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It's not a good look because it's not meant to be. It's showing Tails at his lowest. It should make you feel sad and angry. If Forces executed its plot points well, there would have been a setup and a resolution, the sad and anger would have been explained well within the story itself and there would have been a payoff later on. Instead everyone (myself included, for years) thought Tails was OOC in Forces. We didn't want to accept it because the presentation didn't justify it well. But it is in character, and denying this is causing problems. It is actually making Tails OOC, and giving reasons as to why it's a good thing for him to be OOC. We misinterpreted Tails' story in Sonic Adventure as Tails' character permanently changing into something it originally wasn't, when in reality it is exploring something that was always designed as part of the character. Ian's script for Frontiers was written acknowledging this criticism and this conception of character development, which is a huge problem. Ian's script for Frontiers takes the characters, makes them say they will become something they weren't designed to be, and then tries to pass it off as character development. The game ends with Tails literally saying that in his next appearance he will be unrecognizable (in other words OOC) and that this is somehow a good thing because in Forces he was inconsistent and OOC (not true). This was praised as doing justice to Tails' character after the failure of Forces, when in reality it is the exact opposite. The Forces writers understood the characters despite failing to communicate them properly to the audience, Ian's script for Frontiers invents excuses to justify OOC behavior