Why Sonic Lack of WEAKNESS is hurting the series
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- čas přidán 22. 08. 2022
- Do you think sonic should be more vulnerable?
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Sonic’s friends are really necessary as something more than cheerleaders, not only is it cooler for us the fans, it also helps with this problem
I don't think Sonic needs to be weaker, but his friends and enemies must be stronger and more useful. It worked in SA2 because Sonic wasn't able to fix all problems by speed alone, and his enemies could match his speed.
I think the IDW Comics showcase a much more vunerable but still strong Sonic. He's not invincibile, he's still strong but he depends and relies on his friends to help him.
Fun fact: saiyans are actually monkeys.
Sonic's undernoticed weakness is that while he has super speed, he doesn't have inhumanly fast reflex. That means if you can predict his movements, you can ambush him. This can be combined with Sonic's impulsivity and doing faster than thinking.
During an online meet and greet, Shiro Maekawa, the writer of Sonic games from 2001-2009, said that he portrayed Sonic as a god to some extent, especially in a way that he is smart, versatile, and almost omnipotent to see through any truth behind things.
That’s why I like Movie Sonic more than Game Sonic. By showing vulnerability and weakness, it makes him more interesting as a character
This is why I love the Sonic the Hedgehog movies! Especially the second one! They have Sonic go through this character arc where learns to be more responsible with his powers and not always be reckless and cocky all the time. Not only Sonic, but they also fixed Tails by having him get things done and doing the right thing without always needing the help of Sonic. And then there's Knuckles and Eggman, two characters that were actually threatening antagonists in the movie instead of being treated as jokes.
Sonic Boom is getting praised for something?! 😱
Why say that when in the opening cutscene of Sonic Unleashed, Eggman literally zapped him out of his Super form?😂
This is what I like to call:
The problem is Sonic's enemies are too weak, not him being too strong. Yes he has a flat character arc but it doesn't mean he's uninteresting.
I don't have a problem with Sonic being sassy, faster than almost everyone when he decides to really gun it, or having infinite stamina. But as someone whose experience with Sonic as a kid was almost exclusively the SatAM cartoon, I miss the Sonic that was impatient, cocky, and yeah, kind of insensitive and full of himself who was street smart but not a strategist or academically smart. He had a good heart, but he was egotistical and impulsive, too. Heck, I think SatAM even hinted that he has PTSD in at least one episode.
That scene in Sonic Boom with Knux and Sonic where Sonic says "we" reminds me so much of the scene in Sonic Heroes at the end of the Team Sonic story. Knuckles was all like "If we didnt help you then you wouldnt have stood a chance" and Sonic was like "Yeah you're right thanks Knuckles!" And he was genuinely surprised. I miss moments like that
p.s:I KNOW GOKU IS A SAYIAN...I meant to say "he looks human"
No need to weakened Sonic for the sake of making his friends stand out when they just need to be buffed. Sonic's supposed to be this seemingly unstoppable cool badass with his speed while his cocky attitude lightens the mood. The problem is not Sonic but how he's used when around his friends. Since after 06, Sega keeps downplaying their purposes when they're around Sonic fearing that their unique abilities with being seemingly as fast as Sonic will make the blue blur irrelevant in his own series. So they just focus purely on Sonic being the only true fast one while doing everything despite his friends being perfectly available to share the spotlight in the main action.
As someone pointed out, at least Sonic showed weakness in the new Frontiers trailer. 😅
i love sonic unleashed cause this was the last sonic game released when i started watching gameplays and i was in love with it, say what you want but for me this was the last game that made good choices in writing: sonic has a subtle arc (he starts hating the werehog but at the end he´s ok with himself (but its soooo subtle that you blink, you miss) and i believe that he is the kind of character that acts as a device for others to improve like chip in this game, the other good choice was if a character has no purpose WHY IS HE HERE?? Knuckles dont apear and honestly, if he appeared what would he do? Play Pokemon in his gameboy? i like to believe he was actually doing his job (Tails is a lil bad in unleashed cause he is capable but they keep treating him like a coward little lost child) and Amy is ok, she isn´t acting like a maniac and i can believe she´s a young girl who is found of sonic (still miss when she had relevance to the game, but at least she´s not bad here)
Okay, I feel like some things about this needs to be addressed.
I remember back in my day when Sonic's friends weren't background characters...