When you're still a child >Shadow is EMO wtf lol >Sonig is cool >wow im super sonic!
When you're an adult >realize that this game was about Gerald's own creation stopping him >realize that shadow's story was actually about casting aside the very essence of your being and "throwing it all away" for a greater good >Shadow actually had a mature, adult-oriented character arc
It's weird. This is LITERALLY the only bossfight in the entire game that has aged well. It plays like a Platinum Games bossfight before platinum games even existed.
This is another evidence of my point:
When we were kids, this was the most annoying anf frustrating bossfight in the game
When we are adults, this is the only fun bossfight in the game
Coincidence?
Ryan Lewis
Shadow's a pretty deep character desu
Too bad Sonic Team threw it all away in Shadow the Hedgehog
Hunter Evans
He was based on Perfect Chaos, except he wasn't a being of the master emerald, so he couldn't be calmed by the positive energy of the chaos emeralds.
Isaac Jenkins
FOLLOW ME
Jaxon Gray
shadow the hedgehog was opposite sonic 06
fun for kids, absolute garbage for adults.
i'm on the shadow the hedgehog defense force. it was a pretty fun game at the time with interesting mechanics but had absolutely zero meaningful narrative.
what shadow the hedgehog DID do was introduce kids to the japanese-style "choose your own ending" style gameplay evident in a lot of japanese games, but it recieved almost no praise for it.
Ryder Bennett
The gameplay was the 2nd best that the series has ever had though. And the amount of time you could sink in to it was off the charts. Did you even unlock Green Hill Zone?
Logan Richardson
>Am I talking to a sonic passion poster?
Not him but that takes me back. Those were some mentally disturbed individuals. I think the Amy guy actually molested children.
Leo Cruz
Sonic games that are better than SA2 Sonic the Hedgehog Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Sonic CD Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles Sonic & Knuckles Sonic Colors Sonic Generations
Jace Ward
So did the Biolizard have the Black Arms DNA implanted in it as well? It's pretty clear that Shadow gets his power to use Chaos Control from Black Doom, and it would make sense that the Biolizard obtained the ability in a similar fashion.
This also begs the question of where Sonic and Silver get the ability though.
Brandon Sanchez
>All that 2D shit >Boost shit Oh, you're one of those contrarian shitposters, huh? Opinion discarded.
Ryan Sanders
Well he said he met his wife through sonic adventure 2, and sonic passion was indeed culturally relevant on the internet during the days of sonic adventure 2.
musta found a chick there that he became friends with and eventually married.
those kinds of passion websites are actually a useful way to find a wife.
Benjamin Wright
2D sonic being superior to 3D sonic is the opposite of contrarian you fuck. And everyone liked generations and colors
Nolan Baker
Shadow was never edgy. Its internet hiveminds and memes that make him so.
Samuel Sanders
Haven't replayed it in a while but I remember it getting easier the more you knew the paths.
i think that's the problem a lot of sonic games need to fix. improve their sign posting or somehow teach the player whats going to happen in the level.
Cameron Taylor
It's such a shame that Shadow gets dumped on so often, because he's probably my favorite video game character. He's not the deepest by any margin, but his character in Adventure 2 and 06 was great, IMO, and I wish he showed up more often these days, though not with his current voice actor.
Gavin Moore
Are you a fucking idiot?
Chaos Control isn't the name of some magical power. It's in the fucking name
Chaos >>>Control
Nicholas Rodriguez
>generations and colors The only thing Colors had going for it was great music, but that's the standard in Sonic games so it's not much of a talking point. Generations didn't even have that. There were about 5 or 6 good remixes in the entire game, and the rest of it was Sonic Team showing the fans that they're incapable of recreating beloved levels in a way that keeps the magic of the originals.
Caleb Diaz
>it's the skill to manipulate chaos energy And where does that skill come from, fagioli? Why is it that Hedgehogs have some natural affinity for chaos energy? Why can't Eggman make a machine to use chaos control? Why can Shadow use Chaos Control to a certain extent when he doesn't have an emerald?
Thomas Clark
I'm 25 and its the only bossfight I fucking refuse to touch again. Speak for yourself.
Liam Nguyen
The game controls like shit.
Daniel Robinson
The only place in the game where it controls like shit is Mad Space. Everywhere else has the best control in the series.
Liam Long
>2017 >still dying to biolizard
bet you played dmc3 on very easy mode
Cooper Sanders
The biggest problem is that they destroyed most of his characterization after he died by caving into fan demand and bringing him back. In Heroes he was literally generic JRPG protagonist #65535, and in Shadow, I don't even know. I mean, I played it, but I have no idea what they were thinking.
He still had that "Ow the Edge" voice and look in SA2, but at least he was a sympathetic character.
Cooper Gomez
it's easy to explain
they changed writers remember most of the writes behind the adventure team left after sa2
Adrian King
>sonic 06 >fun for adults >fun for anybody
>Why can Shadow use Chaos Control to a certain extent when he doesn't have an emerald? Does that ever happen in an in-story context? All the times I remember it happening were one of those things that's just there for the sake of gameplay (like how in Sonic Battle he gives Emerl his Chaos Emerald, but still fights the exact same way in the final story rematches or how in Sonic Heroes his team can use Team Blast without ever beating any of the Special Stages).
Jose Brooks
That actually makes a ton of sense, given that they swapped out most of the voice acting as well in favor of 4Kids shit for a while. Only good thing we got out of that is Mike Pollock.
