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BlackYakuzu94 CHADhan Player. from Easy Coast/NY Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
CHADhan Player.
#70876: Jan 24th 2023 at 6:18:52 AM

How many times have we seen that specific phrasing?

A lazy millennial who's good at what he does.
Tomodachi Now a lurker. See you at the forums. Since: Aug, 2012 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
Now a lurker. See you at the forums.
#70877: Jan 24th 2023 at 7:46:17 AM

I already wasted my poison on Frontiers. If they'll do anything, then good luck.

To win, you need to adapt, and to adapt, you need to be able to laugh away all the restraints. Everything holding you back.
slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
The Head of the Hydra
#70878: Jan 24th 2023 at 4:04:07 PM

Playing Frontiers for the first time, really enjoying it

The open world does work pretty well since you naturally want to move around unencumbered same as Sonic

Though the kick attack is pretty over-powered. I can cheese most enemies with it cause it doesn't have a timer

"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."
Irene (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Crazy Cat Lady
#70879: Jan 24th 2023 at 5:06:42 PM

This should be interesting. Boost was never my thing.

Shadow?
AceOfScarabs I am now a shiny stone~ from Singapore Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Drift compatible
I am now a shiny stone~
#70880: Jan 25th 2023 at 8:32:27 AM

I have this personal injoke about associating Eurobeat songs with Sonic characters, and Shadow gets mad at me because I associated him with all the Leslie Parrish songs - Save Me, Killing My Love, and Remember Me. [lol][lol][lol][lol]

Also I see Sonic has mastered using the "Sonic Wind" attack that he coined in Adventure 2 after copying Shadow's Chaos Spear and uses it as a ranged attack in Frontiers (and as the horizontal Air Trick in Advance 2).

Edited by AceOfScarabs on Jan 26th 2023 at 12:33:58 AM

The three finest things in life are to splat your enemies, drive them from their turf, and hear their lamentations as their rank falls!
Tomodachi Now a lurker. See you at the forums. Since: Aug, 2012 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
Now a lurker. See you at the forums.
#70881: Jan 25th 2023 at 9:13:24 AM

I was thinking of words Shiro Maekawa once said about him not liking the Sonic from the Genesis era. I don't know what he meant by it. Was it the style? the theme?

If it is the theme, maybe this is why the staff at Sega tried to avoid writing Doctor Eggman? At his core, Eggman is a Straw Character about environmentalism, a generic bad guy who does what he does because he just wants to hurt the environmentment. I mean, it is a perfectly fine reason, but if the bad guy is a bad guy, it doesn't really allow for other themes, which is maybe what Maekawa meant?

Anyway, here I'm thinking if Eggman most human traits in Adventure 2 and Frontiers is because the staff really doesn't want him to be a one note straw character. It's just a guess.

To win, you need to adapt, and to adapt, you need to be able to laugh away all the restraints. Everything holding you back.
KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#70882: Jan 25th 2023 at 9:45:36 AM

Speaking of badass Sonic remixes, I just recently ran into this fire mix of one of my favorite Sonic tunes.

The Past tracks in CD don’t get enough credit. They’re straight up the best tracks in both versions of the game.

Edited by KnownUnknown on Jan 25th 2023 at 9:53:57 AM

RJ-19-CLOVIS-93 from New Zealand (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#70883: Jan 25th 2023 at 5:48:52 PM

I don't get the impression that Eggman wants to cause environmental catastrophe, it's just he doesn't care. One of the thing Darker and Edgier takes like Sonic the Comic or SATAM do is make Eggman deliberately cruel and sadistic, and even loving pollution like a Captain Planet villain. Game Eggman however makes these urban hellscapes because he thinks they're stylish and he likes the aesthetic, and if the environment doesn't like it that's their problem. It's one of the few things about his villainy that even approaches subtle

Edited by RJ-19-CLOVIS-93 on Jan 26th 2023 at 12:49:53 AM

BlackYakuzu94 CHADhan Player. from Easy Coast/NY Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
CHADhan Player.
#70884: Jan 25th 2023 at 6:17:56 PM

That's honestly even worse tbh.

A lazy millennial who's good at what he does.
Tony-Sharx Megalodons are the best kind of furry. from ACME Nation Since: Mar, 2020
Megalodons are the best kind of furry.
#70885: Jan 25th 2023 at 6:57:15 PM

[up]The indifference or the deliberation? If I recall, Fleetway Butttnik at one point sought to destroy the entire planet once he realized he wasn't going to win over Sonic and his gang; essentially attempting suicide yet taking everything else along with him.

Certified, self-appointed Sonic Visionary
tclittle Professional Forum Ninja from Somewhere Down in Texas Since: Apr, 2010
Professional Forum Ninja
#70886: Jan 26th 2023 at 11:22:41 AM

(spoilers in link) Mike Pollock confirms the voice of the final boss of Frontiers is a combination of his and Cindy Robinson's voice.

Edited by tclittle on Jan 26th 2023 at 1:23:03 PM

"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."
Eriorguez Since: Jun, 2009
#70887: Jan 26th 2023 at 11:26:02 AM

Of course, that wicked nasty Eggman and Amy dual boss.

lalalei2001 Since: Oct, 2009
#70888: Jan 26th 2023 at 11:45:24 AM

"Kudos to Suzy Goldish for taking our unsynchronized lemons and making synchronized lemonade."

The Protomen enhanced my life.
windleopard from Nigeria Since: Nov, 2014 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
#70889: Jan 27th 2023 at 2:50:33 AM

Yeah, Eggman in the games doesn't hate nature, he's just apathetic to the damage his schemes and inventions cause it. The Sonic franchise's approach to environmentalism is actually rather mature for something that originated in the 90s. Sonic CD makes a point of how nature and technology can be together in harmony, and one of Sonic's most prominent allies is an inventor himself.

magnum12 Since: Aug, 2009
#70890: Jan 27th 2023 at 3:03:16 AM

When you think about it, Amy being an Action Girl didn’t pop out of nowhere.

Put the pieces together and we have a specific moment that acted as the trigger for her to step up and learn how to properly fight.

The scene where Sonic got jettisoned to space in SA 2. That moment from her perspective can be seen as her carelessness and comparative inability to fight nearly getting Sonic killed. In short she blames herself.

Heck, the Black Arms were foreshadowed as early as SA 2.

Go to scene when Eggman releases Shadow. There is some yellow text rotated 90 degrees. It says IIRC Black Monster and something about a comet.

Meaning Shadow The Hedgehog was the final act of a trilogy.

BlackYakuzu94 CHADhan Player. from Easy Coast/NY Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
CHADhan Player.
#70891: Jan 27th 2023 at 4:54:05 AM

You're bringing up a topic from over a week ago....

A lazy millennial who's good at what he does.
magnum12 Since: Aug, 2009
#70892: Jan 27th 2023 at 5:21:16 AM

"ASTRONOMERS ARE CONCLUDING THAT MONSTROUSBLACKS."

I found the message.

At the the very least some form of Black Arms prototype was foreshadowed.

slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
The Head of the Hydra
#70893: Jan 27th 2023 at 5:23:12 AM

Ya know I can respect that Eggman has a specific aesthetic of a kind for his mechanization of the world

Its not just spiteful destruction, but a specific vision he has for the world

He is true villain

Edited by slimcoder on Jan 27th 2023 at 5:23:25 AM

"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."
BlackYakuzu94 CHADhan Player. from Easy Coast/NY Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
CHADhan Player.
#70894: Jan 27th 2023 at 5:29:08 AM

I wish the series remembered that instead of trying to downplay that for uwu feelings.

A lazy millennial who's good at what he does.
TargetmasterJoe from Velocitron Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: I like big bots and I can not lie
#70895: Jan 27th 2023 at 5:46:35 AM

Earlier in the month, Sonic's Japanese Twitter ran a poll whether to have Amy paired up with Metal Sonic or Blaze for February's isekai romp. It was close, but the vote went to Blaze, and now we got the result of said poll:

Sonic Channel presents: February's isekai theme featuring Fortune Teller Amy and...MAGICAL GIRL BLAZE?!? surprised

(I got a feeling the fan artists are gonna have a field day with this one! wink)

Edited by TargetmasterJoe on Jan 27th 2023 at 8:48:35 AM

Tomodachi Now a lurker. See you at the forums. Since: Aug, 2012 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
Now a lurker. See you at the forums.
#70896: Jan 27th 2023 at 7:13:38 AM

The one with the Weakling was funnier, but at least this one is cute.

I really wanted Metal to win.

To win, you need to adapt, and to adapt, you need to be able to laugh away all the restraints. Everything holding you back.
HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#70897: Jan 27th 2023 at 7:16:30 AM

....

<Wonders how a big ass hammer helps with Fortune telling>

Amy....what are you doing to these people?

One Strip! One Strip!
TargetmasterJoe from Velocitron Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: I like big bots and I can not lie
KuroBaraHime ☆♥☆ Since: Jan, 2011
☆♥☆
#70899: Jan 27th 2023 at 12:28:53 PM

[up][up]Well according to the text, she puts an egg on the counter and hits it with her hammer, then tells your fortune based on how and where the eggshell pieces went flying.

PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out.
#70900: Jan 27th 2023 at 2:06:38 PM

Ah, the Gallagher technique.


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