🛡️alithedefender🛡️

24 // 🇺🇸🇨🇱🇧🇷 // pan mf // Aspiring Artist + Author! Moved from @Mach9_ // beginning my Persona hyperinflation

[ソニック・ザ・ヘッジホッグ【公式】 @SonicOfficialJP]

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　　#ソニック35周年 新作短編アニメ🎞️
「Memories and Beyond ～記憶の未来(さき)へ～」
　　　　　　　　制作中！
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本日はティザー映像を初公開！
ぜひ本編を楽しみにお待ちください✨

[jennie 🖇 @krachial]

when you're so artblocked that your style regresses to how it was in 9th grade

[Apsel-BlueStar @Apsel_Arts]

also did a Link. I do not draw him enough

[Sonic the Hedgehog @sonic_hedgehog]

🎉 Celebrate Sonic's Birthday with two brand-new original illustrations created by @SpiritSonic

Inspired by Sonic's rich history, these products were created especially for fans and are now available on merch exclusively through Amazon.

Get yours today: https://t.co/iow4iKHW79

[Frack's Sonic Deals @FrackDeals]

SEGA Japan has announced a collector's edition for Sonic Frontiers Definitive Edition!

Largest package includes:
Original tapestry
Original T-shirt (XL size)
Original pass case
Acrylic keychain

You can preorder here!
https://t.co/LOPxg6AfkC

Website is proxy-friendly

[Frack's Sonic Deals @FrackDeals]

Forever Fast - 35th Anniversary Of Sonic The Hedgehog CD now available from @playasia ($26.99):

https://t.co/vcSIIs1gfr

[🛡️alithedefender🛡️ @alithedefender]

@SEGASoundTeam Is the physical release Japan exclusive? I’d love to own the CD

[Gumi / グミ @Gumidess]

Honestly the biggest issue i have with 3D Sonic fangames, is how all of them feel like they're meant for time attacking only.

These levels all play like they're designed for speedrunners, with hardly any normal platforming segments, even the Boost games have these.

[Sonic the Hedgehog @sonic_hedgehog]

Sonic Frontiers - Definitive Edition is out now on Nintendo Switch 2! Journey across the Starfall Islands, now with improved graphics and performance, as you uncover the islands' secrets and save Sonic's friends. Enjoy all previously released content all in one place!

[Sonic the Hedgehog @sonic_hedgehog]

Surprise! Enjoy a brand-new song from @Crush40's Jun Senoue, NateWantsToBattle, @TeeLopes, and Takahiro Kai created to celebrate 35 years of Sonic: "Speed is My Life."

[1337 / Comms (0 Slots Open*) @LazerPotaters]

35 summers doesn't feel so long
A thousand miles away but we're right were we belong

#Sonic35th #35DaysSonic #sonicthehedgehog

[internet hall of fame @InternetH0F]

There are now zero states in the US where a full time minimum wage job is enough to afford a 2 bedroom apartment

[Persona até a MORTE @MorteP3rsona]

Dia 352

[ARK Eclipse cAnon @Eclipse_cAnon]

Let me put into context just how dire the situation was for Sonic Team in the 2010's.

After the disasterous WiiU deal fell through with Lost World, the world was given a glimpse at the next era of Sonic.

It was a huge push. Comics, toys, a tv show AND games. I don't think people realise just how large of an investment Boom was.

Boom was never just a side gig for Sega, they weren't going to double their Sonic output in two seperate continuities.

The fact Sonic Boom existed AT ALL shows the desperation Sega felt to try and rebrand after the decline the franchise had felt since 2006.

You can measure the impact in the instantaneous damage Sonic 06 by comparing sales trends of hugely successful games like Sonic Rush and Secret Rings, to their post-06 sequels.

Rush Adventure didn't even crack 1 million. Which is nightmarish given how well the first game was recieved.

Sonic Boom was a hail mary to reboot the franchise, with reports stating that it may become the new "main" canon if it did well.

We heard rumors that Sonic Team would no longer be making Sonic games for consoles, which Iizuka in this recent interview more or less confirmed.

He moved to America and created Sonic Pillar - Sonic Team revamped the Hedgehog Engine, with Forces as their fanservic-y tech demo, and commissioned Headcannon/Whitehead to make Mania. That, barely, kept Sonic Team going.

Iizuka cites Mania as helping save interest in fans for the franchise, probably because it was the first game that entire decade that had any new levels to speak of that actually saw positive fan reception.

And yes, Forces was a glorified tech demo - they didn't have any actual veteran Sonic Team level designers on that game, and 3 out of the 4 years it was in development were just experimenting with the engine.

Yes, you read that right, the bulk of Forces was done in just over a year.

So, with a now-complete Hedgehog Engine 2.0 and a vision to soft reboot with an Open Zone formula with larger playspaces and expanded interactivity/combat, Sonic Frontiers became the first true game Sonic Team had invested multi-year development into.

Iizuka picks up Ian Flynn after his Metal Virus run, echoing the production of Mania to appeal to fans.

Iizuka firmly insists to his Sega bosses to give Frontiers more time. This is their last chance.

Kishimoto says the formula and Titan fights was always their ambition since before Forces.

Frontiers was essentially the game Iizuka moved countries to make. The culmination of close to a decade of effort and ambition, and drive to make sure the legacy of Sonic the Hedgehog wouldn't be that of embarassment and failure.

The Sega Investors Calling in late 2023 proudly acknowledges Sonic's return to form.

It cited the recent movie as having a positive effect, but states that Frontiers's success largely came from the fans positive reception and word of mouth, leading it to becoming the best selling game in two decades.

It says the profits would be reinvested into now-secured future of the franchise, as well as reviving other legacy IP.

So yes, 2006 almost killed Sonic, and yes Sonic Boom was the nail in the coffin, and yes SEGA was very seriously ready to shutter the series for good.

Iizuka and Sonic Frontiers saved Sonic. And arguably, the rest of Sega's legacy franchises too.

[dane 🚩 @buckadeath]

How it feels to snap out of a doom scroll

[SLO @SLOplays]

Oh look at me I'm Link. I'm the Hero of Time. I got a Lon Lon Ranch baddie. I saved Hyrule. Fuck you.

[𝓐𝓼𝓱𝓣𝓱𝓮𝓑𝓪𝓷𝓪𝓷𝓪 🇹🇹 || 𝓐𝓛𝓔𝓖𝓡𝓘𝓐🥰 @styl1shb4nana]

PERSONA 6 IS FINALLY FUCKING REAL

[「Indigo」⚢ @FoolPlanet]

Persona Twitter currently running a psyop trying to convince people that these designs are ugly