Things

2011. For as much as I find the game empty in retrospect, it still was a major celebration of multiple eras. The music library is stacked, and the concerts surrounding it was amazing. Also, recording fans saying happy birthday months earlier and using it in game was sweet

2001. Sonic was no longer gonna be first party, but I feel SA2 and the 10th birthday merch was a nice send off for Sega. And a new beginning starting with Advance

2026. For as merch shilled as it is currently, the crossover collabs really scream the 90s for just doing everything. Sonic is financially getting his groove on again. I do understand concerns of "Fortniting" though, and the Sonic pixel creator is lame. But even more concerts, merch, and whatnot

2006 crashed for 06, but Sonic was buffered with the relevant 5th gen and handheld series. It's a shame the big 06 was rushed, I feel it linearizing multiple characters was a good gameplay idea, and Blur's CG was beautiful. Also Riders 1 is cracked

2016 I do not care for Mania. I find the mystique of "fans working for Sega" extremely dumb. It isn't even truly an anniversary title (2017), and further exacerbated the issue of relegating Classic as a separate char/brand. Outside that...Olympics and Boom Fire Ice...decent, but empty

2021. Not really much besides Colors Ult flopping. I do not care for the movies

1996. Ye this is the worst one. Sega infighting aggressively, and X-treme deadass is probably the most "potential man" Sonic game scrapped honestly that would've killed him if released. It was a time of very bad uncertainty for the franchise even worse than 2021, shame it's rosetinted

>He fucking isn't for the comic itself

Can't even blame it on Flynn, Iasmin pulled a laaaaaaame

C'mon guys, Knux can relax and have fun. And this ignores the game having him and Big playable regardless

Honestly what happened, they did a neat annual for Knux of him internally thanking Sonic for showing him the world, but we get this being basically what Flynn does in near hermiting him

I also don't like the implication that Dodonpa didn't make his own warp rings in the beginning, but whatever. Same for how Storm is characterized

It's a noncanon racer comic for a game that also has no canon story anyway, so

That said...man

She gets the missile for Eggman later for the race, but it really is distressing she genuinely is wasted potential for the entirety of IDW. She was built as a Forces based OC, and effectively dies as such for relevancy after Mimic died. She's basically been an angst punching bag for most of IDW

Wait shit, she hasn't been in IDW mainline since July last year, damn. They really ignored that Eggman's her real beef for killing her old squad. Tis the issue of Restoration dying I guess

Angy reply

The error btw

And part 1 of that questionaire

Cue the fans

Honestly though what gets me, people have been begging for them to be in a sports/racing game cuz of the Riders arc mainly. Even though...if people actually read the comic, they barely did shit there

Seriously, this is the most they do

Which was caused by Lanolin, lmao

Then later after finding out Sonic is the Phantom Rider, they scuffle with Surge and Lanolin

The majority of the arc is largely Sonic, then Amy/Tails/Belle. The les duo barely did anything. Even for saving others from the sinking airship, lmao

Even sadder, the Free Update is just the reg outfit, not the sport one. I shouldn't be petty, but man

I disagree for biggest, but

It'd be hard to say. I feel a movie (actual movie not the fucking stitched TV special) where it starts with showing his origin of villainry, to then flashing to modern day of grumbling failure would work. Then he gets the idea to invade the real world, as his abstract techy body would take advantage of not being bound by reality, bar energy*. He'd be able to transmit across tech/electronics

The kids meanwhile would come to terms of this, no longer relying on Cyberspace based tech or allies/npcs. Motherboard wouldn't be able to be referred to given prior tech hopping Hacker does. The most help they get is Digit materializing, done out of trying to go to Hacker to stop him

Not really sure how to frame it, but the biggest issue is tying this to math!

See, my hater ass knows that the End is supposed to represent ones fear depending on who perceives it

Meaning, instead of the moon to le epic gamer, it's supposed to be...

However when the network test came no one recorded footage of it. Flynnisms are still around other chars (rip Vector), but this IDW ref seems missing

Now that the final PC version is out...

This vid notes filename as well

There's no IDW CleanSweeps ref in final. So either

-That crap screenshot is a hoax

-Someone in dev nipped it in the bud before demos/release

If the latter, well...

Kudos

Yet unlike TSR, Frontiers, and Dream Team, no Japan localization credits. It seems they were the original

Sega America credits note localization producers...but not addressed in a localization banner like Sega Eu stuff

What's also interesting is "STORY"....even though this game has none

I theorize also that this was meant to release 2021 for the anniversary as the end credits feel like a series homage, but Frontiers dev halted it until it was reused later. Aaron LaPlante is randomly Omega again despite Roger voicing him in Shadow x Gens + Tailstube lately, which is odd

Side note: Orbot and Cubot seem like they were meant to be in game race commentators, but scrapped. They spam voice lines in credits

Also what would it look like connected with the Egg-wyvern ?

Oh is it? I remember seeing it years ago, my memory's fuzzy

Oh no wait, it was a twitter post. It notes the back as well. I think you're thinking of the Blur Studio dev, who posted their wip on a blog before the game released

The twitter post that notes it;

Little confused for your second question cuz Wyvern just connects to the Eggmobile anyway. It's treated as the lower jaw

4 here (they're notably twist locking couplets...)

4 holes potentially for tubes inset in the seat

The tubes might've been explicitly for when the Eggmobile connects to Wyvern, as it'd need the stability

It barely looks better than what Sonic 4 Ep 1 attempted for prerendered BG/Tiles, only now super blue shifted. Sonic and enemies are equally as metallic as 4 Ep 1 too

Similarly, presenting a desert stage when...Mania literally debuted that in its initial pitch proto as well seems incredibly uncreative

It's largely cuz pacing

Early S1 generally is sluggish (bar the reanimated/dub pilot used for ep7), though outside of Clock Like an Egyptian (fucking 3 min of doing nothing...) still enjoyably campy. The first ep went through various script edits that lasted till late 2001, so while it was one of the first eps that started under Nelvana, it weirdly was one of the last finished. So cuz of that, some scenes are a bit sudden before things settle, feeling rushed compared to the rest of S1

I'm also not a fan of Buzz bluntly exposition dumping Hacker's motivation here. Felt weirdly modern cartoon-ish in how artificial it is

Similarly, other than MotherBoard having her firewall temporarily lowered, I'm not quite sure how Hacker infected her with the outside world. He typically has his methods pretty explicit and immediately understandable

The rest of the ep has them go on the map finding thing to find Marbles, and there it feels kind of padded, though admittedly the education topics need to be in a way. Hacker similarly doesn't really do much the ep, other than Pink fog

Marbles also awkwardly leaves after barely meeting the kids, which starts the trend of him getting chased by Hacker across the season. Though admitredly him not doing much is an issue in general across the entire series :V

And then after the kids go to the emergency hole we have Hacker awkwardly still stick around on the island despite knowing that it inverts itself after sunset. The chase already felt too short, so

I dunno it overall felt like it was missing something. It's a rushed vibe unique to that ep that season for me. At least it isn't maddening or straight up lazy like post S5 stuff can get, but it's lower end for me

>taps this sign

For instance, the soyjack meme blames Flynn for killing off Blaze's enemies when lol, Rush Adventure does that already, with Sonic Channel further confirming it

Similarly the point of Tangle is poorly explained. And lack of analyzing Flynn's prior writing flaws pre IDW

-Archie is incredibly writer dependent. Ian's Sonic is NEVER like that, instead being literally the same as IDW. In that example it's fucking Yardley who wrote it. And not even to actual main villains, it was to the Babylon Rogues!

Ian's Sonic when Eggman goes insane: Monkey Khan please, we can't get rid of him. Even if he tormented this planet since I was a child, and we're celebrating like jackasses despite his remaining armies still out there. Also letting him be alone with Snively after he snapped evwn though we should've apprehended him in the first place given >other armies. I feel bad for him :<

Ian's Sonic when Eggman threatens to rewrite reality: Mad for 2 seconds as he should, but then awkwardly transitions to loosing steam to basic status quo self congratulating

Even then "showing mercy" only happened cuz you were a dumbass

Ian's Sonic to Eggman when Sally was robotocized: Oh no Sal...Anyway status quo despite my earlier threat

(Proceeds to want to merc Silver for even implying Antoine/Bunnie betrayed the FF, anger that while appropiate specifically in context, is weirdly absent to Eggman)

Meanwhile, Amy and Tails are angry at Eggman across the battles unlike Sonic)

"Archie" fans are fake as fuck. Sonic post 160 is a smarmy idiot 90% of the time if they actually read and comprehended it, a horny one before with the romantic bullshit

For the other issue with that meme image, Modern Sonic is not "oh hey, see you next game" to enemies. Literally only to Shadow in x Gens, and he knows he isn't evil

Meanwhile

-Lost World he bluntly sabotages Eggman's jetpack in the end. It's pretty overtly malicious to Eggman

-Forces he not so bluntly tells Infinite to piss off, and is perfectly fine with beating him down along with Rookie till he's corrupted

-Forces again, he beats the shit out of the illusion Zavok

-Frontiers there's no real opportunity for mercy. Sage he "let's go" entirely cuz she warned him that venturing into the island was dangerous, despite employing mechs against him. It's hostile, but not for evil reasons

Hell Sage dies pre update in sacrifice, no one really expected her to comeback then

It's really more like "Modern is Classic", but this requires honest analysis, not "muh meta era". Sonic "being an ass" in LW was literally hated at the time when it came out