I thought I had the sonic jam skin and it's mildly irritating that I don't...I'll figure that out. but the sa1 skin doing speed highway feels mmmm so good and necessary
anyway shadow's shit so far is very- like the 3d white space gives me mild frontiers feelings in that here's a bunch of platforms and rails and springs and open space you don't know where anything goes or what anything does until you play in the space, go nuts and then I go nuts and have no idea where I am anymore
shadow absolutely crushing a dooms eye just for another one to pop up and keep projecting black doom is very ey bing bong you're doing a bad job and I need to stop thinking of the snapcube dub but it's perfect
I will say that playing thru sonic's and noting how in the first birthday cutscene shadow isn't there, but at the end he's spat out with the others then starting shadow's and realizing these campaigns happen at the same time, shadow isn't there even tho he (didn't actually) promised rouge he'd be there bc he's on the ark was SO fucking funny to me
it's also entertaining how many lil canon discrepancies there are already between dark beginnings, what I've seen of gerald's journal, and the game (shadow coming out of the pod: is he nakey or is he clothed? don't think about it gun detected an anomalous bio-signature on the ark? bruh you felt a disturbance in the force and fucked up gun to get here)
ALSO WHEN YOU START THE GAME, "SHADOW'S STORY" IS LITERALLY JUST A STORY SO FAR RECAP OF HIS HISTORY. YOU GOTTA GO TO NEW GAME TO PLAY HIS STORY. it's still interesting but boy was I. befuddled for a mo
the white space's music being a slower darker orchestral all hail shadow fucks. the music fucks. the doom powers are...finicky but in the same way most things in generations are finicky
also she looked about the same in the cutscene with her and gerald presumably on earth in a hospital so I wonder if maybe she wasn't there all that long. it isn't like oh no this baby is deathly ill put her in a microwave
also maria asks if shadow's in pain re: the doomy shit, and he's like nah it's mostly just tingly cut to each time he gets powers, writhing around and going NO uh-huh tingles sure
last boss is just kind of otherwise a nothingburger to play, and the last cutscene hit is like. the leadup is AMAZING but then it's just boom explode and die. and like. the whole thing was that shadow had the real emerald and rouge needed to trade it out with the fake one sonic picked up?
I can't wait to listen to the ost and uhhh read gerald's journal pages but I have to make sure I have them all cuz I probably don't and idk how many there are
Only one of them will spawn at a time, and they will only ever hold one of the fifteen sets of pages, too mm noted. where I got this from also said that they do sometimes just fly out of bounds. which I experienced.
they def learned from original generations. s-ranks weren't a big deal (tho I didn't bother paying much attention to the missions, but many you could just happen to get), but shadow? jesus actual christ even the few times I thought I was doing well it was like no, B, maybe C. the missions you at least get a bar in the upper right to tell you what rank u at
also the "stand in the light with peace in your heart" also kills me. her explaining to him why she named him shadow and trying to have him let go of anger and be happy and im
now, of course, the real problem then is then you would have two bosses that are people shadow straight up doesn't know--one he doesn't due to sonic 06 being erased from existence, and one he doesn't due to it not happening yet
also robbie as mephiles is. fine. They Changed It Now It Sucks is what I'm feeling but there isn't anything bad about it, just, it isn't memphis to me ya feel
ey bing bong you're doing a bad joband I need to stop thinking of the snapcube dub but it's perfectthat playing thru sonic's and noting how in the first birthday cutscene shadow isn't there, but at the end he's spat out with the others
then starting shadow's and realizing
these campaigns happen at the same time, shadow isn't there even tho he (didn't actually) promised rouge he'd be there bc he's on the ark
was SO fucking funny to me
(shadow coming out of the pod: is he nakey or is he clothed? don't think about it
gun detected an anomalous bio-signature on the ark? bruh you felt a disturbance in the force and fucked up gun to get here)
cut to each time he gets powers, writhing around and going NO
uh-huh
tingles
sure
and like. the whole thing was that shadow had the real emerald and rouge needed to trade it out with the fake one sonic picked up?
Only one of them will spawn at a time, and they will only ever hold one of the fifteen sets of pages, toomm noted. where I got this from also said that they do sometimes just fly out of bounds. which I experienced.and of course erryone gotta come back in december when the movie dlc drops
NGL THIS SHIT ALSO MADE MY HEART SWELL THREE SIZES