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It always pissed me off that Shadow joined G.U.N.
It's actually one of the many reasons I don't like Shadow the Hedgehog (the 2005 game, not the character, Shadow is cool)
That game makes attacking G.U.N. the bad guy route and Sonic is all like "Hey they're on our side!"
Like ffs Sonic what happened to you, you hated cops in SA2. G.U.N. Tried to arrest you and run you over with a truck. Hell, they DID arrest you and then Amy had to break you out of Prison. Man SA2 was weird.
And yeah, for Shadow, they killed Maria and kept him in a pod for 50 years. And then they tried to kill him after he escaped, and then had to Shadow give his life and die to clean up their mess (yes I consider Gerald's revenge to be G.U.N.s mess) so like... sorry but I don't think forgiving them is heroic. They're clearly an evil organisation.
It really feels like Sonic Team realised how anti-govenrment and anti-police SA2 was and went "Oh shit we better backpedal on that or we'll get in trouble."
Why am I over-analysing the stupid glitchy go fast kids rodent mascot game?
I mean an alien invasion was happening tbf
Yeah, but that felt more like course correction. Having an explicitly evil inhuman enemy really simplified the morality themes in Sonic Adventure 2.