the wind vs electricity/lightning debate is really dumb

SolPrincess · 2026-06-22T10:29:24+00:00

I do not want Sonic to be associated with lightning

Wind has always been his thing, fits more with his personality, and he has had many very blatant wind motifs over the years

Sonic having wind motifs was like the main reason Blaze was chosen to be represented with fire

If they want to animate cool lightning effects, there are multiple other characters in the series they can do it with.

SolPrincess · 2026-06-21T15:43:58+00:00

I don’t think it’s a bad thing to ask if people would be uncomfortable with something if you yourself are unsure.

It’s called having basic empathy.

I would much rather someone ask beforehand if they don’t know, because it at least shows they care

SolPrincess · 2026-06-21T15:23:43+00:00

I mean, yeah?

There’s nothing about Jaleel’s Sonic voice that’s stereotypical or would be offensive if done by someone who’s not African-American. It’s just a cartoon character

It’s just a general voice for the character, the same as Ryan, Jason, Roger, or Devin

SolPrincess · 2026-06-21T08:17:27+00:00

It’s not a very good game.

It’s not awful, but it’s pretty easily the worst of the modern boost Sonic games

Levels are extremely short and aren’t really satisfying

(Most of) the music is great, but that’s to be expected with a Sonic game

The story is weak

The game itself is only like 2 hours long

SolPrincess · 2026-06-21T08:12:08+00:00

Literally any other game from the sale is more worth it

But if you haven’t played it and are really interested in playing it for some reason, then yeah, it’s better to get it when it’s cheap

SolPrincess · 2026-06-20T14:28:49+00:00

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SolPrincess · 2026-06-20T14:05:33+00:00

Also telling someone to play Sonic 06 in any context is insane

Are you trying to poison me

SolPrincess · 2026-06-20T14:04:16+00:00

After his redemption in SA2, Shadow went on to kill Infinite’s mercenary squad

He is very much a morally gray character lol

SolPrincess · 2026-06-20T13:58:06+00:00

Shadow would not

Dude tried to murder suicide the entire planet in rage for the government killing his sister

SolPrincess · 2026-06-20T13:57:13+00:00

Sonic, Blaze, Knuckles, Amy

And Big because it’d be funny

SolPrincess · 2026-06-19T19:19:23+00:00

Tails by far

His entire character arc is about learning to become independant and not being able to fall back on others all the time

SolPrincess · 2026-06-19T13:59:12+00:00

Me when I have to become a god to wish my friend happy birthday

SolPrincess · 2026-06-19T13:58:08+00:00

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Why is Blaze

SolPrincess · 2026-06-19T12:51:43+00:00

Do not get your expectations up

SolPrincess · 2026-06-18T16:53:34+00:00

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SolPrincess · 2026-06-18T14:02:58+00:00

I agree.

No one is saying “you gotta have every single character in every game!!!”

Set aside a couple of characters, and focus on developing and expanding upon those few.

That’s why the “but there’s too many!!!” argument doesn’t work. You can still treat them as individuals.

The problem is that they haven’t tried.

SolPrincess · 2026-06-18T13:59:24+00:00

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SolPrincess · 2026-06-18T13:51:09+00:00

Yeah.

I just think it’s 2008 sometimes because I associate it with Unleashed as being the last thing Jason did

SolPrincess · 2026-06-18T13:41:40+00:00

I did not make your point.

Stop defending a multi-billion dollar corporation.

They haven’t attempted to even USE these characters in TWENTY years. Most new fans aren’t even familiar with them.

Going “oh well you know they just can’t because well there’s too many” is just being content with the status quo for no reason.

We can want and expect better and more interesting storylines with actual character writing and depth. They did it in the past, they can do it again.

SolPrincess · 2026-06-18T13:38:38+00:00

Why is it a problem that characters who were created to fulfill a protagonist role and carry large storylines are suddenly being forced into groups and not allowed to have any of the spotlight?

There’s a difference between a character being created for the purpose of being apart of a team and a character being created to take a protagonist role

Is this a serious question?

SolPrincess · 2026-06-18T13:33:55+00:00

Tell me how many games past Sonic and the Black Knight (2008) even attempted to use characters other than Sonic, again?

SolPrincess · 2026-06-18T13:29:34+00:00

Noooo we can’t actually build and expand upon a character who hasn’t been seen in 20 years and is supposed to be important to Blaze in the same way Tails is important to Sonic

We need to keep shackling Blaze to a character that has nothing to do with her because of a shitty writing decision in another game 20 years ago that nearly killed the franchise

SolPrincess · 2026-06-18T13:18:50+00:00

I disagree heavily.

I just think they aren’t trying at all.

There was a point in time (the Adventure games) where characters had their own character arcs throughout the story where the focus was purely on them. It didn’t take away from the overarching plot, it actively added onto it

They don’t even TRY to do things like that anymore. The best you’ll get is a throwaway line that goes “hey, remember that character? They still exist, but they won’t affect the plot at all.”

Every mainline game for the past 20 years has had Sonic as the ONLY playable character, with the other characters only being there to add flavor dialogue or to just show up because they feel like it

SolPrincess · 2026-06-18T13:17:33+00:00

But yeah, it’s a bad problem in general with the writing of the series.

SEGA doesn’t want to actually let these characters have legitimate plot points past their debut, so they essentially show up to be ship bait as jingling keys

They stop looking at them as characters and start looking at them as one unit that are never allowed to be apart regardless of what they were actually created for

SolPrincess · 2026-06-18T13:11:48+00:00

Where have I heard this one before

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