Sonic X Shadow Generations Gets A Limited Edition With A Gorgeous Dreamcast Statue

Thank the gaming gods that at least the regular version is getting a standard retail release.

All that cash and you're still stuck with Version 1.0 on the cart (and if there's any DLC released in future, that won't be on the cart either).

Also, why in the hellish hell of hellington is a Sonic game of all things getting the LRG treatment?

And there isn't even a cheaper tier for those who just want the soundtrack and/or Steelbook.

Well the good news if any group of religious zealots can put the fear of God into those narcissists at LRG it's the Sonic fandom

The amount of Dreamcast stuff is really weird, would be fitting for a Sonic Adventure remake or something but that kinda stuff would be like, I don't know, if 3D World + Bowser's Fury had a collectors set with GameCube stuff because Bowser Jr. debuted in Sunshine. The Dreamcast case also reminds me of those fake games you can buy for the system that are just emulated.

@SillyG exactly, now I'm not interested in Sonic much but whenever I buy games I'm much more inclined to spend an extra $30 for a steelbook, soundtrack and an art book. Not $250 for a whole box of "stuff."

Bah, Limited Run Games... Shame, it really does look like an excellent collector's edition; shame it's being done by such a shady and annoying company.

Can they sell the Hero Chao separately please 🥲

I love the statue and the little Chaos, but too rich for my blood.

Also, here I am. Never had an issue with LRG.

Really cool special edition! Too bad its $250. Also if you actually want to play the game when it comes out, you're f***ed since its Limited Run so that means another $60 if you want to actually play the game when it comes out.

I don't need more plastic, thanks.

@RupeeClock the weird thing is, most of these bonuses are in the Japanese collector's edition for cheaper (€90 vs €250), which is being handled by Sega themselves. It's completely unusual that the international version is being handled by a separate company.

Someone tweeted at LRG that they had already ordered the super deluxe ultimate (or whatever the most expensive previous version is) edition already. LRG's response was 'Order it again!!!!'.

Reponses are going about as well as you can expect. Also, you get the 'stuff' in July after they finish manufacturing it, but get the game in October. That seems a huge leap of time for this.

The statue looks really cool, but it would probably have to be a working Dreamcast (or at least one that just plays Sonic Adventure 2) for me to justify plunking down that amount of money.

Ton of stuff but that price is a bit hard to swallow haha

Can someone explain this game to me?
Is it an update remake of Sonic Adventure 2: Battle or something different?

The Dreamcast figurine is awesome and I would love those Chao figures separately!

@Spider-Kev it’s something different.

This title comprises of 2 games:

1) Sonic Generations - a port / remaster of the PS3 / 360 game - which was a 20th Anniversary Celebration title that revisited levels across the entire series in 2D and 3D.

2) Shadow Generations - a brand new (smaller) game unique to this package with a similar premise to the above, but is uniquely Shadow related and has levels themed across the games he featured in.

A better comparison of what this kind of package is would be Super Mario 3D World + Bowsers Fury. Which also featured a WiiU game Port and a brand new (smaller) adventure.

I’m unsure why limited run games are utilising the Dreamcast so heavily though for these bonuses. My best guess is it may be that Sega are promoting this year as “The Year of Shadow” and he did of course debut in the Dreamcast’s Sonic Adventure 2.

Has anyone else remarked on the fact that an actual dreamcast at launch ($199) would've been cheaper than the $249 for this..?
I mean, I know "inflation" and all that, but .. ..
That model Dreamcast better be a functional little Micro Console, is all I'm saying.

@Arehexes Charlie is late today, lol. 😂 🦜

@Sonicka
Thank you. I kept seeing mention of Sonic Adventure 2 and battle when people were talking about this.

Yeah, I'm buying this. It's going to look great next to my other Sonic stuff!

looks better than the japanese statue, idea wise.

@Sonicka
It’s from the alternate universe where they added new Adventure stages to Generations along with the spindash and SA2 shoes for Modern Sonic and the Shadow game focused more on that era instead of the trilogy of terror and the dopey alien origin plot.

Great. It'll be even harder to get than the Xenoblade Chronicles 3 special edition

Expensive, but there’s clearly a lot in it

@SalvorHardin I’m still pretending black doom never happened. It didn’t happen right? I’m not from this timeline 😫

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaahh... I'm not spending that much on stuff that'll just sit on a shelf & collect 50 years of dust. It'll just be standard for me.

I like Sonic, but not THAT much. Let alone coming from LRG or the fact that it won't be a 100% complete game on the cart/disc as there'll be a Digital Deluxe Edition

With how much emphasis the Dreamcast is getting over Shadow Generations, I'd rather have a re-release of the Sonic Adventure 2 and Shadow the Hedgehog (yes, really) with Shadow Generations as a secondary campaign after you beat the game. But I understand that it would cause a gameplay conflict.

It will be interesting to see if the Switch can keep a decent pace - I'm not sure if the fisher price cpu in the Switch could run a game as fast as this at 60.

@liveswired Yeah, I'm thinking 60fps is pretty much out of the question, especially if the graphics are at all enhanced compared to the 360 release.

There is some precedent for 360-Switch conversions getting an fps boost (RE Revelations), but that has been rare, and flawed in practice. The little handheld just doesn't have enough headroom to run a full 2x faster than the 360 without making sacrifices- and this is a remaster!

Damn it that statue would look great next to my Mega Drive with sonic on the top of it. Just can't justify that cash

LRG? No, thanks.