Mark III is just my all time favorite. I love the idea of Mecha/Metal breaking away from being a copy and becoming his own. It feels like untapped potential for a story.
They could easily have a story harkening back to SA1 where MS is the monster hunting for (insert macguffin here) to slowly increase his power and differentiate his design ever so much each time.
@@KaiserMattTygore927 Or a more Heros kinda story possible, where he takes over and proceeds to upgrade himself. Forcing Eggman to seek help as MS consumes everything. With instead of some weird metal madness design. It's more similar to that of Devil/Dark Gundam.
9:03 the one the most to the right seems to me to be purposefully imitating Ristar. From the quill shape to the pose. Kind of a cool nod to Sonic's conceptual sibling!
They kind of look unworldly to me. Like some alien found blueprints for metal or mecha and made there own versions. Except for the last one that looks more like a normal badnik, not something on the level of other sonic duplicates.
The massive disparity between versions reminds me of Frieza's transformations. Given that they pulled inspiration for Super Sonic from Super Saiyans, I wonder if there's any foundation for that concept. I had no idea any of this ever existed, so this has been an incredible education. Thanks, Nick.
From what I understand of Sonic Xtreme, it was developed by Sega of America but Sega of Japan, the main branch, got jealous and threatened to pull the plug on the American branch if they continued. Such a dumb, petty reason really.
I like how they brought up the idea of sonics duplicates using rings as health just like how he does. I’m glad that idea was eventually used in Shadow’s Bossfight from Sonic Generations
Talking about all the other prototype designs of characters, I've always wanted to see other prototype designs of Silver (there's meant to be over 50, and there's only, like, 4 or 5). I wish they kept the whole, 'hair is naturally curled back, but shoots straight up when Silver uses telekinesis' idea for Silver.
Really cool seeing what could've been from Xtreme if it were actually released, especially when fans put in a lot of effort to recreate some of the concepts. Something about MK III's design reminds me of Pulseman, which makes sense considering Sega published it back in the early 90's and it would also fit with the Ristar reference in MK 5's design. I'd love to see these kinds of references to older Sega properties in more Sonic games in the future (Forces did an ok job with the whole costume DLC but something like Super Monkey Ball's cameos would be nice). Also that busted-nose Mecha Sonic looks unsettling.
Hell yeah, I knew you’d get to them eventually! They’re the perfect combination of goofy and cool. Mark II and IV are my personal favorites, they take some liberties while still feeling like they could be actual Mecha Sonics in a game with some adjustment.
I was one of those kids who was ultra-hyped for Sonic X-Treme, saw all the promo materials for it in magazines, and then let down when it didn't happen, so I appreciate _anything_ related to that game. Thanks to you and all the deep-divers!
Nick, I cannot find somewhere in the discord to talk about this but you have been working your ass off so much this week just to get stuff out for mecha march madness you have all of my respects and hopefully everyone else’s respect. P.S. please take a break after march
It's also worth noting that Andrew75 is also the lead creator of _Project AXSX_ (the first piece of _Sonic X-treme_ footage we see in this video), which is an amazing attempt to remake Sonic X-treme as if it did reach gold, and showed that the game actually had potential to be good. Going VERY slow but steady for almost 16 years (and has also been very stop-and-go as of late), it has made *AMAZING* progress so far since that intial gameplay footage seen in this video. I hope he'll find the support he needs to speed up the process he has made, because as a self proclaimed _Sonic X-treme_ historian, this has to be one of my most anticipated Sonic fan projects ever. Going by his blog posts on Sonic Retro, Andrew75 has had connections with Chris Senn from time to time when developing his project , so he knows a thing or two about _Sonic X-treme_ that not many people know about.
Wow I didn't even know Sonic X-treme was supposed to have mecha's! That was really interesting and would love to see an extended video with your thoughts on the game as a whole
I get the feeling that mark 4 was meant to be an ice level boss. Spike feet in early 3d give me that feeling, can't spin-dash but can make tighter turns. Maybe some sort of figure skater moveset.
Wait people lose Sonic's noses? I mean I'm a hardcore collector and I'm not gentle with my figures at all and I have never seen a nose go missing for Sonic... Although I can definitely understand them breaking off. Just didn't know that was a thing.
In the old plastic Sonic toys from back in the mid-90's, the nose was always the first place the paint flaked off. Not sure about other toys actually _losing_ noses. That never happened to any of mine.
The "Red MS" Mecha Sonic looks like a less crazy smaller variant if the Kaiser Metal Sonic from Chaotix. It's Neo Metal Sonic equivalent if you will. The Mark. 4 design looks cool to me. It's kinda sleek.
How cool would it be to do a sonic game in which Metal and Mecha have major narrative roles and take opposite reactions to their defeat at the hands of sonic? Metal tries to become the 'perfect sonic' while Mecha tries to abandon his origins as a copy of Sonic?
I would love to see you make a video on Sonic X-Treme and it’s development history. It’s just fun looking at pieces of media left on the cutting room floor and speculating about what could have been.
Man, every Mecha March Madness is a treat. I had no idea any of these designs existed, I woulda went crazy if i saw Mark II/III as a child. Fantastic video as always dude. But I wanna ask, have you ever thought about talking about Jimmy the Motobug? or any baseline badniks? They are mechs too if you think about it hard enough.
That red mecha "sonic" actually really looks like it takes a lot of design elements from Ristar more specifically Kaiser Greedy, The final boss and Inonsis the final bosses scientist henchmen ake the second to last boss. Which is even funnier given the last robot actually looks a lot like Ristar. Do u think Sonic Xtreme would have had some ties to ristar at all or maybe just the design elements given that Ristar was a SUPER late genesis game right before the saturn? Idk just spit balling here
These designs looking like something straight out of Ristar CANNOT be a coincidence I refuse to belive so I'm the biggest ristar fan on the planet I know my boy when I see him lol
I know a lot of people don’t think Xtreme would have been good, but I still wish development would have gone smoother and it was able to release for the launch window of the Saturn. It couldn’t have hurt, especially with knowing what happened with the series later on. If anything it would have helped with Saturn sales cuz Sonic was that big at the time. And hell, I think it looks pretty unique and interesting. Might not be the best Sonic game had it released, but Sonic seriously missed out on that era of consoles. People like to say Adventure is Sonic’s Mario 64, but we didn’t get that until the Dreamcast on a console that was much more powerful than the Saturn. We never got to see and early 3D Sonic game constrained by the limits of technology and I feel it is sorely missing. Hey that’s just me tho.
It'll be cool if we get to see Metal Sonic or even a new version of Metal Sonic in Frontiers. I'd love to see them bring in some new ideas, levels, etc. for the game but it'd be so cool to see something similar to this come to fruition someday
Mk 3 looks like it could have been it's own boss character independent from Mecha Sonic. I remember the Senttient site having a lot of info and concept images about Sonic X-treme, it's sad that the site no longer exists.
I'd like to imagine an alternative universe where sonic 3 and knuckles mecha sonic would evolve into mark 2 and 3., and not stay on scrapnick Island. Just imagine how cool that could be.
I guess we can pretend Mk4 is an existential crisis painfully folding back in upon itself with a big old Sonic fin bursting out harder than ever through his fractured head. -and then Mk5 is core Sanic, everything condensed beyond the guy he’s replicating, an eternal spindash.
These different metal sonic designs make me think of megaman bosses. Which makes me want like a megamen style sonic game where you can choose between 8 different levels in any order you want that each have with a unique boss fight at the end. Though I imagine the bosses would be integrated into the level as well like you're competing against the boss on the way to the boss room, much like the metal sonic fight. Maybe the 3 act structure can be kept such that act 1 of each stage is just the stage with more focus on platforming, act 2 you race against the boss or deal with whatever the boss throws at you, and act 3 is the boss fight.
I liked Metal Sonic from the Sonic BOOM show. He looked so evil and heartless. And he never had those comedy moments making him a truly evil aspect of the show
Mecha mark 1 through 4 look cool as hell! Mark 5 on the other hand is just a goofy little goober. Id like to see all of these mechas again at some point.
i like to think m3 failed to sonic, so mecha sonic decided to adapt yet again to become sonic, since he is stronger. Then mark 5 would take sonics most powerful parts and amplify them to surpass sonic himself. Removing sonics biological weaknesses like his torso and allowing the head to be more streamlined.
Love the videos and what turn out for the month, don't burn yourself out! I remember seeing Mk3 as a kid and thinking it looked pretty cool. Really sleek though I remember most people thinking it was just a fan sketch. Keep up the awesome work!
Man, it's really cool seeing all the wackass Designs for robots in sonic. I always thought all the mechas were amazing, and I really wish we saw more of these, especially Mark III. Love a transforming robot.
It’d be cool if SonicTeam picked Sonic X-Treme back up now that we’re so much more advanced in game programming and tweak it to fit in to modern gaming.
@@GameApologist Yeah that was part of a much bigger project that was started back in 2006 using game maker. The stage shown in your video was for Sage expo 2011 and another version for 2012 if I remember correctly. It was produced soon after we moved to Epic’s UDK engine. We didn’t release any more demos after that as all the energy was going into reverse engineering the original levels, getting new assets ready for custom levels and fixing bugs/improving gameplay. The project is still going today with unreal 4. Although at a much slower pace. ( life gets in the way ) anyways, I Took most of the old videos down in preparation for the next reveal. But yeah that’s still a good ways off.
Why do I get mega man vibes from Mark III and ESPECIALLY Mark II. Still love the designS but it feels like a robot master or maverick instead of a badnik. Also I love the ristar looking one, it’s so goofy. Mark IV and I… woof. Kind dig what IV is going for (a super futuristic mecha sonic) but one feels like a prototype. Thinking about it, I feel like Mark I was going to be a sort of skeleton that would upgrade itself to become the later Mechas. Idk, but it give me that feeling.
Actually I remember seeing footage of the metal sonic fight in what looked a interview with one person holding a microphone talking to the person playing the metal sonic fight on a sega Saturn
would have been so sick if it started as mark 5 and then each time you fought it it would mutate its design slowly through out all of them until it eventually ended up as mark 3
doesnt it suck that we have to go back to the past for cool and mysterious things like this? the moment a company finds a character his "comfortable place" all experimentation is thrown out the window
I personally like the idea of a Mecha Sonic robot that surpasses it's programming and gets it's own identity, but after repeated failures it comes to the conclusion that the only way to defeat Sonic is to become Sonic, so it reverts back to being more similar to Sonic
Mark III is just my all time favorite. I love the idea of Mecha/Metal breaking away from being a copy and becoming his own. It feels like untapped potential for a story.
They could easily have a story harkening back to SA1 where MS is the monster hunting for (insert macguffin here) to slowly increase his power and differentiate his design ever so much each time.
@@KaiserMattTygore927
Or a more Heros kinda story possible, where he takes over and proceeds to upgrade himself. Forcing Eggman to seek help as MS consumes everything. With instead of some weird metal madness design. It's more similar to that of Devil/Dark Gundam.
Mark III has to be my all time favorite
agree
Mark III is back
Fun fact: the red one on the left in the thumbnail is now used as the true final boss in the Sonic Triple Trouble 16-bit remake
That’s so cool
It’s a shame that phase 2 and 3 are the same robot, would’ve been cool if it used another of the unused designs
9:03 the one the most to the right seems to me to be purposefully imitating Ristar. From the quill shape to the pose. Kind of a cool nod to Sonic's conceptual sibling!
Imagine a sequel to ristar with this gender neutral term for dude
@@zonix_9748 i respect you
trying to avoid libtards getting mad about pronouns
gg man
They kind of look unworldly to me. Like some alien found blueprints for metal or mecha and made there own versions. Except for the last one that looks more like a normal badnik, not something on the level of other sonic duplicates.
Looks more like a mass production badnik by the actual Mecha Sonic. Pretty good design, just not threatening enough.
The massive disparity between versions reminds me of Frieza's transformations. Given that they pulled inspiration for Super Sonic from Super Saiyans, I wonder if there's any foundation for that concept. I had no idea any of this ever existed, so this has been an incredible education. Thanks, Nick.
Frieza was literally the first thing I thought of the first time I saw these designs.
Nick just feeding us good this week with the content
Gotta be well fed before the movie
@@waypastcoolkid Yesss!!! 😁😁😁 Got my ticket ready for Sunday morning!!
@@stefcannon2580 dude, that’s rad! I’m seeing it next week!
@@waypastcoolkid Yay!!! Enjoy!! 😁😁
5:42 this robot actually appeared in sonic triple trouble 16 bit as the second and last phase of the games True final boss
From what I understand of Sonic Xtreme, it was developed by Sega of America but Sega of Japan, the main branch, got jealous and threatened to pull the plug on the American branch if they continued. Such a dumb, petty reason really.
Mark III looks like a wild redesign of Crash Man than Sonic, and you know what? I kinda dig it.
Pun intended?
I like how they brought up the idea of sonics duplicates using rings as health just like how he does. I’m glad that idea was eventually used in Shadow’s Bossfight from Sonic Generations
@litt le brobgonal Shadow relies on rings in his Generations boss fight.
I think the evolution feature would work (if we are considering all the marks as different stages) like this: mk.5->mk1->mk4->mk2->mk3.
Talking about all the other prototype designs of characters, I've always wanted to see other prototype designs of Silver (there's meant to be over 50, and there's only, like, 4 or 5). I wish they kept the whole, 'hair is naturally curled back, but shoots straight up when Silver uses telekinesis' idea for Silver.
That mark 2 design looked pretty sick, but also somewhat reminiscent of Shadow before he was even thought of.
I misread the thumbnail as “kissing mechas”, that would’ve been a _very_ different video 😂
Really cool seeing what could've been from Xtreme if it were actually released, especially when fans put in a lot of effort to recreate some of the concepts. Something about MK III's design reminds me of Pulseman, which makes sense considering Sega published it back in the early 90's and it would also fit with the Ristar reference in MK 5's design. I'd love to see these kinds of references to older Sega properties in more Sonic games in the future (Forces did an ok job with the whole costume DLC but something like Super Monkey Ball's cameos would be nice).
Also that busted-nose Mecha Sonic looks unsettling.
It's cool that the red mark 3 mecha sonic got reused as the true final boss of the sonic triple trouble remake (albeit a little redesigned)
This is more quality Sonic content in a week than sonics last anniversary
Hell yeah, I knew you’d get to them eventually! They’re the perfect combination of goofy and cool. Mark II and IV are my personal favorites, they take some liberties while still feeling like they could be actual Mecha Sonics in a game with some adjustment.
I was one of those kids who was ultra-hyped for Sonic X-Treme, saw all the promo materials for it in magazines, and then let down when it didn't happen, so I appreciate _anything_ related to that game. Thanks to you and all the deep-divers!
5:46 I like how triple trouble 16 bit used the “drill mecha sonic” as the true final boss lol
Nick, I cannot find somewhere in the discord to talk about this but you have been working your ass off so much this week just to get stuff out for mecha march madness you have all of my respects and hopefully everyone else’s respect.
P.S. please take a break after march
Wow! I've never heard of a lot of this stuff! Thanks for the interesting info Nick (although I am pretty sure you could make any topic interesting)!
It's also worth noting that Andrew75 is also the lead creator of _Project AXSX_ (the first piece of _Sonic X-treme_ footage we see in this video), which is an amazing attempt to remake Sonic X-treme as if it did reach gold, and showed that the game actually had potential to be good. Going VERY slow but steady for almost 16 years (and has also been very stop-and-go as of late), it has made *AMAZING* progress so far since that intial gameplay footage seen in this video. I hope he'll find the support he needs to speed up the process he has made, because as a self proclaimed _Sonic X-treme_ historian, this has to be one of my most anticipated Sonic fan projects ever.
Going by his blog posts on Sonic Retro, Andrew75 has had connections with Chris Senn from time to time when developing his project , so he knows a thing or two about _Sonic X-treme_ that not many people know about.
Hype to see this video. Love these mechanical wonders made to beat a blue abomination against nature
In other words metal sonic cool
Wow I didn't even know Sonic X-treme was supposed to have mecha's!
That was really interesting and would love to see an extended video with your thoughts on the game as a whole
I want to give people the knowledge that Sonic X-streme was supposed to have a love interest for Sonic named Tiara Boobowski
Papa Nick has blessed us with 3 vids in a week. Huzzahhh!
I get the feeling that mark 4 was meant to be an ice level boss. Spike feet in early 3d give me that feeling, can't spin-dash but can make tighter turns. Maybe some sort of figure skater moveset.
Wait people lose Sonic's noses?
I mean I'm a hardcore collector and I'm not gentle with my figures at all and I have never seen a nose go missing for Sonic... Although I can definitely understand them breaking off. Just didn't know that was a thing.
I got the 30th anniversary Controller holder figure & his nose better not fall off 😐
In the old plastic Sonic toys from back in the mid-90's, the nose was always the first place the paint flaked off.
Not sure about other toys actually _losing_ noses. That never happened to any of mine.
@@Soufriere84 yeah, had paint fade but never lose a nose. 😅
I had a Classic Sonic figure in late 2000s (before it was known as “Classic”) that had a busted nose from being dropped
I would have loved sonic Xtreme as a kid. Shame it got cancelled
The "Red MS" Mecha Sonic looks like a less crazy smaller variant if the Kaiser Metal Sonic from Chaotix. It's Neo Metal Sonic equivalent if you will. The Mark. 4 design looks cool to me. It's kinda sleek.
Some of those robots reminds me of the Metarex from Sonic X
How cool would it be to do a sonic game in which Metal and Mecha have major narrative roles and take opposite reactions to their defeat at the hands of sonic? Metal tries to become the 'perfect sonic' while Mecha tries to abandon his origins as a copy of Sonic?
I would love to see you make a video on Sonic X-Treme and it’s development history. It’s just fun looking at pieces of media left on the cutting room floor and speculating about what could have been.
I love the fact that you know of Zone of the Enders, the most underrated mecha series of all time, the best designs for mecha
The red Mecha Sonic looks more like Crash Man from Mega Man 2
They should bring these guys back as a separate crew of bosses. Maybe for when next time Metal decides to make a run at world domination. 😊
Mecha Sonic just straight up be like: This isn't even my final form!
Man, every Mecha March Madness is a treat. I had no idea any of these designs existed, I woulda went crazy if i saw Mark II/III as a child. Fantastic video as always dude. But I wanna ask, have you ever thought about talking about Jimmy the Motobug? or any baseline badniks? They are mechs too if you think about it hard enough.
5:05 this is inarguably fact
That last one would work better as a Badnik. Also, Mk3 just looks so much like Crash Man, lol
That red mecha "sonic" actually really looks like it takes a lot of design elements from Ristar more specifically Kaiser Greedy, The final boss and Inonsis the final bosses scientist henchmen ake the second to last boss. Which is even funnier given the last robot actually looks a lot like Ristar. Do u think Sonic Xtreme would have had some ties to ristar at all or maybe just the design elements given that Ristar was a SUPER late genesis game right before the saturn? Idk just spit balling here
These designs looking like something straight out of Ristar CANNOT be a coincidence I refuse to belive so I'm the biggest ristar fan on the planet I know my boy when I see him lol
YO SICKK I learned so much about these unused mecha/metal sonics!
7:22 you have committed RISTAR
Green Hill Zone of the Enders is probably your best joke/reference yet.
I know a lot of people don’t think Xtreme would have been good, but I still wish development would have gone smoother and it was able to release for the launch window of the Saturn. It couldn’t have hurt, especially with knowing what happened with the series later on. If anything it would have helped with Saturn sales cuz Sonic was that big at the time. And hell, I think it looks pretty unique and interesting. Might not be the best Sonic game had it released, but Sonic seriously missed out on that era of consoles. People like to say Adventure is Sonic’s Mario 64, but we didn’t get that until the Dreamcast on a console that was much more powerful than the Saturn. We never got to see and early 3D Sonic game constrained by the limits of technology and I feel it is sorely missing. Hey that’s just me tho.
If only Yuji Naka wasn't a selfish prick and lent the dev team NiGHTS engine, things could have been different.
It'll be cool if we get to see Metal Sonic or even a new version of Metal Sonic in Frontiers. I'd love to see them bring in some new ideas, levels, etc. for the game but it'd be so cool to see something similar to this come to fruition someday
Mecha Sonic MK3 looks a lot like a radical redesign for Crash Man.
The one on the left reminds me of the final form of Metal Sonic in STT 16-bit
"Green Hill Zone of the Enders" You sounded proud of that one :P
IT WAS A GOOD JOKE!
Mk 3 looks like it could have been it's own boss character independent from Mecha Sonic.
I remember the Senttient site having a lot of info and concept images about Sonic X-treme, it's sad that the site no longer exists.
I hope idw makes it its own character
What's funny is that Fallout and Sonic both planned to have games called "x-treme", and they both got canned.
4:40 The Rival Battle Vs Shadow In Sonic Generations
Man we are just getting spoiled this month now I absolutely cannot wait for knuckles November
They have a Bossfight that relies on rings just like sonic the shadow fight in sonic generations
the idea at 4:00 about a character's clone changing into robot form remind me of mecha knuckles from sonic advance 2.
I'd like to imagine an alternative universe where sonic 3 and knuckles mecha sonic would evolve into mark 2 and 3., and not stay on scrapnick Island. Just imagine how cool that could be.
I guess we can pretend Mk4 is an existential crisis painfully folding back in upon itself with a big old Sonic fin bursting out harder than ever through his fractured head. -and then Mk5 is core Sanic, everything condensed beyond the guy he’s replicating, an eternal spindash.
These different metal sonic designs make me think of megaman bosses. Which makes me want like a megamen style sonic game where you can choose between 8 different levels in any order you want that each have with a unique boss fight at the end. Though I imagine the bosses would be integrated into the level as well like you're competing against the boss on the way to the boss room, much like the metal sonic fight. Maybe the 3 act structure can be kept such that act 1 of each stage is just the stage with more focus on platforming, act 2 you race against the boss or deal with whatever the boss throws at you, and act 3 is the boss fight.
It’s the final day of MECHA MARCH MADNESS
You actually turned sunset city into a podcast I thought that was a joke in the metal virus saga
I love all those design but mainly Mark 2 and 3
you know what next month should be Kameo April Madness
I liked Metal Sonic from the Sonic BOOM show. He looked so evil and heartless. And he never had those comedy moments making him a truly evil aspect of the show
4:36 The rival battles in SA2 relied on rings.
Mecha mark 1 through 4 look cool as hell! Mark 5 on the other hand is just a goofy little goober. Id like to see all of these mechas again at some point.
Bro this is the best, so much videos are comin out
i like to think m3 failed to sonic, so mecha sonic decided to adapt yet again to become sonic, since he is stronger.
Then mark 5 would take sonics most powerful parts and amplify them to surpass sonic himself. Removing sonics biological weaknesses like his torso and allowing the head to be more streamlined.
You know I believe all the metal Sonic's represent mechasonic strength, metal Sonic speed, and silver Sonic defense.
shadow in sonic generations has his health determined by how many rings he picks up
Love the videos and what turn out for the month, don't burn yourself out!
I remember seeing Mk3 as a kid and thinking it looked pretty cool. Really sleek though I remember most people thinking it was just a fan sketch. Keep up the awesome work!
Mecha sonic just slowly became Crash Man.
Holy shit mk5 looks like my robot master oc, Razor Woman lol.
Looks like those robots lock together to make one giant sonic robot.
Mecha Sonic Mk1 looks like it could be a MegaMan boss.
Man, it's really cool seeing all the wackass Designs for robots in sonic. I always thought all the mechas were amazing, and I really wish we saw more of these, especially Mark III. Love a transforming robot.
MK 3 looks like a more mechanized version of Crashman (Clashman) from Megaman 2.
It’d be cool if SonicTeam picked Sonic X-Treme back up now that we’re so much more advanced in game programming and tweak it to fit in to modern gaming.
am I the only one finding metal sonic intimidating for once?
Hey there's my winter rendition of E3 Jade Gully ! Glad its still floating around out there ! XD XD XD
DUDE YOU MADE THAT?!?!
@@GameApologist Yeah that was part of a much bigger project that was started back in 2006 using game maker. The stage shown in your video was for Sage expo 2011 and another version for 2012 if I remember correctly. It was produced soon after we moved to Epic’s UDK engine. We didn’t release any more demos after that as all the energy was going into reverse engineering the original levels, getting new assets ready for custom levels and fixing bugs/improving gameplay. The project is still going today with unreal 4. Although at a much slower pace. ( life gets in the way ) anyways, I Took most of the old videos down in preparation for the next reveal. But yeah that’s still a good ways off.
5:53. Looks like a enemy from a Vectorman game.
Yes
Oh man I appreciate the zone of the enders joke
Why do I get mega man vibes from Mark III and ESPECIALLY Mark II. Still love the designS but it feels like a robot master or maverick instead of a badnik. Also I love the ristar looking one, it’s so goofy. Mark IV and I… woof. Kind dig what IV is going for (a super futuristic mecha sonic) but one feels like a prototype. Thinking about it, I feel like Mark I was going to be a sort of skeleton that would upgrade itself to become the later Mechas. Idk, but it give me that feeling.
2:08 there is footage of it
A promo where people were showcasing SEGA demos has it in the background on a monitor
MARK IV looks like how the word "powerthirst" sounds.
Actually I remember seeing footage of the metal sonic fight in what looked a interview with one person holding a microphone talking to the person playing the metal sonic fight on a sega Saturn
would have been so sick if it started as mark 5 and then each time you fought it it would mutate its design slowly through out all of them until it eventually ended up as mark 3
Okay can we acknowledge that in the UK Sonic 2 comes out TOMMORRROWWW
recently knowing of this, there is a metal sonic called shard just throwing that out there
Mark 4 is my absolute favorite robot sonic actually
There is actual official footage of Sonic X-Treme fighting metal Sonic on RUclips. I’m surprised no on in the comments mentioned it.
This IS a good week
mk3 reminds me of Fighting Fefnir from the Mega Man Zero Series
The drill one is my favorite by far. Looks so epic
doesnt it suck that we have to go back to the past for cool and mysterious things like this? the moment a company finds a character his "comfortable place" all experimentation is thrown out the window
Whoa these remind me of smooth early 2000 game promos these looks really good honestly
You’re on a roll yes you! 🫵YOURE BREATH TAKING!!!🫵
Do Emperor Metallix next please!
Mark III make me want to scream "Who the hell do you think I am?!" for some reason.
Weird.
Shadow in Generations has a ring count and loses those rings as you hit him.
I personally like the idea of a Mecha Sonic robot that surpasses it's programming and gets it's own identity, but after repeated failures it comes to the conclusion that the only way to defeat Sonic is to become Sonic, so it reverts back to being more similar to Sonic