Old School Sonic Won’t Speak; Will he Become a Werehog?
There is good news and, for some, potentially bad news to come out of Sonic Generations preview posted by Kotaku’s Michael McWhertor today.
As has been reported elsewhere, Takashi Iizuka was made available for interviews during Gamescom this week. In speaking to McWhertor, Iizuka confirmed that classic Sonic would lack a voice in-game, with classic Tails speaking on his behalf. Modern Sonic will be chatting it up still, the Q&A confirms.
But classic Sonic could assume other modern franchise additions. When the Green Hill demo was mined in June, some digging suggested evidence that the classic Werehog could make an appearance. According to McWhertor, with thanks to Iizuka’s vagueness, don’t rule that out:
I asked Iizuka if classic, side-scrolling Sonic would be able to enjoy the superpowers of a game like Sonic Colors or Sonic Unleashed. Would he turn into a drill or a laser or a werewolf (or “werehog,” if you must)? Could chubby Sonic use a sword in Generations? Iizuka would neither confirm nor deny that classic Sonic’s skills would expand beyond spin dashing and jumping, but it sure sounds like a possibility.
For reference, McWhertor was demoed the recently revealed Rooftop Run stage–confirming at least one additional stage is being shown behind closed doors–but did not elaborate further on its contents.
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@superskeetospro
Okay. XD
@funkyjeremi
That’s pretty cool! =D Kinda helps me think of what he’d look like if he were “classic” too. XD
@Greg
I apologize to you and anyone else who thought so if I made it seem that way. XC I meant it as a genuine discussion tho. ^^;
@ Everyone
Exiting the forest is super simple, all you do is follow his pattern.
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But really, I’m wondering what Classic Tails will sound like. But, subconceously, when I read this, I giggled at Classic Tails. Don’t know why, but I did. So anyone else curios about this new voice?
@Sonichedgehog – Thank you SO much for explaining it to me! The story for Generations seems like its going to be out-of-whack, but Patrick Riley did say that Generations will have a light story
I’m glad this time it won’t be a hard-to-think story xD
And is it me, or is Tristan Oliver taking a break from this site? The sonic stadium has three new posts up, including release dates, animations, and a new Big Arm Boss Battle, with THE Sonic 3 music remastered by Cash Cash. If u guys wanna go there, then its http://www.sonicstadium.org
@Ricardo
From what I’ve seen, Tristan generally takes the weekends off unless it’s really big news.
@Ricardo
They never post the same things at the exact same time. They’re 4 days apart sometimes. lol
And that was Cash freakin Cash!!!? 0.0 No way! They did awesome! XD I think. o0 We’re talking about the Big Arms music right? lol
I’ve seen the video, but I never expected Alex was responsible for that remix. I’m wondering if/hoping they’ll give him reign over other tracks as well (preferably on the console version, just to keep things feeling fresh)
@Foxboy – Yeah, it was Alex from Cash Cash.
@ChaoticFox – Oh, okay, that makes sense now
@ChaoticFox – Yeah, Alex did an awsome job w/that remix. If he can do that good on a handheld, then (with better instruments) imagine what he could do on a console version…but then again, he WAS just remixing…its not like he originally made that song. Though im pretty sure the people at SEGA will keep making the music, since they do a good job at it anyways. Just like Sonic Generations. The people that made the music for Generations labeled themselves as “Sonic Generations Sound Team”. Im certain that the Generations Sound Team will be the ones to continue making tracks for Sonic’s future games.
@Ricardo
I don’t care if all he does is remix tracks, I’d just like to hear him do a little bit more of it and Jun do a little bit less
How’s the Super-Peel-out for a superpowered move? XD That’d be awesome. Even if it was just in the race with Metal Sonic ^-^
i like the werehog, but you know the werehog would be even cooler if he was still fast. I once thought of spiderman 2 for ps2, how you hold X and then swing around the city super fast, but instead of web use stretchy arms ehhh? EHHHH? Have him jump far distances fast! The hulk game was like that actually.
@BrandonTH – Oh gosh, i hope he doesnt get Figure 8, that made Classic Sonic look retarded as fuck, and im glad SEGA didnt decide to put it in Sonic 3&K or in Generations lol
The super peel-out looked cool but was kind of useless. It was like a suicide move.
It’d be hilarious if the Time Eater was designed to look like Iizuka.
@Jemi97 He’s still 8, so him being able to talk before a 15/16 yr. old can still doesn’t make an ounce of sense. And what’s the point of classic Sonic being mute if classic Tails get’s to talk? Either have all classic characters talk or none of them talk.
@thewafflefactory
The Werehog actually jumped around like that in the cutscenes for Unleashed. (One of the Amy scenes and the one near the end before the Egg Dragoon fight).
@Ananze
We’re talking about an 8 year old that’s as smart as Eggman who has an IQ of 300.
@Ricardo:
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I liked it, anyway. . . -_-
Now that I think about it, the super peel-out was the first step away away from “Sonic is a rolling animal whose gameplay revolves around pinball physics” toward the modern gameplay philosophy that has essentially abolished the spin dash and rolling entirely. Hrm.
@Sonichedgehog
Which is a ridiculously stupid part of his character already XD
@ChaoticFox
In my opinion, I think the Werehog should have had more acrobatics and stuff like in those cutscenes.
I have no problem with Tails being smart. He’s a geek who got decent character development (which was unfortunately retconned). Tails, an eight-year-old fox with two tails, being as smart, if not smarter than a mad scientist with an IQ of 300 (at least that’s what Sega wants us to believe) is stupid.
@Sonichedgehog
I was talking about Tails, lol.
@Amuro
Yes, that. Being smart is fine. Even being smart enough to build small machines or make modifications to existing tech is fine… but putting him on par with Eggman is just moronic. It’s not only lame and cliche for Tails, but it also completely detracts from Eggman’s character… ruining two characters for the price of one!
@ChaoticFox:
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Wait. What?
“Yes, that. Being smart is fine. Even being smart enough to build small machines or make modifications to existing tech is fine… but putting him on par with Eggman is just moronic. It’s not only lame and cliche for Tails, but it also completely detracts from Eggman’s character… ruining two characters for the price of one!”
Thank you for this, ChaoticFox. This has always been my major complaint with Modern Tails (besides my disdain for the style Sega forced on Uekawa). Even then, I kind of think he should be mildly tech smart moreso in the Engineering category than the Reading Binary Code category. Leave that stuff to Rotor (in other words, don’t make Robotnik look incompetent to an 8 year old kid since Rotor will never make his way into the games). So yes, just return him to being able to operate machinery and have SOME smarts, but not ALL smarts. It’s when the Tornado started transforming since Sonic Adventure that this shit got out of hand.
@Greg
And what do you mean by “style”?
@Greg and ChaoticFox
Well…Eggman is still smarter than Tails….
If you remember this from SA2….
Eggman: You thought you could trick me with that fake emerald didn’t you?
Tails: So…how did you know it wasn’t the real one?
Sonic: Tails!
Eggman: Because you just told me Foxboy.
See. Eggman still is smarter than Tails. Tails is smart, but not the smartest.
@Greg: I’m with Stephan. What do you mean by “style”?
@Stephan: Art style. Uekawa was drawing characters in Ristar and drew those awesome pieces you find in Sonic R a few years before Sega forced (or he succumbed? I have no clue at this point) the new style on him. Oh well, it’s not like he’s really had a problem with it, anyways. A shame really.
@sonichedgehog: That is true, but since then Tails and Robotnik have been on even ground with Robotnik slipping far too many times for his own good. By this point, the only reason he’s there is to save face for the damn franchise if it weren’t for the fact that he’s (slowly) becoming a more powerful antagonist force in Sonic Colours like he used to be in the Genesis titles. No monster in sight? The evil energy under his control? Alright. He finally seems to be on top of things again. Let’s see if Sega can keep it that way… and dumb Tails down a bit more so that his intelligence will actually mean something…. Or make Robotnik smarter and crafty and slightly less bumbling.
@Greg “The Cat” Longcrier
Make Eggman smarter. Think about it. He was an amazing villain in SA2 until the Biolizard, went to complete fool in Heroes, slightly redeemed himself in Shadow/06, back to awesome in Unleashed, back to Heroes Eggman at the end of Unleashed, awesome again in Colors.
@Greg
You’re complaining about his design?
@Sonichedgehog
That’s more of a showing of Tails’ naivete than a direct comparison of mechanical intelligence. Even if they aren’t on the “same level” an eight-year old should not be capable of building robots/binary translators. It’s so anime-cliche it’s disgusting. I don’t care that it’s unrealistic, my problem is that it’s just… dumb. It’s an over-abused stereotype that was never really that cool to begin with. It doesn’t make the kid character seem cooler to make him a rocket scientist by the FIRST GRADE, it just makes every older character look like an idiot.
No matter how smart you are, it’s ridiculous to think that in their first 8 years of life ANYONE could acquire that much knowledge… you’d have to exit the womb with a college reading level for that to even begin to seem plausible.
@ChaoticFox
Will you let it slide for Dexter from Dexter’s Lab? XD
Yes.
Awesome.