I know some of you will disagree...
But I think a Sonic R sequel is way overdue.

Sure the racing was a bit flawed, and the music's lyrics would get on everyone's nerves sooner or later... And of course our favorite Tails Doll....


Now before you troll this forum about how crappy the game is; did you even decide to look at the release date? According to the Wikipedia, it came out in 1997! That's a ways back! What system was it on again? The Saturn... And Windows? Not even on Mac? WINDOWS? Was it on XP? NO! It was on Win'98! Obviously, technology wasn't nearly as capable as it is today.

Back when the game was released, "3D" was a very new concept. Super Mario 64 was released in 96, then this game the year following. "3D" was very new, and believe it or not, those graphics were pretty good back then.

Now, with the 3DS, we have REAL 3D! AND Nintendo has built in features to help Developers along (Internal Clock? Fog? 3D? Gyro Sensor? WI-FI!?!?!?)
I'm sure there aren't too many Sega fans here, but this would make an amazing game.

If they did a remake of Sonic R (similar to Ocarina of Time maybe?) it would definitely be a triumph: a huge success. It'd be hard to overstate my satisfaction. (Portal FTW).

My Ideas for the 3DS Remake:
-Wi-Fi Multiplayer... 'nuff said.

-DOWNLOAD PLAY multiplayer. I don't want to make my friends buy a copy before they can try the game...

-More characters. Maybe throw in some of the newer people, like Blaze or Shadow? (just don't go overboard...)

-Sprite Updates. If you're doing a remake, at least update the sprites a bit.

-More stages. I got to the point where I could beat the game (all the characters too) in under half and hour. The stages don't have to be longer, just have more of them. Maybe some tougher ones too.

-AI upgrade. Sometimes the CPU players would act really stupid...

-More types of weather, other than Snow, Rain, and Sun. Nintendo added a "Fog" thing to help developers along. I'm not sure of the details, but David mentioned it in the blog a while back. That could work as a possible weather type.

-Use the Internal Clock! Depending on what time it is, the time in-game would change too! So if it's night out your window, it's night in-game.

-More Shortcuts/Hidden Areas. In the original, there were secret paths you could take that sometimes worked as shortcuts, or in some cases LONGcuts. In the newer "Racing" games, the exploration idea has been slowly ripped away. Mario Kart Wii had some good ones... But the Different turns you could take only went so far.

-Music Recognition Thingy? There was a post about Game Developers having access to the music saved on the DS/SD Card. Instead of always listening to "Living in the City" or "Can You Feel the Sunshine" (and summon the Tails Doll curse), it would choose music from your own music library! How crazy would it be to start playing Resort Island, and start hearing Viva la Vida as your race music?

-Street/Spot Pass. I was thinking maybe a "Time Trial Ghost" swap thing. So when you pass by someone with a save data, it saves their Time Trial Ghosts for the stages, and you can race them whenever you want, and delete them whenever you want. Then with Spot Pass, you will get "Staff Ghosts" (like in Mario Kart Wii) and maybe character costumes (like in DoAD)

-Voice Chat for Wi-Fi. Yeah there will be some issues with this, but why not have something similar to how Kinect does it? Kinect asks you "You are about to go online with random players, would you like to enable Voice Chat?" (or something like that). Then maybe have Parental Controls on it? ESRB doesn't even rate Online Experiences anyway! So this game could theoretically still be rated E.

-Tournament Mode. Probably not what you think... This will be like story mode; except there won't be annoying voice actors or terrible plot twists (Sonic making out with a friggin' princess? WTF?). It would probably be comparable to Smash Brothers "Classic" Mode. Where you go through the game, doing different stages. Ending with a final stage/boss.

-Tails Doll stays in the game. I don't care how creepy he is! He is my best friend! *evil laughter*

-Friend Codes. There are already friend codes on the 3DS, why not allow us to use them in Sonic R? I was thinking a simple page with our Sonic R info, and ghosts for the page-viewers to race. No VS. Stats please. That just encourages players to exit out of Wi-Fi when you're dominating them (Phantom Hourglass... Ugh).

-No stupid Air-Boards or Cars. Sega obviously tried to remake the series, with new twists... But they never pulled it off right. Why can't we just run? Only exceptions of Amy and ROBOTNIK in their original vehicles?

-Call him Robotnik... Please? Eggman is such a stupid name. And it's totally ripping off the Beatles! (goo goo gajoob.)

-3D. It's going on a 3D console, why not give us actual depth?

-Harder. I may have mentioned something like this earlier, but Sonic R was really easy... All you really needed to do was collect 50 rings, open a door; then grab all 5 coins and finish in first place. In one stage, you already beat 1/6 of the game! Make the Chaos Emeralds harder to get? Maybe at the end of a circuit (like in Mario Kart) you unlock an Emerald if you got first place in all the races. Have a coin in each race (5 races a circuit?) Make the Characters you get from the 5 coins harder to beat in a race (and unlock them)?

-Video Saving? Screenshot Snapping? In Sonic R, at the end of a stage, you could watch a "Replay" of your race. Really useless considering you couldn't save it. Allow us to SAVE replays. And sceenshots shouldn't be too hard to manage. I was thinking you could press the "Select" button to take one, then at the end of a race; you can choose which ones you want to keep.

-AR Card Awesomness. You know that Nintendogs+Cats feature? Where you can pull out your card and have your dog appear wherever you place the card? IMAGINE A TAILS DOLL APPEARING ON YOUR HAND!

(Be sure to post your idea's as well!)


I know this would be a lot of work for Sega... But this would really be a fun game. With the new technology, graphics, gameplay, file capacity, the internet, awesomeness... This could easily make a best seller, and a perfect 10 on IGN (despite how much they hate sonic... No IGNorant jokes here please.)

What are your thoughts on the game?

P.S: There's no need for you to flip out over the fact I mentioned "Sonic"... Can't he ever try something new without getting criticized? Link can turn into a wolf all he wants in Twilight Princess... But when Sonic turns into a wolf, the world explodes...

Edit: Please no Sonic-Fanboy Fights... Just talk about Sonic R(emakes).

No, no he can't.

Wolf Link was playable. That'd be a key difference.

Is it really that hard to button-mash as a Werehog? My baby brother can do it just fine without complaints... And he can jump from platform to platform...

I will honor your request and not get into a debate over the merits of Sonic.

I do not think the game you propose is necessary. I will leave it at that.

Thanks for your opinion.

Sonic R? Oh, gosh no. I bought that game on the Saturn on clearance for five bucks and still felt like Sega owed me $50 for having to suffer through the ten to fifteen minutes of my life that I threw away trying to control and play it.