Sonic Boom™ Spin-off Franchise

[shadowDOESrock]

(Making a new topic because the other one is a mess.)

Introducing... Sonic Boom.
A Spin-off franchise of the popular Sonic Universe.
It currently includes a TV Show and a Game based on it.

Sonic Boom™ is a different take on the Sonic the Hedgehog™ universe, with a new look and feel. Sonic and his friends Tails, Amy and Knuckles, must come together as a team to explore a new world.
Sonic's first ever CG-animated TV series, Sonic Boom™ features friendship, robot battles, and saving the world at the speed of sound. And it's funny! Each episode is its own action-packed comedy adventure.
• FR Only: Coming exclusively to Gulli and Canal J.
• US Only: Coming exclusively to Cartoon Network™ in the 2014/2015 season.

Coming soon exclusively to Wii U™ and Nintendo 3DS™

Sonic Boom for Wii U is developed by Big Red Button Entertainment. Founded by Bob Rafei, who served as art director at Naughty Dog from 1995 until 2008, Big Red Button has never actually produced a game until now. Sonic Boom for Nintendo 3DS, meanwhile, is made by Sanzaru Games, which has some experience taking on franchises from other studios. Its most recent high-profile project is Sly Cooper: Thieves In Time, which it took over from Sucker Punch Productions.

All four characters are playable and have different abilities. Knuckles can still climb specially marked surfaces in Boom's jungle world full of ancient ruins, Amy hits things with a cartoon hammer and Tails uses gadgets, though no big mech suit like in Adventure. Sonic, for his part, now wears a scarf and carries a sort of bungie chord whip for grappling onto certain things.

There are open combat arenas for melee fights akin to those in Sonic Unleashed and plenty of long straightaways for running at top speed. Even the banter between the characters and Dr. Eggman, who won't be the big bad guy this time just as with last year's Sonic Lost World, is in line with the light snarkiness of past Sonic games. Boom also looks nice running on a version of CryEngine 3 for Wii U.

Those hoping Sonic Boom will make it to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One are out of luck. Steve Singer, Nintendo's VP of licensing, was at the event to emphasize that Sonic Boom represents the second of three planned Sonic exclusives for Nintendo machines. Looks like there will be one more to round a trilogy between Lost World and Boom.

[Hakudamashi]

Sonic's arms bother me way more than they should...

[Tanassy]

The new porcupine on the block now actually has a buff chest.

[TheGameNinja]

Aside from Knuckles having XBAWKS HUEG MUSCLES, I'm ok with this. The game actually looks pretty good.

[jkid101094]

Thank the lord it's only a spin-off.

[Hakudamashi]

But it's a pretty major spin-off. This is their Western-focused version of the series, while Sonic Team will be developing the Japanese-focused games in parallel. This could be a Call of Duty-type scenario where we get Sonic Boom games every other year.

That would be ideal wouldn't it...

[jkid101094]

But it's a pretty major spin-off. This is their Western-focused version of the series, while Sonic Team will be developing the Japanese-focused games in parallel. This could be a Call of Duty-type scenario where we get Sonic Boom games every other year.

I'd hope not but I guess I'd be willing to cope if they did.

Though it's probably going to end up in a Megaman X scenario.

[Hakudamashi]

You mean drop the main Sonic and focus on this spin-off for awhile?
Then when people start to "miss" the old Sonic they bring him back better than ever?

[jkid101094]

I meant two versions of the same character co-existing. Just wait until the fanboys start bitching about whether Boom Sonic is better than Classic and Modern Sonic.

[Hakudamashi]

Well, Boom Sonic isn't replacing Modern Sonic like how Modern replaced Classic...

[TheGameNinja]

Also Sonic Boom isn't coming to Japan.

Somehow, I doubt that will stick.

[Hakudamashi]

To anyone worried about the soundtrack
Remember they used WUBWUBs in the trailers for Sonic&All Stars Racing Transformed, Sonic Lost World, and Sonic Generations.
It's probably used for mass appeal since dubstep is what's popular right now.

[Hakudamashi]

We've started saying "Wubs" instead of dubstep for awhile now...

[Hakudamashi]

The same problem I have with percussion instruments.
I generally hate how they sound.

[jkid101094]

What in the flying fuck is a wub?

Edit:


This game has been in development for over a year already.