a variation in the cosmos

Check out Rayman Freedom by Boost1996 on Roblox! It's been updated a few times since my last post back in January. It's an awesome Rayman fangame where you get to explore, platform, fight enemies, and collect items while clashing against Rayman's latest foe: Techno Dark. As of making this post, the game's officially in its Alpha 2 release! Alpha 2.5 is being worked on at the moment~

It currently has one HUGE world you can explore and find hidden secrets in, but as the game goes further into development, levels will be slowly added in, as well as other worlds. Time trials and combat modes are also being looked into as upcoming features. No worries--the game is in constant development and won't be left behind any time! Here's just a few of the things you can do...

Play as Rayman 2 or Rayman 3, or even the CLASSIC Rayman from the first game! You can even play as Globox and much more.

Destroy cages to save the Electoons while fighting enemies and collecting jewels to increase your score!

Explore the terrain and make use of the game's movement tech with sprinting and dodge-rolling to traverse trickier platforms!

Find secret areas and hidden easter eggs!

And, here's a few screenshots as well~

But yeah! As the game's still in development, if you'd like to provide any sort of feedback or suggestions, join the official Rayman Freedom Discord server here, too!

sonic doesn't have rose tinted lens where red flags are regular flags to him: he sees metal sonic with multiple red flags and a big glowing neon sign directly pointed at him with words that say "HE CANNOT BE FIXED" which sonic's all "i want him and can fix him!" at metal sonic

i think the whole "sonic sees good in metal sonic" plot point came from idw, not from the games, but i could be wrong. i don't really read or interact with idw that much save for a few arcs here and there since i don't really... like the characterization or writing of amy, sonic, and metal sonic altogether, but i won't really shit on anyone who does love idw!! it's just not my cup of tea.

i do agree that sonic doesn't have rose tinted glasses LOL. sonic knows full well what he's going into, he understands that metal sonic is incredibly dangerous and has hurt people before and may continue to hurt others, but that's the fun part—err not the hurting others part but the fact that sonic can just go on adventures, find this guy terrorizing people, and end up going on a journey to stop him. in a way, it's fun being able to go against metal sonic himself, and if he's able to save people along the way, that's a cool bonus to it!

i don't think he'd want to fix metal sonic in the "i know you're good" kind of way; i think he'd want to fix metal sonic in the "you also deserve freedom way because i know you're capable of it; i've literally seen it before" way. he understand that this guy runs on pure anger and hate towards him, and he's willing to take that in stride. what he wants for metal sonic is for him to have the option to do things for himself instead of just being eggman's pet especially since he's known to be rebellious but constantly gets lobotomized in canon just to keep him at bay.

tl;dr: sonic would see the bad in metal sonic and think, "that guy is unfixable, but i think a little dose of being able to choose for himself is gonna do him wonders."

like metal sonic's love confession to the one that has given so much love and care to him: "I cannot quantified of my entire being over how much i love you... so I've decided to show you as thanks for your own love to me... from now on, I'll destroy this world and everyone then remake into perfect world just for you and me"

doubly so metal causes the one that loves him to get worse and choose to follow him as he gets worse with like: "if it comes down to it... I would choose the real sonic"

this is genuinely amazing. i wholeheartedly agree mostly because love and hate are two sides of the same coin; how would metal come out to be if his motivation shifts from hate to something just as intense as love?

his hatred for sonic fueling him to get better each time, to be even stronger, a more perfect being than sonic ever was and ever will be... that same amount of passion shifting into love fueling him to choose sonic every single time not because he wants to destroy him but because he starts believing his purpose lies in understanding him and taking care of him