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#73276: Apr 24th 2023 at 1:34:37 PM

[up][up]It's not just the CAC aspect, it's the whole story, vibe, style, etc. And Forces isn't the only game that followed Xenoverse's lead.

Edited by PushoverMediaCritic on Apr 24th 2023 at 1:35:58 AM

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#73277: Apr 24th 2023 at 1:44:05 PM

By the way, you beauties. I found a lead, a guess to a certain pink mouse in the Sonic movies.

    Look 

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/image0_59.jpg

It appears her hammer belongs to one of the bounty hunters that were with Knuckles. It's she a bounty hunter too in the movie verse?

We shall see.

Nobody mentioned it, how odd.

Edited by Tomodachi on Apr 24th 2023 at 1:47:07 AM

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#73278: Apr 24th 2023 at 2:20:00 PM

"Sonic The Comic Reviews" thought that Sonic Forces is based on Sonic The Comic.

Sonic is sent away for six months in Forces and Sonic the Comic, while Robotnik conquers the world. Robotnik decides to build another Death Egg. They show Sonic and his friends as well as the people of Mobius fighting with Robotnik's army. They have to deal with an artificial sun, one by created by Infinite, the other being The Black Asteroid charged up by Super Sonic turning it into a sun. The Freedom Fighters have to fight multiple Metal Sonics/Metallixes. One of Robotnik top soldiers is a Mobian improved by Robotnik's tech, the artificial Phantom Ruby for Infinite, the Cybernik Badnik armour for Vermin.

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#73279: Apr 24th 2023 at 2:21:05 PM

Zavok was the villain in the previous game isn't a thing I think needs much explanation...

And he could grow to gigantic size, but he doesn't do that in Forces.

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#73280: Apr 24th 2023 at 8:19:18 PM

Hey Kuro. I'm curious. I've been rereading the IDW cómics since there was a blackout, and I notice the character if Mimic has some similarities with Infinite.

This made me wonder if the Japanese fandom has any opinión on the IDW originals. I don't expect something huge, a sad reality is that cómics arent as seen as something with voice acting. The Japanese fandom ignores the Dragón Ball Super manga evil grin

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#73281: Apr 24th 2023 at 9:15:32 PM

The American Sonic comics are really obscure in Japan. Although the IDW comics are getting official Japanese translation releases, not that many people are reading them. I think the most I've seen from Japanese fans about characters from it (that isn't just explanations that they exist or asking who Tangle is because she's mentioned in Frontier) are a few scattered comments about the female characters being cute.

Numbuh1234 Since: Apr, 2014
#73282: Apr 24th 2023 at 11:00:05 PM

Wasn't the Avatar one of the most positively received parts of Forces (overall)?

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#73283: Apr 24th 2023 at 11:07:21 PM

Weird, I heard the IDW comics sold decently well in Japan.

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#73284: Apr 24th 2023 at 11:25:32 PM

It's possible it sold decent numbers for an American comic book in Japan, but those are low standards.

Some quick googling in both English and Japanese gets me no info on how much the IDW comics may have sold in Japan. The closest is a tweet saying that the first print of issue #1 sold out, but that's not very hard information because it just means sales exceeded expectations, but that may not mean much if expectations (and therefore print numbers) were low in the first place.

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#73285: Apr 25th 2023 at 4:19:18 AM

Mighty just got new art. If anyone noticed.

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#73286: Apr 25th 2023 at 7:19:44 AM

That's some Mighty fine acknowledgement art.

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#73287: Apr 26th 2023 at 8:58:34 AM

What is the first game to acknowledge "Eggman's robots" as "badniks"? I mean, in-game, not some manual thing.

Lost World?

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#73288: Apr 26th 2023 at 9:47:54 AM

They didn't have a name, so yes...Lost World is the only game to do that.

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#73289: Apr 26th 2023 at 10:10:01 AM

Doesn't Frontiers calls them "badniks" too?

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#73290: Apr 26th 2023 at 10:21:19 AM

...probably.

It would have to be in the Eggman cutscenes/memos and I don't really remember those.

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#73291: Apr 26th 2023 at 5:48:16 PM

I've always wondered if Japan uses that term at all, given it stems from the Robotnick name, which only comes up in Adventure 2.

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#73292: Apr 26th 2023 at 5:58:31 PM

Chronicles had "Swatbots", which is the closest thing sharing the same lexicon as "Badniks".

Speaking of badniks, I just learned my coworker has a ten year old son who's an avid Sonic fan. I'm debating if I should put them on to Roku Live TV app since it has a dedicated cartoon channel for Sonic reruns featuring Adventures, Sat AM and Underground.

I'd rather he get a positive impression just experiencing the toons instead of being spoonfed or bullied by gatekeeping fans.

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#73293: Apr 26th 2023 at 11:34:07 PM

The Japanese Sonic games have never used the term Badnik at all. They did use the name Swatbot in the Japanese version of Sonic Chronicles though.

Eriorguez Since: Jun, 2009
#73294: Apr 27th 2023 at 5:50:39 AM

[up][up] Why are you trying to push your childhood experiences onto a young kid? Sonic Prime is aimed for young kids, far more accessible, and isn't dependant on the childhood memories of 30 year old people. (Or, at least, it reads that way in the utterly defensive way you approach the issue)

I don't recall the name badnik from the European manual of Sonic 1, but, back then I could only read Spanish and so perhaps it was only in the English section. It was always "robots" for me.

Edited by Eriorguez on Apr 27th 2023 at 3:02:19 PM

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#73295: Apr 27th 2023 at 6:13:47 AM

...I didn't get that impression at all from what Tony said...

Edited by BlackYakuzu94 on Apr 27th 2023 at 9:13:56 AM

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#73296: Apr 27th 2023 at 6:27:47 AM

It was badniks in the Euro manual as well. Generally the English part of European Sonic game manuals back then used the same text as the US manuals. Sometimes. Because in our Sonic CD manual Amy was still Amy.

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#73297: Apr 27th 2023 at 6:32:12 AM

Why are you trying to push your childhood experiences onto a young kid?
Why are you being so anal about someone letting a kid who likes Sonic watch Sonic cartoons?

Eriorguez Since: Jun, 2009
#73298: Apr 27th 2023 at 6:46:49 AM

It read that way to me, the way gatekeeping, spoonfeeding and the like were brought up. The question would have came across as more innocent if only the cartoons were mentioned, but, my bad, it is on me.

Edited by Eriorguez on Apr 27th 2023 at 3:48:42 PM

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#73299: Apr 27th 2023 at 6:53:51 AM

Dude, he's a ten year old. Ten year olds watch cartoons. It's entertainment just like video games, not a religion. Quit acting like I'm trying to indoctrinate the kid, I didn't know this channel existed until a month ago because nobody watches Roku Live TV.

Hell, I don't even like Underground. If I wanted to push him away from Underground I wouldn't even mention the Roku channel. Also, it's free on Roku and doesn't require a subscription like Netflix to view Sonic X or Prime.

So how's that for accessible?

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#73300: Apr 27th 2023 at 7:08:24 AM

Yeah, to my knowledge, "Badnik" is something the English localizations came up with, similar to "Ivo Robotnik". Japan eventually incorporated Robotnik's name into Sonic canon, but have never done the same with the word Badnik. They just call them "enemies" or "Eggman's Robots".

I think, prior to Frontiers, that the Rivals games were the only ones ever to say the word "Badnik" in-game. And those were never released in Japan at all.

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