I’ll do the levels I played in Shadow so far
Doom hijacking everything just to shove Radical Highway into it is fucking retarded, in my opinion. Would have been better if it included some random shit from Shadow the Hedgehog.
Agreed, at least put in shit from like Black Comet, Sky Troops or Digital Circuit.
I tend to lump both acts together, so I'd go:
For this thread, this will mainly impact
Lol now that trump is in office we could possibly see a defund the ackness of idw and ian fag & co lose their job the coming years.
Denying us of the bat booba lol and changing characterization (nobody can write Amy anymore it seems they don't know what to do with her). In my opinion Shadow Gens is ok but the censorship bothers me like most people since it seems Sega is falling into the same industry trap of a remaster needing to change something rather than making the same game with updated graphics and the ability to work on modern hardware. On top of that i feel like it's also a bit like jingle keys for fans as it's paying lip service and pretending like they are gonna give 2000s era fans something they want with these characters but ultimately it serves to just tell you about stuff that already happened with some rather neat interactions.
I think they've said all that can do with Shadow and Maria's relationship at this point, beyond maybe some references to her here or there. Shadow Generations tied it off nicely and now Shadow/Team Dark can move forward properly for once.
Hopefully they will clear the air of Team Dark being friends because fans know this but i don't get this idea of distancing these characters away from each other so much. Shadow genuinely cares about Rouge and Omega and has expressed this multiple times. With Amy and Sonic there is this weird way of writing that hopefully doesn't spill into other facets of the franchise where there is this need to "correct" the problems that come from the unfun people of the fandom.
I think this is it because most of the outspoken fans nowadays are the ones who see characters like Amy and Rouge as problematic not to mention you look at comic writers like Flynn and Evan who are known for trying to slide leftist ideals into their work. No doubt these ideologies lend to not liking Amy's "outdated" personality, Rouge's design, etc. For Rouge though it is funny since the comic draws her like she is supposed to but steadily in other Sonic media like Prime and now the games they have been censoring her.
As much as I don't want to blame it on modern writing trends, it might be another case of trying to be as inoffensive as possible. Or that they're trying avoid writing themselves into an legal corner like Bioware almost did
How long has this been going on, exactly?
You have to wonder if this all stems from some clumsy attempt to clarify Team Dark isn't a 'thing' in the same way Team Sonic or the Chaotix are, it's just a one-off association like Team Rose. That wouldn't necessarily preclude them from being friends, just that they aren't as closely working together like the main cast.
Yeah, but it's been proven that Sega has an spotty record for writing an long-form story without retconning something once every few years
