A NEW Sonic Game! Dr Robotnik's Ring Racers Is Out! Super Impressive and VERY Confusing

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Everyone loves Sonic the Hedgehog and everyone REALLY loves Sonic the Hedgehog games! And today we have a brand new Sonic the Hedgehog game with Dr Robotnik's Ring Racers! It's a brand new Sonic the hedgehog kart racing game ala Mario Kart....made inside the Doom Legacy Engine? Seriously...this is technically a Doom mod too! It's a Sonic the Hedgehog fan game and its both wildly impressive, seriously intriguing and very confusing all at the same time...in a good way! You can learn more and try it here : www.timeextension.com/news/20...
and this is fresh off last months Sonic Overture 95 release! Good time for new Sonic the Hedgehog games!
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@METR0lD Месяц назад

Time to rip and tear around the track!

@VideoGameEsoterica Месяц назад

The perfect comment

@sunderark Месяц назад

They definitely had huge guts to do something like that.

@METR0lD Месяц назад

😎

@VideoGameEsoterica Месяц назад

🤣

@Yamigata Месяц назад

How Tails managed to slide between the rings, grabbing none of them, three times in a row

@VideoGameEsoterica Месяц назад

Lol

@douglasmarquezin3575 Месяц назад

I'm sure this may be related to Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart

@VideoGameEsoterica Месяц назад

I believe so

@bazal68k54 Месяц назад

@VideoGameEsoterica Yeah this is the sequel. Calling it Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart 2 would have been clunky hehe

@VideoGameEsoterica Месяц назад

Throw in an electric boogaloo and you’ve got yourself a good time!

@dard2240 Месяц назад

@@bazal68k54 On Japanes title bottom reads "SRB2K2". It's littirally Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart 2, but Dr Robotnik's Ring Racers is just an english name.

@VideoGameEsoterica Месяц назад

Makes sense

@dard2240 Месяц назад

From my understanding of the tutorial,there are 4 things that important to know: Rings, Drift, Air Tricks(and they don't even always present on track) and Spin Dash. Rings are health that you spend on boost. Some powerups and jackpot can overdose you with rings, increasing you're speed. Without ring you can slash opponents if they catch up to you. Drift can give you boost. Longer the drift more powerfull you're boost. Air tricks send you to different directions. Up is for forward boost and down is to thrust up (left and right is obvious). Spin dash give you thrust forward. You can use it to gain starting speed. In air you can thrust yourself down. With trick and spin dash you can land with boost. The rest is usuall Mario Kart stuff.

@VideoGameEsoterica Месяц назад

The game has so many components. Maybe too many

@fisherdotogg Месяц назад

From where the video ends, you had like three more objectives left in the tutorial, they can take five minutes if you know what you're doing, 20 if you don't because the last one is actually tough.

@VideoGameEsoterica Месяц назад

I’ll def play more in the future

@zeldajunkielol2 Месяц назад

Was a bit confused when I saw it at first because of the similarities with Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart but then I found out it's from some of the devs of that game. Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart as really fun online multiplayer, but has a high learning curve if you actually want to play and not come in last every round because the majority of those players are really good at the game and that kind of explains to me why this new game looks so confusing.

@VideoGameEsoterica Месяц назад

It’s def confusing. In a way that makes you want to understand it more

@tartellu5010 Месяц назад

yeah, I had the same reaction when I saw the game but its apparently a sequel to that fan game. I did play a bit of Robo Kart and it is very fun once you get the hang of it. Very excited to check this game out once I get a chance to

@VideoGameEsoterica Месяц назад

I gotta play some more. Form a final opinion

@sergiomendoza251 Месяц назад

You know? You can "skip" the tutorial and getting a new track just going in the oppisite direction (the reaction of Tails is so funny).

@VideoGameEsoterica Месяц назад

Learn something new every day

@sergiomendoza251 Месяц назад

@@VideoGameEsoterica yeah,like in Helldivers 2 knowing then is a stealth game

@Nehfarius Месяц назад

@@VideoGameEsoterica careful if you do it, tho, the guys you're racing against in said section take no prisoners.

@rars0n Месяц назад

Doom engine was a good choice, these graphics are great.

@VideoGameEsoterica Месяц назад

It’s a very distinctive look and it works

@ASE-PRL Месяц назад

Honestly, compared to the original SRB2Kart, this new update is frankly terrible. 40 minute easy tutorial, needing to clear cups to unlock basic features, hunt around for 80 custom colors to use online, is just the surface of the problems with this game. I could write a thesis on the problems the changes to the original SRB2Kart brings in, notable to me is the entire ring mechanic making items useless and what could-have-been a nice economy of resource use and routing, instead came out as a free 170% speed if you get the easy-to-time jackpot or a near impossible recovery situation when you get to 0 rings and get hit. It's just depressing.

@VideoGameEsoterica Месяц назад

I’ve heard great things and very negative things today. Nothing in between. It’s a great concept and I’m sure with an update a lot of that could be improved

@SnesySnas Месяц назад

Check the folder and you'll find "password.txt" I think there's a code to unlock everything

@overwatch761 Месяц назад

Looks like a racing puzzle platformer with a dash of Trackmania.

@VideoGameEsoterica Месяц назад

Similar vibes

@Jokerwolf666 Месяц назад

Super impressive and gnarly lol

@VideoGameEsoterica Месяц назад

It’s one big vibe

@AJ-po6up Месяц назад

Oh man I can't wait to play this on my CRT at 240p with glorious scanlines! it really looks like a lost unreleased sonic game from the 90s, I love it!

@VideoGameEsoterica Месяц назад

Prime candidate for downscaling to a CRT

@SirJonSoda Месяц назад

this looks amazing!

@VideoGameEsoterica Месяц назад

It’s def distinct

@srvuk Месяц назад

The criticism of the long tutorial does seem to be a running theme. But it also seems that if you put the effort in, there is likely to be quite a lot of fun and variation to be found too. As a labour of love project is shows a lot of thought has gone into it. I'm going to give it a fair shot. The only thing that my eyes are crying out for is some upscaling to smooth out the graphics.

@VideoGameEsoterica Месяц назад

It’s def a design choice to have THIS long of an intro sequence. I do wonder how many people will stick with it long enough to get past it

@mechadeka Месяц назад

It has way more problems than a forced tutorial lol

@ArcadeStriker Месяц назад

You can bump up the resolution in the game settings - and yes, despite the long tutorial, the game really kicks into gear right after that with so much to find.

@johnclark926 Месяц назад

The game looks very interesting and is very believable as a late Saturn title, but I find it kind of distracting and bizarre that the main character jitters almost all the time. You can tell it’s intentional, you can see Tails is surrounded with a dithered ghost effect, but it’s on absolutely all the time when it really doesn’t make sense (it doesn’t help that I’m not a mesh transparency fan, I get that it’s part of the Saturn’s visual identity but I still think it looks like loose sand).

@VideoGameEsoterica Месяц назад

It’s def a vibe. I don’t mind it so much myself

@Autotrope Месяц назад

When you say doom engine which doom do you mean? The doom I'm familiar with and its modern source ports don't do stuff like this. Notably, this has sloped floors, fully polygonal models like thise spikes coming out of the walls and so on.

@VideoGameEsoterica Месяц назад

Doom Legacy

@londonretrovideogames1473 Месяц назад

This looks right up my street

@VideoGameEsoterica Месяц назад

More like right up your race course

@Sonicfoxtrot Месяц назад

Seems really impressive for what is still (kinda, technically) in the doom engine but it seems like it wants to do too much. I wonder if it's gonna split the players between this and robo kart 2

@VideoGameEsoterica Месяц назад

It’s def feature rich. Maybe too rich

@duxzu Месяц назад

I think they're trolling by having the demo be an endless tutorial. I love the look of this and hope the full release is less troll-y

@VideoGameEsoterica Месяц назад

It is def unnecessarily long

@DJ_AwesomeSauce Месяц назад

@@VideoGameEsoterica The tutorial is shorter (in the current version anyway). There's an EXIT teleporter immediately after the spray can room. A bit further is the "braking" teleporter that continues the tutorial.

@VideoGameEsoterica Месяц назад

Glad to hear they shortened it

@treattrick8991 Месяц назад

Soooo just sonic robo blast kart...but a mod

@VideoGameEsoterica Месяц назад

Pretty much lol

@gustavochavarria8161 Месяц назад

Have you ever tried the OG SRB2Kart before?

@VideoGameEsoterica Месяц назад

I haven’t no

@crossover-Incorporated Месяц назад

I wonder if this game as online features.

@VideoGameEsoterica Месяц назад

I believe it does yes

@alyxoj1361 Месяц назад

I might try it but it seems over-designed.

@VideoGameEsoterica Месяц назад

It’s got a LOT of mechanics. But so far they are all fun

@Konic_and_Snuckles Месяц назад

There's always Sonic Drift 16 Bit if you want something more barebones.

@BlueEyedVibeChecker Месяц назад

Guessing it's made by a US developer given the use of "Robotnik" over Eggman. Still looks rad, imagine this on SEGA CD or something, that'd be wild.

@maroon9273 Месяц назад

I don't think the sega cd will be able to able this game.

@VideoGameEsoterica Месяц назад

I still prefer Eggman myself

@VideoGameEsoterica Месяц назад

No def not

@jamescampbell8482 Месяц назад

This would be amazing to see on the 32X

@VideoGameEsoterica Месяц назад

That would be interesting

@thomasgebert6119 Месяц назад

Sonic Robo Blast 2, also on a modified Doom engine, is genuinely my favorite 3D sonic game. To me, it feels like a really good, direct translation of the 2D sonics into 3D. Sonic Adventure is fine, but sometimes it feels more like I'm just watching a lot of cinematic cutscenes instead of playing it, but Robo Blast 2 feels like I'm always in control.

@VideoGameEsoterica Месяц назад

Sonic Adventure def has some “game is playing itself” sections but the sheer spectacle in 1999 was wild

@thomasgebert6119 Месяц назад

@@VideoGameEsoterica No question, it's fun enough and sometimes it's fun to just watch the cinematic stuff. Still, i think it's fun to kind of feel like you're in control, which I don't know that Sonic Adventure really pulls off.

@VideoGameEsoterica Месяц назад

Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn’t

@gorofujita5767 Месяц назад

Only minor nitpick is that I’d prefer optional on foot mechanics like Sonic R - even more so considering the pseudo platforming this game has Other than that this looks excellent in every way

@VideoGameEsoterica Месяц назад

Kart racing and platforming is an interesting mix but it works

@AltKaxREAL Месяц назад

I feel like somebody is gonna be crazy enough to make a mod like that

@VideoGameEsoterica Месяц назад

Ooh I bet

@TuxedoMaskMusic Месяц назад

if you edit some files you can skip the tutorial man lol

@VideoGameEsoterica Месяц назад

Maybe next vid. I play them like intended. Only seems fair

@granglerarcade1950 Месяц назад

Looks frustraiting no chance ill play it.

@VideoGameEsoterica Месяц назад

Haha that’s fair

@granglerarcade1950 Месяц назад

@@VideoGameEsoterica a gamepad thrower

@VideoGameEsoterica Месяц назад

Could very well be

@CleaveTheDragon Месяц назад

You seem weirdly scared to flat-out admit it but a tutorial this long is not a good decision, and is going to put off a lot of casual players from giving it a shot. The average person wants to play a racing game to hang out with their friends and if they like it, they'll likely give the more complex elements of it a shot. You could have sandwiched these mechanics in-between actual races, or severely shortened it to the bare essentials.

@VideoGameEsoterica Месяц назад

Not scared. I’m giving them credit for sticking to their design ideas while also saying they confuse me. It’s a fun tutorial

@CleaveTheDragon Месяц назад

@@VideoGameEsoterica So like what, if they release a patch in the future that shortens the tutorial, or just any patch at all, does that mean you'll lose respect for them not sticking to their original design ideas...? They clearly worked hard on the game, I think they can take a little bit of criticism to improve the overall experience. The tutorial being an issue seems to be the consensus among a lot of people so I really hope they consider it.

@VideoGameEsoterica Месяц назад

It would make design sense to allow it to be skipped on one side of the coin. On the other side the game is so control and maneuver dense I feel like letting them skip would end up with players not knowing how to play. So I’m conflicted

@CleaveTheDragon Месяц назад

@@VideoGameEsoterica I agree, the number of new mechanics offer a steeper learning curve compared to SRB2K, so something has to be there to ease people into it who might be going in with expectations from that game. Some options that come to my head are: * making a more straightforward tutorial that only focuses on the unique mechanics rather than incorporating it into some exploration area. * rethink the tutorial into being more of a simple "campaign" where these new mechanics can be broken up by traditional races.

@VideoGameEsoterica Месяц назад

Having smaller races predicated on that mechanic taught could break it up well

@Typecast-L Месяц назад

You can skip the tutorial by pressing Alt F4.

@VideoGameEsoterica Месяц назад

Lol nice try

@Ragesauce Месяц назад

FIRST!

@VideoGameEsoterica Месяц назад

Puts you up to 200 VGE points. First person to ever hit that number

@Ragesauce Месяц назад

@@VideoGameEsoterica I'd like to thank the academy for this great honor, and my parents for always believing in me.

@VideoGameEsoterica Месяц назад

Lolol 50 more and I’m gonna get your address for candy delivery

@Ragesauce Месяц назад

@@VideoGameEsoterica I need an adult

@VideoGameEsoterica Месяц назад

🤣 no white van involved

@levisjammin Месяц назад

Don't talk about a game before you haven't even played a true level yet.

@VideoGameEsoterica Месяц назад

I think you are missing the point of the vid

@levisjammin Месяц назад

@@VideoGameEsoterica What is it then? It just seems like you're reviewing a game you know nothing about. Which is what you're doing.

@VideoGameEsoterica Месяц назад

No I am talking about how it opens and what a vibe that is

@Burgerking4591 Месяц назад

What an incredibly repetitive video, did you really need to mention that the game is in the doom engine 6 times in the first minute and a half? Or constantly say you don't know what's going on with the game or mention how long the tutorial is and how you've been playing it for an hour or that they want to you to learn all the mechanics before you play? You'd benefit a lot from just writing a script