Despite how much hate Shadow the Hedgehog (the hit 2005 video game) gets, I do genuinely think it's a good game. Yeah the gameplay gets tedious and repetitive, but I still had fun with it and the OST is, as expected, a banger.
- The cutscene where the Chaotix are trying to hack a computer and Shadow just does it by karate chopping the keyboard
- Tails deciding to steal 400 rings from Eggman's casino in the middle of an alien apocalypse, cuz the rings Eggman stole are clearly more important right now
- "You're going straight to hell." - Shadow the Hedgehog, 2005
- The comical amount of squash and stretch they use in this game. Seriously, this is the edgiest Sonic game and I'm pretty sure it uses the most squash and stretch.
- The story path where Shadow's only goal in this amnesia induced fever dream is to beat the shit out of Sonic to prove he's superior.
- The cutscene where a GUN soldier, upon seeing a lab grown mutant hedgehog running away with a small girl, without hesitation pulled out his pistol and clocked the girl straight in the head.
- "Find the computer room!" - Vector, 2005
- That one ending where Shadow straight up fucking kills Eggman
- That story path where Shadow starts off as a bad evil bad boy but realizes there's still hope for this world when meeting Amy, after which he hard steers towards being a good boy
- "Damn. Not here." Where Shadow? Where did you want to fall to your death?
- The cutscene where Shadow uses the Eclipse Cannon to Independence Day the White House. Multiple things with this: The White House is in the center of the US in this universe, the shockwave should've wiped like half of the country off the map, the president survived this somehow
- Why did they send Charmy the Bee alone into the radioactive looking sewers of the long destroyed Alcatraz island?
- Eggman's giant slot machine robot
- Whenever Omega appears he's just there, they didn't know what to do with him
- "You know what they say! The more, the merrie- You know what they say! The more, the merrie- You know what they say! The more, the merrier!" - Eggman, 2005
- The incredibly needlessly edgy addition of the gunshot menu sound effects
- The intro where Shadow Akira slides a motorcycle into some aliens that explodes for some reason, beats Sonic unconscious (implied), and cocks a machine gun like if it was a shotgun
- The picture of Sonic and Shadow that the president has on his desk. When was that taken? How did Shadow agree to it? Why is the president so obsessed with them? (Can't blame him for that last one though)
- The ending where Shadow becomes depressed and thinks he never should've been born, to which Vector replies with "Don't go there.... yet." The fuck do you mean "yet"?
- GUN apparently having a machine that can turn physical objects into digital data, which they only used on a singular emerald, and Rouge, to retrieve the emerald. Why did they need to send Rouge in? Couldn't they just reverse the digitalization? And said computer was not very secure, as Shadow also made it in, and the place was infested with alie- ohhhh, that's why they sent Rouge.
- "Disgusting black creatures. Get out of my sight." - Shadow the Hedgehog, 2005
- The animations and character models being so damn janky and bad /affectionate
- The song with the lyrics "Heaven can't save us, hell is a joke"
- Apparently the voice actors also recorded a bunch of lines with actual swearing. I really hope those still exist somewhere out there.
- The ending where almost the entire Sonic casts starts getting eaten alive while they're injected with paralyzing venom
- Super Shadow shooting energy pellets with finger guns.
- Needing to wait for 8 fucking minutes during the final boss for Eggman to tell you how Shadow survived the ending of Sonic Adventure 2
- Everyone forgiving Gerald's war crimes of almost killing everyone on Earth out of rage because he was totally going to use Shadow and the Eclipse Cannon to get rid of the Black Arms, trust.
And to close off this incredibly long-ass post:
- "Where's that DAMN fourth Chaos Emerald?" - Shadow the Hedgehog, 2005