All posts by D. Schrute
Sonic 3 was a lot better than the last two in that regard, but I really wish the attention to music gets better as the franchise goes on.
^Sonic X was set in the US. Just because characters have an anime aesthetic, doesn't mean they're Japanese. You understand my point perfectly, though.
@DaveMan1000 She was a complete racial stereotype that emphasized bossiness. The basic concept of the only Black/Latine character being a housemaid for the protagonist's white family is offensive enough. It shows how they see us.
@Flowerpuns 👀...
Beg Tails for forgiveness. I'm sure he'd give in; he's got a good heart.
You'd have to be pretty oblivious to not pick up on how terribly Ella was portrayed...
Sonic X. Despite the racism and generally unlikeable deuteragonist, it was the most loyal adaptation of Sonic. Anything before it wasn't quite accurate to the games, and anything after was generally quite uninspired.
@KillRoy231 Some people say it's simpler, but it's not like the main canon is any less confusing.
Fair point. Ngl this is just me stanning the Adventure era.
By Adventure 3, I meant a hypothetical, ideally good game. I think that's how we all imagine it.
Unleashed did better, but Sonic was never the same after that. Ergo, the 2010s.
If they made Sonic Adventure 3 instead, I believe we would never have gotten disasters like Forces or Boom, or the weird storybook games (well, I know some people liked those). Shadow the Hedgehog would be the worst Sonic game.
Actually, the mid-2000s is probably still the most controversial.
The reason people hate the last decade of Sonic is because Sonic is pretty much peak right now. It's only with our 20/20 hindsight that we realize, SEGA was essentially waterboarding us for 10 years, giving us a breath of fresh air every so often with Mania and Generations, before shoving our heads back in the water. Now we can actually breathe.
They followed the pattern of failure that the mid 2000s set, and it became Sonic's identity. Boost gameplay was only good once, and Lost World was essentially Mario but lamer. Sonic 4, don't care what anyone says, that was an atrocity. Forces deserves its reputation. And the writing was pretty detestable; our favorite characters took a huge dive in that era.
^^Yeah, please keep in perspective that these are video games. If you have fun, you have fun, that stuff isn't worth a debate
^As a dedicated Tails fanboy I can't argue with this.
If he can fly, he can hit the swollen red spots. It didn't REALLY need Super Sonic and Super Shadow, they were just in a rush because the ARK was about to hit Earth.
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...Yeah, maybe I voted Penders simply because I was reluctant to call 2010s Sonic "better" in any way. The reality is, I've tried reading his stuff, and he is the reason I have no interest in the pre-Genesis Wave Archie comics. I changed my mind; Ken Penders is the worse writer, but I still detest Pontac and Graff's work
Fox, I think you're kind of strawmanning what I'm saying. I'm not defending his work and what DKC describes is irrelevant to my point -- which is that even if a writer is a total detestable jerk, you can't honestly say that a worse writer is better at their job than he is.
@FoxWithIrisesofBlue Yes you can? That's a complete fallacy; the point of separating artists and art is to disassociate one with the other. The evil of Ken Penders should have no bearing on how the comics make you feel, and vice versa. If the comics are bad (and they are) that doesn't change things.
Hehe, I feel no shame. Colors to Forces is not the Sonic I know and love, and a convoluted mess of echidnas and lawsuits will not change that. A horrible man can still make good art, or proportionately better art.