#Sonic Leaks, Rumours & Speculation
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did kishimoto ever explicitly cite that inspiration?
They have an office in LA??
i forgot if he did
but is not a specific kishimoto thing dex
having to rely on memory sucks with this I don’t remember Kishimoto mentioning eva explicitly
i mean its absurdly obvious with the amount of references, but i don't remember him stating it
No duh fuck lmaoo
Sonic team overall are really full of nerds for anime and so
Oh yeah ik
like it’s very obviously implied especially with the sage va choice but I don’t remember anything explicit
which are also Sonic Fans btw
I remember the Judy thing but like Mauro said that was years after they left
(side note but my auto correct keeps changing Mauro’s name to Mario 💀)
I get what you are saying, i'm saying that doesn't make any sense.
- Concepts change from concept to finish
- Yeah because they do not want you to think about vegeta when you think about shadow. They are very particular about the things they want you to associate with shadow. And have been name dropping comic book characters in reference to shadow for 20 years
- Not just spawn, constative, batman, venom " Dark 90's comic book characters" and has been doing this for 20 years
- That's a fair point. I'm not a japanese lawyer. I Couldn't tell you the first thing about copyright law over there.
Except, this is not sudden. They have been talking about the comic book characters for 20 years and the historical fact you claim is. Concept art , concept art that. You have no idea how it translated to the final product. They have been talking about shadow in reference to comic book characters for 20 years. My point was the idea that this them all of a sudden covering their ass about this doesn't make sense because they have been very open about shadow's influences for a very long time.
And you know what sure , maybe they just couldn't talk about it whlist they worked at sonic team. Then why has no one who left sonic team ever mentioned even once that shadow was based on vegeta? You have former sonic team staff saying that tails and sonic are based on gohan and piccolo. You have maekawa saying that shadow and maria's story is based on please save my earth. If that DNA was so integral. Someone would have had to have asked someone over the course of 20 years about vegeta one of the most famous anime characters atp famous characters in all of modern fiction and there's not one peep about that. You could go ask maekawa rn. But nothing has come up.
They have been talking about shadow being based on comic book guys for 20 years and people weren't paying attention and you suggesting this came out of nowhere because they weren't paying attention.
AHH
I haven’t even finished making the indie I’m working on yet
Let alone a commercial title with 3 years of experience
lol
But yall know im the goat level designer
I’m not gonna lie that actually scared me 😭
you still have time to develop and fill your portfolio so dw about it
Next yasuhara for real for real
You too
Mr Cyber Space extra
anyway my take is that when the inevitable sonic X dragon ball crossover happens shadow’s gonna get paired with somebody and it’s not gonna be goku
The answer is andriod 17
Writers: 483948 lines of text to explain a character made 20 years ago
Game designers: what if uhh you add a platform there and a spring there, would be fun
You ever watch the half like documentary
Vibe platforming?
its pretty interestng
see back then the game designer would do that writing smh
I dont work for games so my portfolio aint that
I do filmmaking!!
leave those poor innocent writers alone
WORDS are GREAT
I been filling up with shortfilms and music videos as of now
I don't believe in it.....
some people got vibe game design in em
documentary too!!
NO IM NOT PADDING IT OUT IM GIVING CONTEXT AND ELABORATION
Honestly you are a good ass level designer, u should def try to get on more commercial indie projects for ur portfolio

So far I think I have one commercial project I worked on
yeah indie projects are a good way to start
Yessir
I would say to just start with small games like the one you guys made in a week
I will say too sonic was definitely a good step for me in that direction for video game design
I’m noticing that’s when games were good…
Ohshima was a concept artist, game designer and made the world of Sonic
Truly my goat
My friend wants me to work on Sonic Galatic but I’ve been kinda hesitant on it
sonic galatic?
I’m going for it
Don’t…
half of the sonic game writers started off as level designers or so
There's some folks who just know how to make a good thing, but those calculations or how they got to point b on a design thing resdes with in them. They aren't like gods among men, but some folks just can like go " Oh this would be fun " and it is and other's need tests
Why 😭
oh ok I see it now, this one?
Ya
looks cool
Could we take it to DMs rq
i suspect hoshino has a lot more influence on sonic writing than what's been stated
iizuka's influence is obvious enough due to interviews and credits saying it
i really gotta work on doing 3D for something commercial at some point bc all of my stuff is personal work
I will say too connections are like a huge factor as well
I don't like shitting on 2D Sonic fangames, because they are just passion projects
But man I played that Sonic Time Twisted game that I remember some people glazed as "CD but good"
And I just had the biggest frown on my face whilst playing it
Is making the next big 2D Sonic fangame = Sonic 3&K but you're trying to like heckin Saturn vibes because you saw Nights into Dreams and thought it was cool
I give sonic fan projects where credit is due
my fav 2D sonic fangame is prob triple trouble 16 bit
Some 2D ones, even if demos are insanely good
Favorite finished one tho was after the sequel
i like the uhhh
dudeee
The only one that actually really captures Sonic 3&K
I'm ngl the Overture 95 situation still bums me out to no end
its absurd how much it actually feels like a legit follow up to 3&k
Syn has since left but the fact that people were dogpilling on me because I DARED to call out a spite project
Wasn’t overture one with the rabbit as the secondary antagonist or something?
And the only response I got was "wow how dare they not like racists" and then my response message got removed and then reposted to be dunked on
Idk why I'm still salty about that to this day
Might be misremembering but wasn’t Mr. Lange on the project?
Lange racism drama happened, all the Overture assets got leaked, they decided to revive Overture, used the crusty ass Sonic Worlds Engine cause LakeFepard wanted to be involved in the project, has more bugs than the 2014 demo (LMAO), removed all of Lange's music and called him "Jordan L" in credits
honestly
don’t remember either but if it was a Lange project then it was probably in my burn book
This is where people get it wrong
the fan game that makes me kinda sad they never continued had to be Sonic Chaos
it had good potential
everyone seem to forget about it tho
Sonic Chaos Remake (Demo) by A+Start & Box Robot Studios
Powered by the Crimson Engine
Play the demo here : https://sonicfangameshq.com/forums/showcase/sonic-chaos-turquoise-hill-demo.228/
- Playlist -
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it was pretty cool
It was Jass's project, Pixy and Lake never got permission to revive the project.
Overture got cancelled originally because Pixy decided to leak the OG Overture assets years ago during a big dispute with Lange
Lake Fepard literally barged in with an outdated Sonic World's engine, worked on the project purely out of spite, and from what I heard got into conflicts and they replaced his engine, which he got mad about (LOL) -> so I ended up being right all along but people were dunking on me because "hurr durr Lange racist"
oh waaaaait there was a whole thing where they were still crediting him in regards to certain aspects of the game and they got like really defensive about it from what I remember
i mean i dont think its that crazy to not really care for it being a spite project if the reason it was canceled in the first place was due to a dispute with lange, but also yeah it makes sense it wouldn't go anywhere if it was only made out of spite and nobody really had the passion to make something out of it
I think it becomes worse when the OG project lead didn't consent to it + the project is just of not good artistic quality
i don't think the quality is relevant to the conversation, and was lange the project lead?
No
Jass was
Seems the entire Sonic Overture drive was posted online.
Part of the reason why I never posted those assets myself, was because I didn't feel like I had the authority to post the work of the team myself out of respect for whatever they'd choose to do with their work themselves.
oh my god lol I come back to this. this is useless man, I never said he wasn't based on comics or anything, why're you going "he's based on constantine" like that's a reply to anything I said. you're literally arguing something I'm not talking about, man. eesh lol. the only actual relevant things you've done was pointing maekawa DID mention please save my earth while still working at sonic team, at least iirc, in a magazine. anyway don't bother, I don't want to have to give like seven more longer and longer replies until it makes sense to you
i didn't know he was racist
I forgot the piccolo bit yeah. that said I also forgot kishimoto apparently being explicit about evangelion? a bit wild if so
i thought he was booted from places due to personality
Ngl I think my take is that I dislike Lange for personal reasons, but it was so obvious that a lot of people on the anti-Lange train were looking for every reason to dunk on a person they found annoying and didn't like lmao
yeah that seems like a shitty move then
It always felt so disingenuous
What's worse is that Lake Fepard has literally said racist things in the past, like I remember being worse than Lange, but justified it by saying he was Brazilian?
Literally him and Lange are very similar people, it's just that Lake has actually made games and is a lot less strong on his negative opinions of Sonic lmaoo.
i mean the guy was using the n word and posted multiple racist memes etc while he was already a functioning adult, and didn't seem particularly inclined to change
so like i think any hate he got was justified
I kinda think its relevant if they mention both western and japanese influences for shadow and other things but vegeta just never comes up. Even when there are people who don't work there anymore, and could just openly speak on it. Like maekawa who was there during shadow's development actually. I think its super relevant when you have kishimoto talking openly about evangelion actually. Because if they are speaking about this these things the people who work there and the people do no longer do. And vegeta has not come up once, in 20 years.
I don't think he's based on vegeta big dog
Yeah no of course but I still can't shake an underlying feeling of disingenious behaviour from the fandom
I dislike Lange cause he’s racist but the scummy stuff regarding Overture seems bad too I guess
i dont think kishimoto ever explicitly mentioned eva
and I don't think they are trying to hide anythng beyond controlling what you think of shadow
if i misremembered that, tha's on me, i'll take the L on that. But i stand by the rest of that
Ngl a lot of the situation is a bunch of Sonic Retro/SFGHQ oldheads still rambling on about drama from mid 2010s
im sure some bias regarding his attitude and personal opinions about sonic affected it to some extent, but really i can't remember any other sonic fan being exposed as racist and getting a nicer treatment
oh yeah and obnoxious, almost forgot. racist and obnoxious
they wrote t down
then you're agreeing with what I actually said to begin
and everything else is fluff lol
Not really
my whole dissagreement was the idea they are trying to hide shadow's influences
thank you, we arrived at something we can consider factual- they had vegeta as inspiration, at some point, in development. not talking about how much, not quantities, just the fact it happened at all
you literally just agreed to that
No
Going around in circles ahh convo
I think you guys should take it to debate channel at this point 😭
I genuinely think they right now feel more comfortable saying "shadow is based on spawn" etc, american concepts, than "shadow is based on vegeta", which would be seen as ripping off a fellow japanese company, despite the fact it's directly written right there lol
based on, and thought about two different concepts
I think with the Lange situation though is that the prime person behind the takedown of him is like a complete hypocrite LMAO
I mean idk dawg in big 2023 he’s going around saying “there’s nothing wrong with white people saying the n word”, misusing South Park as evidential support, and being very snobbish and stuck up about it to boot
his attitude sucks
who's?
Literally wasn't denying that, I hate that man
Lange
My whole point was simply I don't think they were trying to hide shadow was based on geets. He just wasn't and they ddn't want to confuse people on that
If they thought about geets and then went " nah"
I think this is a situation where I hate on a thing that people like to hate but for entirely different reasons
he's not based on the man an dthey don't want you to think about it. I don't think they are trying to hide shit
my man can we drop this it's going nowhere, I'm being unable to convey to you what I said and you still think I said something else
They speak openly about his influences.
Im surprised that guy hasnt even move on from the sonic stuff, his whole legacy is just being sonic utopia demo creator and that's it
and thinking bro is smarter than sonic team
this is going to take like an hour to get you to finally understand what I said, it's how this shit always goes, and I want to do better things with that time
he’s in One Hit Wonderland
literally
Sure man its fine
and I'm sure you do too lol
One of the 2 convos rn
unstoppable v immoveable
but he was, to some unknown extent, based on the man, at some point
the whole point of concept art is looking at what was initially proposed, you aren't supposed to look at concept art and go "oh so this is what the character IS", both sega and fans know this
therefore, censoring something from concept art, which clearly is only there to show off the initial concept, was likely just a legal precaution
I think he works on indies mostly??
He has to make bread somehow brah
anyway while you’re all here I’m gonna start rambling about my recent experience with Superman comics, page one of my 50 page essay, why cows go moo
ehh
the whole point of concept art is looking at what was initially proposed, you aren't supposed to look at concept art and go "oh so this is what the character IS", both sega and fans know this
people incluing sonic fans do this so often
they prolly got a job somewhere tho
Mauro can we look into eachothers eyes and talk about the depth of sonic's muzzle curve?
people do ths all the time
Oh 'm just deeply irresponsible
( also its the weekend )
wrong convo bro!!!
literally when
Oh no, they're fusing!!!!
yeah 😭
the concept art with vegeta named was shared alongside the early terios concept art
nobody looks at that and goes "this is what shadow is" because
its concept art
it can lead you to see where the inspirations for the character lie, how it evolved into what it is
but what it is is what you get in the final project
I hate I know where this is from 😭
I mean i could give you examples, but this an all anecdotal because thsi conversation is anecdotal. But I have plenty of examples. Here's one not from sonic
There are people who think that an entire ending of fnaf help wanted 2 is invalided because they looked into the code and the original version hey found used another character. And that's a valid theory in those circles even though it does not make sense because its from an unused concept. That community being primarly made up well, younger folks. simular to sonic. There are plenty of examples of people in this very discord being exposed the smallest back end of a process and completely misinterpeting it
they don't want you to think he's supposed to be like vegeta, because he's not supposed to be like vegeta. They mention spawn, because they want you to associate him with that
this doesnt matter when it comes to concept art though
they dont want you to think shadow has abs
he has abs in the concept art
It does if they thnk fans will misinterpret it
but they dont want you to think shadow has abs
if I’ll be blunt I don’t think most of the vegeta comparisons were (just) brought on by the concept art either, just moreso the nature of shadow as a rival/foe to sonic with a darker side who is then seen teaming up with the heroes to save the days sometimes
sure the specifics might be drastically different but in a series where it’s dragon ball inspiration created Super Sonic I don’t think it’s unreasonable to come to this conclusion at least initially, and it’s the one most people would probably take away from the getgo
that’s why I mentioned the crossover thing earlier, it doesn’t really matter what they intended because at the end of the day shadow and vegeta standing next to each other is gonna be a million times more profitable and popular than hooking him up with anybody else in that series
Your perspective comes from the assumption that people wont just misinterpret back end information from sonic
like they always do
like they do all the time
its a legal precaution, thats all
like good going on you iizuka for fighting that battle but eventually you’ll have to wave some kind of white flag
Wait I just noticed
There are people right now who have crazy conspiracies about mandates because they learned what one was
Do they actually take action just for a name alone in Japan @mint umbra?
(of course, keep fighting for New Classic Sonic of course! please, no problems with that whatsoever 😁)
i'm not entirely sure but the way a lot of companies, developers and artists just very rarely talk about specific inspirations makes me think so
Ah
Then why did iizuka make an entire artcle where pointd out why he didn't want you to think of him that way
That’s really weird
You forgot about that part
where iizuka spoke about vegeta openly
and explained why he didn't like that comparison
i can link it right now actually
because he also isn't vegeta right now
that was just a small part of the article
but yes, they also don't like that comparison because it isn't accurate to how shadow presently is
side note but this last thing also has substantial evidence behind it in the DC crossover
however, that doesn't have to do with censoring concept art
it never accounted for who he was ever
its a concept
his concept is who he was at some point
or, who he was going to be
hence, its relevant
and sega has enough reasons to fear being sued by the IP owner (idk who that is) for similarities to dragon ball already frankly
with super sonic
they definitely did their best but it was obvious that half of these pairings didn’t exactly fit like a glove, but that wasn’t the priority. the priority was pushing their biggest justice league members with the most relevant main sonic characters
there are so many not super saiyans that's not true in the slightest
Mario has 3
sonic is by far the closest one, and was very obviously directly lifted
the concept art is literally a redrawn dragon ball panel
Sega will not gaf about the details if a dragon ball crossover hits, if they want those big bucks super shadow and super saiyan vegeta will be tag teaming Eggman and fist bumping each other
And we (yes, we) will clap
I don't even know where to begin with this
You can't believe this
There are anime that came out recently where characters litterally turn into not goku
obviously there's stuff that falls under parody
Hold on lemme find this shit
That actually doesn't work here
because in parody they censor too
yes, and its also why they haven't been sued just for having super sonic yet
that's very dodgy to base a lawsuit off of, even with it being so similar
So gintama and bobobo are going to get sued any day now?
How about the kids next door, maybe the anphibia
but if you have that AMONG other things that could constitute as ripping off the source material, in a major IP, it might be the base of a lawsuit
Are you a lawyer
Are you a lawyer from japan
are you 😭
no, but i think these are pretty reasonable thoughts
But i'm also not making the argument that they are doing it for legal reasons
there have been things based on super saiyan both parody and serious for decades
some of which get pretty close
gintama and bobobo were both animated by toei, would be silly to sue toei when they're animating dragon ball lmao
and for some reason , sonic out of all of them will get the hammer.
Ketekyo hitman reborn
guess they coming for it
wait nvm gintama wasn't thought it was
mb
regardless, those classify as parody most likely
its the difference between someone making a game called "sobic the pledgehog" that plays like a sonic game and a character called "sobic the pledgehog" appearing in family guy
ok?
There's still a bunch of forms inspired by SS and they have not been hammered
Your argument requires an example, there is no example ( that we currently know of )
Its why i asked if you were a lawyer
there's files for this, case files you could find
Its why i'm asking you are speaking pretty definitively on this. I figured you had some information i didn't
so far, this speculation that needs to be supported by actions on the companies end that seem to have not happened
both for sonic and other thnings
Yes, because most stuff, like super sonic, is limited to just referencing one element, like SS
If a very large extent of a property was heavily based on another property, though, that could be less legally safe. Most IPs don't do this, but there's enough instances where sonic is similar to dragon ball where it's reasonable to take legal precautions
Sure, there aren't any examples of a lawsuit over similarities to SS, but you can take the pokemon company suing the palworld devs for example, likely only possible because there was a large extent of elements taken from pokemon and not used as parody
People who verifably worked at sega talked about the main character and his side kick were based on two DB characters
yo ucan find the tweet right now
It's 9am for me 😭
Whit
Also him freely referencing Cowboy Bebop for the Space Shuttle scene inspiration
I don't even remember this
that's cool
i wonder if he liked champloo
or space dandy
Oh boy oh boy a whole ass conv to read 🥹 gonna read it at home
Don't actually
why erm
don't
Latín america Made it impossible to get that fight to win on his side
Jsjsjs
https://youtu.be/CZbx1ylUyoI by forces beyond my comprehension, this video is somehow relevant
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He asked these guys if they had reference concept art for Mecha
And they said nope, they had to go with what idw and everyone else had to go off of

Soooo
send this to them on my behalf when the actual game gets revealed https://youtu.be/nCQGQ5qBQTA?si=L068nPqcAt92mvSt
in other news it seems like sonictwt got fooled by a roblox game being touted as frontiers 2 for a second time
How ironic considering that Roblox is in hot water for controversial decisions
lord, not this again 😭
Ngl just caught up with everything
The Mecha Sonic concept art stuff specifically just sounds like insane rambling
MK2 is too detailed to be captured by concept art what do you even mean?? 😭
That being said stuff like the shadow gens improvements not being rolled over I could 100% see happening, especially with how it appears to have been forked off from frontiers around the time of DLC 2
Surely a new leak makes this chat active soon...
I hope not
Hard pass
What even happen in this chat
the name
Sonic rumors & speculations
Really, I'm just waiting for the pen to drop for an shadow spinoff movie announcement.
After all this skydance shit/internal studio stuff.
most of the time weirdos on 4chan pretend they’ve played the next game early and make up the most deranged guff you’ve ever heard of
Just got invited to a SECRET playtest of the next game starring a familiar blue scrimblo...let's just say...if you're a fan of FIFA & COD monetization, wanted the Frontiers Battle Pass, and love wasting money on shit from an ass you surely won't be disappointed 🤫
And here's some greentext details to really seal the deal
burger king tie in, bk onion rings will be a collectible in a postlaunch dlc level
john from accounting told me that mike pollock voices 5 important characters with a lot of dialogue
iizuka personally saw art of rouge inflated big & round
luigi is unlockable after obtaining all the Super Emeralds and hyper forms are back
Lmfao
iizuka saw WHAT
this is correct information.
Even if the leaks from the 21st are real, I wouldn't put much stock in it honestly? Frontiers the game is pretty different from Frontiers the leaks
Still kept a lot though
d for multiplayer
What are the graphical settings btw
Check anti-alisasing options
Also framerate options
Cuz if the other one is 30, I'm ordering tickets to Japan and going to ST's offices
aa is tsr/taa/fxaa and off
Killing myself
I noticed the other options had high on the left
Actually no point buying the PC version then
Right before you sent that
No DLSS, no FSR even?
Never kill yourself, play Shinobi Art of Vengeance instead
No, cuz that one doesn't have ultrawide support
The wrong way to game
I'll be turning all these 2 zero a couple days in
there's
no option for accelerate on trigger???
or custom binding in general???
????????????????????
Can't you choose TSR control scheme anymore?
It was in the character select menu under options in the original beta, you could choose that there
A, B and RB
wait what the hell is this
Is trigger used for something else
wait did they get rid of TSR controls
i reallyyyyyyyyyy hope not
checking now
this is my ideal controls
locked SSS by the way 
Fuuuuuck
its clear you unlock SSS when clear all cups
Everybody’s super sonic speeding
drift and this
NO UNCAPPED FRAMERATE??? 😭💔💔
This is the beta
ONT yeah
weaklings
Crash the only game I can utilize that control scheme
am i allowed to post tutorial for this or no 
legit hope they keep tsr controls
because like why would get rid of it
especially when you have them in a beta 8 months ago
we’ll see when they drop that online manual thing again
""Let's have a great race, Sonic! Wait—I mean, Shadow! Haha. No—huh, you're Silver."
A line from Amy in Crossworlds. 😭
"Maria wanted me to protect everyone from harm. Unfortunately, that includes you. That is your only saving grace."
THE FUCK DID CHARMY DO TO SHADOW
AYO!?
nothing but the confirmation that you do need to indeed finish all tracks on sonic speed to unlock super sonic speed
and these little guys are unlockable skins, that's all the "leaks" https://t.co/ucNL7zJfSk
QRT: stockindonut
sega did learn from the old crossworlds leaks bc i've been going through the files for crossworlds and it's beta and there's... nothing!!!!!
Oh my god
WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE
these rival lines might bring in levels of silver slander unseen by the general public
nah man i'm getting some light story mode out of this
silver PLEASE
And it's ass just like the last time it happened 💔
we cooking this white boy 🔥 🔥 🔥
im just happy we have base roster skins
please tell me we have Riders skins too
they found a lot of dialogue actually it looks like
should I start spoil censoring just in case
oh the embed doesn’t work
aw
but yeah I won’t be looking at these
toddlers fighting
God, I'm still kinda pissed about the graphics settings
The line for Knuckles is VERY good
Yep
op claims there are “355 lines to and from Sage” 
uncapped mod save us 😭🙏🙏
multiply that by 23 for everybody else and that’s like
it’s weird coz didn’t shadow gens have unlimited framerate?
No, but it had 120fps cap
oh my god
Lol
I wouldn't be shocked if it also doesn't have ultrawide support
Alright guys who wants to put the "all dialog from Crossworlds" video together 💪
When even Team Sonic Racing does, even if kinda scuffed
more than 1000 may be underselling 💀

||OH FUCK JUST LIKE THAT!||
So I guess the SEGA DLC Chars are not founded yet?
no characters in the files except the ones playable in the demo
🫡
ok fuck it
Maybe sonic team doesn't have wide screens in their office 💔
Are those actual skins or are these just for the weird rival system
someone said you can have them as skins
ngl I do like these
Yeah but is that confirmed tho
Especially with Zavok
@silent haven hey just saying that you can't post that here sorry
no
is it confirmed or is it someone just talking
Then I don't think that's confirmation
And I won't take Rio's tweet as confirmation, they don't actually know anything
oh okay
yeah they just post whatever they find lmao
fair LMAO
oh you meant rio tweet
I just never follow rio at all so I'll keep that in mind
idk then
ngl that red sonic
they’ve got no source for that
kinda fire though, I would like to race as that
I’m like 50% sure these ghost guys are just NPCs for an alternate mode
thats shadow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
they also do not specify what purchasable means 😭
I mean can’t you buy vehicle parts with those tickets
I don’t see why skins couldn’t also be included there
I'm mostly saying this in case people think that's 100% confirmed
And then get disappointed when it's not
I said this earlier but uh
I think they replaced the TSR toggle with regular options in the menu for controls?
Like how you can change whether to use the button or the trigger for acceleration
who tf is using RB LMAOO
Unless they straight up mislabeled, which I really hope is the case
Miku sorta has voices
why are you posting this in rumors
I too…have voices….
Nuh uh
Have we not played this track before
🙃
oooooooooooo ohhhh spectre its me
im voice in your head ooooooooooooooo
Just in case at least c
yea we know about this
i wai for music like 5 hours atp
Fair
from what i've heard the only things that haven't been fully scrubbed are audio/voicelines
otherwise they actually did a good job this time

do you guys think they'll know
Potentially
Depends if any kind of telemetry gets sent their way if you play it in the evil and fucked up way
This is supporting theories i got
He deserves it
Hope this works out for em
looks a miles better than tsr version
Wil e coyote ass level
Why is everyone shitting on charmy
how are ppl playing this again?
switch beta thingy
I thought that wasn't until the 29th
thats the steam one i think
No, people are playing PC version when they're not supposed to through weird ways due to the files not being encrypted
||CORAL TOWN?||
ooo fuck I see some new ones in here
||PUMPKIN MANSION?||
||Eggman Expo?!||
||BLIZZARD VALLEY||
||oh Eggman Expo is new isn’t it||
multiple new ones, not just that
v v excited to see some of these
||Steampunk City inject it directly into me veins||
wasn't there a museum one?
||4 tracks left||
no hill, just a mansion
||damn, so that was never metropolis speedway huh ||
||sadge but steampunk city looks cool||
true
||what if its metropolis speedway they jsut rename it for no reason||
||like they did with other tracks||
|| if I had a nickel for every racing game that remixed Vela Nova and literally no other Rush track, I'd have 2 nickels ||
Oh nice
Go figure Rush music without the samples
Just a little mashup of Sonic and Blaze Victory Dance.
Is awesome how they sync so well. 😁⭐✴️
All Credits to ©Sega.
Doesn't sound like any of the cyberspace tracks
Yea no this could be anything
but it's a vibe
the ids don't match up but it's the only one with the number i could find
what did I say...
Shut up
It's probably happening tbh
There's just no confirmation, so it amounts to "source: my ass" rn
I am not denying anything i just want you to shut up 
me when I step on Lego knuckles
it hurts you more than it does me
same Sonic City that insisted miku would be silent btw
There’s legit no evidence in the files that says among us is the last dlc
there's nothing about dlc at all besides joker
it’s just people running with that one interaction they had on Twitter months ago

dinkleberg….
Big when you lose and downgrade a rank: "I guess even I have lazy days"
what
oh
What
alright
is that
|| Peel ||
what the fuck is ||peel||
this would be funny if the theme played in the background tbh
||Is this like a sticker for the cars or like an actual goddamn skin ||
where did you even get this btw
||i mean there’s nothing special about the image so my assumption was sticker but why does it say skin then 😭😭😭||
usual suspect
...Rio?
yea
The font makes me think it's google lens'd from japanese
so yeah, I dunno
Oh good eye
So maybe that’s how u unlock characters in the beta?
I mean it could also be a placeholder
so
¯_(ツ)_/¯
gotta wait till proper release at this point
Doubt it, it'd be odd to lock the 12 characters like that
nah the only character you gonna "unlock" is joker
Which one is whispers board
large bright neon sign
this is a nice jingle
the blaze one
though would've been cool if she had her event theme
oh yeah that’s allll the lines of dialogue in the datamine 💀
Oh wow
oh yeah Ian definitely wrote these 😭 😭
you didn't think so before? 😭
no i just crossed something relevant
there’s one specific Amy line that might be another 9/11
Which one do it now kill me
yeah it’s just the first part im a little iffy about but the context evens it out
so is this towards metal sonic
Yep
im in too deep
the discourse it’s sucking at my pores
||she, tails, and knuckles all reference their own metal counterparts in rival dialogue with metal when they go first. Amy mentions trip in one line||
we need to get you to a normal machine stat
||WAIT WHAT!?||
||I WANT TO SEE TAILS AND KNUCKLES! NOW!||
||Oh no does this mean trip is not||
SHOW!
||*her||
||whats the trip line||
||“Ooh! If I see Trip, I need to stop and say hi!”||
||it’s listed as a course comment so i think she says it when she’s on Northstar ||
||noooooOo TRIIIIIIP||
yeah 100%
||FUCK||
||no just the fact amy is talking about seeing trip in the islands||
||meaning shes not gonna be dlc||
||that’s not confirmation of anything yet I don’t think ||
||i mean that's not really a deconfirmation nor confirmation, its just a comment ||
||Yeah I doubt that means anything||
but it'd be really funny if they did make it in
||lmfao both eggman and sage try to trick knuckles ||
||"i should say hi!!!" literally right behind you ||
||I think I posted the sage line earlier but Eggman tells him there’s a shortcut at the start ||
ew
why would you have us imagine this😭
lol
||BRO WTF!? LMFAOOOOOOO||
Shadow’s lines are great
||his lines with Blaze caused me to realize this is the first time either of those characters have ever interacted with each other||
||AYO!? I WANT TO SEE IT!||
||I have been dying to see the interaction between Shadow and Blaze!!||
to who is this?
||Metal||
If anything, this would show Amy has some spine against ||Metal||
specially given she usually requires Sonic to help her out against him
😭 😭
the fact you think this is even slightly comparable to 9/11 is so beyond sad I do not have the words to articulate it
go outside
😭
Is it alright that Soni is tagged though?
oh yea fair, lemme go ahead and edit that
lol
||Espio and Zazz allude to their fight from Metal Virus||
Today’s just my day, now I have even more clap backs against the bullying😭
||Zazz also mentions it in his response to Espio; he also mentions him being beat “one time”, which very explicitly ties it to the MV fight ||
Already lmao
||Ian Flynn and his references… can’t stand that guy||
This is a joke btw
||lowkey I think people seeing “apologies metal sonic” and assuming Sage sees Metal as a brother might have jumped the gun a bit 😭 ||
Big the Cat is an omnipotent being, only a fool wouldn’t be afraid of him
||The zazz line really just confirmed idw is canon 😭||
CrossWorlds has no story so it’s not canon
||Didn’t Frontiers already do that?||
Just a video game ass game
I’ll get back to this when im done
im mainly calling out the points I find the most interesting, I don’t wanna pastebin ALL of it
anyway, uh ||Sage basically says that she’s gonna lobotomize Metal because he’s getting too aggressive on the track ||
Crazy
Still it’s the only time zazz and Espio interacted 😭
💀
the script would’ve been written before that art was grain
said art was also drawn in response to a poll where said vote total only occurred because of previous encounter, which they referenced directly in the article confirming the pair up
Idc i refuse to accept IDW into canon
you can’t run forever 

Not if I kill the comic myself
huh
true
also you cannot kill IDW you’ll accept it sooner or later
I mean
sonic advance basically has no story
but then he showed up again
Good thing we’ll never see em again
the future is unpredictable
maybe we’ll see em once they fulfill their dream of escaping scrapnik island
right, okay
while Crossworlds doesn’t have a story, it has a very explicit Framing Device that Ian makes apparent throughout all the rival dialogue
that combined with very specific references makes it clear that the intention is for the events of this game to fit in to the canon
Is there any more idw mentions?
As far as I can tell, ||it’s just limited to Espio and Zazz||
||there are no other pairings where it’d be natural to bring up those events||
||Dodon Pa has built this massive simulation machine that allows him to create massive environments from different time periods and dimensions. He uses these simulations as the basis for the Grand Prix
It seems like the main purpose of the Prix is gathering data regarding further expansion of the system, so whether or not the characters take it seriously is up to their jurisdiction. Amy was singled out because of some specific lines, but she’s not the only one who talks about taking this as good fun ||
This is my read of the framing device, and I imagine the comic (and the animation too?) will delve into it more explicitly
||ehhh the travel rings being simulations is kinda boring ngl||
||wish it was like actual multiverse stuff||
||I mean, it simulates those worlds perfectly, as Eggman states in a conversation with Tails. The danger is pretty much real so they, for all intends and purposes, are going through different worlds that are simulated||
||Such as the Arabian Nights or Donpa's planet||
@dawn pumice yeah it's basically what I surmised. Unreal Engine provides the ability to customize pretty much anything, so Sonic Team can retain some useful HE2 objects and parts of the code
You said UE5 is acting as a wrapper
I don't think HE2 has robust online support anyways so UE5 is definitely handling all of that
I also think it’s UE lighting as well?
Cuz I saw someone mention that market street has a common problem with how UE5 does lighting a certain way
Yeah, that would be very likely
There's no tangible reason to port over all that stuff from HE2 when UE5 has its own implementation
If I had to guess I assume everything retained from HE2 is gameplay specific stuff
So ig this is similar to what konami did with efootball
Ya exactly
I also think this is gonna be used for the future of Sonic
Kinda needed ngl
efootball was made with fox engine but they moved to ue
gameplay was the same and physics but lighting wise it was pretty much unreal engine
U know what this means too
#FightingGameDreamLivesForever
I'll be doing more flips
I’ll animate Sonic hitting the griddy
a nightmare task that I won’t have to do because it’s NOT REAL ‼️
Believe in the fighting game dream
So each Crossworld has a final lap remix that I'm assuming shows up in the grand prix fin race?
No, I think it’s when a Frenzy happens
could still be a third lap thing if you get the option to do 3 laps of crossworlds
Prob
Nope, the youtube person ripping them specifically said its different
Or uploading them, I should say
Ah
yeah I checked footage
the songs of the crossworlds don't really change
with frenzy time
oh
so probably a third lap or something
not a lot to refuse tbh
IDW's canonicity is weird purposefully so you don't really have a lot to refuse. And remains tenuous
Imma just cut the thread
hmm?
ok?
aye
where is this
it’s out there if you look
just link the shit bro
||MAH FUCKING GOAT BIG! NEVER MESS WITH HIM!||
So basically ||Trip and movie stuff deconfirmed by various sources. How lame||
They had a cool opportunity to make this grand
||Also I don't know why Superstars got a course but no classic characters apparently||
||and even freakin Rumble had a movie collab||
where was trip deconfirmed?
||We don't know over Trip, but movie chars are out||
Ya
alr ||egg expo||
||uhhh not the color scheme i was expecting||
How did it leak?
mobians just hanging out at the eggman expo i guess
datamining
||wdym you would not go to hitler concert??||
I mean some of yall still on twitter so it’s accurate at least lmao😭
||btw yea i was right that secret crossworld is metropolis speedway||
huhhhh
yeah
?
||also do need another look at this
it does look like an expo but since it's eggman's I was kinda expecting something a bit more out there visually - but it's just one shot we have so far so I'll wait a bit||
||ill wait tbh i remember i do not liked how donpa factory looked in that big leak but now im a fan||
But yea its ||steampunk city||
tugs at collar ermmm gulp
?
What update though

I think we both know what update lol
100% a workaround-killing one I’d bet my life on it
Unless there's another workaround that gets discovered lol
Um
The graphics went insane for me LMAO
IT STOPPED WORKING
oh lmfao
Yea i think im done
I don't think there was any update, otherwise it would've shown up on Steam itself
Also I'm not sure if people pointed this out
from the beta, the last 2 cups besides the main 8 ones are called ||collab cups|| so this is what they are
||so including DLCs we have 10 grand prix cups||
I'm guessing one is "cartoon" and one is "videogame collab"
And the pacman and minecraft and the last one
it's gonna be DLC 1,2 and 3 cup. Then 4,5 and 6 cup
The order is so weird
so Minecraft, Spung and Pacman is gonna be the first one
then TMNT, Avatar and ??? for 2nd
Oh right, the SEGA characters don't even have tracks with them. A shame.
pretty sure they did
i can open console but typing stuff in doesn't do anything for me anymore
joever
if its videogames and then toons I got nothing for what could remain
can't exactly go bigger than minecraft
could be like
fortnite ig
i was typing it in the wrong order 
Pain
Wha
Race Park?
Is there anything single player on race park
yes
there’s ai rivals you can race against for single player
which is where the weird shadow skins are from
but most of it’s been cut past the menus so can’t check anything past those
thought those skins had something single-player campaign about them
i meeeeeeeeeeean we kinda knew this no
they've said it's for 1-4 players before yeah :v
epic
How’s super sonic speed? @silent haven
me when I am trunks from dragon ball
Pfffff I knew he'd milk this nonsense (its his instinct), but good grief 😭
Just let it go man
Let it go
I mean, if the character is stated to have some semblance to another character, the fighting game rule is to make mention of it at least once
Idk what that means, but even if I did, it's like
Not gonna make it any better in my book?
Is there anything more interesting that's worth pointing out
Basically
If a character looks like another, the character specific interaction will allude to it of one way or another.
DB games do this a lot with Turles and Goten
That's neat
Idk why that's relevant here
This is a joke about amy mixing them up in SA2 and 06
Sorry, I feel like everytime it's like "but technically this and that" and I'm just not here to listen to random justifications for things that I don't like about writing or gameplay 😭
Tobe you already know you're not going to accept any justifications on it
I wasn't here to do that, I was here to say it's bad lol
You don't like it because of the exact reason you're irritated by it lol
Erm credit to the artist?
Yeah deleter, that aint your datamine sir
You're right
Im a fraud
I haven't even listened to more than 4 tracks from the datamine yet
Smh
I just got off work and ngl
Sorry Nova, a lot of people do this thing, it ain't you. Sometimes I just wanna call a spade a spade
Outside of seeing the metal sonic dialogs and pogging out
I'm not that interested in reading up on the crossworlds stuff yet
Kinda want to continue my hollow knight playthrough instead
And leave the sonic for my days off
Play Shinobi Art of Vengeance instead
Uuuuuuuuuuuhhhhno
Sorry tobe you'll have to buy a copy for me
And play it for me
It's better than some weak sauce Hollow Knight
Be the change you want to see in the world

its cool, don't worry Tobe.
I'll be playing kirby DLC first tho 💀





