Thread 717374330

It really isn't that bad of a game

>>717374330 (OP)
It's a Cars situation. The actual product isn't bad but just the concept filtered everyone.

>>717374330 (OP)
Shadow and Sonic Heroes sucked

Yes it is.
>same oversensitive controls as in Heroes
>"kill every enemy" missions
>"find every object" missions with no radar
>branching paths makes every story incoherent
>plot points thus brought up out of nowhere or dropped entirely
>Black Doom suddenly existing despite having no mention in SA2
>final boss requires 10 playthroughs minimum, one for each ending
>you always have to start at Westopolis instead of a previously completed stage

>>717374330 (OP)
lots of levels, 10 endings, 326 routes each of which unlocks a small piece of lore
Shadow is actually really ambitious
if only it wasn't so jank

>>717374330 (OP)
I wouldn't call it good though.

>>717374839
>"kill every enemy" missions
>"find every object" missions with no radar
These missions were so fucking tedious. Could have been okay if they had designed the levels like Adventure 1, where they were meant to be played in multiple game modes. Instead they designed them solely with the "get to the finish" objectives in mind and shoehorned in exploration based objectives and it fucking sucked.

>>717374330 (OP)
Its pretty bad

>>717374330 (OP)
It's only bad if you go for the true ending. If you just play through it and get a few endings doing what you want, it's fine.

Tpbp this game is fundamentally flawed.
>>717374734
>filtered by the premise
It's the exact opposite. This game only sold based on the premise of edgy shadow the hedgehog despite having dog shit level design and genuinely baffling game choices like getting the last story segment being locked behind getting every single ending possible.

T. Played a retarded amount of Shadow the hedgehog when i was a kid. It was probably my favourite Playstation game until i tried good games and realized how bad it was.
>uhhhmmm a y-youtuber told you to think it was bad
No, they didn't.

>>717374330 (OP)
the music was great

>>717378580
I think if they tightened the controls a bit and didn't make the evil-path feature the three worst levels in the game that you had to play through every time because of the nature of the branching paths, it would be more well-received

>>717378683
>>717374330 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiXUEpcfepk

i miss when Shadow could use guns
I thought it was a hilarious joke at first but now I see being the edgy hedgehog was really the only identity he had, and when Sega took that away because they're gradually moving every franchise they have toward toddler-level, they also took what little character and grit the series had.

It's now just every single thing people say a franchise about a amorphous blue hedgehog should be about: A 3-and-up mascot platformer that plays like garbage that coasts of nostalgia and callbacks to saturday morning cartoons of the 90s. Because we can't have nothing that isn't sanitized out the ass in this shit world of kid gloves.

>>717374330 (OP)
true
the mission system was stupid and seems like a shitty attempt to pad out the content by just making half as many missions

>what if instead of going fast, you had a machinegun and a fucking car
it's almost as silly as prince of persia with alt rock music literally turning dark and going "haha kill ppl". i loved this era of game design. i feel like this was meant to be shadow's canonical entry to the franchise and not the adventure games.

>>717378079
What the fuck is this image