>>536462232
>penders wasn't raised to be a tumblr bitch.
kek.
But yes, you can't negate the influence of the actual creators, even if they're just creative grunts. It's pertinent to acknowledge it whether you're super progressive with a budget of $2.57 to create a full comic or an optimistic studio exec throwing millions to creatives and give them free rein.

The way I see it, they are given a tough task. Do something new and exciting with a fossilized Sonic as a great supplement to the franchise.
But on the other hand, they also can't cut it as modern creatives. I'm not even sure what the new requirements for success are. I just keep thinking back to comedians whose jobs are much harder now that everyone gets offended and you have to deal with potentially getting cancelled. The stakes are not as high but they're still restricted which makes the process more like writing to a criteria than the kind of vomiting of creative material artists spew out after being inspired.

I think instead of being stuck in creative limbo as a bunch of perverted decrepit geriatric millennials, they should take a leaf from the children's comics creator's handbook. They have to do something enjoyable despite being for all ages.

On the other side of the coin, SEGA is retarded. I think they shrunk back into their shell after their out there ideas in games got criticized. But they don't seem to understand that in a game, a cookie cutter story is fine because the fun comes from the agency of the player and the flavor from the art and music. Most stories need drama of some sort. I'm not saying there's nothing that happens in IDW but the looming presence of SEGA censors has to negatively impact their creativity.