THIS DOES NOT FILL US WITH CONFIDENCE
The laughably useless “plot” area of the Sonic 4 web site is… very poor. As in, written by someone not entirely au fait with assembling words. We have screencapped it, for posterity.
We weren’t going to mention this at all, until we saw the use of “fly’s” in this bit. Putting the apostrophe there makes it mean something that belongs to a fly, or worse still, a shortened version of “fly is”.
Bizarre sentences, made worse through random comma placement.
“Then it was all a dream and mum came in with some fresh biscuits”.
PREVIOUSLY ON ‘LOST’.
Although… perhaps we are once again over-analysing a product aimed at children?
A prize to anyone who reads all the way through this one.
Now we can say “We told you so” when it turns out rubbish.
filed in "NEWS", ACTUAL GAMES on Feb.08, 2010
February 8th, 2010 on 12:40 pm
The poor old apostrophe, probably the most misused punctuation mark in the English language.
Although I have to admit; I’m useless at working out when it’s appropriate to use a semi-colon.
February 8th, 2010 on 12:49 pm
‘Although… perhaps we are once again over-analysing a product aimed at children?’
Well, it seems like it’s now written by children too!
I’m saddened that they’re calling Robotnik “Eggman” in this.
Somehow, calling Princess toadstool “Peach” wasn’t too tricky… but calling Robotnik “Eggman” is just wrong.
February 8th, 2010 on 1:03 pm
Is this the cover up for all you’re typo’s in the “Hitler On Cream” video?
February 8th, 2010 on 1:09 pm
It did strike me as perhaps being a little hypocritical. But I pushed on. As usual.
February 8th, 2010 on 2:59 pm
I’ve chosen to ignore CyberRazorMike’s errant apostrophe up there as it’s obviously deliberate and meant as a joke. It had better be, anyway, or the irony is truly mind-blowing.
Btw Zorg, saw on your “Links-Blog” you gave a link to the Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing demo download so went to queue it up but it’s for gold xbl users only.
Am now having to wait for an hour to complete my registration with major nelson just so I can tell them they’re all dicks.
And what the heck are Banjo & Kazooie doing in it? They’re neither Sonic nor ‘Sega All-Stars’. Even Billy Hatcher’s more of a Sega star than they are, having 1 entire Sega game to his name. What Sega games have Banjo & Kazooie starred in?
February 8th, 2010 on 3:59 pm
Right, that’s that done. That’ll teach em.
Wonder how long that’ll stay there before they delete it?
February 8th, 2010 on 5:50 pm
Gigerpunk: Im in the same boat with regards to Gold sub. The xbox is practically a coin guzzler in my front room!
And only one errant apostrophe?
“You are typo is?”
:p
February 8th, 2010 on 6:34 pm
Or You are Typo has?
I was being generous and trying to avoid being my usual pedantic self…I also didn’t put an apostrophe in my last post, should’ve been “That’ll teach ’em.”
February 8th, 2010 on 6:41 pm
This is about as good as the plot for that mobile Sonic game I reviewed for this site.
Can they not actually come up with an original plot?
Oh yeah, this is MODERN Sega. Right.
Sorry… :(
February 8th, 2010 on 8:11 pm
RAAAAAHHHHH Its bloody ROBOTNIK. When will they learn. (I will retract this statement if the game revolves around eggs, and a man (with a PhD, probably in some useless subject like History) made of eggs).
February 8th, 2010 on 9:27 pm
WITH IT IS POWER RESTORED
February 8th, 2010 on 9:38 pm
Why is the tshirt yellow? Will that be the only choice? Would putting the OutRun crash scene on the back be infringing on copyright?
February 8th, 2010 on 9:39 pm
Grr, of course I notice that it isn’t the only colour choice half a millisecond after I press ‘leave comment’.
February 8th, 2010 on 9:50 pm
His name is Egg Man-ro. He’s older.
February 8th, 2010 on 10:08 pm
“Typo’s” is valid as it is an abbreviation of “typographical errors”.
So watch it.
February 8th, 2010 on 11:12 pm
Right, so I was correct to start with – only the one typo?
tch.
Just as well english isn’t my first langua…oh feck it is, isn’t it? It was either that or Welsh so not a difficult choice there really.
Anyway, no-one else going to come along and slag off Major Nelson/Microsoft for being money grabbing nickel-and-dimeing bastards? So far it look like it’s down to just me and some yank called YoLarryDaBomb to fight the good fight.
And while I’m at it, I might as well nip down to the beach to piss in the ocean too, for all the good it’ll do.
February 9th, 2010 on 12:46 am
I think i ca…. no. Its no good. I can’t see any wee in that image, leading me to believe either;
A) You didn’t piss in the ocean,
B) You didn’t piss in THAT ocean
C) Google need to update their maps more often.
Oh, and Trilby? Just sod off, I’m p’arano’id about a’p’o’s’t’r’o’p’h’e’s’ now. :)
February 9th, 2010 on 1:16 am
Shame you didn’t screencap it when the first letter of each sentence was missing.
Don’t be surprised if the first letter of every GOOD IDEA in this game is now missing.
February 9th, 2010 on 2:49 am
OMG!!! Is no one going to take issue with GigerPunk spelling Btw as though it was not an acronym? Or are we also going to start letting people get away with multiple exclamation marks?
February 9th, 2010 on 9:18 am
I didn’t say I was going to the beach immediately, did I?
And besides, it’s on the South Wales coast, that water’s fairly pissy already (and I suppose I’ve already done my bit in the past)
For Dr. Who nerds, that’s Bad Wolf bay/Dårlig Ulv Stranden, btw.
February 9th, 2010 on 1:05 pm
Incredible, back to the good old days of bad game translation.
“We need to translate the Sonic 4 story!”
“Get me the man who translated Zero Wing!”
I did not make my time then nor will I now.