Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24165717-20141120174501/@comment-24658561-20150222180640

In the newer games, Knuckles is often misused, I agree with that. (Like in Lost World, he does nothing more than being just "there". Dude, isn't there some Master Emerald you have to protect from "evil deterioration"?)

But portraying him as an idiot and totally ruining his character is just unfair. Remember, there was someone called a character designer who put work into creating this character and now, his work got just turned into shreds. I think, I would be pretty pissed off if I was a game designer who created a likeable character and someone from a different company was just like: "Nope, we need a stereotypical idiot for our dumb jokes to work, so screw your effort." That's just disrespectful. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against stupid-funny character if they have more of a personality than being a dumb dick and nothing else all the time and if they weren't much better chacracters before.

Sadly, some people still don't get that this isn't what Knuckles is supposed to be. It's been too long since Sonic Adventure. I guess most Sonic fans nowadays don't even know anymore that Knuckles can use Chaos Control. It's all about Sonic, Tails and Shadow now. Yeah, Shadow, the one who was supposed to die and stay dead but then was brought back because "the fans luved him so much". And now, SEGA has problems with making Knuckles and Shadow serveral characters because Shadow is so similar to Knuckles that they seemingly needed to change one of them. And they decided to change Knuckles because he's not as popular as Shadow is.

Yeah, I know, I sound whiny, but I have to ask you: What would the Star Wars fans say, if (not claiming they will) Disney totally screwed up, added songs everywhere, made Luke a hipster, Yoda an idiot and the Emperor a total joke in Star Wars 7? They wouldn't be very happy either. And that's pretty much Sonic Boom for me.

Isn't the point of having a game taking place in another dimension to make the characters encounter new situations they could never encounter in their original universe while still staying themselves? In Sonic Boom, they failed with that, they just slapped Sonic's name on the cover while still using their own stereotype-characters.

But maybe... That was the master plan all along. :O

BRB wanted SEGA to see how bad they screwed up the characters in the last games and showed them in an extreme way what would happen if they continue making bad jokes, throwing their best characters out the window and not caring for an original story at all. And they made the game suck on purpose so SEGA would see what's happening if the Sonic 06 disaster returned, just with worse characters! Illuminati confirmed!