![]() Presumably Namco’s answer to how Sonic was an attempt to create a mascot much like Mario was for Nintendo, Klonoa wore his creator’s legacy on the cap resting atop his huge, drooping ears. Anyone growing up in the PS1/PS2 era should have heard the name Klonoa at some point. Those with slower machines will notice a sizable performance boost after installing the Unleashed Project potentially opening the gate for players on aging systems to pick up and play one of the best Sonic games of the last decade - while playing a few stages from another one! Even shaders, shadows and lighting get a notable upgrade too making an already gorgeous game into something worth the time of any skeptical Sonic fan. What’s even more special about this behemoth mod is just how it strives to improve on the optimization of the base game, too. The project is still very much alive with a 2.0 release – bringing even more ported stages and playability tweaks – coming later in the year. While the 1.0 release has been available for a number of years now, a single member of Team Unleashed took control of the project when the founding members ticked it off their to-do list. Playable through a third-party launcher, you’ll have to toggle this mod off to revisit the standard-issue Sonic Generations levels thanks to a ‘level slot’ limit imposed by Sega in the darker patches of the game’s coding. Aptly named the ‘Unleashed’ mod, players can easily add around 5 new levels for Modern Sonic with a few simple clicks. The daytime levels here specify the modern 3D Sonic stages of Unleashed - a game that, similar to Generations, was designed with 2 different play-styles - Modern Sonic-style and the more action-adventure oriented ‘Werehog’ night time stages. ![]() Let’s take a look at just a few of them īy far the very definition of the Sonic Generations community right now comes in the form of a near-complete rip of the ‘Daytime’ stages of Sonic Unleashed. Sonic Generations still, 5 years on, sees the modding community band together to keep the saving grace of the franchise alive – at least for PC players. ![]() Released to acclaim by critics and fans alike, that year’s Sonic title was equal parts 90’s as it was 00’s with each of its stages having both a ‘modern’ 3D and ‘classic’ 2D style playthrough available with no overworld fluff in between. It wasn’t until 2011 that Sonic Team was able to finally give the fans what they wanted a game that would please fans both new and old – Sonic Generations. His darker-haired rival even walked the streets with a high-caliber handgun for good measure. Whether intentional or not, it was just downright silly. Sega tried in all sorts of ways to shift the formula of the speed freak over the years including giving him a sword, alien technology and presumably the ability to go from 0mph to Mach 5 in a split second on a snowboard half-pipe. ![]() ![]() I probably spent more hours grinding animals for decent Chao stats than I did raising my own Pokémon.īut for many people it was the 3D transition that spelled the end of Sonic as their childhood mascot. Coming mostly from a Pokémon and Zelda background, the idea of switching out the infuriatingly tense platforming of the 2D Sonic titles in place of a 3D explorable overworld, dialogue and a plot (no matter how bizarre in execution) was exactly what a 7-year-old me wanted in a game. I’ll forever cherish my days playing Sonic Adventure and its appropriately named sequel. 20 years of scraping his spikes through the dirt of different worlds, likely leaving skin behind with him - and for what? To become more and more disjointed from what made him great in the first place. The spiny blue hedgehog has stayed firmly in the limelight of his captors for 20 years without ever really have a day off. Sega and Sonic have suffered from a few bumpy roads these past few years - that’s no mistake. ![]()
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