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Sonic 1: South Island Expedition

Sonic 1: South Island Expedition cover
Developer
RadiantNexus Team
Platforms
Sega Mega Drive/Genesis
Genres
Platform
Main story
about 2.4 hours
Completionist
about 3.3 hours

How it feels

A lovingly crafted Sonic 1 hack with rearranged levels, new music, art overhauls, and scrapped ideas restored.

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About

Sonic 1: South Island Definitive is a hack by RadiantNexus Team, which seeks to reimagine Sonic 1 by rearranging levels. remixing music, adding features from future games, and readding scrapped ideas in new and interesting ways. Major features: 3 acts of reimagined level design, including one act that has yet to be fully reimagined in any other hack. A miniboss. Massive art overhaul all over the place. Music made by ProjectFM and MechaKnuckles. Menus! A custom splash screen. There's been massive engine overhauls as well, including the Sonic 3 level layout format for massive levels, and the Sonic 3 object manager to go alongside this.

Screenshots

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