I’ve been busy the last few days tweaking things moving bits around, adding widget functions… believe me that’s harder than it sounds. Well you can see the results now, I’m looking at updating various pages over the next few days to reflect recent changes, and I may still tweak a little more here and there, but for now I’ll just say welcome to Emerald Coast 6.4.

It’s been a while since we had a Just in Time, I think it’s about time we had another one don’t you lot?

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A brand new Sonic Generations trailer just went out, showing off a few more levels that you may remember from his 20 years, and shows off some nice cameos as well, can you spot them?

If some of you haven’t gotten the jest of me and Vger’s NOT SO SEKRAT stuff between each other on the Twitter, he offered me a spot as an official minion (number 154 and I must say the closet is extremely spacious compared to what I’m used to) to serve both Port and stuffed Candies to the rest of the Regulars here at the Coast.

I am honored and grateful at the opportunity (plus I get half the cupcakes that go to Urtheart) and I hope I can live up to the expectations (impossible in some aspects, because a full length movie on Vger and Urtheart’s misadventures prior to Akhmin’s explosive arrival is a tad beyond my scope at the moment)

Anycase, I am the author and that thing people cry in regret and depression…um…ARTIST!…of Angry Fox, and I am here to introduce Jerry T. Voxholm in his first strip (that isn’t an awesome guest appearance) on the EC.

…god let the furry b!@#$%d be in a good mood…

It’s been a while since we showcased an animation on here so i went and did a little digging today and managed to find a new Sonic Vs Knuckles animation, it looks pretty cool, check it out here. Or just click to watch below.

Sonic vs Knuckles Part 1 by *Aerobian-Angel on deviantART

A part 2 is also in the works, animation by Aerobian-Angel.

Last week, I updated you folks with a review I performed back in April on Spiral Knights. this week, however, I took a more updated look at the game by Three Rings and SEGA.

So, what has happened in the realm of the Clockworks in the last 4 months?

Recently, we have had the official announcement of a million players on Spiral Knights, which, I imagine quite a few of those have come from the also recent Steam partnership.

Slightly prior to that, we had the first new low-tier boss addition in the form of the Snarbolax, which is great fun, and a really good introduction to specific tactics used for bosses for low-tier players.

We have also seen the inclusion of the in-game auction house, which if you’ll notice, is one of the things I felt was one of Spiral Knights’ flaws at the time. Talking to some of the older SK players, some feel, that the auction house has taken slightly away from the community feel of trading, which, it does, to an extent, but then, it allows those players, who don’t like to talk openly with strangers, to actually help themselves in the game. Overall, I think it is still an overall improvement to it’s in-game economy structure as well.

More recently, after the Steam partnership, we have had the new Tier 2 boss of the Roarmulus Twins. Which, I personally, have managed to defeat for the first time quite recently, and it was a REALLY good boss encounter. The levels prior to it, are slightly overtuned, and even the slightest bit of lag can hamper getting through there solo, but as a party group, theres definately some extra margin. But overall, it’s really fun, which is the most important thing.

You can read the rest of this follow-up review here, and remember you can check out all other reviews done by the Radio SEGA review team on the site as well!

Just a quick note to all the regular visitors to EC, I’m going to be tweaking things a bit over the next week or so. so don’t worry if some things go wrong, hopefully things should go smoothly and you won’t notice any of the changes… well okay I’d hope you would notice a few.

Okay I know I’m a little late today, but moving yesterday and unpacking today, I’ve been a little busy, so may I present to you
chapter 5 of Back to Reality… after the jump.

Chapter Five – Of Dice and Duellists

“So, what now?” Vger asked his group as they walked aimlessly through the city, unsure what to do now

“I suggest dropping Rebecca back home” Joey-Spin suggested as the grey vixen slowly walked behind the group, obviously very tired from the day’s events

“Good idea” Vger nodded “Perhaps it’ll be a good way to find out what to do next”

“Hey – is that someone over there?” Tristan-Andy pointed out as a young man of the same age scurried towards them. He wore what looked like a blue and white striped shirt with dragon motifs on with blue jeans and a grey bandana over his messy white hair.

“Hey! Bakura!” Joey-Spin called out

“Oh boy…Why did I think Blake would be Bakura in this universe?” Vger muttered to himself

“Well, at least you’re adapting to your new environment” Urtheart replied

“Adapting? I’m not adapting – I’m just desperate for this damn thing to be over”

“Why? You wanted to do this”

“It’s not that – I kinda want to use the bathroom…Not in reality, just in the game”

“Oh for…” Urtheart muttered, giving a mental face palm for the idiocy of the statement “Just find out what he wants”

“Got it” Vger replied, before saying to the human “Hey – you okay?”

“Oh, thank goodness you’re here” the posh British voice of Bakura-Blake replied “You have to help me”

“Why? What’s the problem?” Tristan-Andy asked

“There’s a duellist over there, challenging people to a random game that no one knows how to play. If you win, you get his custom cards. If you lose, he takes something special – and that bastard took my Millennium Ring”

“Wait – you played against his moron?” Vger asked “Why?”

“He offered me a cup of tea…” Bakura-Blake replied, a little forlorn and embarrassed

“Well then – we’ve gotta go help Bakura!” Tristan-Andy exclaimed

“…Can I go home now?” Rebecca-Vulpa moaned

“Not yet – we’ve got a foe to vanquish!” Joey-Spin exclaimed “You stay here Bakura – we’ll be right back!”

“Oh joy…” Vger moaned “Can I hope that they have something to drink this time?”

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“What the hell is that?” Vger exclaimed as a large playing arena loomed into view.

“It’s a new Kaiba-Corp VR playing arena” Joey-Spin replied

“See – THIS is how you do a VR arena” Urtheart snarked

“Shut. Up” Vger muttered through gritted fangs

“Hey – look at all these cheerleaders!” Tristan-Andy exclaimed as the quartet approached a mysterious figure in a chair, surrounded by females in differing cheerleading outfits “This guy must be really popular”

“Ah, new challengers?” the figure asked, a sound system playing dance music by his feet

“You there – what is your purpose for your random duelling?” Vger exclaimed

“My purpose?” the figure said jovially “Girls, explain.” At those words, the cheerleaders stood in a row, each one brandishing pompoms. As Vger looked on, he noticed small differences in them – one wore an entirely white ensemble, another had vivid pink hair, a third wore what looked like a scientist’s lab coat and, he could swear, a purple dragon with a large book under her talons.

“Duke, Duke, He’s our guy! He wins duels and he’s real fly!” the girls chanted “He’s brought SexyBack to your dull lives! Fear his dice or end like flies! Gooooooo DUKE!” With those last words, fireworks behind the man’s chair were set off as he stood up to fully reveal his face. Scruffy black hair hung over a green visor on his head and dice-shaped ear-rings. A long black leather jacket was worn over a fashionable duellist waistcoat and trousers, and finally a small pearl medallion hung around his neck

“Bloody hell…” Vger cursed “T.A’s Duke Devlin? HIM?!”

“Well…You gotta admit there are some bugs in your system…” Urtheart replied “And I think this is one of them”

“No – really?!” Vger exclaimed as Duke-T.A approached the group

“So, what brings you over here?” the duellist asked, moving a die through his fingers elegantly

“We’re here to challenge you and take your items that you stole from people!” Tristan-Andy exclaimed

“Stole?” Duke-T.A laughed “I didn’t steal anything, expert perhaps hearts” As if by command, the cheerleaders sighed in unison

“Pass me a sick bucket” the orange-furred fox muttered

“But we hard that you duel people for items” Joey-Spin asked

“Oh, I do – I offer a challenge. If they win, they win my prized items. If they lose…Well, you’ll find out”

“Is that what happened with Bakura?”

“Whiny British kid? White hair? Looks like a girl with that hair band?”

“It’s a bandana!” a voice yelled out seemingly out of nowhere

“What the hell was that?” Vger exclaimed

“Don’t look at me” Duke-T.A replied “It’s not part of my set-up…”

“Anyway, this is getting nowhere” Joey-Spin yelled “We challenge you to your duel challenge. And by we, I mean Yugi”

“Oh boy…I can hardly contain my excitement…” Vger sighed “Anyone knows where there’s a cliff to jump off from?”

Have you read the greatest story ever told? No? Well your in luck because today Emerald Coast has found it, and guess what, it has Sonic in it! As if any of you lot didn’t believe that already.

Hit the link here to read. Be warned though NSFW.

There was an announcement that I spotted a while back for the Project 20 music album, created and produced by the folks over at Sonic Paradox. Now while I was interested, I kind of forgot this was happening until AAUK of Sonic Wrecks mentioned on his Radio Redux show about the album.

To which I was reminded of it, and promptly went to download it from their site, and have been listening to the tracks for the last few days to get a good feel of it.

There is a lot of nostalgia value in the 28 odd tracks available, there are certain tracks you can expect to be about, and a few of which you don’t. An example of which, is currently my favourite on the setlist, goes by the name of “The Burning Wing”, which is a remix of a track from Sonic the Fighters.

Don’t get me wrong of course, there is a lot of good tracks for perusal there. Most of which use different melodic tones and styles. A name that jumped straight of the composer list was Blake Robinson, as I remember certain Sonic related sites linking his orchestral medley of a smittering of tracks from Sonic’s 1,2 and 3. His outing on Project 20, certainly doesn’t disapoint either. Going by the name of “Flight of the Robotnik”, which is a combination of boss themes from Sonic’s 1,2,3 and Knuckles. The first time I had actually heard this song though, admittedly, was via Mike Pollock‘s Facebook feed, I enjoyed it then, and I enjoy it even more so that I can listen to it at my leisure.

My only complaint, overall, with the album, is that there is a few tracks done by one composer, instead of one track per composer. Probably due to time restraints on both composers and a set time limit to get the album out to general populace.

By checking the Sonic Paradox forums, you can see that there was an original load more songs ot be there, which would of made the album really big. As such, it’s a shame that all are not available, as it would of most likely added a lot more depth and variety with a more varied composer list.

The music album is available via direct download and torrent from the Sonic Paradox Project 20 site.

Feel free to mention in the comments below what your favourite track from the album is!