A Double Rainbow of Sonic Colors Info

We are still a few months away from the rebirth of Sonic in both 2D and 3D, but Sega is keeping the blue hedgehog on our minds by releasing a cornucopia of info on the upcoming title. Announced earlier was the fact that this game will feature co-op multiplayer and all new power-ups. Tails will be running alongside Sonic but don't expect too many other characters. In fact, as released today, reports of Amy Rose being in the game are false.

1) Dr. Eggman has built his park after developing a sense of remorse for his past “indiscretions”. Hmm… a likely story.

2) At one point in an early cutscene Sonic “breaks the fourth wall” and talks directly to the gamer. (Actually, it's a bit of an aside about what's being talked about at the time. I’m not going to spoil it, because it's funny… I think the community will definitely appreciate its intent, let’s put it that way! )

3) SA-55 (the round red robot also known as “Ergo” by fans) will return, but slightly more jaded than before. Oh and by the way SA-55 ISN’T his name… his name is actually “Orbot”.

4) Orbot also has a counterpart in this game. Orbot’s compatriot is called “Cubot”, as some detectives have been able to deduce. He’s a cube shaped robot – ‘Cube-Bot’, much like Orbot is spherical, quite literally ‘Orb-bot’ (also an anagram of robot if you hadn’t noticed) who is… er… a little defective shall we say.

5) Tails’s “Miles Electric” handheld device that appeared in Sonic Unleashed makes a re-appearance.

6) The boss you have already likely seen from Tropical Resort is referred to as the “Big Boy” by Dr. Eggman.

7) The curly haired white Wisp is important to the Colours story, and its name is Yakker. He is the Wisp Sonic and Tails communicate with to find out what is going on. A silent guide, if you like, to the world of Wisps. We officially award kudos points to Umiyuri incidentally, who identified the name first (as far as we can see).

8 ) FOXY FACT: Tails can read binary fluently. (So he’s one of the 10 types of people…)

9) Contrary to reports elsewhere, Amy Rose does NOT feature in the story of Sonic Colours Wii. Seriously, unless she’s become an invisible mute post-Unleashed, we’ve seen nothing to indicate otherwise.

10) We will see the “consequences” of Sonic destroying a giant robot… in more than one sense. DUN DUN DUUUNNNN!

Looks and wreaks of fail.

Episode 4 will be better and that ain't saying much.

*sigh*

Sonic was derivative of Mario to begin with. (Both being platformers before platforming made up 90% of the game market.) Since there were so many platformers after that, Sonic seemed less and less of a copycat. (And more of a gimmick-laden series, but I won't go into that.)

Now he gets power-ups that give him Mario-esque abilities? Oh Sega, how you have fallen. If it proves to be fun, it won't matter much, so best of luck to Sonic fans. Just sayin'...

For Sonic 4, look at it like a 2D Mario game on crack. It's getting good reviews so far so maybe Sega has finally reached the audience.

I'm not gonna lie I wanna try it but I just have this feeling that... its Sonic Team.

It looks like Sonic Colors is going to end up pulling down ratings good enough for a rental. I picked it up but haven't gave it a go yet.

Yeah lots of peeps saying its good... Might take the plunge as well... Which one yo gonna try, or both?

I got the Wii version. Wish I had gotten it at GameStop for one of those goofy but must own Sonic hats.

Meh, Sonic swag is for sonic fags. hahahaha i rhyme so superbly.

ZeldAnTales wrote:

Meh, Sonic swag is for sonic fags. hahahaha i rhyme so superbly.

It's unfortunate that that particular rhyme is on the word "swag" rather than "Sonic," making any swag fair game. Now I can never admit to liking Mario Swag. Thanks a lot!

Hahahaha damn, neither can I!

Well Swag for Sonic... is for dopes who smoke chronic.
Hm....

ZeldAnTales wrote:

Hahahaha damn, neither can I!

Well Swag for Sonic... is for dopes who smoke chronic.
Hm....

Hey, leave Streex out of this!

This reminds me of a really old GamePro magazine. In the envelope art section someone drew a green Sonic smoking a joint with red eyes and called him Chronic the Hemphog.