Board Thread:Speculation, Theories, and Rumors/@comment-27785317-20160719204338/@comment-24830601-20160721042810

Mystic Monkey wrote:

WhoamI132 wrote: It's not that bad. You just have to be careful not to lose yourself to the Dark. It's why best to bring a torch.

Groovykid2000 wrote: This is just one thing that I really don't like about the new Sonic comics. It's PAINFULLY obvious that this guy is Naugus. Heck, they didn't even try to hide it. Look at his name. Look at his clothing. Look at his cave layer. Smh, they're really trying to cater way too much to the younger audience, and it ended up looking like something off of Blues Clues. The Sonic Unleashed arc has barely progressed, either. They've just been making political decisions on what Sonic and friends should do next, and it just hurts that not enough progress or action is being shown.

One thing I did enjoy was the "Eggman's Dozen" arc in Sonic Universe. That was pretty great. It had action and everything. Tbh, Eggman's side of this whole saga is way better than the heroes' side, which is just based on holding conventions with different animals, similar to the U.S. elections right now. I believe there can be three primary reasons for why Post-SGW is currently toned down like this.
 * 1) After the universe was reset, almost the entire lore established from the past comics have been completely erased. The only facts that have been established is the Eggman Invasion and writers also said past games before Sonic Unleashed have been established. Thing is though, this is exactly how Issue #1 started out. The comics started out establishing it's own lore of past events (the coup) with Sonic 1 and Sonic 2 being events that had happened between the 'coup and #1 at the time. The first few dozen issues of the Sonic comics were also aimed at a young audience, with stories and humour more suitable for children and young teens. (Robotropolis at the time looked like a warehouse in a workers yard before adopting it's SatAM appearance. Robotnik fought Sonic with such robots as giant lizards, bronze King Kong and a small series of robots based after 90s celebraties and other comic heroes, with apperances based on puns on their names.) So the comics could simply be going back to it's roots before introducing more maturer stories for us. For example I'm interested in the Pronghorn Sisters and their history, I like them a lot.
 * 2) Sega wants Sonic to appeal more for a younger, more modern audience first than their older classic fans. As much as it'll annoy many Sonic fans, Sonic will never ammount to big league games like Call of Duty, Grand Theft Auto, God of War, Metal Gear or the popular games today that are usually have high budget graphics and a level of violence. You can argue most Nintendo games don't rely on these mature clichés but Nintendo have been successful for so long that their reputation assures success even if they do produce a bad game once in awhile, Mario critics are more easy to forgive for an occasional bad game than Sonic critics are. Because of this we now have games like Sonic Lost World and Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric which are pretty terrible.. I mean SLW was good but it wasn't great and both games have cheesy humour and stories more fit for kids to enjoy than older fans to appreciate these stories. Sonic Colours also had a rather cheesy story of Dr. Eggman stealing tiny planets for his satelite amusement park. I think it's games like Sonic Colours, Sonic Lost World and Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric why fans want "Sonic Adventure 3" more than ever given we would like to play a Sonic game with less ridiculous controls and more mature story to follow through with it.
 * 3) Since Ken Penders screwed the pooch with Archie and Sega, Sega has enforced some mandates on the comics in order to preserve Sonic's image. Since issue #1 they had mandates but over the years eased up, such as allowing sega caracters to date or have family. Now that a big video game corporation was easily sued by some fuzzball with an ego and the comics being forced a reset without full consent, well I can imagine Sega's executives being pretty p!$$€d off and embarrased about it, so of course they would reinforce mandates to make sure anyone of Archie's staff won't pull the same thing again.

So you see, the comics have always been catered for a young audience, but they're "re-maturing" after the cosmic reset. And also their is probably a Sega mandate that now states "No other OC echidnas are permitted. Knuckles is the last Echidna." so Sega would of probably loose their skitz at Archie if they have introduced a brand new echidna without their consent, so Archie perhaps had to make Nixus as obvious to Naugus as possible.

At least thats my guess.

Also, in Sonic Universe, Walter Naugus secret location is based on a prototype zone from Sonic 2. It fits with his theme of character of crystalmancy True, I agree. But SEGA knows what they're doing, they made the "Eggman's Dozen" arc pretty well. They even brought back some of the original characters from the Pre-Super Genesis Wave's Egg Army back to this one, and it was really nice to see the recruitment. I also like the new characters they are adding in, the designs are pretty unique. I'm sure their main complaint was stuff like "Sonic characters can't cry" or "Sonic characters can't get hurt", but they had neither in that Eggman arc, and it still worked out.