Oh My Lord thank you you saved me from my self.
it’s today!
sonic the hedgehog prequel game where an 18th century hedgehog philosopher naturalist ponders the meaning of the checkerboard pattern found all over the planet. is it simply part of God’s plan? or perhaps it is because the sun is a crystal, that heats the earth in an uneven but geometrically precise pattern, causing certain patches of land to become desiccated while adjacent parcels flourish. nay, it must be the influence of microscopic hedgehogs and echidnas, too small to be perceived by our eyes, following strange, unknowable passions, working diligently at their task that must to us forever remain an enigma. indeed, whatever the cause, perhaps the best we can hope for is to train ourselves to better appreciate its mathematical precision
I just wanna say that big’s big world game is amazing. they have tried to make sense of multiple full level geometries like Sonic R and Adventure and adventure 2 and heroes and put them together with their own weird logic. like you walk the entire train from station square to mystic ruins which goes through sonic r levels and the bridge zone from the game gear games and ocean palace from heroes. it’s really incredible if you have a lot of 3d sonic geometry in your head. this is the most elaborate set dressing for a fishing minigame i have ever seen.
EDIT: god you can just run up the chain to little planet like in the sonic cd intro it’s so ridiculous
mauro fonseca, co-designer of the new character in the comics surge the tenrec (the idw comics’ first original villainess!) posted this mood/inspiration board from the creative process
what’s a surge the tenrec
Inspired use of the Ashura color scheme
yeah, they’ve been referencing glitches and other stuff with a few of the new villains. this guy, starline, is supposedly based on a glitch from chaotix that turns knuckles white and his name into ******** (a line of stars)
and this guy, a bloodthirsty shapeshifter, some people say was inspired by the sonic.exe creepypasta (but unlike the others, this one’s just a fan theory, with no official word backing it up)
So is this one based on the Sonic 2 glitch that turns him green and black when you place too many waterfalls in debug mode?
Also I remember drawing my own sonic robot villains I designed from sonic 3 glitches that happen when switching to a robot sprite when touching a special stage ring in debug mode. I probably still have the drawing somewhere
there’s also an official remix at game speed that sounds like a fancy version of the original atari st demo
omg those xbox live-alike avatars wearing sonic clothing
cosplaying Sonic will never be the same again!
. … maybe.
Anyway, still love the mood of this track, autumn can come!