>>725555189
Shadow was always cool, hell even in goddamn '06 his story was great.
After failennial normalfags which only played the Mega Drive games started bitching about muh "Sonic's stupid friends" was he ditched and shonen kino got mutiliated into Pontac & Graff's saturday morning cartoon style shlock.
Shadow obviously couldn't play any significant roles in games which ignored any serious lore, because Shadow's entire existence IS lore personified.
This is where the "Eggman is the only good character in the series" simplification came from as an argument during these contests even back in '21. Ol' Eggy is not the only good character mind you, just the only one that wasn't either ruined by bad writers or completely shelved into irrelevancy. He also has the widest appeal, but that's besides the point.
Thank FUARKING goodness that Sonic Team's battered wife era is ofcially over and Shadow is FUARKING back in his full glory.