The Story of Shadow Generations Is Beautiful

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  @greatdevourskeleton7685 · 1 year ago

  i find it funny how in this game he learns how to properly deal with his emotions and let go of his toxicity, but he goes on to bully infinite

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  @cellperfecto421 · 1 year ago

  I love how Pariah ended up loving the game more and more the more he looked deeply into it. That's character development lol.

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• RA

  @raikaria3090 · 1 year ago (edited)

  What I like the best about the game is outside of cutscenes. It&apos;s the hub world interactions:<br><br>- Big actually has a couple of good ones. Most notably; he actually asks Shadow to teach him Chaos Control; because he thinks it might help with fishing. Then, he has a second thought; deciding it would be too easy, so nevermind. This is Big actually... not being a simpleton. He&apos;s also willing to ask <b>Shadow</b> for help to <b>learn</b><br><br>- Omega. Oh god Omega. Firstly; he is legitimately worried about Rouge. Later, he says he dosen&apos;t trust anyone... but finds Shadow and Rouge agreeable and basically enjoys working with them. He later elaborates he enjoys that they don&apos;t try to reign him in. [So if Shadow or Rouge say; Omega go wild but don&apos;t destroy the thing we need, he&apos;s happy to go wild]<br><br>But there&apos;s an even bigger moment. In endgame, or if you turn on Doom Mode, there is a conversation where Omega says he is ready to help fight Black Doom [Unusual for Omega to want to fight something not associated with Eggman]. Shadow however is implied to ask Omega to defend Maria instead at all costs. Now; consider WHY Omega hates Eggman, because he was stationed on guard duty; under-estimated and left for newer robots. Omega initially refuses... but then elaborates:<br><br>I will destroy everything that will threaten Maria instead. This should protect her. <br><br>Omega HATES defending things. Guard duty is something he would never do. Accepting Shadow asking him to protect Maria would be hypocritical to who Omega is. But Omega values Shadow and understands him and how vital Maria is to him enough; that Omega instead finds a loophole; and re-words Shadow&apos;s request in a way that is agreeable to him.<br><br>Oh; and Omega realises that the Black Arms create their own weapons, and says Shadow should be able to just... spawn a gun if he wants. That&apos;s a fun line.<br><br>- Rouge also shows a very soft side. she is legitimately pleased and surprised when she is told <b>Omega</b> was worried about her. When she basically gives Shadow a pep talk; she even jokes she&apos;s sounding like Amy Rose.

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• SS

  @SSL_2004 · 1 year ago (edited)

  Slight Correction: Angels being depicted as both humans with wings and weird eye wheel things are BOTH biblically accurate. There are nine different choirs, or &quot;tiers&quot; of angel. Normal angels are the 9th and lowest choir. &quot;Biblically accurate angels&quot; are actually &apos;Thrones&apos;, which are the third highest choir.<br><br>Also, I do disagree that ShGens makes Shadow &apos;05 a figurative &quot;bad ending.&quot; Shadow wasn&apos;t completely wrong in Shadow 05&apos; for throwing away his past. It WAS a decisive moment for him and &quot;a&quot; victory. He just went too far with it by throwing away the good parts too. <br><br>ShGens is a deconstruction of that mistake. He denied his cursed fate in Shadow 05&apos; and forcefully took back his own agency, and that was good, but in doing so he also deny himself the good elements of his past. ShGens is about him learning to balance. Moving on without disregarding what came before.

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  @heyguysxd · 1 year ago (edited)

  You forgot the most important aspect of the story. After accepting losing Maria, he feels emotionally stable enough to tell Sonic that this attack from the Time Eater looks like a homing attack.

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  @missbianca4096 · 1 year ago

  another biblical reference: in the japanese version of sonic heroes Metal Overlord calls himself &quot;The King of All Things, who reigns over all proud beasts&quot;. This is a line from the bible describing the water beast Leviathan, who is associated with the sin of envy. this is why you fight him over the water in shadow gens.

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• BR

  @bridge-moonproductions6823 · 1 year ago

  “Never mind, absolutely turn back” <br>I’m weak lmao

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• IC

  @ichasedacrow2 · 1 year ago

  as someone who&apos;s experienced loss more than once in my life, i absolutely love this game&apos;s subtle message about grief. contrary to popular belief, there&apos;s a difference between &quot;moving on,&quot; and ignoring your feelings in an attempt to focus on other things. it&apos;s important to FEEL your grief, so that you can come to terms with it and use it to better yourself moving forward. i did not expect that level of emotional maturity from a 2024 sonic game but im so glad we have it and i hope it bodes well for the future of storytelling in these games

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• VA

  @vaughnbenson3777 · 1 year ago

  Maria saying “Adios” before launching Shadow out of the ark is pretty funny lol

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  @dastanovich2476 · 1 year ago

  Flynn said in a Bumblecast that the usual Shadow characterization is still in full force. However it was months before Dark Beginnings and the game itself, so hopefully due to high ratings, Shadow&apos;s proper character and humans will become the norm instead of an exception for just 1 game

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  @TheZeroNeonix · 1 year ago

  Ian Flynn actually talked about that inconsistency between Dark Beginnings and Shadow Generations. Shadow went to the Ark because of his suspicions, and he searched around on his own for a while. Between the animation and the game, GUN confirmed the presence of a lifeform on the Ark with their scanners.

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• OU

  @outoffr4me · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iss30fARv90&amp;t=1234">20:34</a> Black Doom: &quot;I hid myself while I tried to rebuilt myself&quot;

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