The Game Awards ended up being quite an exciting show for theSonicfans who decided to tune in. Those that did got afirst lookSonic Frontiers, the nextSonicgame to be released late next year. They also got to see the exciting trailer forSonic the Hedgehog 2, the highly anticipated secondSoniclive-action movie. While the title may be reminiscent of the second video game adventure that Sonic had, one fan has taken inspiration from the movie trailer to remake a scene from it inSonic 3 & Knuckles.
Despite the second film’s focus on introducing Sonic’s best friend, Tails, many series regulars have noticed that the movie seems to be borrowingstory beats fromSonic 3. Not only does the movie feature an icy landscape reminiscent of Ice Cap Zone, but Knuckles the Echidna makes his silver screen debut in the upcoming movie as well as he works with Robotnik.
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TheSonic the Hedgehog 2trailer introduces Knuckles with impressive flare as fans watch him halt one of Sonic’s signature moves, and then throw him to the ground. Many gamers have noticed this is rather reminiscent ofSonic 3’sintro cutscene, which has Knuckles literally punch Sonic out of his Super Sonic form. Artist VAdaPEGA saw the similarity and managed to edit the cutscene to reflect how it’s meant to play out in the film.
Even in 2D, Knuckles managing to stop one ofSonic’s best abilitiesjust to practically slam dunk him into the ground still looks rather impressive. While some fans could argue that VAdaPEGA may have only done sprite and video editing work, a few “bloopers” he shared with fans in the replies to his original post show that he really did edit the original game with new sprites for the video, as one attempt lead Hyper Sonic’s flashing effect to a glitch in an interesting way.
While VAdaPEGA could have gone with a possible easier route by using video editing instead of modifying the game itself, it shows plenty of dedication to his craft by doing so.
