And the Buyer Has Audio–And Now Video–to Prove It
An early sale of Sonic Generations for Nintendo 3DS has emerged in Germany. SSMB forumer Thigolf said this morning he was able to purchase the game from a local Gamestop retailer.
From that, numerous new details have been revealed as curious forumers continue to ask questions. Chief among those tidbits, we’ve learned of two new bosses in-game: Biolizard from Sonic Adventure 2, and Egg Emperor from Sonic Heroes. Thigolf summed up the rest of what he learned from playing the game quite nicely:
*The only characters in the game are Sonic, Tails, Eggman and the rivals.
*After you beat the boss (or Green Hill in the first era) youre free to choose which zone and act of the era you wanna do first.
*After you beat the rival of an era, the boss is unlocked
*The rivals are all races like Metal Sonic in Sonic CD and take part in Casino Night, Radical Highway and Tropical Resort
*In the Special Stages, you collect the orbs to get the boost and chase the emerald. You have to catch him within 1:30 min.
*Classic Sonic unlocks the homing attack after the classic era, Modern Sonic unlocks the stomp after the Dreamcast era.
*You can find the electric shields from the Advance and Rush games for Classic Sonic
*The missions cost 5 Playcoins each
Level info:
*The Whale in Classic Emerald Coast destroys the path behind you kind of like the Truck in the HD Version does
*In Modern Emerald Coast, he jumps out of the water and you have to do a little quick time event to make him crash against the wall (poor guy)
*Modern Radical Highway has lots of grinding parts on the bridge
*In Water Palace Classic Sonic needs to activate the switches to make the water pumps, that shoot you up, work (could be gramatically false, sorry) The level also has a bubble machine that creates bubbles you can jump on so you can cross holes
*The Back 2 Back remix in the Modern Level seems more funky and has more rock elements
*Classic Tropical Resort seems to be based more on the DS Version of Colors designwise, he also has the DS exclusive Red Wisp and has a Rocket Part at the end where so jump from rocket to rocket before they explode to get up
*Modern Tropical Resort is more based on the Wii Version and has the Cyan Wisp, at the end you grind on rails and you have to avoide falling meteors
About that Tropical Resort, Thigolf also uploaded an non-direct sample of how it sounds. We have it for your review below. Thanks to VizardJeffhog among others for tipping us. If you have news to share, be sure to share it with us by clicking Send News Tips at the top of every page.
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UPDATE: Thigolf just released an off-camera look at Emerald Coast on the 3DS. It is about 3 minutes in length and pretty blurry, but better than nothing. Take a look at it below.
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@Shade:
Pretty sure Modern will fight Biolizard. The imbalance between Classic and Modern (in terms of Bosses) will probably be the same in both versions.
I like the new remixes, but not so much Emerald Coast Act 2. Seems too boost2win-ish.
@TheManWithPants
Haha. Yea I hope so.
Classic Lineup
MetalSonic,BigArm
Modern Lineup
Shadow,Biolizard,Silver,EggEmperor,TimeEater
….Did I read that wrong or did that article mention the Biolizard in the 3DS version?
That means they’ll be a Supporting Me remix.
Hell. Yes. (favorite song in a Sonic game ever)
0:46
Sonic: Noooooooo!
player: What the f*ck.
lol!
@TheManWithPants
Sorry about being defensive idk it just kinda slipped.
@Timothy
Ik Shadow originally fought Biolizard I was just pointing out something.
@TheQuietGuy
Cough comparing SeasideHill to EmeraldCoast is an epic fail.
Just stop with the comparisons of the 3DS and Console versions. I admit i did it but only out of anger because of the 3DS version hate. I mean the 3DS version went through a rough 6 or more months. If you hate the 3DS version just read the news and leave.
@Shade:
No one wants to judge a game on it’s own, they always want to be asses and think it’s a-OK to compare the less-than-a-year old 3DS to the two consoles which Generations HD had about 2/3 years to be worked on.
Of course, no one wants to see facts, so they just bitch about stuff they don;t know.
“Just stop with the comparisons of the 3DS and Console versions. I admit i did it but only out of anger because of the 3DS version hate. I mean the 3DS version went through a rough 6 or more months. If you hate the 3DS version just read the news and leave.”
I want quality. I judge the game by: gameplay, music, level design and graphics of console potential.
The console version have less gameplay time. But the quality of level design, music and gameplay in HD version, is much better than 3DS.
Man i can’t wait for a clean cut of tropical resort (the music)
@LucasHinz
LOL. Your judging the game when you havent even played it, or heard full clean HD versions of the Sonic Generations 3DS OST’s. You havent seen more from EmeraldCoast and WaterPalace but you still judge the game. When you think about it yes, EmeraldCoast was short and didnt include lots of Platforming. But it did have multiple path ways and new gimics added to the level, it wasnt a copy paste was it? No it was an original brand new stage that many people enjoy. If you want quality just go play Sonic Generations for the Console.
@DonnyKD
Yea man i understand but it really annoys people who actually care about the game and determines whether or not they should like the game or agree with the troll fails.
Level design looks pretty much as I expected Dimps to design it-lazy as hell.
All I saw were just straight lines with an occasional slant upward/downward layered on top of each other and littered with the usual springs, rings and a few wall jump sections and loop-de-loops. Not to mention I saw only ONE badnik/Eggman robot throughout the entire level. Majority of the level design overall fits the “hold-right-to-win” and “boost-to-win” terms to a T.
Yet this will be the version that will end up being the superior version in terms of critical scores.
@ Anaze: I saw 8 enemies: the rihno bot, the whale, and coconuts up on the trees.
edit my last post: there are more enemies only that they knocked away by all the boosting. I will say this though I really like this game no matter what but I think its about time that Modern Sonic moved away from the boost, all the people that play with it spam it up the butt hole even when its not needed.
@Shade the hedgehog
Well, excuse me that the modern sections are literally boost-to-win where as in the HD version, the level design has expanded and actually let’s you explore in a zone.
@QuietGuy
That’s probably because the modern levels are in 2D. Believe me, if you took the console version modern stages, and flattened them, this is what they would look like (well, sort of). I actually prefer boost to win over some of the slower parts of the console version – for example, I think that the original Crisis City has a much better level design than the Generations version, because the Generations version is too slow with all those stomp platforms and such.
Of course, this begs the question: why on earth did they choose a 2D modern Sonic in the first place?
I will bet bottom dollar if sonic team would have had advance stages people would probably not complained as much cause the stages were linear. but since they took console stages and made them into 2.5D people are whinning tile the cows come home.
@TheQuietGuy
Well excuse me that the Modern Sonic sections are literary 2D instead of 3D perspective for the Console version.
@Anaze
I seen about 5 monsters
BugTanks
KillerOrca
BabyKiki’s
Coconuts
TropicalBats
And the boost is being raped i know but, in some areas its totally necessary to abuse it. I can name about 10 reasons.
1.Boosting ontop of water in WaterPalace to maintain certain paths.
2. Countering badniks that show up at random areas.
3. Getting through 3D sections at the end of the stages.
4. Maintaining momentum after getting hit.
5.Good for getting high Time Attack scores.
6.Good to regain pace in multiplayer mode.
7. Can help you beat missions at the last second if lost or are roaming around.
8.Helps you backtrack if you need to reach a alternate path.
9.Can be used to shoot through the air to keep a high path.
10. To get a easy S. Rank.
@quietguy: the only levels that seems to fit that bill that i have seen are Sky Sanctuary and Seaside hill for the explorable.
@ shade: sonic boosts through some enemies as well when i counted it came to about 9 or 10.
@Timothy
Hmm Ill See When i Get the Game on Tuesday Next Week.
The Only Thing I dont get about Biolizard is i don’t see how the prototype is a giant fucking lizard and the ultimate life form is a sonic clone. That just makes no sense.
But again Biolizard is one of my favorite beasts of all time in Sonic History.
In a way biolizard looks some what like one of black dooms monsters so that could be the reason, since shadow has black dooms dna in him
Lol but Shadow the Hedgehog wasnt made untill 2005 and Sonic Adventure 2 was around 2001 so maybe theres another reason. Idk but you had a pretty good reason.
@A
Whatever floats your boat, bud.
@timothy
You forgot about modern City Escape and the first half of modern Planet Wisp.
Thligolf won’t tell if Super Sonic can be played in normal levels! *cries*
shadow’s game in a way is to fill all the empty gaps that sonic adventure 2 and heroes couldn’t answer. Heroes added to the confusion cuz shadow magically re appeared but was in the end of heroes thought to be a robot. Shadow the hedgehog tried to bridge the gap of why he is the ultimate life form. Guess it was Sonic team’s way of covering their a**
@ quietguy so 3 1/2 stages out of 9 allow you to explore. whoes to say that they other 3ds levels have more to explore as well.
Ehh and no one undertstood that for about 3 years soo lolol that didnt understand untill they watched the Tv show Sonic X.
And 4 days untill Sonic Generations 3DS I Can Barely go to Sleep.
Going to fake sick on Tuesday so i can stay home and play Sonic Generations
shade: can you please try to find out what the multiplayer stages are. thigolf says that he can’t play them cuz well he’s really not suppose to have the game yet
@timothy
I seem to forgotten a few things about my post of exploring in a Sonic game:
1. Starts at the end of modern Chemical Plant
2. Modern Seaside Hill
3. Modern Crisis City
4. Modern Rooftop Run had a couple of good 3D spaces, even modern Speed Highway
@Shade the hedgehog
Well excuse me that I don’t like claustrophobic corridors with scripted events and little-to-no platforming in my Sonic.
So, which “thing” is the 3DS version more comparable to…
Rush
or
A 2D section of a Modern Sonic level in SG HD?
I’ve been watching SG 3DS videos while pondering it, but I can’t say I can decide.
Opinions?
@Raymanfan1
The only 2D levelx where Generations 3DS is compared to the HD version is modern Green Hill and most of Chemical Plant.
Sonic Rush and the daytime stages of Unleashed, despite their linearity, had good level design while Colors and Generations HD takes that to a higher, more fantastic level.
Alright when i get the game on Tuesday ill reveal you the Multiplayer stages itll be somewhere around the evening of 3:46 when i open the game. I think i have to beat the game 1st though Lol
I agree with Special Operative Blair in hoping to see a remix of Supporting Me. But isn’t the OST out in Japan now? If so, why hasn’t anyone ripped it and put it up on YouTube?
I was hoping for the Egg Wyvern so Sonic 2006 gets some representation…though that game has neither Modern Eggman nor Classic Eggman, but some weird Chunky Legs Eggman.
This isn’t just a thing in Germany. I was just at the Wal-Mart in Glenmont, New York today. Guess what they’ve got in the games case? Sonic Generations 3DS. A good week ahead of street date.
Unfortunately, I don’t have a 3DS, so I didn’t pick it up.
@QuietGuy92
Well excuse me that the Console versions dont live up to the 3D Name.
The 3DS Actually has Camera angles every 5 seconds.
The game is out in France !! I just got it from my local gameshop ! I’m a bit lazy to take some videos or pictures or what … maybe i’ll do some tommorow !
I guess street dates are not what they used to be …. ^^