Video Game / Soulless DX

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Soulless DX (also dubbed "Soulles DX" by the team) is an upcoming Friday Night Funkin' Game Mod directed by Gray. Initially starting as a one-song mod aimed to contain the finished version of “Soulless”, a song planned for the canceled Vs Sonic.exe staring the Tails Doll, it has expanded to also include refined versions of other songs from the unfinished build. Currently, there is a one-song demo of the mod, containing Sunky’s song, “Chocolate Milk”. There's also a folder containing all of the currently finished content for the mod that can be found on GitHub here.

The mod was briefly cancelled following an argument in the Discord server, but the very next day, the mod was brought back into production.

The mod itself will release alongside four DLC packages, two of which are complete public knowledge; the "Milk & Cereal" DLC, which focuses on the more Denser and Wackier side of the mod, with Sunky, Sanic and the like, and the "Goalpost" DLC, which is reared more towards the Darker and Edgier side of things, including various Sonic.EXE fanworks such as Requital and SL4SH.

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Song List:

Current Songs

Current Songs

Tails Doll Songs:

1. Soulless
2. Sunshine OG
3. Sunshine Encore

Returning Characters:

1. Chocolate Milk (Sunky)^note Planned to be a part of the Milk & Cereal DLC
2. Too Fest (Sanic)^note Planned to be a part of the Milk & Cereal DLC

Sillycore Remixes:

1. Too Silly (Too Slow Sillycore) (Joke Sonic.exe)^note Planned to be a part of the Milk & Cereal DLC

Miscellaneous:

1. Step (Boyfriend)
2. You Can't Run Encore (Sonic Boom Mix) (Sonic.exe)
3. Ice Cube (Ice Cube)^note Planned to be a part of the Milk & Cereal DLC
4. Bitchin' (Sonic.exe vs. Tails Doll)^note Planned to be a part of the Milk & Cereal DLC

Upcoming

Milk & Cereal DLC

1. Robbery (Rob In)
2. Shockwave (XS Sonic)
3. Azerty (Coldsteel)

Goalpost DLC

1. 2sday (Requital vs. Pico)
2. Cereal (Sunky)
3. Unnamed SL4SH song

Mini DLC

1. T-Money (Money Doll)

Scrapped/Removed:

1. Prey (Good Future) (Starved and Furnace vs. Sonic)^note Only appears in the second demo build
2. Gamebreaker (DX vs. Pico)

Soulless DX provides examples of:

• Adaptational Species Change: Like the Encore Mode of Vs Sonic.EXE before it, Boyfriend is seen in his blue rabbit appearance for all the songs (aside from "Chocolate Milk", "Sunshine OG" and "Step") that he shows up in. This also applies to Pico taking on an orange hedgehog appearance for "Gamebreaker".
• The Cameo: Sonic and Tails can be seen in the background of "Bitchin'", observing the rap battle between Sonic.exe and the Tails Doll.
• Combat Pragmatist: In “Soulless”, the Tails Doll will occasionally slash at Boyfriend, taking away a large chunk of health.
• Denser and Wackier: For what’s essentially a continuation of Vs Sonic.exe, this leans a lot more into the comical angle of the mod.
  • The demo, rather than featuring the infamous doll itself, focuses on Sunky.
  • Sanic and “Too Fest”’s Stylistic Suck factors have increased exponentially, with both him and Boyfriend being drawn much more poorly than before and being stuck in the late 2000s version of YouTube.
  • “Sillycore” remixes of Vs Sonic.Exe songs have been created for “Too Slow Encore” and “Malediction”, which replace the vocals with silly, as the name implies, cartoon sound effects.
  • The "Milk & Cereal" DLC planned for the mod will have this trope in full effect, in contrast to its more Darker and Edgier counterpart.
• Depending on the Artist: Tails Doll has 3 different appearances, one for each of it's songs. In "Soulless", it's appearance is based off of it's cameo in Sonic Shorts Volume 2. In "Sunshine OG", it's rendered in 3D polygonal graphics, as a nod to its debut game Sonic R, and in "Sunshine Encore" it takes on an unshaded 2D version of its appearance in "Sunshine OG".
• Foregone Victory: Seems to be the case for "Too Slow Sillycore", as if the player misses enough times that their health drops to the lowest point, instead of Boyfriend getting blue-balled, the health bar just resets, meaning that they can't actually lose the song.
• Interface Screw:
  • When the Tails Doll slashes at Boyfriend, the screen flashes red and gets covered in blood in a circular pattern, making it more difficult to see the left and right notes.
  • Sillycore “Too Slow Encore” and “Too Fest” have green screen effects occasionally pop up, greatly increasing the difficulty of the songs due to the vastly decreased visibility.
• Original Generation: DX is not amongst any of the cast from Vs Sonic.EXE, but rather an original character made by Saster, who's also composed the character's song for the mod. This is to be moved to another mod in the future, but is still highlighted in Friday Night Funkin': Breaker Bundle.
• Promoted to Playable:
  • The Tails Doll is the player character for "Bitchin'".
  • Before it was pulled from the mod, "Gamebreaker" would've had Pico taking on DX alone in comparison to his planned supporting role in the original mod. This will remain for wherever the song ends up in the future. He is set to face off against Requital like he was intended to back in Vs Sonic.exe, though.
• Retraux:
  • "Sunshine" uses a VHS filter to replicate the original style for TV back in 1995.
  • "Prey Good Future" uses Genesis-accurate effects to bring the revamped song to life, such as fading, the title card and in/out movement for sprites, and even pausing the game replicates the classic limits.
• Take That!: The alternate mix of the "Chocolate Milk" Game Over theme, while being a loving tribute to Mega Man, was made as a potshot at the less-than-well-received content introduced in Capcom's 2023 presentation, which included an offline counterpart of Mega Man X DiVE.
• What If?: "Prey (Good Future)" was to include this premise; what if Sonic survived against Starved and Furnace and escaped?