Sonic mania parody game
The current build of Grand Dad Mania features one playable level and one playable character. Thankfully though fans of the project have started building their own version of the game so this bizarre bootleg retro platforming adventure may see a full release yet! Unfortunately the only build that was released was one that was created specifically for the Trailer (which is still available here) and since then the game has been cancelled. The original Grand Dad Mania was an awesome looking Sonic, Mario and Flintstones parody that was based on the lore and memes of the Vinesauce Joel YouTube channel. Why a beloved gaming company wants that for itself is an open question.Grand Dad Mania is a fan made recreation of SilvaGunner’s now cancelled Sonic Mania parody, which features a bizarre bootleg Mario/Fred Flintstone character on a retro action platforming adventure. Put another way, if you took this parody article and replaced every reference to Sega with Nintendo, it wouldn’t be that far off from reality. In nearly all cases, the company gains nothing and loses at least some measure of goodwill and respect. While this is all quite funny, it’s also frustrating trying to understand why in the world Nintendo is willing to endure being the butt of these particular jokes, not to mention the negative aspects of its reputation, just because it wants to squash its own fanbase. They then announced their new game Werewolf Sonic 2: Sorry, Fuckers will be arriving in 2023. Go to the link for one fun fictional comment from a Sega fan being put into the back of a squad car, but I couldn’t let this post be written without including the final paragraph from the post, because it’s just so, so good.ĭespite the lawsuit, Sega admitted they were incredibly thankful for the fan designer’s unique, exciting ideas for Sonic games that they could completely ignore for the next decade. It values strict IP control over everything else, even as many argue doing so is against its own monetary interests. If Sega can do it, so can Nintendo.īut Nintendo doesn’t want to do this.
More to the point, it does a useful job of pointing out, given that all of this is not true and done for comedic purposes, that Nintendo could exert less control and allow its fans to express themselves if it wanted to. “Go full Nintendo.” Sega and Nintendo have taken starkly different paths interacting with their most dedicated fans and this fictional post is essentially poking fun at the latter by satirizing what it would look like if Sega got aggressive. Sonic Team is honored to take these longtime fans, some of them even just kids, and drag them kicking and screaming behind bars where they belong.” These people have spent their own time and money creating beautiful, loving tributes to Sonic games, and they thought they could just get away with it. From now on, we have to go full Nintendo and sue these fuckers for every single penny they’ve got. “We worked with fans to make Sonic Mania and then everybody was all like ‘oh I guess the fans are better than Sega at making their own game,’ so now we’re switching up the strategy, because fuck you guys. “For years, people have said that Sega’s Sonic games lack that magic from the original games, while fan games have become impressive standalone titles,” said Sonic team leader Takashi Iizuka. Sega announced today that, after a down-period of creativity in its staple Sonic franchise, the company will be reaching out to fan game developers to create new and exciting lawsuits. The headline for the comedy post is, appropriately, “Sega Announces They Will Be Using Fan-Game Creators To Develop New Sonic Lawsuit.” Well, someone out there took the time to create a parody news article about Sega doing a heel-turn on this in a way that seems mostly dedicated to skewering Nintendo for its aggressive, anti-fan behavior. So much so, in fact, that we highlighted its former chief rival, Sega, when it took the opposite tact with folks making Sonic the Hedgehog fan-games. While gaming company responses towards fan-games are certainly more of a spectrum than something black and white, Nintendo probably takes the crown for the least permissive gaming company for this sort of thing.
There have been so many stories specifically about Nintendo’s animosity towards its fans when those fans express their fandom by creating fan-games that any regular reader here will be familiar with at least some of them. We have long chronicled the aggressive IP enforcement tactics and behavior of video game giant Nintendo. Thu, Jan 6th 2022 03:48pm - Timothy Geigner