{"id":2661,"date":"2017-10-17T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/10\/rental_avatar_feature_shown_off_in_new_sonic_forces_footage"},"modified":"2017-10-17T16:15:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T16:15:00","slug":"rental-avatar-feature-shown-off-in-new-sonic-forces-footage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2017\/10\/17\/rental-avatar-feature-shown-off-in-new-sonic-forces-footage\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Rental Avatar&#8221; Feature Shown Off in New Sonic Forces Footage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/sonic_forces\">Sonic Forces<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>is now just a few weeks away, and plenty of Blue Blur fans will be hoping it follows the lead of the retro-infused\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/sonic_mania\">Sonic Mania<\/a><\/strong> in bringing the IP back to the top of the game. Whether it&#8217;ll deliver that is up in the air so far, but there&#8217;s always hope.<\/p>\n<p>In recent weeks SEGA has been cranking up the hype machine for the release, and has now published two new videos. One highlights the &#8220;Rental Avatar&#8221; feature; this allows you to &#8216;borrow&#8217; avatar characters created by other players in order to utilise their\u00a0Wispon abilities. You can swap between your own avatar and the rented one in a stage, and this is shown off in the brief boss fight snippet below.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content] <\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>There&#8217;s also a longer video showcasing a chemical plant \/ space port stage; in this case the avatar has the Drill Wispon.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content] <\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Are you excited about this one and the potential to experiment with Avatars and Wispons? Well, there&#8217;s not long to wait now&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sonic Forces\u00a0is now just a few weeks away, and plenty of Blue Blur fans will be hoping it follows the lead of the retro-infused\u00a0Sonic Mania in bringing the IP back to the top of the game. Whether it&#8217;ll deliver that is up in the air so far, but there&#8217;s always hope. In recent weeks SEGA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}