/vr/ - Retro Games

What rubbed me the wrong way as a kid was that Sonic wasn't playable, not even as a secret boss thing. And I didn't fucking care about the gay robots.

>>6254189
What? I thought you WERE Sonic in the game.

Are censored versions cheating?

>>6254265
How can I get that waste:hip ratio?

>>6254167
>Take a cute girl, change her into a disgusting looking fatass.
Can you explain?
>I didn't even know that game existed

>>6254285
Bean Mean Machine was originally Puyo Puyo.
You know, those games with Arle from Madou Monogatari.

>>6254285
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cck0M6vcOFk

It gave us those weird Dr. Robotnik cameos in future Puyo games, so I'm not even mad.

>>6254309
It deprived us of an entire series except for a first game that kept getting reskinned. Even blatant clones made under license like Qwirks had more innovation.

A similar one, Panel De Pon, can't even be rereleased because of legal issues with the renaming.

Yay localization!

>>6254309
>Dr. Robotnik cameos in future Puyo games
What do you mean

>>6254330
Never happened, outside of Sonic Mania, a Puyo cameo in a Sonic game not the other way around.

>>6254335
You can get Sonic shaped pieces in the latest games. But no Robotnik. Sega owns the series now, so that's probably why.

>>6254351
Also whatever this is

Nobody in north America would have bothered with a little girl anime game you retards have to understand that liking little anime girls puts you in a small minority that's hard to make money on unlike japan which has a big enough loser otaku base to support that kind of thing

>>6254354
nu-Puyo doesn't really count, no cameos I know of before 2010.

>>6254361
>loser otaku base
Defending localization with "we need less female protagonists"?
That's a yikes from me. Barbie and Yoshi's Island say hi.
Who said little girl anime games have to be sexual to have any worth? Go back to resetera.

>>6254167
Based SEGA, making pedo pedo trannies seethe

>>6254380
Now where the fuck did that come from. Nobody said anything about female protagonists all females aren't little anime girls you weeb coomer faggot. Pretty sure it's you that needs to go back to resetera to be with your trannykind

>>6254406
There's nothing wrong with little anime girls.

>>6254380
you are the one who needs to go back

>>6254413
yeah until you start thinking you yourself are one and taking hormones and chopping your dick off seems to happen far too often

>>6254167
If he looked like pic related and used the aesthetic of actual Sonic games (sorta like Mania's boss) the game would've been vastly improved from Puyo Puyo

>>6254208
Underrated post, assuming you're talking about the X/O bullshit. The inconsistency with whether the circle or triangle button goes back in menus also pisses me off

>>6254616
The way they redesigned Robotnik for the US always confused me. Sonic's was slight enough to where he didn't look too different from the in-game art. But Robotnik's was like a complete overhaul, giving him a weird cone head. And then for whatever reason they redesigned him again for the SatAM show and the comics, there he just looks like an abomination.
Long John Baldry's performance alone makes cone head one of my favorite incarnations of the character

>>6254203
I used to imagine it was Tails placing the beans. Idk why.

>>6254203
I used to think you were playing as Scratch and Grounder because of the intro, never got that far into the game so I never got to the levels with them as bosses

>>6254784
And if you keep watching the intro, it shows you how to play and explains that the beans escape from the robots when you match them up.

>>6254751
Genesis is North American, so they had the OG Robotnik according to your pic.

>>6254784
>Scratch and Grounder
I don't consider them part of the Sonic timeline. Their design is too different, and Americanized, from the game. Technically they should just be robots with little animals inside, like the game. They shouldn't have personalities.

>>6254880
No, you just don't understand the picture. Genesis is the home console, Game Gear is the handheld. Both are North American box arts, it's just that the Genesis version had the American Sonic redesign and the Game Gear had American Robotnik.

>>6254619
he's talking about the fact the non-japanese playstation 1 pad was made bigger/with larger prongs for no reason.

>>6256909
Didn't know that. But if you'd click the picture you'd see I was right

>>6254380
Yoshi's a little anime girl?

>>6254893
Well, for starters, AOSTH isn't part of the games' continuity.
Second, Scratch and Grounder are based on badniks: Scratch is loosely based on a Cluck while Grounder is a Grounder (the robots from Sonic 2). When they and Coconuts showed up in post-reboot Archie, they were even redesigned to more closely to the badniks they took cues from.
And lastly, they have personalities because they're primary villains in a children's cartoon/Puyo-Puyo localization. They kinda need them.

>>6254167
US:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=oTgsYG73cK4
JP:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=OPuwbmkJKrs
And why they change it:
>”the sound of the guitar mixed with the tree imagery is too nostalgic-sounding”
https://www.crashmania.net/en/backstage/interviews/josh-mancell/
WHAT?!

>>6257658
>>>6254380
>Yoshi's a little anime girl?

No, he is not ? And yeah, Kirbey's Avalanche is the Nintendo version of Puyo Puyo. Just saying. Hail Arle!

>>6258617
>>>6257658
>>>>6254380
>>Yoshi's a little anime girl?
>No, he is not ? And yeah, Kirbey's Avalanche is the Nintendo version of Puyo Puyo. Just saying. Hail Arle!

Forget the "e". Kek.

>>6258567
>”the sound of the guitar mixed with the tree imagery is too nostalgic-sounding”
I imagine this is just some weird literal translation of the Japanese comments, which were probably something like "the music isn't cheerful enough"

>>6254208
The Japanese way just makes more sense.

>>6254208
Even putting aside whether the symbols make more sense one way or the other, the mere fact that it's inconsistent in different regions has caused more annoyance than "culturally mismatched" symbols ever could

>>6258671
>the mere fact that it's inconsistent in different regions has caused more annoyance than "culturally mismatched" symbols ever could
Not retro, granted, but for the sake of argument does anyone know if Sony still retain the X/O difference between Japan and elsewhere?

>>6258673
Apparently they made it user configurable on the PS4 in a 2019 patch

>>6258689
That's a good idea.

>>6258689
>This setting may not apply to some application
i.e. those games that hard-code the controls instead of reading the system setting 'cause the people who made them just programmed it how they were personally used to it working
The curse will never end

>>6258698
What's the change?

>>6258653
It sounds like the music made some Japanese executive remember his youth and started crying, and that’s why they changed it.

>>6258708
A whole bunch of things, but most notably an entire game route got cut.

>>6254751
The cone head was to make his profile actually egg-shaped.

>>6258698
>Kids to Adults

>>6258643
DID

>>6258708
One of the most infamous localizations I've ever seen. On top of what >>6258941 said (the route was translated and everything but the flags for triggering it were removed), I'd say the actual most notable part is that the game was "Americanized" by changing the entire cast of Japanese people to white and black people, with "American" versions of Japanese names and locations. The original Japanese version was eventually released on PSP, but that doesn't stop a lot of the names from being carried over into Persona 2, which had an even more confusing localization considering they only released the 2nd one on PS1, and when they ported them to PSP America only got the 1st one. So now the 1st game has all the correct names, but the sequel retains some Persona 1 names for returning characters. It's a mess.

>>6254208
If the circle button input is meant to be an affirmation then why is red colored?