what effect do you think p06 will have on the overall legacy of 06, if any?
Part of me wonders if it will. I would definitely much rather play Project 06 than ever willingly boot up vanilla OG Sonic 06. And even though I know there are mods like Legacy of Solaris, to me that feels like doing things the hard way compared to just playing Project 06.
Because I think Sonic 06 is so broken, so unfinished, that it is absolutely faster, easier, and better to just straight up remake the entire game from scratch. It feels like so much effort to hack the Xbox version to become playable. Learning its file formats, learning how data is structured and how to decompile/insert new code...
It's like, getting a boat, learning how to disassemble the boat, fixing what's wrong with it using era-accurate materials, and then learning how to reassemble the boat... versus just building a new boat from better materials. You know?
Some people do that, of course. There's a whole industry of people who restore cars, and computers, and all kinds of stuff. But I dunno. If I am personally looking for a game I can play and enjoy, I'd rather pick P06.
And yet we still got the Sonic 06 recomp project (Marathon). The diehards would rather have the original game. People who care about Sonic 06 will probably treat P06 as something else entirely and still stay focused on the original game.
Feels like a waste of work, but if people have an itch they need to scratch, I'm not going to tell them to stop.