Discussion Main / IdleAnimation

moving these examples from Guilt-Based Gaming, since they don't involve any actual guilting of the player, but they look to be already covered here:

• In Sonic the Hedgehog 2, after going through the toe-tapping animation four times, Sonic would eventually lie down, looking at the player with a very bored expression. In Sonic 2 and Sonic 3, Tails yawns, and in Sonic 3 & Knuckles, Knuckles does some shadow-boxing.
• In most of the 3D Sonic games, idling for a long period of time will result in the characters talking to themselves or, in the case of Sonic Heroes and Shadow the Hedgehog, each other. This is normally more of an Easter Egg than anything, but in Shadow, a few of the things they say when you do this are heartbreaking. Especially painful is Charmy Bee's comment about wanting to go home and watch cartoons in Shadow's Prison Island... an innocuous line, until you consider that the planet is being invaded by aliens, who are shooting at 6-year-old Charmy as he looks for disks on an abandoned military base alone on the orders of the closest thing to parents he has, and the only one protecting Charmy is Anti-Hero Shadow.
• In Sonic's appearance in LEGO Dimensions, after tapping his foot for a few moments, Sonic will recline on the ground a la Sonic 2. After a few moments more, he will fall asleep and dream of running.

Have we had any discussion regarding the Trope Maker and Trope Codifier? I remember Sonic's idle animations were kind of a big deal back in the Genesis days ("omg he's such a cool dude he gets bored with slow players!"), and I can't remember any game doing them before.

...Why is Drakengard listed as a simulation game?