A lot of details about the development of Sonic Boom have popped up after former employees of developer Big Red Button released material of when it looked to be a very different game. The latest of these is that it was originally named Sonic Synergy! We knew it had a previous name after a photo of inside Big Red Button showed an old logo, but it wasn’t until now that we’ve discovered what that name was. And as a fan of alliteration, I think it sounds pretty good!
But it wasn’t just the name that had changed, it looks like the style of the characters changed as well, with Sonic’s arms previously being the tan colour and having slightly different spike styles. If they were going to change anything though, it should have been the disproportions of Knuckles…
I wonder what made them change the name. Which title do you prefer? What do you wish they had changed?
Thanks, MasterPikachu6 and Josh S
I would have preferred Sonic: Buggy PoS. It would have been less deceptive.
Player 3 has it the best, playing as Sonic and Knuckles scores them more points than either player 1 or 2 can get.
Sonic Boom was amazing to be honest. It doesn’t deserve the negative rep….
Yeah. It was amazing… an amazing piece of shit!
You had me until piece ;) Your name says it all though….not trying to be judgmental or anything though =)
I’m not. It was such a good set up, I had to.
Gotcha. Still, I highly recommend the Ratchet and Clank series if you liked Sonic Boom. They’re fairly similar and the banter is the best part!
My favorite Ratchet games are All4One & Full Frontal Assault.
Which ones are your favs?
Mine would probably be Up Your Arsenal and Deadlocked. I really loved the original 4 games for the PS2. Currently, I’m playing A Crack in Time, which has been cool.
I wish they changed the whole game.
Err, does this game exists?
Last sonic game I remember is Sonic CD.
I envy your selective memory.
To be honest, I didn’t like Sonic Lost World.
I just hate the desert area. Can’t stand the colors. Too yellow.for me. “I don’t like desert levels in SMB either” The free DLC for the game was good, The yoshi level was awesome. Didn’t like the zelda one. The boss rush is great.
I really like the 2D sonic games, but as a Nintendo raised gamer I have only played the 3D classic and emulated versions of the Genesis games. Sonic CD I played on my.android phone.
more like Sonic: Cancer
You mean Sonic:Adventure!
Synergy sounds cooler, though it would’ve opened up a huge plethora of “this game is a sin” comments on the Internet…
I feel sorry for the developers of this game.
I feel sorry for the owners of this game.
Why? The owners still have jobs, and don’t have thousands and thousands of trolls bad mouthing them at every turn.
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They should’ve promoted synergy…
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(⌐■_■),
Like a boss.
Dangit, now I have Mission Statement (that one Weird Al song) stuck in my head again… SYNERGYYYYYYYYYY!!!!
I wish they changed all the issues instead
Sickr stretches the definition of what “Nintendo news” truly is, but this jackyanne puts too many personal opinions into the news. Between the two evils, I’d pick Sickr’s, and no, this is NOT an endorsement of putting out irrelevant news again.
>>>It’s a matter of time before he allows me to explain the Art of War from the Elite Warriors of the empire>>>
So what your saying is your not impressed.
They should make a sequel to sonic heroes.
that game is my favorite sonic game
>>>Call it whatever you want, it’s still garbage>>>
Agreed. I’m a Sonic fan, and I will never touch this game.
How about to rename it Sonic shit
Dear god… when will people stop bitching about Knuckles? Huh?
When?
Cause to me it was them trying to make it even more clear that he was the MUSCLE in the group!
I actually liked his look the most!
But.. ya know… sonic fans.. they bitch about stupid shit…
And are never happy.
You know, I don’t play Sonic game at all but I totally understand why they made Knuckles the way they did. Matt Groening, when designing his characters for the Simpsons, said that each main member of a cast should stand out as a silhouette. Without that instant recognition, people will lose interest. And honestly, Knuckles is just a slightly modified Sonic when he’s not roided out like in Boom.
That’s why i liked the change. He stood out more. But … tons of people are.. morons. And bitch and whine when things like that change.
had they done that Wouldn’t give me a bad taste when I play MP2 and get the sonic boom upgrade
Sonic Boom or Sonic Synergy, still a solid 2/10.
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Too bad they botched the game up. The design of Knuckles would have probably been better received once it grew on people if the game didn’t get released as a buggy piece of shit. I enjoyed the fact Knuckles was finally no longer going to be another clone of Sonic with only a few minor differences. But thanks to Big Red Button fucking it up, Knuckles will never get to be immensely different from Sonic. Then again, considering Shadow the Hedgehog tried to make Shadow less of a Sonic knockoff by giving him weapons, I’m probably being highly optimistic of Knuckles’ new design, and abilities, if Sonic Boom wasn’t a pile of crap.