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>Q:Is SEGA willing to accept pitches for powered up states not granted by conventional power sources (the emeralds)? Like Excalibur and Darkspine Sonic. Maybe we can get psuedo-super forms for characters who aren't normally allowed to have them like Amy and Rouge.
Ian: Ah, I don't know and I hesitate to tap that idea too much because as obnoxious as it is with the whole just the male hedgehogs getting a true super form is, it does put a hard barrier against the kind of power creep and multi-form stuff that plagues things like Dragon Ball. I say this as someone who enjoyed Golden Frieza and Super Saiyan Blue but there's like a bajillion different forms and techniques and whatnot and it gets kind of muddled and convoluted. Then you get into the debate of what's comparable in terms of power. With the super forms you have to have the chaos emeralds. That at least is nice and limited. Yeah there's the 50 rings thing but that's more of a gameplay mechanic. Narratively you have to have all seven chaos emeralds. That is the gate that you have to cross.
If we start introducing other ones then they also need to have some kind of believable restriction so that we don't have a question of well why doesn't Amy just turn into magical girl with giant world-ending hammer whenever there's a problem? Why doesn't Rouge turn into super shogun/ninja/dark version at the drop of a hat? It's kind of like where Shadow is now, like we don't really have a good idea of what his chaos powers are, why doesn't he just drop his inhibitor rings and go Chaos Shadow whenever something appears and just nuke it? So I hesitate to go that way. I wouldn't mind it like once or twice to find an alternate avenue for those who are deserving of a little bit of recognition (Amy) but it opens a door that could lead to problems down the line. You have to be careful with this sort of thing

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>Q:Is SEGA willing to accept pitches for powered up states not granted by conventional power sources (the emeralds)? Like Excalibur and Darkspine Sonic. Maybe we can get psuedo-super forms for characters who aren't normally allowed to have them like Amy and Rouge.
Ian: Ah, I don't know and I hesitate to tap that idea too much because as obnoxious as it is with the whole just the male hedgehogs getting a true super form is, it does put a hard barrier against the kind of power creep and multi-form stuff that plagues things like Dragon Ball. I say this as someone who enjoyed Golden Frieza and Super Saiyan Blue but there's like a bajillion different forms and techniques and whatnot and it gets kind of muddled and convoluted. Then you get into the debate of what's comparable in terms of power. With the super forms you have to have the chaos emeralds. That at least is nice and limited. Yeah there's the 50 rings thing but that's more of a gameplay mechanic. Narratively you have to have all seven chaos emeralds. That is the gate that you have to cross.
If we start introducing other ones then they also need to have some kind of believable restriction so that we don't have a question of well why doesn't Amy just turn into magical girl with giant world-ending hammer whenever there's a problem? Why doesn't Rouge turn into super shogun/ninja/dark version at the drop of a hat? It's kind of like where Shadow is now, like we don't really have a good idea of what his chaos powers are, why doesn't he just drop his inhibitor rings and go Chaos Shadow whenever something appears and just nuke it? So I hesitate to go that way. I wouldn't mind it like once or twice to find an alternate avenue for those who are deserving of a little bit of recognition (Amy) but it opens a door that could lead to problems down the line. You have to be careful with this sort of thing

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>Q:Is SEGA willing to accept pitches for powered up states not granted by conventional power sources (the emeralds)? Like Excalibur and Darkspine Sonic. Maybe we can get psuedo-super forms for characters who aren't normally allowed to have them like Amy and Rouge.
Ian: Ah, I don't know and I hesitate to tap that idea too much because as obnoxious as it is with the whole just the male hedgehogs getting a true super form is, it does put a hard barrier against the kind of power creep and multi-form stuff that plagues things like Dragon Ball. I say this as someone who enjoyed Golden Frieza and Super Saiyan Blue but there's like a bajillion different forms and techniques and whatnot and it gets kind of muddled and convoluted. Then you get into the debate of what's comparable in terms of power. With the super forms you have to have the chaos emeralds. That at least is nice and limited. Yeah there's the 50 rings thing but that's more of a gameplay mechanic. Narratively you have to have all seven chaos emeralds. That is the gate that you have to cross.
If we start introducing other ones then they also need to have some kind of believable restriction so that we don't have a question of well why doesn't Amy just turn into magical girl with giant world-ending hammer whenever there's a problem? Why doesn't Rouge turn into super shogun/ninja/dark version at the drop of a hat? It's kind of like where Shadow is now, like we don't really have a good idea of what his chaos powers are, why doesn't he just drop his inhibitor rings and go Chaos Shadow whenever something appears and just nuke it? So I hesitate to go that way. I wouldn't mind it like once or twice to find an alternate avenue for those who are deserving of a little bit of recognition (Amy) but it opens a door that could lead to problems down the line. You have to be careful with this sort of thing

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>Q:Is SEGA willing to accept pitches for powered up states not granted by conventional power sources (the emeralds)? Like Excalibur and Darkspine Sonic. Maybe we can get psuedo-super forms for characters who aren't normally allowed to have them like Amy and Rouge.
Ian: Ah, I don't know and I hesitate to tap that idea too much because as obnoxious as it is with the whole just the male hedgehogs getting a true super form is, it does put a hard barrier against the kind of power creep and multi-form stuff that plagues things like Dragon Ball. I say this as someone who enjoyed Golden Frieza and Super Saiyan Blue but there's like a bajillion different forms and techniques and whatnot and it gets kind of muddled and convoluted. Then you get into the debate of what's comparable in terms of power. With the super forms you have to have the chaos emeralds. That at least is nice and limited. Yeah there's the 50 rings thing but that's more of a gameplay mechanic. Narratively you have to have all seven chaos emeralds. That is the gate that you have to cross.
If we start introducing other ones then they also need to have some kind of believable restriction so that we don't have a question of well why doesn't Amy just turn into magical girl with giant world-ending hammer whenever there's a problem? Why doesn't Rouge turn into super shogun/ninja/dark version at the drop of a hat? It's kind of like where Shadow is now, like we don't really have a good idea of what his chaos powers are, why doesn't he just drop his inhibitor rings and go Chaos Shadow whenever something appears and just nuke it? So I hesitate to go that way. I wouldn't mind it like once or twice to find an alternate avenue for those who are deserving of a little bit of recognition (Amy) but it opens a door that could lead to problems down the line. You have to be careful with this sort of thing