Sonic Retro, An awesome Sonic fan project

http://rsonic.randomsonicnet.org/

I just played the demo for this game, and wow. That was alot of fun, I'm glad to see that while Sonic Team aren't succeeding with their games, atleast I'll find an enjoyable Sonic experience somewhere. This is not your average Sonic fan game that try to mimmick the "cool" and "new" age Sonic or make a pallete swap of Sonic 2 with Shadow and stuff in it. This fangames plays pretty much exactly how you'd think Sonic the Hedgehog 4 would play, only better. It has great gameplay, and the levels so far are just brimming with personality. I highly suggest all the Sonic fans here play this demo, it's tons of fun.

goddammit i remember when I played this game sometime around 2004

why is it still a demo

holy ****

the teaser vid looked so official, i thought it was a REAL Sonic game

Me too, I don't remember the exact year, but it was a few years ago, the game is written in C++ I think.


The demo I played before had something like 3 levels only, I don't remember exactly either. What I do remember is that the physics and gameplay felt JUST like the genesis games with perfectly working slopes/loops and shields.

I just finished the demo.

That was really damn good for a fan game. A little buggy in some areas, but nothing serious.

This post has been edited by OSM on Aug 13 2007, 05:23 PM

yeah i played this ages ago... i wonder how far the actual development is

sfsdf


But yeah this game looks amazing. Just about to play it right now.

They should make it so you can be Knuckles and Sonic or vice versa, I always thought that'd be cool.

This is good enough to be official!

Haha this is amazing. Except for that god damn Sonic CD jump sound. HATE HATE HATE.

Also Ape Escape victory music.

More like better than anything Sonic Team have ever made. If the rest of the game is this good, I wouldn't regret saying that this is even better than the classics. Seriously, everything about this game is better than any part of any real Sonic game made so far except the story, and it's better without one anyway. This engine is possibly the best 2D Sonic engine I've ever experienced. It takes all the best parts of the original 4 Sonic games and makes them smoother and much better. The spin dash and peel-out have been made faster and smoother especially, the graphics are fantastic and lively, etc. I doubt this will get completely finished, no great projects ever do. ;_; But if it does, God damn, I'd pay money to play another Sonic game that rivaled the classics.

This post has been edited by Mr. T on Aug 13 2007, 09:12 PM

From what I saw in the video, it just looked the same as the Genesis games, just with some minor differences, a cool special stage, and a new boss/level. I knew all you wanted was Sonic 3&Knuckles with new levels.

Okay then, I guess Super Mario Brothers 3 and Super Mario World suck because they're just Super Mario Brothers with minor differences.

Also, play the damn game before saying anything k thx

This post has been edited by Mr. T on Aug 13 2007, 09:14 PM

Holy crap this is awesome!

I see the creator favors Sonic Shuffle music. I can't blame him.

That's because Taxman had over 4 years to continue developing a stable, flexible and smooth 2D engine but Sonic team only has about 6 months or so to make a complete 3D sonic engine

Sonic team would LOVE having more time to improve their games, it's just that they have strict deadlines while Taxman has none :x

This post has been edited by Ashura on Aug 13 2007, 09:26 PM

From what I see in the video, it looks very close to the original, and very nice. The one thing that intrigues me is the level editor thing. I'm sure someone could make something pretty impressive with that thing.

Other than that it's just a good Sonic platformer.

What? SMB3 was very different from SMB1 in multiple ways, but the Sonic games seem so similar. SMB2j on the other hand...

Edit: I know the each new Sonic game had new stuff, it's just... less noticeable.

This post has been edited by Peardian on Aug 13 2007, 09:44 PM

What? SMB3 was very different from SMB1 in multiple ways, but the Sonic games seem so similar. SMB2j on the other hand...

Edit: I know the each new Sonic game had new stuff, it's just... less noticeable.

What ever, I still say this is good. Sonic 3 clone or not, it's great and feels different enough for me to say it's a new game.

This is awesome. They managed to mimick all the gameplay style and physics.



Including Tails' stupidity movement.

What everyone above said. It's absolutely flawless EXCEPT FOR THE GODFORSAKEN JUMP SOUND.


Why do people seem to like using it that much? It sounds terrible. :[

Also according to the character select list it can also be Sonic/Knuckles's retarded movements.

This post has been edited by MegaTailzChao on Aug 13 2007, 10:08 PM

Awesome. I always did like to see Sonic consistently jump into spikes.