Project NeedleMouse - All New 2D Sonic game
 

Source and Teaser Trailer: All-new 2D Sonic rolling out in 2010 - News at GameSpot

Unbelievable. It appears all the bitching from the old-school 2D Sonic fans has finally been heard. I hope you all are happy. 2010 is going to be a damn good year.

No transformations, music minigames, QTEs, racing or card battling mechanics bolted in this time, I should hope.

New gimmick: Sonic to have lead shoes.

Open world gameplay...

Plotline: Big the Cat is dead. Sonic must race to the liquor store before it closes and he is consequently unable to get drunk in celebration.

Nope, no reason to be happy, and I'll tell you why--

Nobody with any sense said "man, Sonic has to go back to his 2D graphical roots to be good again." They wanted his old 2D gameplay, his old sense of speed, his old level designs, his old entourage that numbered one fucking fox.

Sega had the right idea with Sonic Advance and Sonic Rush, then lost most of their small gains in the ensuing sequels. So, no, I am not happy. I am approaching this with enormous skepticism and broad, all-encompassing apathy until I begin to hear the singing of its praises by longtime skeptics.

Or at least by people who did not try to defend Black Knight.

It's going to be, but not because of this.

Anyway, I'm somewhat excited about this. Sincerely hoping that the story won't turn to a burning wreck or like Qwarky said, no bullshit gimmicks and no lame as fuck characters.

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Until Sega proves otherwise, I'm going to remain skeptical that its previous trackrecord has finally been broken. I'd like to think they finally learned their lesson, but... well yeah.

Happy for what? They didn't show shit.

I hate you a lot sometimes, you know that?

Anyway confirming this to be as bad as Advance 2 until otherwise noted.

Good/evil meter.

There has been no indication that Sonic Team is still capable of producing a good Sonic game since Adventure.

I see no reason to believe this game will change that.

Also, what ever happened to those fan "HD" remakes of the older genesis games?

I wouldn't get your hopes up guys

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Or Speedy Gonzales, but I don't have photoshop here at work.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Sonic Rush basically a newish 2D Sonic game? Therefore, this isn't really a new thing, although it might be a welcome thing, if they manage not to screw it up.

A Sonic game with Picachu in a sombrero as the main character would be the most win ever.

Yeah, pretty much this. Also the Speedy Gonzales, but he's "offensive" or something. His stage in Loony Tunes GB was awesome, despite the stupid star dance thing.

So it looks like Pikachu in a Sombreo is going to be called Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1 and is coming to all major consoles.

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I am guessing the success of the new Mario got to them eh?

Actually potentially interested in this. I'm not a super huge fan of the Sonic series, but I really enjoyed the first two games (and 3 and S&K to a lesser extent).

Wait what.

"We're making a new Sonic game that only stars Sonic. How awesome is that?!?"

::three months later::

http://imgur.com/dEqvp.png

:|

Problem was never with the inclusion of friends anyway. It was with the inclusion of friends that sucked ass. Nothing wrong with Tails or Knuckles. In fact unless memory has betrayed me, I'd go so far as to say that Big the Cat was the only one from Sonic Adventure I thought was horribly tacked on. Oh... and the robot.

Maybe Sega thought that Tails was considered ancillary in the minds of Sonic fans and thought they'd ignore it.

It says "Featured," not necessarily who's playable. Could just be Eggman as the other character featured in the game.

I'm sure SuperSonic needs a new keyboard this morning.

Dammit, does nobody else realize that the other playable character IS Pikachu in a Sombrero? That shadow couldn't have been Sonic.

I need 2 new keyboards...and a mouse...and a monitor.

Their site has a shitload of countdowns next to the locks, so I'll definitely be keeping an eye out on those. Also, it's announced for Wiiware, XBLA, and PSN, but there's a 4th system that they have yet to announce it for.