History Webvideo / SonicDissected

The series was launched in 2012, created and hosted by Roger Weide (of Sonic in Minutes, WebAnimation/KingdumbHearts and I.M.P fame) and co-hosted by Luke the Fox (real name Luke Wholey), A British Sonic fancharacter who also voices in some of Roger’s animations. They also have a third guy, Captain Theory (voiced by SalaComMander) who would sometimes pop in and explain a hypothesis on why certain things in Sonic work that way or why Sega/Sonic Team have done it.

The series was launched in 2012, created and hosted by Roger Weide (of Sonic in Minutes, WebAnimation/KingdumbHearts and I.M.P fame) and co-hosted by Luke the Fox (real name Luke Wholey), A British Sonic fancharacter who also voices in some of Roger’s animations. They also have a third guy, Captain Theory (voiced by Salacommander) who would sometimes pop in and explain a hypothesis on why certain things in Sonic work that way or why Sega/Sonic Team have done it.

* LighterAndSofter: Discussed. Roger nicknamed the era starting from Videogame/SonicUnleashed to SonicGenerations as “Adventures of Sonic the talking squirrel”, saying that while the gameplay is fine, they recall the plot as “Dumb Cartoon stories”

* Chapter 4: Why SonicAdventure2 is AMAZING: they give an analysis on the game's structure, narrative, and how it made it one of Sonic best stories. Also, gushing.

* Chapter 8: Counter Adventure 2: They talk about SonicAdventure2's flaws, after so much gushing. This is Frobman's first appearance in the series.

* ActionFilmQuietDramaScene: Why Luke enjoys SonicAdventure2's story.
-->''' Luke''': There is momentum.It's going up and down, up and down, like a roller coaster. Many Sonic games have this thing going on where you beat a level, and you get a scene in a room explaining things, then a level, [[InfoDump more explaining]], [[RuleOfThree level]], [[AsYouKnow more explaining]], they`re always explaining things. In SonicAdventure2, things happen, there is a balance, between action and talking in a story.Even the talking is more balanced.They are not only explaining things, they are not only boasting on how awesome they are, [[TheyReallyDoLoveEachOther they have a little heart to heart moment]],Friendly banter, all sorts of conversations.
* ActionPrologue: Praised with SonicAdventure2, disliked it with SonicUnleashed.For the role reversal and mystery tone and how the plot carefully increases in the first, and how meaningless and without consequences is on the latter. While in the first game we have Sonic arrested, we later see him in jail, moon gets destroyed and people reacting and commenting about it. In unleashed, Eggman just jokes about Sonic turning into a werehog, and Sonic hardly reacts to the destruction of the planet. It doesn’t help that after all the drama, the next scene is Chip having an orgasm with the chocolate ice cream or laughing like idiots.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: InUniverse, At one point in SonicAdventure2, Amy is trying to take Knuckles out of the sewers [[AbortedArc only for that to go nowhere, and being forgotten]]. Roger has always been weirded out by this scene.

* CluelessAesop: Or more specifically, Clueless Theme. Roger doesn’t understand what SonicUnleashed is trying to say, compared with SonicAdventure2 who went for the forgiveness route.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Discussed, and parodied in episode 2 with the reasons for why SonicAdventure2 was good.

** Luke notes that while Amy being in love with Sonic was apparent in SonicCD, during SonicAdventure she doesn’t seem to be that romantically interested in Sonic, being a fangirl at best. The first time Amy and Sonic interact, it's Amy asking Sonic, a well known hero who is occupied with the Chaos plot, to take care of a little bird.

** Luke notes that SonicCd nonstanding, Amy was actually quite complex during the SonicAdventure games, with her focus on Sonic was not because she wanted to marry him but because she wanted to get out of her boring life, to do the right thing and she admired Sonic for being an ActionHero and wanted him to respect her. She even went against Sonic to protect her robot friend. Even during VideoGame/SonicShuffle which is [[CanonDiscontinuity not canon]] but was written before SonicAdventure2, Amy says “Forget about Sonic, look at my clothes!”,something that surprised Roger. During SonicAdventure2, which is the game that started the idea of her being in love with Sonic, Luke suggested that this is an act to make herself more comfortable around danger, and make Sonic believe she is not intimidated by the adventure.

* GenreShift: Discussed. Frobman, unlike Roger and Luke, doesn’t like SonicAdventure2 that much, and one of the reasons is how different it is compared with the first game.

* LimitedAnimation: Discussed. Roger mentions that, despite the very LimitedAnimation of SonicAdventure, [[TropesAreNotBad the game uses interesting environments and good use of the camera, and makes the story work, especially for its time.]]

-->'''Luke''': Let’s take a look at SonicAdventure2's story, and not the elements, the things that grab your attention. I mean the actual structure, the things you may have never noticed because you’re all too busy looking at Shadow's [[CarpetOfVirility manly chest!]]

* OriginalCharacter: Roger tried to retell the story of SonicAdventure2 with the characters knowing the twist before hand, and it ended with Shadow and Amy married with 5 kids, and Roger's original character Awesome the hedgehog being born. Luke luckily shuts him up and returns to the point being discussed.

* ShowDontTell: Luke complains about SonicUnleashed's overuse of explaining stuff, and comparing it to SonicAdventure's scenes with Chaos.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: The reason why Roger loves SonicAdventure2's opening scene is because they put the characters out of their element with the roles reversed.

** Roger hates it when someone says that all Sonic games after SonicAdventure2 were dark, trying to follow them since the only games that tried to be dark were ShadowThehedgehog and SonicTheHedgehog2006, only two games compared to the others released at the time.
--> '''Roger''': What the hell do you mean all Sonic games have dark storylines? Maybe SonicBattle, maybe SonicUnleashed. When talking about the Shadow game and 2006, I’m pretty sure those games [[PortingDisaster have bigger issues]] than just the dark story.

** Luke notes that SonicCd nonstanding, Amy was actually quite complex during the SonicAdventure games, with her focus on Sonic was not because she wanted to marry him but because she wanted to get out of her boring life, to do the right thing and she admired Sonic for being an ActionHero and wanted him to respect her. She even went against Sonic to protect her robot friend. Even during SonicShuffle which is [[CanonDiscontinuity not canon]] but was written before SonicAdventure2, Amy says “Forget about Sonic, look at my clothes!”,something that surprised Roger. During SonicAdventure2, which is the game that started the idea of her being in love with Sonic, Luke suggested that this is an act to make herself more comfortable around danger, and make Sonic believe she is not intimidated by the adventure.

Sonic Dissected is a web series that takes an analytic look at the Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog franchise, be it the games, animations or anything Sonic related that gets announced, (like {{Sonic Boom}}) and discusses them about its narrative, it’s flaws, its characters and gameplay and how we can improve them and see these games and characters from another point of view. The Sonic series can be quite controversial and are not there to just criticize the games or its audience. They just want to give you a better and deeper understanding of the games from a narrative perspective as well as to inform and educate you about them.

* FeelingTheirAge: In the ‘Sonic is dead’ video. Luke & Roger compare SonicBoom to the Old Age stage in life, where the characters just act like old people and would feel like Sonic & co are caring for old people in a home. This seems evident in the episode ‘Hedgehog Day’ where Eggman would experience the same day over and over and Knuckles experiencing back problems.

* GunsAndGunplayTropes: Discussed. Roger doesn’t seem to understand what’s the big deal with Sonic using a gun, since other Cartoon characters use weapons, like JazzJackrabbit, [[BuckyOHareAndTheToadWars Bucky O'Hare]], or BikerMiceFromMars.

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* FridgeLogic: InUniverse, but one thing that always bothered Luke about SonicAdventure2 is the “fake hedgehog” line. What so fake about Shadow? They also discuss what the hell does “Ultimate hedgehog” means, and how Amy fits in all of that.
** Luke also notices Mephiles calling Shadow “The UltimateLifeForm”, despite knowing him for only ten seconds.

* FunnyBackgroundMoment: During Frobman's first appearance, he decided to complain about Transformers. Roger ignores him and talks about other things, while Frobman is still complaining alone.

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Throughout the series, the Royal Institute suddenly burns down, gets run over by Tanks and then is rebuilt as Royal Institute 2.0, which neither Roger or Luke notice about.

* FairForItsDay: Discussed. Frobman is not a big fan of the gameplay of SonicAdventure2, he feels it is glitchy and not that fun. Roger says that it was 2001. Many 3D games suck back then.
--> '''Frobman''': [[SarcasmMode True true]], except for you know, SuperMario64, CrashBandicoot, and BanjoKazooie”

** Roger and Luke only talked about story in the Sonic games at first. They now talk a bit about gameplay, mostly with a guest character.
** Luke notes that, while Amy being in love with Sonic was apparent in SonicCD, during SonicAdventure she doesn’t seem to be that romantically interested in Sonic, being a fangirl at best. The first time Amy and Sonic interact, it's Amy asking Sonic, a well known hero who is occupied with the Chaos plot, to take care of a little bird.
-->'''Luke''': She is a comic relief character, but her comedy doesn’t come from the fact she is an insane psychopath that wants to marry Sonic, the jokes come from [[WideEyedIdealist her childlike assumptions of the world at stage. ]] While Sonic is stopping monsters and robots, she is worried more about one little bird. This is funny, but also important.

* FridgeHorror: They noticed something about SonicCd's plot, and it's that either Amy followed Sonic like an idiot to Little Planet, or she is from there and at the end of the game, she is an orphan living on a mysterious planet.
--> '''Roger''': That’s dark!

* XmeetsY: Rogers describes Amy as the love child of MinnieMouse and [[{{Misery}} Annie Wilkes].]

* XmeetsY: Rogers describes Amy as the love child of MinnieMouse and [[{{Misery}} Annie Wilkes]]

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: During the Colorful Art Design episode, Roger discusses that making most of the cutscenes with just the characters talking, while not doing much with the environments, makes the thing boring to look and it could be used to add depth to the characters, like Sonic playing around with the go-karts while ignoring Tails as an example.
** In the same episode, he notices how the writers were trying to add depth to the characters but [[ShowDontTell he was disappointed that we couldn’t see that in action]], like Tails not liking sushi.

* LighterAndSofter: Discussed. Roger nicknamed the era starting from Videogame/SonicUnleashed to SonicGenerations as “Adventures of Sonic the talking squirrel”, saying that while the gameplay is fine, they recall the plot as “Dumb Cartoon stories”

* LazyArtist: Discussed. Roger, as the “Bad Animator” he is, notices when an good animator is bored out of his mind, and knows that the most boring scenes to animate are talking scenes, when nothing is happening. This is the reason why he tends to put characters interacting with the background on his personal animations. Since SonicColors cutscenes are mostly talking, he feels the animators are not having the opportunity to have fun.

* GunsAndGunplayTropes: Discussed. Roger doesn’t seem to understand what’s the big deal with Sonic using a gun, since other Cartoon characters use weapons, like JazzJackrabbit, [[BuckyOHareAndTheToadWars BuckyOHare]], or BikerMiceFromMars.