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Even More Sonic Runners Info Discovered

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At long last more info on Sonic Runners has been made. And it looks like the extended wait for any news was worth it.

Loads of details on the game continue to come out and Sonic Stadium has been translating as much of it as they can and as quickly as possible. Now more on the game has been discovered from Famitsu’s interview with Takashi Iizuka, head of Sonic Team:

* It’s an endless runner
* It’s Free-to-Play
* Graphics are like Sonic 4: Basically 2D, with 3D effects for added depth
* Simple controls: Sonic runs by himself, touch screen to jump/use items
* Story is split into short scenarios spanning a couple of stages each
* Some scenarios will be call backs to the old games
* There will be 50 episodes on launch, more to come
* Stages have multiple (and hidden) paths
* Sonic, Tails and Knuckles will be playable, more characters to come
* Eggman pops up during the stages and has to be driven off
* New music is being written for the game
* Color Powers make a return
* There will be “companions” or support characters; if you pre-sign up for the game you’ll get a “special companion”
* There are leaderboards
* Events for Christmas etc. are planned

As for that companion that was mentioned it was formally revealed on the Sonic Runners website via Takashi Iizuka’s Facebook page. It’s a golden pig that flies. You can see it in the promotional image provided below:

Sonic Runners is slated for a Spring 2015 release in Japan.

This post was originally written by the author for TSSZ News.

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      1. It depends on the game. Some may be fun, but this is a Sonic game, so.. yeah. You can expect anything.

    2. It says its an endless runner yet the last page said the stages would clock in at one to two minutes each. And this page says there’s 50 episodes at launch with story segments separating them,

      So, what does it mean to be an “endless” runner exactly?

      1. Nothing. This goes to show the low point of the Sonic fanbase. Makes me pleased to see Sega is aiming at exchanging them for new consumers who care about the company and don’t beg or at ungrateful.

        3. He’s not trolling, he’s right. I’m glad to see Sega has admitted that these “Sonic fans” moan and complain at the slickest straws in each damn thing they release and are now turning their heads to a side of the fanbase who cares. (aka, most people not using the internet on a daily/minutely basis like they do.)

        4. @Tomoki: Is that really that mature, Tomoki? Does that even make you any better than Renaissance? Comments like this are only proving the TheRenaissance’s point, acting that you know what’s best for Sega better than anyone else. Guess what? You’re not. Plus, you are acting upset over a simple, mere mobile game and everything in it, and it shows how badly you and some others are acting and how there are people with comments like that make the fanbase look bad to everyone else. Try harder next time, will ya?

        5. Yeah because audience exchanging worked with Sonic Boom right?

          Renaissance again, kindly shut up. I don’y even feel the need to say any more than this.

      1. Pardon? I wouldn’t mind having a fun mobile game for my upcoming cross-country road trip, not to mention one based off my favorite video game. Like SonicGuy said, it’s free, I’d be stupid not to try it.

  3. So in other words it’s combination of Sonic 4 and Sonic Dash.

    …yeah, I think we know where this is going.

  4. for me, it’s just a small nice game, nothing more… Besides it is free, then stop pitying you. Still you, you pity on a sonic game some main series, I am willing to understand. But there, I do not see the interest.

  5. Some of the features are nice, but the gameplay… We already have Sonic Dash, this seems like a step back.

  6. Well its’ something for sonic at least…
    lets hope they at least try or i am gonna have to play Sonic Overture while listening to Maxiedaman to remind me of better times.

  7. Mmmm……Still basking on nostalgia (since Sonic 4, Generations and Lost World doesn’t count, apparently), still a copy-paste of Green H…….Oops, I meant “Windy Hill Zone”, shameless promotion of their last, half-assed and failed Mario wannabe of 2013 a.k.a. Sonic Lost World…..More goddamn Wisps, hence they haven’t learned their lesson that kiddy crap doesn’t sell, and it’s an endless runner.

    Fuck it, fuck it, fuck it…..

  8. “Skai Cyan
    Posted December 28, 2014 at 9:56 AM

    Me: Sonic Team’s next game better knock it out of the fuckin’ park.
    Sega/Sonic Team: Our next game is a (probably cheap) Sonic endless runner (in all likelihood), aren’t you excited?
    Me: W-wai~~……wai…
    Sega/Sonic Team: More details soon.

    Seriously I kinda wanna die. Less of this Sega.”

    Praise be unto me, the Prophet of TSSZ.

    …It still makes me want to die a little.

  9. If this sells the butthurt will be real. I worry for suicidal people. It might be drowned out by happiness.

    Anyways the only thing I’m worried about is rather my favorites appear and rather it good. If they screw up a mobile game I think I’ll be ready to cut ties with sega for good

  10. Take most of those features out, modify the levels, and you have Sonic 4: episode 3.

    Come on SEGA.

  11. Color powers return?
    Sweet mother mercy…

    I am telling you, this is not good news for Sonic or SEGA.
    And if this game actually makes them a profit, it will not likely help Sonic at all, as the mobile and console/PC markets are completely different. So, I fear that it might mean that Sonic will stick with mobiles only forever.

  12. “Color Powers make a return”

    They still haven’t learned their lesson, have they? Still, the promise of new music and some form of story mode make me a little optimistic. I guess we can’t shed all the baggage right away.

    1. And authentic classic influence rather than “Greenhill Rehash #99998”

      Seriously, the Sonic Advance series is unrivaled as the spiritual successors to the Classics.

  15. >Lost World art style is back
    >Windy Hill
    >Color powers / Wisps
    >Endless runner
    >Free to play with micro-transactions up the wazoo.
    >”Companions” will probably work like the Chao in Sonic Jump Fever, which means more micro-transactions
    >graphics will be like Sonic 4

    Nothing to see here folks, move along.

    1. Sad, but true. The golden pig made me lol at the thought of something so cheap and cheesy. How low can you go? I don’t even think there was a notable budget to a game like this.

    2. Hopefully the Sonic Lost World art isn’t back and the Windy Hill stage is the only thing they brought from that game, also it’s not an entirely endless runner since there is a story mode, probably just like in the first Sonic Jump, I dread the color powers too but I think is too soon to judge this game.

      That being said this game needs to be MUCH BETTER than any of the previous mobile games to receive any praise from me.

  16. i can’t really be optimistic about this, and i happen to hate classic-fanboyism or the “in your face” mentally other veteran sonic-fans have.

    i can only hope as 2015/2016 bring the years of improvement. space colony bark. can reach out to the entire gaming community, beyond. just the sega-forums. and the sonic community.

  17. To be quite honest, I really don’t like endless runners. They remind me of carnival games or a quick sugar rush–a burst of excitement and fun that dissipates as fast as it came but nothing substantial or long lasting. At least a Sonic game with a little more to it like an actual 2D platformer would have made me happy. Like Sonic Dash, I will probably pick this up once or twice a month and proceed to get bored out of mind in 15 minutes flat.

  18. Hmm, the promo art in this article has an enemy from Sonic Unleashed in it, though it’s absent from every other version of this image I can find…

    1. *Director calls out..*

      Who hired this dude off the street.

      *Listens…*

      Oh, he was the only character who would work for moldy bread, a dingy and damp prison vault as room and board and accept the cruel and unusual punishment of fifty lashes whenever he messes up. That’s why you fired Sega of America staff. They have laws against that and they found out that is what you wanted to do to them besides everything else.

  21. LOL This is a bigger rehashed cash grab than I imagined, even for a mobile game. Gotta say, the constant nostalgia pandering is getting ungodly annoying. If they want to do it for the mobile game, then fine, but this crap needs to end soon enough for the future main titles.

    1. I know, right? They just send a plethora of videos of past Sonic games whizzing across the screen and think, after them doing this same song and dance for so long, we will play it like this was a retro gamer’s dream or something? Like you, I said it was a quick cash grab and it truly is. Nothing of value or novel here to be found.

      1. To be honest, the first thought that came to my mind… Wait, that was Sonic 4, sorry.

        The SECOND thought that came to my mind was…. Classic Sonic games bundle.
        Because that’s essentially what they showed.

        But nah..
        Recycled modern 3D art.
        Classic Sonic games footage.
        No actual game footage.

        Have some self respect, SEGA.
        It’ll be decent at best. The whole auto-run thing… ugh… Sonic used to have deep gameplay, now it’s reduced to a single button endless runner. Sonic Dash was deeper than what this sounds to be shaping up like, its only saving grace on a personal level is that it’s going to be 2D.

        (I’m calling it, all classic stages will have been featured in Generations HD+3DS+Sonic4: Episode I+II, so nothing new will be seen. Don’t expect Lava Reef or Ice Cap for example)

  23. “Blah, it’s an endless runner. RUINED FOREVER!”

    Will you people shut up and give the thing a chance to arrive before you shoot it in the head? Jeeesus christ, sometimes I can really get why people make fun of our fandom. It’s not the big game we wanted, but we know that it’s coming regardless. This IS another rinky-dink mobile phone freemium game, but that’s all it is. You people are spending entirely too much energy bitching about something as trivial as a mobile phone app. Before it comes out. Before we’ve even SEEN IT. Don’t you think that’s a bit stupid? A bit irrational? Something that, were you to see it from the outside looking in, would make you suspect the people doing it were INSANE?

    but whatever, someone will probably call ME the insane one or write me off as trolling so that they can feel justified in their per-emptive hatred of a mobile phone game that we’ve only read about within the past twelve hours.

    1. “Will you people shut up and give the thing a chance to arrive before you shoot it in the head?”

      Lol this is still a relevant excuse? Will giving it a chance make it any less of a rehash cash grab? No.

      Ever heard of Megaman XOver? xDDDDD

      1. You’ve missed the point, which was to calm your tits. We all KNOW it’s a freemium game. We all KNOW that’s all it is. We haven’t seen it, we’ve only heard about it. There is no logical reason to be as hostile and bitchy as you all are being over something so insignificant.

        And yes, what if it DOES become as bad as Megaman Xover? WHO CARES!? IT’S A MOBILE PHONE APP! Aside from not being the game you want it to be, which we know is coming ANYWAY, there is NO reason for you to buy it, play it or even care.

        You people are acting like this is going to be a big budget, sixty dollar game. You’re all being ridiculous and bitchy and childish over this. The only message that you’re sending SEGA by doing stuff like this is that the “Loyal” Sonic fanbase is a bunch of unpleaseable, hypocritical, caustic and entirely ungrateful douchebags who hate everything that they create that isn’t Sonic Adventure 3 “Because SA3 is exactly what the series would need to become good again and is, in fact, a tangible concept for a game and not just my personal wanking on about what I want in a Sonic game. Serious.”

        Yes, Sonic games have been bad, but being an unforgiving douche about it isn’t going to make them want to try again. Especially if ever attempt they make is hated. If you think it’s so easy, then get into Blitz Sonic, pick up Sonic Worlds, mod Generations and DO IT YOURSELF! Because just spouting off your ideas with some smug air of superiority isn’t what is going to save Sonic and it isn’t wanted or needed in any capacity.

        Yeah…Just sayin’….

        2. We’re not being unforgiving douche bags for wanting our money’s worth out of a game. “Wait and see!” and “Don’t judge before release! is exactly what people screamed before Boom came out, even though throughout the months it became more and more obvious what the game was gonna turn out as, it’s most devoted supporters chose to ignore any logic or reason and ended up disappointing themselves.

          I don’t care about this mobile game, but in the future people need to start acting like customers and demand better. If we don’t send the message that Sega’s screwed up, then they won’t learn now will they? We pay these idiots money to make games, we don’t have to be “grateful” for every mess they crap out.

          “Sonic fanbase is a bunch of unpleaseable, hypocritical, caustic and entirely ungrateful douchebags who hate everything that they create that isn’t Sonic Adventure 3”

          LOL Nice generalization there.

    2. Other than the unneccessary insult, at classic fans (who get all this crappy mis-marketed shovelware that we’re not even asking for), I completely agree with you.

      This is the only fanbase that I know where apparently there’s a norm where people have to BUY/support the game first, then pass judgement second. :/

    3. It’s not about buying first and judging second, it’s about tossing something to the slaughter before we even know what it is. And “They told us enough.” is NOT a good justification for being so caustic about things.

      And even so, just because you’re dismissing a game without anything to go on but words doesn’t give you the right to act so high and mighty about it. As if your not buying the game is some massive, noble statement or as if those who want to give the game a chance are mindless sheep. When I said people act like entitled douche bags, I meant every word of it. But I fully expect nobody to get my point. Not because my point is so much more valid, but because you don’t WANT to get my point because you NEED to feel justified in your own feelings. Thinking for a moment that you’re acting unreasonably is just beyond your grasp. And that’s cool, that’s your opinion and it’s your right to stick to it. Just don’t look down on me because I want to see gameplay before I pass judgement.

      1. So it’s not okay for us to dissmiss the game based on what we’ve heard so far, but giving it a chance is a-okay
        Why is one acceptable but not the other?

  24. I really hope this game rocks, I mean this is Sonic Team, not Hardlight, there is still room for failure but I really hope this is better than the previous mobile games.

    On a side note now that this is a 2D scroller I really hope Blaze gets her running animation from the Rush games back!

  25. I think this may turn out better than what people are saying. Not a big epic gamE but a small game to pass the time.

  29. 2015: The Year of the Fan Media. Seriously, Sonic Xtreme is being rebuilt and Sonic Misadventures to hit the YouTube airwaves sometime during this half of the year. I honestly don’t see anything in sight coming from SEGA themselves which will satisfy my inner Sonic fan.

    1. There was already some year of fan media.

      Like, Freedom Planet was the most satisfying experience I had since any Sonic game after Unleashed/Generations.

  31. Lots of hate going on. My initial response to mobile games anymore is always skeptical first and disappointment second, since I usually find out there are microtransactions and ads that immediately have me deleting the game.

    I will say Sonic Jump Fever and SA2:B(I blame the chao) have been keeping me busy for quite a few months as far as Sonic gaming goes. I tried Lost World on 3DS and promptly returned it. It’s saying something when the mobile titles are better than the portable titles now- I remember when console Sonic titles disappointed, just about every portable title made up for in quality for me.

    1. We have had to stoop as low as mediocre mobile games just to be satisfied. That is really saying something. SEGA has a lot of work ahead to recapture and create a Sonic game that at least delivers an experience better than the mobile games in the lineup.

      1. What nobody seems to realize is they’re focusing on what works nowadays.
        Mobile games roll in the money, so regardless of if WE’RE sick of it, it makes money and that’s what they’re doing.
        They’re focusing on PC now because that’s what works, and I find this great. They’re getting their heads out of the clouds and focusing (most likely) on what sells, rather then experimenting. Most likely the next game is Generations/Colors/or Adventure style gameplay because that is what has sold. This is just what I gathered from the restructuring, please don’t be an asshole because you don’t agree, guys.

        1. At some point, selling game on consoles also worked, but it does no good if they release garbage.

          Same here. Not jumping the gun and say that runners is right off the bat trash, but if they jump on the mobile bandwagon just because “it reels in money”, and they still release Sonic games without a little effort put into them, then it STILL won’t be enough, and they’ll have to downsize even further.

          If their modus operandi remains the same, before we know it they (or at least the Sonic branch) will be depending on flash games to at the very least get Ad. money.

  32. Why is there a Golden Pig? What significance does that have? I understand the Chao, Wisps and Dark Gaia things perfectly, but a random Golden Pig? Wat.

    Also getting a little annoyed at these Smartphone-only games when not everyone has a smartphone, or at least not one that can play these games without lagging or crashing. 🙁
    Of course, I’m actually more upset that my phone can’t play Cut the Rope 2 rather than this, I’d pick OmNom over a Sonic game, which is sad because I still love Sonic.
    I wish Generations had gotten DLC or a sequel, I really wanted Ice Cap Zone and Mushroom Hill Zone in those graphics, and it was a really fun game.
    Unleashed was fun too, and some of those cutscenes were amazingly animated (and the short film too!).
    I hope the next big Sonic game is fun like Generations and Unleashed were, but no matter what it is people will complain, right? 🙁 🙁

  34. In other news, Sega just revealed that their making a first-person arcade game about Luigi’s Mansion.

    And yes, I’m being completely serious :/

        2. From what I understand the game itself was developed primarily by Capcom (with supervision from Nintendo) and it is running on Sega’s arcade hardware.

        3. @AM

          So it’s like Nintendo, Sega and Capcom’s “Triforce” collaboration that birthed F-Zero GX and it’s arcade cousin AX? New F-Zero finally confirmed? (I wish.)

  36. well its almost the right directions but no control of moving like it used to in sonic 4..
    This is why fans are hunger for more sonic 3 maps with 3d depth and 2d gameplay to end this franchise once for all…Capcom learn their lesson with Megaman X franchise. 3d never work well with X and Zero..but X8 it works flawless but disappointed to fans with more plotholes again..i have this feeling this all connected with x, zero, zx, and legends is the same plot though they should made megaman legends 2d like x8 fills with plotholes with ruins of ancient city that once was x series but now everything subterranean ocean floors and unexplored levels

  37. Is it bad that I hate the Classic games? I’ve played them for years and now it’s like an orange with the juice sucked out.

    But I still come here with false hope that I can magically enjoy Sonic again.

    1. What makes me laugh is that you feel the need to comment rather then just watch how Sonic is doing. This website has enough negativity as it is, and while a certain amount is justified and healthy for a series that isn’t doing amazing right now, you just feel the need to randomly say “LOL I GIVE UP ON THIS SERIES trolololol” only to come back and comment once more about how “maybe i will enjoy sanic again”
      I’m exaggerating of course but you catch my drift. You spew hate about the new games AND the classics??? What Sonic game do you even like and why are you on a fan website if you aren’t satisfied with any of the things said website is about?…
      Sorry for butting into your business but I just thought you might want to know I just laugh at everything you post. 😛 😛

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