Sonic Superstars Animation Features Fang The Hunter And Newcomer Trip

I absolutely love this, one of the best animations they've put out in this style so far. Evan, Tyson, Jasmin, Ian and everyone else including the Powerhouse team of course doing absolutely stellar work. I'm so happy that we still get these beautiful 2d animations as well as things like Prime and the movies.

I also love how they make these universal for their international fans by having them be without dialogue. New this time round (I think?) is they also added a audio description version for visually impared people. I really appreciate that.

Fang has more names than Eggman now, huh?

@Dr_Corndog If Sega keep sniping around they'll get the knack of it and weasel their way out of the situation.

I find it weird that Fang is also called Nack the Weasel even though he's a Jerboa and one of their main predators are weasels. Its like Sega is trying out dark humour

Trio of Trouble is a nod to triple trouble, right? 🤔

At least the title.

this is nice! Loving all the pre-game release prolouges. Still think the knuckles one for frontiers beats it out but both of these are great

@RupeeClock That new hire they made to oversee everything to make previous material fit into the fixed canon moving forward is doing his job well!

@PokemonDMG For sure. Triple Trouble was the first game Fang appeared in. Of course it also works nicely because of the 3 "bad guys" in this video but its definitely a very purposeful reference to the history of the character.

Awesome, I love these animated tie-ins as always.

@RupeeClock Yes I remember them (Katie and Jasmine, I think?) talking on a live about de-emphasising Fang's weapon and making him more a more rounded criminal / treasure hunter as a way to make his character less one note and more like someone who just can't resist sparkly things - like a magpie, rather than doing bad stuff because he is bad. this gives the opportunity for teamups and collaborations with Sonic, heel turns etc.

(and though they didn't say so, presumably also to get around growing social insecurities about having guns in childrens' media. This is a talking point thats been raised to me multiple times by studios and producers in the last few years even when making material for people in their teens & early 20s. Even fictional lightguns etc discouraged)

I think the plan is to have him similar to Knuckles' early story in the fact that he's tricked/bribed by Robotnik to do his bidding, but will eventually or sometimes team up with Sonic & friends.

@samuelvictor interesting take! I could see that, yeah

It's so nice that none of them spoke.

@epicgamner Thanks! I'm just mostly going by what I've heard various people say about the character in official Sonic livestreams, plus my experience in the industry with people discouraging use of gun-like weapons, even toy ones. Its not censorship per-se, just trying to avoid potential unnecessary controversy in the future and ensure material remains evergreen.

@samuelvictor if they want to move away from gun representation, i cant say i think its a bad idea.

@epicgamner Probably best not to get political on this site, but I certainly agree that this is possibly a direction things are going, or at least an opinion that will become wider spread over time, so its a smart business move to not date kids content by including an element that may be problematic in the future.

@RupeeClock Glad to know he's a jerboa and not a creature "who looks like a jerboa."

The animation is nice but the segments that are hearkening back to older cartoon direction are not subtle and a bit crammed together. If the direction had more of its own natural personality it would achieve more of that old school familiarity that it’s going for

Really hope this is part of the game as a bonus.

I've seen a bunch of these "CD Style" animations since the Mania edition arrived, and each time they've felt like they worked just right. .. but this one.. I'm not sure why, this one feels like it really needed Voice Artists.
Something about it felt really off.
Maybe it's the music? I dunno, it just feels very very silent. And like something important was missing.

Still loved it, though, and the more of these we get, the better.
How cool would it be to be able to actually play something that looks like that?
Cuphead, I suppose..? Or WarioLand Shake It, with its hand drawn style.

@RupeeClock Yup. I guess tbe joke didn't land.

I'm glad they finally brought Fang back and that they use his Japanese name rather than the American name just like Peach and Eggman.

This was great but it’s pretty awful how they don’t even attempt to give a reason why Eggman’s dialogue and laughing is completely silent, all they had to do is have some background noise to cover it up instead there’s only the meta reason involving Sonic Team’s mandate that not everyone knows about.