My Brain On Caffeine - Tumblr Posts
Incoherent Shadow Hedgehog Rambling
sonic games have never felt like they were adding on to the previous games story before, they always just felt like they're own thing, you could always connect the games together, but it never really felt like one game specifically came after the other, heck, even sa2 feels like a separate thing to sonic adventure 1.
but guys... THATS CHANGING!!!
sonic frontiers specifically feels like it comes after forces, it was the first one that I played that I went "oh, because that thing happened in the previous game" (sonic talking about classic levels doesn't count)
and guys...
Dark Beginnings feels like it comes after SA2 in story!
of course everything with Shadow logically came after SA2s story, but this is different, this feels like a continuation to that story, more than anything else ever has
the moon is broken as if it always has been, and Gerald possibly being alive making shadow go and search for him and answers is a perfect sequel to SA2s story, no matter how long its been in canon between SA2 and now
also talking about Gerald, Sonic Movie 3 makes it clear that Gerald is alive in the movie universe, everyone collectively went "wait, but he's not alive in the games", what if he IS!!
what if he's alive, this actually feels like it adds on to the stories of the games, this is so cool!!
and what's even cooler is the fact this is (probably) going to become the new normal (we all know sega), games with stories that go beyond games the way Marvel does, and I'm all here for it, games that establish a set canon, instead of doing whatever the game wants for however long the game is, without consequences, a set canon, it seems the main race of creatures are the Anthros / Mobians, but humans do exist because Eggman, and now X Generations has Maria and Gerald back, they actually fit into the game's style, they look like they're designed the way Eggman is, and it's really cohesive and I LOVE IT
also I think Dark Beginnings is a prequel to shadows campaign in X Generations
also also I think it's funny that Gerald is voiced/played by the same person that plays/voices Eggman in all continuities this year lmao