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SCREAMING SCREAMING SCREAMING SHAKING THE BARS OF MY CAGE
Shadow’s search for answers brings him into the crossfire with his allies and Dr. Eggman. Is Shadow’s unrelenting quest for answers worth the cost? And what will it cost Shadow to get the support he needs?
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
I love the fact that it started off with Maria talking about how beautiful the planet is, and Shadow can't seem to see the beauty, his focus is on Maria, even in the manga, he's seen waving off the earth's beauty when Maria shows him "you've seen this many times", "it doesn't matter what you show me", and when the episode ends, and he's actually ON the PLANET, there's still almost no beauty, the shine of the world is gone, along with maria
Hey sonic Fandom this is how you sound rn
he’s absolutely FIENDING to re-experience his life trauma
Honestly I feel tempted to show my family the first episode of Sonic x Shadow Dark Beginnings (even though they know nothing about Sonic the Hedgehog except for my younger brother) just to show how dark Shadow’s story is and to see their reactions
but then I also remember that my Dad promised that he would take me and probably the rest of the family to see the 3rd sonic movie
Either way I want to see the looks on their faces when Maria gets killed
Honestly I feel tempted to show my family the first episode of Sonic x Shadow Dark Beginnings ( even though they know nothing about Sonic the Hedgehog except for my younger brother) just to show how dark Shadow’s story is and to see their reactions
but then I also remember that my Dad promised that he would take me and probably the rest of the family to see the 3rd sonic movie
Either way I want to see the looks on their faces when Maria gets killed
dark beginnings episode 2 spoilers
oh great just ripping my heart out again Sega, thanks for that
So if Sega is able to use the name of the commander from the Sonic Archie Comics, for the Shadow Dark Beginnings animation... then...
DOES THAT MEAN HE HAS A CHANCE!? HE HAS A CHANCE!!! AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
spoilers for dark beginnings
I CANT I ACTUALLY CANT
His facial expression
Out of all the things to happen I didn’t expect this to happen
I’m actually in tears right now
I just love how after dark beginnings episode 3 everyone now doesn’t want Maria to get shot in the third movie
and it’s honestly so funny and poetic to me lol
ok I didn’t really want to make another post about Dark Beginnings since I’ve already made/rebloged a lot of posts related to it but I now feel like doing it since I recently saw someone make a dumb comment about it (they were probably saying it to get attention and rage bait or something but whatever I feel like this is an interesting analysis to do)
“its been 50 years, she's gone, get over it”
There’s just a lot wrong with this take
For 50 of those years he was in a stasis sleep. So to him Maria’s death and the trauma he went through when it happened was pretty recent, I don’t really know how much time has past between sonic adventure 2 and sonic x shadow generations but I’m gonna assume it’s been a couple years (one thing I do want to mention that I feel is a important point is that professor Gerald altered Shadow’s memories after Maria’s death, so that itself is already pretty traumatic considering Shadow probably trusted him during his time living on the ark)
he is going to the ark AKA the place where he experienced his trauma. Now this is kinda based on something someone else said but supposedly the last time he went to the Ark was in the Shadow the Hedgehog game, and he still kinda lost some of his memories. Now he is going back to ark Ark after pretty much recovering all his memories, even his painful ones
he is going up against Black Doom. The main reason he is going back to the ark is because he suspects that the black arms and Black Doom have returned, now I haven’t played the Shadow the Hedgehog game but from what I heard Black Doom was a very evil character, he took advantage of Shadow since he lost his memories and used him to get the chaos emeralds. Not only that but technically Black Doom is Shadow’s biological father since he was created using his DNA (Shadow has never actually called Black Doom father, at least as far as I know). And finally
PEOPLE 👏 EXPERIENCE 👏 TRAUMA 👏 DIFFERENTLY 👏 Now I’m going get slightly personal but as someone who has experienced something traumatic before (not as bad as Shadow’s and it’s different from what happened to him) just because you have moved on doesn’t mean the trauma is just gone, honestly as I was reading some analysis on the episode I for a moment actually thought about what I’ve been through and realized I kinda related to shadow in that moment (which is probably one of the reasons I cried), while I have moved on from what happened the trauma is still there and I may have moments where I remember it and feel sad about it, that’s kinda what was happening with Shadow, he was being reminded of the trauma on a big scale. The first episode was him have a “nightmare” of his trauma and now he has to go back to the ark and face Black Doom, and those visions of him thinking about the life he and Maria could of have, of course he is gonna have a small panic attack, I’ve even seen some people connect the scene with PTSD.
a bit of a bonus but I wanted to link this tweet that kinda inspired me to make this analysis in the first place. Some of the comments under the post are quite interesting and make a few good points
now I do want to point out that I’m still new to the Sonic fandom so it’s possible that some of things I’ve mentioned might of been incorrect or that I might of missed a few important parts, if that is the case I do apologize (I also apologize if there are any grammatical errors as well, I literally made this whole thing at like 9:30pm so I should be in bed lol)
a thought just occurred to me
what if they added the song “Without You” into the 3rd Sonic movie
not like the song itself but like a instrumental version or a small bit of it plays
probably won’t happen but just think about it