carnival theme or something.

[Sega Uranus]

Sanus, Sonic will always be what they want it to be. It's just a videogame, don't have a cow. When it comes out, download the trial and try it. If you like it buy it. If you don't then fuck it.

I still think it's bogus to diss a game on pure speculation. Has anyone actually tried out the homing attack? No? Well then what are you complaining about?
It's like saying you don't like grapes, without ever trying some, cause one time you ate some olives and you wouldn't like olives to go with your fruit salad.

I have given my reasons as to why the homing attack being in the game is a bad decision, I am not going to keep talking about it anymore.

What you are missing is that I am not hating the game because of "Speculation", I just hate pretty much everything about it. The art I hate, the music I hate, the badniks are just rehashed ones from earlier releases and worst of all they are my LEAST favorite badniks from all of the games, that is quite a feat!

I am not getting mad at the game because I am guessing the gameplay will suck, I just hate everything about the game from what I can see and I feel the choices in the gameplay are extremely poor. Of course I will try the demo, but there is no way I am buying these separately.

I mean, I just hate the game, I want nothing to do with it. It is like me telling you to "Become a fan of a soccer team you hate, just give it a try, you might like it!". You know you hate the team, so why should you ever bother?

[Dr. SEGA Monkey]

Mad Gear songs sound awesome, you must admit.

Also, why are the tracks so short??

Honestly, most of the tracks aren't very memorable. It's like notes were just randomly arranged. Very unlike Senoue.

Invincibility music sound really awesome though. It's definitely memorable and catchy. Same with the Mad Gear music. Shame the whole soundtrack isn't like that.

[ribbitking17]

Why did they use clown music for the boss theme?

The casino track came on while I was looking at other things. I thought that sounded like a casino level. I checked and it was, thats good i guess.

[Dr. SEGA Monkey]

Well, after listening to the Splash Hill tracks for a while, I actually kinda like them now.

I think the problem with these songs is that the instruments just kinda drone for too long. But the actual melodies could be fine.

But it doesn't change the fact that Boss 1 Music doesn't fit at all.

[upsidedown fuji]

If these leaked tracks end up being the real deal and in game, maybe they'll fit better once I get the full experience infront of me. It's really wierd getting this disembodied soundtrack without a game or footage to go along with it.

How do people find this leaked stuff and how does this stuff so easily? Now that the cat's out of the bag, maybe it's time for SEGA to finally show some real footage from the game.

[Orta]

Can somebody please tell me this tunes sound all the same? Because that's what I hear! The beat is always the same and that electronic sound from the beginning of Splash Garden Act 1 is literally everywhere. I love you, Jun Senoue.

For fucks sake.

[Waffle]

Can somebody please tell me this tunes sound all the same? Because that's what I hear! The beat is always the same and that electronic sound from the beginning of Splash Garden Act 1 is literally everywhere. I love you, Jun Senoue.

For fucks sake.

Yeah!