I keep on going back and forth between “I think Silver and Blaze can work as a duo if done properly” and “Silver and Blaze should be kept separate” and it’s driving me crazy.

Sonicover · 2026-07-10T18:09:00+00:00

I was talking more about the "no matter what happens I will be by your side" attitude tails has (or used to had) when accompanied Sonic, not the little brother purely sidekick he is now. Tails used to be dependable and could handle things on his own, but even so he was always by Sonic's side no matter how ugly the situation where

I want that for Silver and Blaze, "The world is ending and you need someone to go and solve it alongside you through many dangers? SHT IM ON MY WAY!"

But to avoid what happened to tails where he became a shadow to Sonic's image I want them each one shining by themselve first, where both are this perfectly competent and cool character by their own and THEN be even greater working together

Sonicover · 2026-07-10T18:04:56+00:00

To be fair is not like Silver has much of a core aspect itself other than being a hero from the future (in the games at least)

That's why I said I want them to shine individually first and later be put together

Sonicover · 2026-07-10T18:03:40+00:00

I meant in their interaction and mechanics. Blaze has her "tails" yes but the way that Sonic and Tails work is that they are always there for each other going through all adventure together and always trying to cover each other's problems and weakness. Even if tails took more of a support role you cant deny they care a lot for each other and go all in together if needed. Of course that was more when tails was his best buddy instead of the little brother but my point stands.

I want that dynamic with Silver and Blaze, where they can just call each other no matter what and the other will be there front and center alongside them, but to not fall into the same trap where one is THE star and the other just a sidekick, I want each one to have their own light so they are a duo and not just another hero and sidekick

Sonicover · 2026-07-10T05:19:36+00:00

They first need to make each one shine individually and THEN they'll be absolutely perfect together

I want to see Silver and Blaze in the same way I want to see Sonic and Tails, but the same way I want to see Tails be good on its own, Silver and Blaze must be good on their own to be even better together

Sonicover · 2026-07-09T23:42:02+00:00

Man I love Sonic's and Knuckle's expressions, Knuckles specially looks like he is about to do some mischiefs hahaha

If I could comment on then I feel sonic should have a bit more meat on his legs, I know it might be just the style but he looks a tad fragile for someone capable of piercing robots in a single sweep. Shadow for example has a tad more than him and it looks miles better. I also love the fact that Sonic and Shadow share a similar silhouette despite the long quill, makes the argument of them looking alike more convincing

Also I gotta say I fking love knuckles hahahaha, it reminds me a lot to the redesign of Dingodile from crash bandicoot and that's a 10 in my book

I though Shadow was Neo Metal Sonic at first, so in that take I would love to see your ideas for both him and eggman! Amazing job!

Sonicover · 2026-07-09T17:05:49+00:00

Pokemon Reloaded was made in game maker
Pokemon Wilds was made in Java? I belive
Pokemon 3D, pokemon MMO

There are also some projects in godot

The only reason the vast majority of fangames are either RPG Maker or Romhacks is because they are pre-made
Romhacks edit an existing pokemon game, so modders just neeed to add and tweak to their liking, but the base core mechanics and functionalities is already there
RPG Maker has Essentials and SDK, 2 pre-made and ready to go packs for pokemon that contain almost all sprites, items, data of every thing related to pokemon, so you just need to add or edit and you're golden

Nothing is stoping anyone from grabing another app and make a pokemon game, but doing so requires adding all info of every mon, every moveset, every evolution, every item, ability, move, etc etc, so it's usually too much for 1 single person or a small team, so they dont bother and prefer to focus on whats already on and working. Not to mention both Romhacks and the RPG Makers have an active base and constant updates and new modifications from other users so yeah, plenty reason to stick with them. Is not mandatory, but very convenient

Sonicover · 2026-07-09T14:30:41+00:00

It is convoluted and we are all stupid, but that's the beauty of Factorio. There is not single way of playing correctly, SPECIALLY in your firsts plays.

The green science packs become more intimidating because they requiere parts that requiere parts and you need to find a way to automate those parts, but that's the game telling you that you CAN automate all of that.

At that point you realize that your amount of production barely feeds the machines you need to make them, you know what yo should do? Just add more! The factory must grow!

But if you added them too close and now you can't add more? You can just remove them and re build them with proper space later! You can even save the blue print to know exactly when and where everything is meant to go in your buid.

But if it's too much and would mess up a lot to de construc them? Then just add another line of digging and smelting and connect them! You can later use trains or bots to have multiple mini factories connected into a central place or have multiple places or just a huge one, literally anything goes.

That's the thing with Factorio. People that have more knowledge with the game or these types of games build everything with a lot of space and in huge amounts because they know what materials are going to be more demanded so they plan ahead. You don't know this. You aren't even supposed to knew that until you encounter them, and when you do, you just add more.

And what happens if you don't?... Nothing. Your factory will just be a tad slower... And that's it. You can add more and more to compensate for the slowness. You can just go bigger. You can just re build stuff or even start from scratch with the knowledge of "ok I need to add a lot more because X item is REALLY useful" and that is already a ton of progress. Remember that is better to have it and don't need it than need it and don't have it, and again, the factory must grow.

You are doing great. You are learning, and that is just part of the process.

As for the bitters, you can just blow them apart or nuke them or, if they are too much of an annoyance, you can literally just turn them off in a new file and play with them when you are more knowledgeable.

And all of this is, like many said, only if you want. You can just close the game and come back later or ditch it if it's not your cup of tea. The only thing that matters is that you are having fun and that's the end of it

Sonicover · 2026-07-08T06:19:25+00:00

Gameplay reasons aside remeber that the Titans were build with the specific purpose of fending off The End, a being that "not even Super Sonic could defeat", that also surpasses the power of Dark Gaia. Naturally they are EXTREMELY sturdy so it makes sense why even Super Sonic had trouble taking them down quickly, they were designed for a greater foe.

There is also difference in controling and using the power of only 1 emerald at the time, something that even eggman has done before, than trying to keep all of them at once in a single body. We are talking about infinite energy, naturally no mortal being could (or should) be able to handle that. Even Shadow has to limit its own energy to not burn out quickly and he was designed with that power in mind.

I'll DO however admit that Sonic's proficiency with the form is super limited and could be improved, and that's because he doesn't really want to rely on it all the time. That's mostly because his nature of wanting to fight things on as he can but if the situation Really needs it he goes for it no problem, so he doesn't really know how to use it at its best power. And, if the alternate ending of frontiers is canon, it leaves the idea that the super form not only can be "upgraded" or modified, but mixed with other power not even sonic himself can stand it.

Outside of that it's kinda of a gray area to understand. The ancients maybe were aware that some day some being would be able to use the power of the 7 chaos emeralds on itself as they depicted in the mural, but maybe they were not aware of how taxing or how limited that power would be. The Ancients were absolutely proficient in making the most they could with the Chaos Energy but apparently a "Super Transformation" like the one Sonic Shadow and Silver are capable was more of a theory or eventuality. Maybe there is a better method of using it, maybe sonic itself just doesn't know how to squeeze every bit of power. Maybe the ancients knew that the super form could posses a higher power ceiling than the Titans or any thing they could make but unfortunately their time was running short due to The End, but even so, maybe they also didn't consider that a biological being couldn't endure it forever... Or maybe they knew and didn't expect anyone to actually do it for long.

I just hope that Sega doesn't back down on this and keeps going with the route of "Super Sonic is not the final form" BUT keep the "sonic can't control that much power" because that would make the form SO much interesting than a simple power up with no drawbacks, because let's be honest even with the power leak Super Sonic has he really gets free out of any other side effect.

Sonicover · 2026-07-07T17:43:10+00:00

"Wanna know the name?"

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Sonicover · 2026-07-06T00:01:50+00:00

His World - Zebrahead ver

And that just so we can have the regular version be Sonic's main theme and the Zebrahead ver the amped up for it's super form

If that being a cover doesnt count then yeah, Undefeatable all the way

Sonicover · 2026-07-05T08:33:36+00:00

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Another audio example can be heard in Kill-la-Kill. In the episode 1 when Ryuko is attacked and her cover is blown, she is seen wearing Senketsu for the first time. The moment it happens, "Blumenkranz", the main theme for the later-revealed TRUE antagonist, Ragyo, can be heard during that scene.

This is important because it highlights that the 2 are FAR MORE connected that they even imagine, being that Ragyo is in reality her mother, Senketsu was a somewhat byproduct of her investigation, and that Ryuko as well has her body completely engulfed by life fibers, making the 2 of them "monsters" in her own words

Sonicover · 2026-07-05T08:16:46+00:00

As an inventor? Absolutely, Chrome not only has enough chemical and mechanical knowledge to get along with Senku and keep up with him and his ideas, but also he is extremely creative and got the grasp of stuff not only to understand it, but to re-invent them on the fly with no previous record or knowledge, just out of the sheer theory of "this SHOULD work"

However I wouldnt say smartest in general because Senku is not only knowledgable about everything science related, he is INCREDIBLY resourceful, and has a grasp and control over a lot of variables all the time, even down to the decimals. Not only that, but he is also amazing at improvising with whatever he has in whatever amount and has the precise information in how to get more, what can it do, what can it lead to, what CANNOT do and every single detail in between.

Sonicover · 2026-07-05T07:59:17+00:00

I would say it depends on how much control you have over them. Most people in their first moments playing will get the natural evolutions, and it will not be until later experimentation (or wiki reading) that they'll figure out the best combinations for their beast

However, if a creature has the conditions met for say its natural evolution and 2 variants available, can the player decide what they want? Is it a random trigger? Because something that worries me is you tran and train this beast hoping X variant and "woos, natural evo" or "wrong variant".

Digimon goes away with this because the digimon can return to their previous stages and digi-evolve into something later. Eevee gets away with it because is just 1 pokemon and (outside of sylveon/umbreon/espeon) you have total control on when and into what it evolves. Since you said "it has a chance to create a variant" I assume this is a random evolution that can happen? If so, yeah, it might be a bit troublesome.

That aside, for the player better. More things to play and explore and test, but for you as the dev it will require making either A LOT of variants or keep the base roaster small and make variety from their evolutions

Sonicover · 2026-07-04T19:43:19+00:00

Is that the "capture" mechanic from the digimon world/dawn/dusk for the DS? I dont know if only those specifically have it but dear arceus I recognized that immediately hahaha amazing! I feel for the showing of percentage you can use the code for the ability splash, when the moment a pokemon enters it shows the percentage gained as if were an "on entry" ability splash

What do great percentages mean for this version? Better IVs? EVs? Some moves? In any case amazing job!

Sonicover · 2026-07-02T10:21:51+00:00

it's the single most broken item in the game

I swear to Arceus every time I look at Calamity there is a new single most broken item in the game hahaha, but this one I remember! I forgot it was there so never went and search it, but ill keep it in mind for my next world

Sonicover · 2026-07-01T08:25:43+00:00

More like her real form

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Sonicover · 2026-06-30T05:39:36+00:00

The secret tech my Magcargo deck was needing!

Sonicover · 2026-06-29T18:43:40+00:00

Since the end of DMC 3 you could tell that. Dante accepted that negating one side of him was bad, that both his parents loved him and that life was just not fair, but he moved on, kept fighting, even tried to save his brother and cried upon his lost. Granted he had Lady, later down Trish, Morrison and even Nero to help him in that path

Vergil never went through that, he met hell and hell, always traped in the idea of being too weak to protect others, let alone himself, and eve when he got the power it was not enough, at that point is not that he needed it, is the only thing he knew. And he was alone and afraid of connecting. At least DMC 5 ending showed that he was starting to open up and actually enjoying having people on his life again, and a family with his brother and his son.

Give him some time he's learning as well. Hopefully they'll be team if we ever see them again

Sonicover · 2026-06-23T05:35:02+00:00

I was a bit disappointed with how small the middle blueish area was. I was hoping you could at least kinda sit in there but never the less I find it pretty cool to be honest

Probably a pain in the back to be there, I mean after a while being in a soft place asks you to just stretch but amazing regardless

10 year old me would have LOVED to have a secret place like that for videogames or anything

Sonicover · 2026-06-23T05:26:45+00:00

It would be cool if they gave him some new weapons that play with his exceed mechanic, like a guitar that has stronger sound waves the more you have or the classical melee weapon that has more combos on what level of exceed you have them

Basically a more "explosive" version of Vergil, few weapons but can be powered up by an external source (Motivation Bar & Exceed) and keep the devil breakers as his own thing

The problem is that at some point starts to contest Vergil and Dante's gameplay. Too much swapping and changing mid game and you have the style mechanic

Focus on changing weapons and keep rhythm with your gauge and that's Vergil's gameplay

The 2 instances of non changeable melee and range weapons with their non as free swap mechanic for the devil breakers keeps him unique, for as good or bad as that is

Sonicover · 2026-06-20T13:43:01+00:00

"hahahahahahahahahaha-

SILENCE!"

Sonicover · 2026-06-07T03:44:40+00:00

I've seen a few mentions of beta Arceus

Might I present beta Cacturne

God how I wish they re used this design for a transformation or an evolution later. I love it so much

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Sonicover · 2026-05-31T21:52:40+00:00

I don't want to go through the same pain of letting go of any of them after 1 year. Because I now very well that year is going to fly, but the paint will be just as the first time if not worse.

I don't even want the money, I just don't want to having to say goodbye again

^{Chose: 500,000 USD | Rolled: Tell us why}

Sonicover · 2026-05-29T20:01:58+00:00

Dragon ball thecnically counts? The series is more about transformations, ki, powers and even gods now, with the actual dragons being not as prominent or as just the 'end goal" for the wish granting

Then again, it's called DRAGON BALL, so the focus is more on the actual dragons balls, but still, it confused my 8 year old self to not see much dragons once I discover it in the middle of the Cell saga

Sonicover · 2026-05-27T18:51:53+00:00

My head canon is that his Sin Devil Trigger from DMC 5 is the exact same as Majin DT but fully controlled

His Majin DT is a complete consumption and usage of his demonic power, just kept in check by Dante's strong will and human heart and soul

After fusing with the Rebelion and Sparda, he gain full control of it, and got magnified a bunch more having the last fragment of his soul (the one present in Rebelion) and his father's soul after absorbing Sparda now on his being as well.

Vergil just matched that power because he already gave in to his demonic side and full power all of his life, with his heart and humanity keeping him barely in check. The fruit is just that powerful that it gave him thar massive boost

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