With how fast things were moving in that Sonic Unleashed gameplay footage unveiled by IGN a few days ago, it was pretty easy to miss interesting elements shown in the video. There were a few things that caught the eyes of our fans (including the clock tower’s stunning resemblance to Big Ben in London), but one of the things that really slipped by a lot of our viewers were the balloons.
Yes, the Balloons… I’m no nut… I know I saw them.
To prove it, I’ve taken the time to take screenshots of the 12 I managed to count in the video (you can see them after the jump). As to what there function will be in Unleashed, it’s hard to say for sure, but they do appear to give Sonic a boost when he hits them. Whether they will be used to help guide the player in the right direction, or lead Sonic to secret, otherwise unaccessible areas is anyone’s guess at this point.
Anyways, I wanted to get everyone’s thoughts on how you see them being used. Also, point out anything else you may have noticed that the rest of us missed on our first… or thirty-first viewing.
Looks like you can lock onto the balloons!
This one was hiding from me… but I found it.
A path to an otherwise inaccessible path?
Everything I’ve seen on this site has been confirmed in other reliable sources as well so I don’t understand how this site can be unreliable. The magazine articles are actual scans of the article as well which means that there is no way that they can be unreliable (unless somebody decided to photoshop parts of it which is ridiculous).
One more thing…
Does anyone know what the X prompt that I mentioned in the previous post could do? I’m really curious because maybe its a new command that SEGA hasn’t spoken of yet…
@AAA:
Indeed. I haven’t watched as many times as you, but still, 9 times since I found out about it…
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*Frolics off to watch it again* XD
“t camp Sonic, at the news section, it sais Tails, Amy, and Knukles are appering in the game. Should we put this up? User: Sonic&Mario KId 10:23, 18 June 2008″
In Response:
“Camp Sonic is unreliable, so no.Fairfieldfencer FFF ”
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We’re not making this stuff up or anything. We clearly stated that it came from Playstation’s Official Magazine (and included a screenshot of the excerpt). http://www.campsonic.com/2008/04/22/knuckles-confirmed-for-sonic-unleashed
Since they can be locked on, Looks like you’ll be able to homing attack a chain of them to find shortcuts.
Wikipedia always needs to be somewhat short,and only uses things that are completely confirmed.
Which makes it kind of behind the times at ocassion.
lol look at this
note that Camp Sonic don’t state where they actually get their information regarding characters
They are a bit looking down at us..
And they don’t do their homework of checking the site fully.
We are trying to be reable,and admin ALWAYS posts a ? before a
speculation article?
but wikipedia only accepts true facts,so it makes sense but..
Exactly, it seems to me that CS is just a rumour site. “Rumour site, AGAIN?!?!” “Again
This is just plain horrid.
at bit elitist,if you ask me…
I want to see more gameplay footage to see how well these are integrated into the levels
I think they just lead to alternate trails. I must update immediately!
@Nano: It’s not an exact match, but definitely bears a close resemblance in my opinion.
On a completely different note, I was pointed in the direction to Wikipedia’s discussion page on Sonic Unleashed, and I was kind of surprised at some people’s reaction to Camp Sonic. They keep calling Camp Sonic unreliable for some reason, and saying we don’t provide citation for our posts…
I can totally understand not citing a fan site, but I think it’s silly that some people are calling us unreliable, and making false claims about no citation. Anything we state as fact on the main site only comes directly from reliable sources (magazines that interview Hashimoto/SoA Producer/Official Press releases, etc), and everything else we talk about is always clearly stated as speculation (and we do very little of that here outside of the discussions).
I might dedicate one of my next posts to answering some ‘citation needed’ remarks on Wikipedia.
Responding to dragonite’s: “How many times did the others see it?”, I know I’ll sound like I’m completely obsessed but I must have seen it at least 10-15 times/day, every day since it’s been released. I haven’t been this excited about a game since Halo 3.
well we can now say that is big ben tower in london.
those ballons will help guide your way in the game looks it pretty helpful!!!
Or the “pop all the balloons” could be an achievement for the 360. I hope not though, because I hate achievements where you have to collect all items or something like that. There was a similar thing with medallions in the Sonic the Hedgehog 360 version, where you had to collect every silver and gold medallion for different achievements. These were horrible because they took away from the entire speed element of Sonic. Instead you’re trying to find these medallions. Nevertheless, I still enjoyed Sonic 360 even though everyone else seemed to absolutely hate it.
Maybe. One thing I also noticed on the high Europe trailer is an X button prompt. It appears when the three enemies fly in and Sonic takes a boost pad towards the three rails. It appears very shortly as the video is then faded into a new scene. I was wondering if the X command was for when Sonic is on the rails and if this is true does it mean he can attack on the rails or is it just a boost he recieves? If anybody knows I’d be happy to hear what they have to say.
Would there be an extra mission ”pop all the balloons” perhaps?
I personally think that the balloons are simply used to boost you up to new places. I dont think that there is anything spacial that they give you, but that you can simply use the homing attack on them to reach new areas that may or may not be shortcuts or offer you an extra life.
Speaking of admins comment…
I have lost count of how many times I watched the video,but it is over ten times now.
How many times did the others see it?
Remembers me on Sonic Advance, there were a stage with balloons. When you hit them, they blow you up or make a bubble in water so you can get air…and Sonic the hedgeog 2 Casino Night…or Polis….woa I forget it every time Dx anyway, there were baloons, too.
wonder if they can upgrade your attacks or something
whoa some are so obvious i dont know how i missed it
whoops,I meant pit.
O those things. I planned to react on them,but I forgot.
I think they have the same function as the enemies over a bit before.
I mistook them for the classic special stage marbles first.