{"id":3409,"date":"2017-10-25T16:35:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T16:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/10\/theres_a_sonic_forces_demo_on_the_japanese_eshop_but_it_has_a_strange_limitation"},"modified":"2017-10-25T16:35:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T16:35:00","slug":"theres-a-sonic-forces-demo-on-the-japanese-eshop-but-it-has-a-strange-limitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2017\/10\/25\/theres-a-sonic-forces-demo-on-the-japanese-eshop-but-it-has-a-strange-limitation\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s a Sonic Forces Demo on the Japanese eShop, But It Has a Strange Limitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/sonic_forces\">Sonic Forces<\/a><\/strong> is out very soon and plenty are keen to see how it shapes up on the Switch. To that end SEGA has released a demo on the Japanese eShop, which is nice. You only get to try stages for one minute at a time, however, which is downright goofy.<\/p>\n<p>There are three stages available &#8211; one boss fight, one fast-paced Sonic level and one with a choice of three pre-designed avatars. Weirdly every time you kick off a stage the one minute countdown begins; when that hits zero you get this screen.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/10\/theres_a_sonic_forces_demo_on_the_japanese_eshop_but_it_has_a_strange_limitation\/attachment\/0\/original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/10\/theres_a_sonic_forces_demo_on_the_japanese_eshop_but_it_has_a_strange_limitation\/attachment\/0\/original.jpg\" alt=\"Sonic Forces Switch demo.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>You then get a cinematic (likely a good chunk of the download) and the chance to start again (from the beginning) on any of the stages. On the one hand it&#8217;s nice to play them as many times as you want, but that one minute countdown means you can&#8217;t get far.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a tad bizarre, but it&#8217;s easy to find if you want to play it. You&#8217;ll need a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/03\/guide_how_to_access_the_nintendo_switch_eshop_for_multiple_regions\">Japanese My Nintendo account to link into a user on your Switch<\/a> &#8211; hop into the Japanese eShop and scroll to the fourth category down. Select the Sonic Forces page and then tap the orange button on the right &#8211; that&#8217;s it!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a strange demo, and after a brief playthrough this scribe is a tad concerned at its performance on Switch &#8211; but it&#8217;s only a brief taste. Let us know if you&#8217;ve tried it out in the comments.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hat tip to\u00a0Tsurii for the heads up<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sonic Forces is out very soon and plenty are keen to see how it shapes up on the Switch. To that end SEGA has released a demo on the Japanese eShop, which is nice. You only get to try stages for one minute at a time, however, which is downright goofy. There are three stages [&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-3409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3409","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=3409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}