"Shadow Generations" is Sega's "Bowser's Fury"?

[SkyFox0769]

Am I the only one who feels Sonic X Shadow Generations seems like Sega's (kinda late) version of Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury? both are remasters of games with a extra side story thrown in, well at least that's what the new shadow game seems like on first glance, what do you think?

[Leonard]

Sounds like a good comparison to me. Bowsers Fury did something new with the game, lets see if Sega does that as well.

[Jackistan]

and it also came out after a game that marked a shift in game design for the franchise (bowsers fury was the next big mario game after oddysey, and shadow generations is the next game after frontiers(superstars and dream team don't count))

[mdesaleah]

One key thing is WHY the Shadow portion exists.

Its less to test what the next game will be (the next game will continue off Frontiers more closely than people think), and more to promote the next movie for fans who haven't played the older games. Its a recap. Unlike Mario, the point here is also story promotion.

It probably started as a "how do we use Shadow to promote his role in the next movie". And they probably thought of porting SA2 and Shadow's game, before deciding on doing a recap expansion to Generations instead to summarize both. The release date is also close enough to the end of the year to get attention before the film promotion starts releasing trailers.

I don't see the Shadow portion impacting the next game beyond testing a Shadow moveset for a Frontiers sequel/styled game (they can copy over some ideas from this and add to them with a full moveset later), and level design practice for the cyber stages.

So there is still a point to the new gameplay being a chance to test out a bigger Shadow moveset, but the next big game will be more Frontiers themed (like how they tested Tails/Amy/Knuckles using the update).