#sonic talk

Love Floppy. So, important characters like Sonic and Metal were going to be model-based - fully rendered in 3D, whereas basic enemies like these guys were to be sprite-based and rendered in 2D (these two are called Chaz and Gabby btw)

I'm seeing: Minecraft parkour maps

Boss stages made by Christina Coffin. Coffin is awesome, and I don't wanna butcher any details on them so here's a quote from Sonic Retro:

"To create X-treme's boss arenas, Coffin drew inspiration from her passion for classic Sega games. In particular, the engine's distinctive circular boss arenas were inspired by the Core Guard System fight in Treasure's 1993 Mega Drive game Gunstar Heroes, which features a similar circular layout. Coffin also took inspiration from the rendering engine used in NiGHTS into Dreams in her contrasting-colored backlights to prevent Sonic from looking too flat, and by using similar horizon-fogging techniques to mask uneven horizon lines. She attributes rumors of X-treme using Sonic Team's engine to these similarities, definitively stating that she never used the NiGHTS engine, and clarifying that she and Yuji Naka did not see eye to eye during development."

"Coffin intended the Sonic in her engine to be represented by a fully 3D model, with Kunitake Aoki modeling the character during his work on Dynamite Deka. These and other boss engine models were implemented by Coffin to take advantage of what she calls a "quad bug", "where if you collapse opposite points of a Saturn quad you get a triangle with one edge that's collapsed in and smoothly concave in screenspace at the pixel level." Coffin utilized this to demonstrate how enemies could only be safely attacked from certain angles, and to more optimally render terrain hazards like spike pits."

Honestly, reading deeper into it, Coffin sounds like the absolute MVP of this project and the fact their talent and passion was wasted on this dogshit is appalling to me

Come on COMMA Sonic! COME ON COMMA SONIC! AAAHHHH!!!!

From an early trailer for the game. Firstly, a reflex lens is a physical thing, not a technique. The term they were looking for was super/ultra wide-angle lens, or - let's be honest- a fisheye lens. Secondly, you can clearly see they didn't properly crop out the application window border on any of this footage

From a later trailer. Strange angle to take but at least the game footage was properly cropped in this one. Sega of America and Nintendo of America were so weird and obnoxious about Sonic and Mario having some sort of rivalry. ngl it just gets on my nerves

And lastly, from an event called "Sega Rocks the House of Sonic Blues", held at the House of Blues, Sunset Blv. to coincide with E3 1996

Brian Setzer of the Stray Cats btw

Still got an appetite for Sonic X-Treme trivia or you just wanna check those trailers out for yourself? Check this

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buddy you are not the main protagonist /j

fr though, I think the most common misunderstanding was that Silver was on the team when really, he was just training with them once

I do like that he got the ball rolling along since it was pretty obvious that, without some kind of push, none of them were going to actually talk. that's kinda realistic, I mean how many times has someone avoided talking about how they're doing and no one bothered to ask any further? not the best comparison but it's clear that communication is poor with these guys. someone had to be upfront about it I suppose

this moment is very sweet too what else needs to be said really

now... onto this

frankly, I'm glad that Lanolin apologized here. Silver and Whisper undeniably deserved one

I just find it kinda weird that it's hardly acknowledged beyond a simple thanks from Silver?? Whisper doesn't even react at all

aside from Jewel, hardly anyone at all actually has any kind words for her actually. (YURIIIII) not even Tangle

it seems like the writers kinda just. shoved the mess/blame all onto Lano. so unless this gets addressed in a later issue, this is just kinda upsetting to me

like, she's apologizing for being lied to. who does that? the whole point of communication is to reach an understanding and work towards a united goal and clearly Tangle and Whisper not saying anything proved to be vital to the situation

so that's. upsetting. to me in particular

I mean it's not like Tangle is obligated to Lano in any way but again some ACKNOWLEDGEMENT would've gone a long way

now this scene

I'm... actually kinda interested where they take this?? I have one scenario planned out in my head (probably not gonna go in that direction, considering this is a comic targeted to a younger audience) and the writers had to have realized by now that they're being repetitive with Whisper at this point (right? RIGHT???)

oh and Belle is here too, great stuff, love you kiddo

so, conclusion:

maybe a temporary split up is necessary to come back stronger than ever! it's upsetting to see, but with so many things to worry about—Mimic, Clutch and Eggman, the fallout of the Restoration—dividing the work and such is probably a necessary evil. they all could do some serious work on their communication anyway