Sonic Superstars Celebrates 'Sonic X Shadow Generations' With Free Shadow Costume

Huh...interesting. I wasn't even aware of the Sonic Generations remaster announcement since I didn't bother watch Sony's State of Play. Since I...uh...forgot.

Nice freebie, will be downloading it soon.

Thought I was on Pushsquare for a minute...

'Earlier before during'

There may be some trimming needed

Nice, the more Shadow the merrier

Oh, wow. This game is never getting DLC then, huh?

Cool. Curious how it’ll look considering it’s a costume for Sonic and not actually a seperate playable character. I’m guessing it’ll just be a recolor but it would be funny to see the character model completely change to Shadow but still be labeled as Sonic.

Many said some of the bosses were not good battles so I never felt to pick it up. I’ve been irked before by bad boss design so I’m fairly discriminating

Yo... First time getting classic Shadow. He's going to look like a small squishy edge lord. Looking forward to it

@NinChocolate
It’s mostly the final bosses they all drag out for 4-8 minutes without checkpoints between phases and some of them have instant death attacks that are extremely difficult to avoid, they go on so long that using super transformations isn’t that viable against them and one of them can still instantly kill you anyway.
The Super Sonic final boss goes on for over 7 minutes and ends on forcing you to do 7 QTEs in a row before your rings run out, this QTE exists nowhere in the game and it has very awful input reading where simply holding the button too long after completing one QTE will fail the next before it even appears.

So basically, Iizuka was a liar.

"No classic Shadow" they said. So that was pretty much a lie in a way.🙄

Will this count as "Classic Shadow" of just Classic Sonic wearing a Shadow costume?

@Coolmusic Technically, it's not actually Shadow the character. Just a costume.

@JohnnyMind I think it was designed that way as this is the first Sonic game where co-op is the main selling point. Dragging out the boss fights might have done on purpose as to prolong the cooperative play.

Usually in old Sonic games, because Sonic is the only character, the main bosses were just bigger baddies you defeated as fast as possible. While, on one hand Im glad classic Sonic is finally moving forward instead of revisiting old ideas, Im not on board with co-op idea.

Sonic is just not designed for such gameplay. You have to rework the character to balance out the rest of the cast.

A co-op Sonic game can work, just make a spin-off title featuring other characters who's main feature isn't moving faster than sound.

@Quiet2down : Yeah I know. Was just making fun of lizuka since we are arguably getting an appearance of Shadow in the classic era in a way, even if its just a costume.

@JohnnyMind Im not opposed to it either. I just don't think Sonic and co-op meshes well together. The game would worked better as a single player experience given how Sonic levels are traditionally designed.

Sega has experimented in the past with other characters starring in their own games. I think now is a good time to try again.

A co-op game starring Sonic's friends for example would work much better.

@SalvorHardin @JohnnyMind For sure, I’m still interested in playing the regular levels. At some point I will as I was interested in what the trailers showed. I no longer cross my fingers for great sidescrolling sonic games (just like castlevania games from Konami), but if they do happen to come along I’m there.

@Coolmusic For what it's worth I find the idea silly myself. Just let people play as their favorite characters in classic or modern style.

If a story excuse is needed, just say Eggman did some type of multiverse shenanigans and poof.

@Quiet2down : True that.

Maybe this will entice me to get the Digital Deluxe Upgrade before I get the game physically.

@RandomDave Probably like Warios outfit in mario odyssey that mario wears lol

@JohnnyMind I loved Sonic Adventure 1 and 2 for this

@MirrorFate2 Weird costumes don't matter to Sonic canon...or any canon for that matter. Remember when you could dress Kratos up in a cow onesie in GoW 2?

@Quiet2down But then that has a bad implication of there even being a multiverse

On the subject of bosses, on reflection, even Eggman in Sonic 2 is a pain... beating the (not Metal Sonic) Metal Sonic with no rings was easy enough as you can bounce on him a several times in a row if you time it right, but beating the Eggman's robot was more a test of patience. I like Superstars a lot, but Sonic final bosses never seem to be much fun after the first game, and I say that as a fan since '91. Nice to get another free dlc character for Superstars. Generation's on Switch is good and I found it a fun if not outstanding game on PS3, but if its 30fps on Switch and PS4 is 60fps, I'll go for PS4 at least as I don't own a PS5.

@JohnnyMind ha yes, the final boss of Sonic 2 is a little annoying, you can almost cheat the first section getting 3-4 hits in a row, but the second is all about patience. No rings, so if you're hit you start over. Getting all the chaos emeralds legitimately is also really challenging, you pretty much need a 2nd player in the later bonus stages to get enough rings (or just try to control Sonic and Tails with two controllers at once)!

With Generations, If Switch is 60fps, will get that version. Switch is my platform of choice but occasionally if it can't quite make the graphics of a game work, I go with PS4 at least. Dont have a PS5 as I really do enjoy portable play a lot.

@Samalik I agree, the problem however is Sonic Team forcing a canon timeline on these games to give an excuse why certain characters are barred from appearing in games.

Of course, even though I find strange Sonic needs a canon timeline; The issue is, it's a incoherent mess of contraindications and plot holes. It feels like Sonic Team did it just because. All of these games have been poorly stitched together to try and make a singular timeline of events. But it's nonsensical when you break down the stories, the characters, and events from every title.

If Sonic didn't have such a haphazardly put together canon, then everyone's favorite charter would be free to appear anywhere.

It would be one thing if Sonic Team actually over the decades took time to carefully weave their own canon so that everything fits together perfectly. Then, while I may disagree, I could accept why the rules have been placed.

But it's just not. So from pov, adding a multiverse ontop wouldn't do anymore harm to what Sonic Team has already done.

@Quiet2down The canon didn't really start feeling messy until Forces came out and borked Generation's entire premise by saying Classic is a multiversal copy. And the series is still trying to recover from the mess that was the Pontaff era with even more retcons to try patching up that crap.

Beforehand (barring 06), from Genesis to Black Knight, it felt like Sonic went on one adventure after another, since he's a nomadic character. The canon was simple to digest as each game took place after the other, barring the weird separation on how Consoles and handhelds are properly ordered with each other.

@JohnnyMind If you enjoyed heros I think you will like the adventure games as well. They are my favorite sonic games to this day!

@JohnnyMind Yes I would love to have them on the switch. Im thankful atleast the new sonic generations remaster is coming to Switch.