Stumbling through Sonic: OmochaoEdition

[davidn]

Here's another short video I put together last night after Quadralien mentioned this game to me. I should have known better. This is Sonic: Omochao Edition by Cinnosu, starring the hateful little tutorial-spewing robot from Sonic Generations.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hewGdxlz5Uc&hd=1

I've got to say that even though its purpose is to make your life difficult, this is an excellent mod - the term "romhack" conjures up images of badly-stapled-together Speedy Gonzales game modifications done in Russian basements, but the author made an actual quality game out of this, building a whole scoring system around the spoof mechanic. I'm now tempted to actually see how well I can do...

Comments

[xaq.livejournal.com]

After viewing your playthrough of the game and looking at the still-frame YouTube chose for the preview, I figured a slight update was in order.



There you go.

[premchaia_pre4]

Siiigh.

[davidn]

Hah! I had actually considered making that edit, but decided it would take me too much time... thank you for your effort :D

[xaq.livejournal.com]

Glad to help! ^_^

[premchaia_pre4]

So was the “Say ‘gah!’ indeed” a deliberate mutation, or was that mainly an artifact of the way your accent handles diphthongs?

[davidn]

I thought I was just saying "Sega" D:

[premchaia_pre4]

You were! Just in a particular way which sounded like it was meant to be clever and meaningful in that one might well indeed say “gah” at this romhack. I guess not? I suppose maybe that's the Anglicization of it in the US as well—at least, Wikipedia thinks so, which surprises me a bit seeing as I vaguely thought that kind of intense diphthongization was more common in northern Britain (and the southern US, but I doubt you'd have adopted that)…

Listen carefully to the difference in the "e" between your own speech and the ROM recording if you're curious.