Sonic Central 2023 Announced, Get Ready For A "Sneak Peek" At Upcoming Projects

HYPE!!!

I love these events, they are always a good time. I also love the "Sonic Official" streams with Katie and Co, they are so chill and everyone seems so nice and genuinely passionate and excited about even the tiniest piece of Sonic news. They are also very slowly teaching me Spanish, like 1 word a week lol.

Considering some of the banger info Kishimoto has been teasing/leaking in his twitter replies, there could potentially be a lot of exciting news.

More from the murder of Sonic the Hedgehog. Legitimately one of the most charming games I’ve played in ages and one I still quote sometimes. A switch port would be wonderful.

Yaaay! A direct and now this? This week is great!
I would be so happy if they remastered or just ported sonic unleashed! I think it deserves a 2nd chance!

Sonic ‘06: Fixed Edition. That game had so much potential.

@WeLiveInASociety @Snatcher
You two are speaking my language!
(Especially the sonic unleashed remake/remaster since I have the ps2 version)

@WeLiveInASociety I completely agree, except when the princess kissed Sonic... maybe they'll change her species?

@WeLiveInASociety
It was always doomed to be an inferior Sonic Adventure 1 wannabe with a grotesque Second Life style art direction, the perfect crescendo of the chain of games they released that played much much worse than the SA games. It’s horrific game feel with the same nasty slow homing attack/jump dash and slowdown is obvious in its showing at at TGS 2005 presented by convicted criminal Yuji Naka, another year wasn’t going to save a game that was always fundamentally rotten to its core.

@WeLiveInASociety wile I never played it, I have watched a few play thought, and while there were things I didn’t like, the game itself actually could have been one of the best 3d sonics if it wasn’t for all the awful bugs! In short

@Greatluigi Sonic unleashed was treated poorly when it released, I was honestly surprised how much people hated it, and the combat wasn’t that bad, I thought it was pretty fun!

More sonic?!?!! Very hype. Excited to possibly hear about the frontiers dlc.

Realistically, in terms of console games, they'll go over the coming DLC for Frontiers, we'll see more of Sonic Superstars. And maybe they'll show one new port or remaster. But I imagine that's pretty much it. I can't imagine a brand new full 3D game is about to be announced when Frontiers is still very much a current game with updates yet to come, and obviously they just announced their big new 2D game. So I'm not sure what more there is to hope for, beyond maybe an Unleashed remaster, or a Sonic Adventure Collection, or something like that. Perhaps there could be a new Sonic spinoff title in the works? A new racing game perhaps? I guess that's feasible, but I'm not banking on that.

As an aside, what do you think a Sonic Adventure Collection would include? Would it just be 1/DX and 2/Battle? Or maybe they'd go all out and just include the 4 mainline 3D games of that era: 1/DX, 2/Battle, Heroes, and Shadow the Hedgehog. That would make a really sick collection.

@Snatcher I think the main reason people (myself included at the time) piled on Sonic Unleashed back then and disliked it so irrationally without giving it a proper chance, was because it seemed that after SA2, there was an obsession that every new 3D Sonic game must have a gimmick of some kind and reinvent its gameplay, when most long term Sonic fans felt that they still hadn't even managed to get the basic "Sonic but in 3D" perfected yet, and reinventing the wheel and adding gimmicks and whole different playmodes etc was preventing this from happening. Therefore the "Werehog" parts emphasised in the trailers felt like it symbolised everything wrong with 3D Sonic games and preventing us from getting one that just simply nailed "Sonic in 3D" in the way Super Mario 64 had done for Mario.

Sure it was fashionable for non-Sonic fans to pile on Sonic games at that point but there was also a large amount of long term Sonic fans who's patience was wearing extremely thin and new gimmicks and play styles constantly being introduced then dropped was the main complaint. Werehog typified this in the eyes of many with the context of the times.

However, on reflection looking back I think almost all Sonic fans realise that the platforming stages in the main version of Unleashed are excellent and the best they'd ever been up until that point. And the Werehog stages are actually pretty fun if you can get over the gimmicky nature. Its definitely a game that has a FAR better reputation now than it ever did at the time.

The nervousness around 3D Sonic still not being quite "right" and each new game relying on an annoying/unecessary gimmick is still something we're grappling with to this day to one extent or another, though Frontiers is a step in a good direction and Kishimoto being so keen to listen to fans, look at community mods, and go back and adjust and add things to the game, improve it with DLC/updates (even going so far as to add unplanned extra updates to accomodate the new ideas/suggestions) and also promising to keep evolving and add the stuff he can't fit in into the sequel/next mainline 3d entry makes me feel like Sega finally have a solid direction for those games to go into and a plan for where things are going.

Hype! Hopefully, Sega will bring even more Sonic throughout the year to celebrate.

@Snatcher Second that sonic unleashed thought, I really want to play it finally.

Well Frontiers' DLC pack 2 is supposed to include "Sonic's Birthday", which is on friday, so I assume that'll drop at the end of the presentation. Some more details of release plans for Super Stars would be be nice too. I wouldn't mind a port of a classic Sonic game, but Sega's record with those isn't great; the Colours remaster was poor, and they've screwed up Origins too.

More info on Frontiers' DLC packs is what I wanna see.

Why do they not make a SEGA Central? O yeah, I forget, because SEGA has nothing but Sonic.

I'd guess Frontiers DLC, more info on Superstars and announce Sonic Olympics (the last Mario & Sonic game released in November 2019 but given SEGA's multiplatform push since then they've probably cut Mario out of the next one).

Sonic Superstars is looking good, but I am curious if they have anything coming up that I might be interested in.

I started playing Frontiers very recently and I actually quite like it a lot. It's a big shame the Switch resolution had to drop so much, but it plays well for me. Still nice and okay to look at.

@NinjaNicky I'm not up to that point but the game can get a bit buggy controlling Sonic at times. Google will probably tell you what to do, or else a gaming guide website might help, if can't get past it. You could ask on Reddit if that doesn't work.

@NinjaNicky That could be it, it took me a while to get the bee and weeds minigame.

If it's that, Reddit though should hopefully help. Ask for the little detail you think you're missing or explain to a comment, in a reply, that it's not working. You can try the Sonic subreddits.

You can check the combo controls in case you need to use one of those or the cyclone (I'm guessing, with the latter, if that's even possible you've tried it).

There might be something else that needs activating first. Idk.

Hopefully you'll work it out.

All I can say about Sonic Superstars is they’d better release it away from Super Mario Bros. Wonder, else they’ll suffer.
Release Sonic like a month or so apart from Mario.

@WeLiveInASociety It's a good thing Project '06 exists

@RareFan I mean, Monkey Ball and Puyo Puyo still get games every now and then. Samba De Amigo is getting a new game. Plus the studios they own like RGG and Atlus still pump out games on the regular.

Maybe we'll hear news about the 3rd movie.