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Finally back again with new updates, reveals, and gameplay for Sonic Stratos! This is gonna be the largest Announcement post yet, so get comfortable or something, you might be here for a while- (and I mean this, there’s ALOT dude-)
- ✪ New Artstyle 
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For awhile, the Sonic Stratos artstyle has been a mix of original sprites, Genisis sprites, and custom sprites. Now finally, i’d like to announce the official artstyle.
Here you can see the official designs for Sonic and Tails in Sonic Stratos. Still subject to change by the way (This drawing is actually quite a few weeks old now so they’ve been refined since then, might release more recent designs soon)! It’s supposed to be a mix of classic sonic, modern, and my own style. I’m pretty satisfied with it. Now of course, you may have already seen Sonic’s design in the Ring test from a bit ago… wish there was more of a surprise there but oh well. More character designs will be revealed soon!
- ✪ GamePlay 
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Since we last saw gameplay a few things have changed!
- The spindash (that was previously broken
) has been fixed! - I’ve modified the camera to make it more authentic!
- Speed balancing for authenticity and ease of play
- (Newly added feature that caused the update delay) 360 movement: move up, down, and all around. Animation rotation was also it’s own feature but I combined them here.
The game will feature a save slot system similar to Sonic 3 and mania. And now we have a new live system! Use either Mania Mode, Classic Mode, Or Breeze Mode. In Mania Mode If you lose all your lives, you will have to start over at the beginning of the zone you were in. if you lose all lives at the end of a zone (Act 2 boss), you get continues to restart from that same Act 2, instead of going back to Act 1. In classic Mode, you’ll experience the same rules as the original Genisis games. Loose all your lives and you have to restart the ENTIRE GAME. And because of this you can use continues in any act. Breeze is the most simple, no lives or continues, just pure platforming non-stop (similar to anniversary mode in sonic origins but without the star coins). I suggest Breeze for newer sonic players, Mania for well played enjoyers, and Classic for experienced (and patient) players.
Along with all this Sonic Stratos’s framework, the Saturn-M Engine, has been optimized and improved allowing for smooth frame rates on things like personal computers all the way down to school computers. You’ll (hopefully) be able to enjoy the game however you want![1]
- ✪ Levels 
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As already announced, Sonic statos will play out similarly to sonic mania. Sonic will run through familiar and new zones with special twists! Even never before seen levels that are a secret for now… but what’re these ‘special’ twists? Well they’re the new weather events. After completing act 1 of a zone, act 2 will feature an unpredictable new weather event switch up gameplay and music! I’ve also pretty accurately recreated Green Hill Zone act 1 and Chemical Plant act 1. These would’ve been in the original Green Hill Zone demo but the game was still too early in development. Now it’s at the point where I can confidently say this is an 90% accurate recreation of both.
Special Stages are planned but I haven’t even settled on one design yet. I was gonna use raycasting but that messes up the z-index so i’ll probably just end up doing something later on in development, lol.
publicly confirmed Zones:
- Green Hill Zone
- Chemical Plant Zone
- Flying Battery
- Hydrocity
- ✪ Lore Stuff 
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Sonic Stratos takes place in a slightly alternate version of the modern sonic timeline. After Eggman activates his newest creation, the weather engine, global weather paterns around the world are messed up, and it’s up to sonic to take down each weather tower eggmans made across the world and then take out the main source, that being the weather engine itself. Lore stuff isn’t the key focus of this presentation but I will say new characters will be introduced per zone along with a new Eggman robot named Forecast The Metal Occelot. More info on all that later.
- ✪ Music 
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This segment was originally for asking for music help but after I recently gave converting the music a try and I was blow away at their quality. While my friend Matt (Kill4Life) won’t be working on the music for this game unfortunately, the tracks that I did make are pretty nice! Don’t believe me? Well here’s some right here. Press B to skip ahead and the intro also doesn’t repeat so if you want to hear it again you’ll have to restart the simulator.
Enjoy GHZ Act 1
(Sound Warning | Music might be kinda loud )
- ✪ Reassurance and conclusion ✪ -
After the cancelation of Diego Illusions and even during the slow decline of Diego The Spheroid i know there’s been some subtle doubt in future projects of mine actually being finished. I’d like to reassure everyone that a demo is without a doubt coming and this game won’t be canceled before that. Diego was canceled for a very specific set of reasons that don’t apply to Sonic Statos.
Anyways this concludes this presentation! Sonic Stratos arrives this year! I hope you enjoyed this and more is coming soon. See ya later.
But wait what’s this…? 
OPEN HERE▼
Finally, the official Sonic Stratos demo arrives March or sooner! Featuring massive levels and a look at the next generation of MakeCode Arcade platformers.
stay tuned
-JtSpeedRun
(Btw, thanks to whatever mod reads all this 
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This claim is based on tested devices during development. Not all devices noted may function as explained. Additionally even if a device is able to run this game decently, the games quality and responsiveness may not match I intend, if that makes sense. Although to be honest, most devices released in the past quarter of a decade should run this game pretty well. ↩︎
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today
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peak cinema
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How much longer now?
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look up
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This is gonna be great! I can’t wait!
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Thanks to everyone for the support.
Gonna try to make news updates more transparent and specific for now on. Can’t wait for you all to play this. I’m ready to get the demo out there so I can reveal my next 2 projects and stuff 
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OMG, THIS IS (Peak)
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Omg this is so cool!
About the music, some of those notes sound off. Sonic is a pretty popular game, I bet you could find sheet music and copy that.
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Hi, it’s me again. Sorry I mysteriously disappeared, I’ve just been busy with lots of projects.
About the prequel comic, it should be finished some time before March.
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