Sega Announces new 2D Sonic title

[TomGuycott]

it's okay, Metal Sonic is cool enough for that to not be extremely embarrassing

welp, so was Sonic but then they decided to create that fan-character called Shadow and it became extremely embarassing really quickly!

Shadow was a good character until Sega revived him and gave him a convoluted backstory.

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Shadow was a cool concept, but ultimately a one-trick pony. PLENTY of legitimately cool media have had clones or evil versions of characters and have done well. I mean, the guy had jet boots for christ's sake! How could you fuck up jet boots?

But yeah, Shadow could have gone down in gaming history as a fun one-shot character who went down dramatically and in a noble way. I mean, he fell into the earth's atmosphere and burned up on re-entry for christ's sake! How could you fuck up falling into the earth's atmosphere and burning up on re-entry?

... Oh wait, bring him back to life. Okay.