Sonic X-Treme: The Lost Sonic Epic

I was surfing the classic gaming board on Digital Press and found a thread about the never-released Sonic X-Treme. I'm a big fan of the Sonic series, so I clicked the link that one poster put up (http://www.lostlevels.org/200403/200403-xtreme.shtml) and read through the whole story, and watched the clips of gameplay action on YouTube. And it makes me want to play this thing... finally, something other than NiGHTS Into Dreams on the Saturn to really get excited about!

I was one of those people that gushed when he saw Sonic Adventure for the first time, mainly because when I bought my Dreamcast off an old friend (he was one of those players that sold off his gaming stuff to buy the next big thing, and he wanted a PS2) it was the most incredible thing I'd ever seen done in a video game. The way the graphics were polished, how they flowed through the stages, how Sonic looked bigger and faster than I'd seen him before... I was blown away. And for the first time in a while, while I looked at the footage of X-Treme, I was amazed again, and saw just how Sonic Adventure might have been formed.

I don't know if that's how it really happened, but that's my guess from how the graphics look in my eye. Sonic X-Treme was never completely finished, right? And if you look at the style of graphics it looks to me like Adventure might have been formed in its ashes. Make something of the programming instead of just leaving all of it to degrade and dissolve.

Here's the footage I'm talking about, through YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/results?search=sonic+xtreme&search_type=search_videos&search=Search

It looks beautiful to me, Sonic's original, meant-to-be Saturn, 32-bit debut. The sprite of Sonic looks sharp and smooth, and though maybe not as detailed as Adventure (obviously) shades of it lean to tell me this was some inspiration for the Dreamcast Sonic game.

Remember, this is all speculation, just my thoughts about the origins of decent 3D Sonic. If I'm wrong I'm wrong, and please tell me if I am (no one learns if they think they're always right). Any thoughts, comments?

Let's do this.

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for now.