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What do you need therapy for? Just go visit that cave where you can look at ghosts.

Everything was designed to fit within Spira. Pyreflies made everything really pretty and because of them, there was some decent world building.

I had some complaints in another thread, but most of my complaints are just niche questions like about the food people ate and if there were animals besides fiends and monkeys.

Yeah, that's bad. Thanks for the info.

Wait who?

Thanks for checking it out. It's a rough dub and the story is somewhat nonlinear, but Sonic Adventure was rated E for Everyone and so having a story like that slip past my parents was really formative for my childhood.

And thanks! Cammy is always my pick when it's an option.

Yeah, but that felt more like course correction. Having an explicitly evil inhuman enemy really simplified the morality themes in Sonic Adventure 2.

But hey, at least the movie wasn't political!

Indeed. Here's the super dark backstory they refused to adapt. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtLsYuzCkZo

It just really hurts with an adaptation like this because it was an actually transgressive piece of media. It was deliberately about how things are more complicated than good people and bad people.

Not only did you play as antagonistic characters who helped saved the world, you got to see compassionate characters twisted into trying to destroy the world.

In the movie, they took agency and complexity away from Shadow, Gerald Robotnik, and Maria.

Maria's final act was to save Shadow from G.U.N. at the cost of her own life and Gerald sought to avenge her death when he was overcome with grief. After he tried to find a cure for her fatal illness. Shadow's whole arc was him realizing that Maria didn't want revenge on the earth, but for him to live happily on it.

In the movie, Maria dies in an accident because Gerald was negligent enough to bring her along for no reason. G.U.N. isn't held at fault and Gerald is a kooky villain with a musical sequence.

Oh my god an actual adaptation of Sonic Adventure 2 would have been so cool. But no, gotta have cop dad adventures and a clean G.U.N. agency.

Oh shit I think I get it.

It's part of the reason Sonic doesn't associate with any humans under 30.

He's the Sonic the Hedgehog who wouldn't judge a prospective adult viewer for being lame or an agent of capital and he's not going to do anything that's a potential bad influence for that viewer's kids. He'll grumble, but he will eat his vegetables.

But it's more than that. In addition to making him seem more like 12 than 15, he's just not that rebellious. He doesn't defy authority. He doesn't question authority. He works for authority. He's not going to break the law to do the right thing.

Is there a reason Sonic looks like that?