It's a nice little side game to Sonic Generations, practically a stand alone Sonic game on it's own, just primarily focused on Shadow.

Some things get weird with some powerups you get but it's still pretty fun and I enjoyed going fast through the levels, even if sometimes it's a little confusing how to get some special tokens in the levels

It does make me appreciate Shadow more as a character as well. They did a really good job with his personality

I hope they continue to treat him with this kind of respect going forward instead of just contiuing the generically cool edgy thing

catgrumps: Hopefully. I know Ian Flynn gets an amount of flack from a subset of the community for (/checks notes) having characters acknowledge past events...

But he does have a good understanding of the characters and what makes them likable.

i think it's less acknowledging past events and more like how they reference them without a lot of reason to

so it comes off a bit...MCU-ish

cause if you read IDW or even his Archie stuff, and compare it to "Sonic dropping random lore during dead air in Frontiers" it's not really that bad.

honestly it's weird they have that criticism considering how much the 2010s Sonic (and ESPECIALLY Forces) was bombarded with LACK of acknowledgement.

Everyone lost their shit at Tails not manning up when Sonic isn't around because of that time he DISARMED A NUKE but forget that Tails has never like...aged up at all and is still at best 10

yea. I think I'd prefer the characters acknowledging lore stuff over acting like it didn't happen. (cept in 06's case where to most of the characters it DIDN'T happen)

unlike Amy who they continue to be nebulous about because the fandom's stupid and one of the still working writers is a shipper.

My favorite part of 06 is how it didn't happen but it's still on the official timeline for some reason.

we dont talk about sonic 06

I really liked shadow generations, despite some janky controls

as soon as the first bit of Maria was shown though... oh noooooooo

annakratos: I feel like 'some janky controls' are just the Sonic experience at this point. As long as I can functionally get through the games at this point lol

trueeee

but yea, the Maria moments were good in the painful way

I still love how prologue begins with Shadow and Maria running through the ARK and there's "Oh shit. they're starting with THIS" and it ends up being a fake out.

lol yeah

without you song just stabs me in the heart

I'm gonna say something kinda wild about Sonic 06

the story was entirely acceptable if a bit odd at times, the gameplay is why it's dogwater

this is opposed to other bad Sonic games where both is the problem

(Lost World and Boom)

catgrumps: 06's story mightve better received if they didn't go for the realistic humans look. it just makes the Sonic characters stand out like sore thumbs

like they put this out a few years back and Elise looks so much more natural next to Silver and vice versa

I think the realistic look is kinda funny actually

realistic Eggman is initially "UGH" but by the end of the game you're just like "this is so based"

but yeah they could redo it with the like Unleashed style humans and it'd probably be taken better