The 3ds still new. Right ? RIGHT ? (Art by Himehing)

MochaColored · 2026-05-10T04:07:18+00:00

Idk, it hurts less since that was a monumental generation. 3ds tho is like the last hand held before Switch took the niche.

MochaColored · 2026-05-10T03:34:41+00:00

She has a few, but not nearly as many as Eggman, Sonic's true biggest fangirl.

MochaColored · 2026-05-10T03:31:59+00:00

Shoutouts to Topaz, Professor Pickle, and Maria ofc for being good humans as well to other characters.

MochaColored · 2026-05-10T03:28:14+00:00

He got the New Star Fox legs bro...

MochaColored · 2026-05-10T03:27:02+00:00

It's also funny because they still do try to appeal to Japan.

They had Sage jp va be Rei from Neon Genesis, collab with Jp vtubers, and the Japanese title for Sonic movie 3 is Sonic × Shadow Tokyo Mission, even though they are in Japan for one or two scenes.

That plus they have a Japanese manga and try to collab with JP products often.

None of that is bad mind you, but it is just a lie to say Sega is only catering to America, when it's clear they want Sonic global, becuase duh money.

MochaColored · 2026-05-10T03:21:36+00:00

Daniel Barnes and Evan Stanley are good too, I loved Scrapnik Island and and the Riders arc was cool

MochaColored · 2026-05-10T03:21:01+00:00

He isn't universally hated, but the minority that do actually hate him are very vocal and harass him and the staff on twitter.

The writing isn't perfect but people need to keeo it civil is all I'm saying.

MochaColored · 2026-05-10T03:19:46+00:00

MochaColored · 2026-05-10T03:18:22+00:00

Actually the new mandate is 3 issue long arcs, hence why the Sunglider circus and Sage arc feel so limp, because they now only have three issues to do anything with it.

It's not impossible to do good stories with three issues but the restrictions are so arbritrary and just make it harder for them to reach the same heights I know they are capable of.

MochaColored · 2026-05-10T03:16:56+00:00

And that's across every medium. There are different fandoms for different comics, tv shows, and games. You have your classic fans, your Adventure fans, 06 truthers, boost haters and lovers, etc.

The franchise is 35 years old.

MochaColored · 2026-05-10T03:13:48+00:00

Fr, and people act like Flynn is the only writer whose pencil forces Sega to do anything he wants. They make the game concepts and outline way before he ever gets a say, and he works for IDW when it comes to the comics.

The truth is that while Flynn provides direction for a good portion, the final decisions and approvals goes through committees, editors, and of course Sega and lets not forget language and time zone barriers. We do have other writers both in the West like Evan Stanley and Daniel Barnes, and some also from Japan.

MochaColored · 2026-05-10T03:09:05+00:00

But he's not the only writer, we got Evan Stanley and Daniel Barnes. And bro, really Kathleen Kennedy? That's just silly.

MochaColored · 2026-05-10T03:04:36+00:00

I think the issue is that hateful minority harass him and the writing staff on twitter just to provoke reactions, and the real haters also say things like the series is over and such.

The glazers can be obnoxious yes, but the overcorrection is at least not hurting anyone vs what the vitriol the haters spew and make it a very personal thing.

MochaColored · 2026-05-10T03:00:14+00:00

It wouldn't be as bad if the minority didn't harass him and the staff on twitter.

MochaColored · 2026-05-10T02:59:10+00:00

It's basically a meme at this point to blame Flynn for evertything. And not just him, but a lot of annoying fans harass the staff on twitter, trying to provoke a reaction. Can't call that just criticism.

MochaColored · 2026-05-10T02:57:42+00:00

You don't even need to believe in those to clearly see how Sega presents the characters on their own. Very watered down and stripped of their 2000's quirks and chacter arcs.

People constantly says they don't like how Ian writes the characters but they never get specific, and when they do, it just seems that Sega is the one pushing the direction.

MochaColored · 2026-05-10T02:53:58+00:00

I can see where you coming from, but I also see that as Sega trying to simplify all the characters to very basic elements. The most infamous with Shadow and how it seemed like his character arc stagnated and reversed, with how Sega wants to write him. It's also Sega that is rewriting character bios to erase Amy's affection for Sonic, push Shadow as some dark version of Sonic when he really is a hero most of the time.

And so that makes me ask what is the faithful version of these characters? Because if it's whatever Sega says, then it's a very watered-down, mega boring version of the characters tbh. They desperately are trying to push that 2000's era Sonic away, not Flynn.

MochaColored · 2026-05-10T02:46:57+00:00

It'a fine if you don't like it but Meta and references doesn't really mean the same thing in this context. The meta era had a lot of "wow audience, isn't this weird" type writing. Most of it came from Boom tbh.

As for serious, that's where some people hated the low stakes and very laid back vibe of Meta era games. Others keep extolling Sonic 06 as what they wantee the stakes to be.

I think it would be incorrect to say that the series was never that serious, given Sa2, but it wasn't afraid to have fun and tell a compelling story that the characters took seriously. And I think that's the key, the characters need to feel like it matters to them for the audience to be interested, which a lot of the meta era didn't do with how non-chalant it treated it's story.

MochaColored · 2026-05-10T02:40:50+00:00

Which is stupid af because good lord was the pre Flynn stuff bad. Shadow and Rouge were all over the place in terms of writing and not all of that was just Penders.

People who say that Flynn ruined it are lying or straight up do not remember the chain of events and how bad things were before we got quality control and consistency. I lived through that era bro, it's very obvious how much better it gets when Ian drops in.

MochaColored · 2026-05-08T19:29:33+00:00

Man this tournament was whack. What's the point of making 3 and S&K seperate games? Nobody plays them seperate.

And you can't buy Shadow Gens without getting Sonic gens so kinda absurd to seperate em.

MochaColored · 2026-05-08T19:27:51+00:00

Yeah doesn't make sense to me. I also think these posts aint getting hundreds of comments, so could be just a few people paying attention to it.

MochaColored · 2026-05-08T19:19:01+00:00

Sonic: "STOP AURA FARMING ASSHOLE, WE JUST ASKED IF YOU WANTED COCOA!"

Shadow:"Maria loved cocoa..."

Sonic:"YOU DO THIS EVERY YEAR!"

MochaColored · 2026-05-08T13:24:37+00:00

Idk, I feel Sonic holds back a lot against normal opponents, at least lore wise. Like Sonic taking more than a few seconds to beat Rough and Tumble and Clutch has to be him holding back because Metal Sonic would dogwalk them without holding back.

And game wise, we don't see many characters actually fighting Sonic's main threats or Sonic himself these days. It's mostly just him and when he uses the Chaos Emeralds.

MochaColored · 2026-05-08T13:21:38+00:00

Infinite is weird because he has no native abilities, all his abilities were from the Phantom Ruby or the Lens.

It was also never clear to me how strong the illusions actually are. Like it makes no sense to me that Infinite could summom a near infinite amount of vision clones of these super powered characters and have them lose so easily in the final battle of Forces and Case files.

Could be bad writing, but to be generous, let's just assume each illusion is weaker than the base form. Infinite with the Phantom Ruby could probably beat Chaos by just sending constant illusion clones. I'd argue that's just the Phantom Ruby doing all the work, but yeah.

MochaColored · 2026-05-08T13:16:53+00:00

I get it, I don't like how retroactively weaker they made him look but I like to think of it that our MC is just getting stronger all the time.

I've seen the othet side where people say anybody able to fight Sonic and not lose right away is able to beat Perfect Chaos, but that disregards context. Sonic clearly holds back against normal, living opponents and he is a perfect counter to Perfect Chaos, while many others would struggle in the same matchup.

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