Sonic X Shadow Generations: Dark Beginnings Animated Short Announced

Hmm, well this should be interesting. Never played a Sonic game so this may be my first one.

Hopefully shadows content fixes one of the biggest issues I had with this game….it was way too short! 😭

This sounds neat. If this is a prologue to Shadow in Generations. Stephanie Sheh as Maria, Ian Flynn is involved. All something to look forward to.

Ive never been a fan of Shadow. That aside, Sega did more to kill the character than anything else.

Dialing up the edge from cool to cringe. His debut game was like a parody of himself. That and his debut game was just eh...not great.

But It's a shame how quickly Sega gave up on the character. After a failed solo outing, and a failed AAA venture. Sega just stop investing in the character all together.

Sega made two wrong moves and it's the fans that lost out. Shadow just couldn't escape bad decisions.

Shadow is a Wolverine type character edgy, full of resentment, pain, remorse but ready to throw it back as vengeance. Shadow is called Shadow mostly because he is Sonic's opposite but both hate Dr. Eggman. Also would Sonic be more capable of killing Dr. Eggman if he killed Tails, Amy, Knuckles like how Shadow blamed the human race?

@Vexx234 Yeah well thats probably a result of him planned to be a one and done character in adventure 2 to then changing minds due to fan demand.

I like how on that new icon (which is probably also part of the new box art) it's both framed like Shadow's awkwardly trying to muscle into the original box art and like he's like twice Sonic's size for some reason.

@GinMiguel Ah, I gotcha. Thing is, I don't see a problem with fan demand. Shadow was and still is popular. Sometimes a one and done character can become a mainstay when handled properly.

Sega just mishandled the character. They saw Shadow was popular but gave fans a version that was too over the top. To their credit however, they realized that, and dialed him back down. It's just unfortunate it had to be in Sonic '06.

While im not a fan, it sucks for fans of the character they've had to wait this long for a course correction. Hopefully with this mini resurgence, fans will get a proper Shadow game. I think there is potential for a second outing if done right.

@Vexx234

Ironically, you're the one being ''edgy'' right now.. Shadow is well loved by the fans still - and the two movies are very much appreciated and loved too. Although I kinda agree with you too with SEGA pretty much abandoning Shadow's character after his solo game. He's just a background character now, even more so than Tails or Knuckles :/

@JohnnyMind Yeah, I'm slightly worried about the extra content. I'm sure the original content will still be fine, but I heard rumors that Shadow's levels are made with the same garbage engine that has plagued this franchise since Forces.. so that means more static and choppy gameplay.. I really hope this rumor is false though

Same old Generations, new Stages for Shadow, and on Switch. IM IN!
Ive been wanting to play Generations on the Switch for quite some time.

@Maubari
It seems to be using Frontiers as a base so maybe there’s hope this isn’t heavily scripted boosting down corridors and we get dynamic open Adventure style gameplay. The cyberspace levels they added in update 3 were insanely open ended with not much scripting anywhere pretty much the antithesis to Forces. If they care more about being cinematic with that stupid alien talking nonstop and uses Forces’ gameplay and level design philosophy 100% because they somehow think it’s the same as Generations we’re pretty much screwed though.

@Maubari You've got it all wrong there. I wasn't being edgy. I was being critical and sympathetic.

"Sega made two wrong moves and it's the fans that lost out. Shadow just couldn't escape bad decisions."

That right is me being sympathetic. Far from edgy.

Here is me replying to someone else:

"Sega just mishandled the character. They saw Shadow was popular but gave fans a version that was too over the top. To their credit however, they realized that, and dialed him back down. It's just unfortunate it had to be in Sonic '06.

While im not a fan, it sucks for fans of the character they've had to wait this long for a course correction. Hopefully with this mini resurgence, fans will get a proper Shadow game. I think there is potential for a second outing if done right."

That right there is me wishing you fans get another chance.

@anoyonmus Its a very great game. Sonic Generations is one of the best sonic games Next to Sonic Adventure 1 and 2. And with the added Shadow stages for this port im sure it will be even better. I cant wait for this! Im going to get it on Switch. This game was an Xbox 360 game Originally so it should run fine on Switch sense the Switch is more powerful than the 360.

@Arcata Sonic Generations is better than 1 & 2. Adventures games aged poorly. The problem with those games that anything outside of the Sonic and Shadow levels isn't very fun to play.

@WaffleRaptor01 I think they aged fine I just replayed both last month. I still prefer them to any other sonic games. I love the Eggman and Tails stages to cuz they play like e102 gamma stages in Sonic Adventure 1. Also the Chao Garden is the best feature any sonic series has ever had it makes them so replayable.

I like going through my favorite Sonic and Shadow stages and then returning to the chao garden to upgrade the chao. It makes it super replayable to me.

@WaffleRaptor01 I dunno about you, but I like arcade games. So I very much enjoyed playing Time Crisis with the sonic style gameplay in E=102 and the mechas

@Samalik That's fine. I was more so referring to SA2 than SA1. I should've been more clear in my distinction.

SA1 had the benefit of atleast mixing up the gameplay of each character. SA2 on the other hand made each character mechanically the same. When you choose to play the dark side, you were just doing an entire mirror run of light side.

I just think outside of Sonic and Shadow the other characters were just not that interesting to play as.

@Vexx234 Right

I’m sure one of my friends, who is big into Sonic the Hedgehog, will love this. She especially loves Shadow. In fact, she used to ship Shadow and Amy, for some reason.