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I kinda like to think there were some really sadistic military members who enjoyed tormenting Gerald, and probably just recorded it under the pretense of keeping a record of the execution (or it was a last request from Gerald), but brushed off his last words as the words of a loony, probably laughing about it for years on end.

Kinda wonder if they suffered a shit their pants moment when they saw it again as old people.

As for hijacking every broadcast...

Well, Eggman did do that himself to broadcast him having the Eclipse Cannon. Maybe He just left the hijacked broadcast active and when the video was played, it used the broadcast he left on.

It was Gerald's wish. The troops just agreed to it.

I always took it as Shadow. He knew of Gerald's plan and probably programmed the cannon a bit, as well as put the video up when he was alone in the ARK before Eggman arrived to hear the plan.

I mean, it's not Robotnik. It's just Jim Carrey Slapstick Villain number 312.

@Blue Blood

And AOSTH Robotnik is Will E. Coyote Dick Dastardly clone 697. So what?

No disrespect to you at all but I'm pretty surprised to hear that from someone like you, a resident Eggman fan.

To me I found jim carrey as Eggman just kind of offensive. It isn't Eggman at all. Like BlueBlood said, just some generic slapstick villain who feels no different to all other generic slaptick characters carrey has played. That and his design just sucks.

I don't really have high opinions of AoSTH either.

Jim Carrey is probably going to be the best part of this film. But he's really only tenuously like Robotnik.

A cuck is a weak, effeminate, unmanly, or inadequate man, who is often dominated by their female partner. It is considered derogatory slang.

Alternatively:

Cuckold: 

a man whose wife is sexually unfaithful, often regarded as an object of derision

who is cucky

The chicken:

How do you think I feel being cucked by a HEAHDGHAWG

Man, looking at that image made me realize how ugly those animals look in 3D.

they should make a game starring cucky and e101 beta male

Most newer games also misspell Robotnik's name as "Eggman," it's pretty bizarre

Wasn't Cucky also a mistranslation?

Jokes aside, that makes more sense. I'm surprised that in 30 years the only one to add an L was Archie.

Now that we know Alpha Dream worked on the game, this doesn't surprise me one bit.

i'm sorry, it was worked on by who

@blueblur98 Here you go!

https://goldmetalsonic.wordpress.com/2019/11/02/alphadreams-mystery-switch-game-was-mario-sonic-at-the-olympic-games-tokyo-2020/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

The team behind the Mario & Luigi games, which are known for having really charming character interaction, especially between the two titular brothers.

With it's last dying breath, Alphadream grants us our biggest wish: To give us quality Sonic writing.

Closest we'll ever get to a Mario & Sonic RPG.

they really did work on this game!

that's wild.

It's a shame they couldn't use that quality in any of the M&L games after the first one.

Man, I completely don't agree there. 

Partners in Time, Bowser's Inside Story, Dream Team, and even the new villain-centric side stories in the 3DS remakes all had some great writing and characterization in my opinion.

BiS in particular was basically a Bowser game where Mario and Luigi got top billing on the title, and is one of my favorite Mario stories. It does a great job of making Bowser both fierce and kind of a lovable goofball.

BIS's writing kind of just grated at me after a while. It's weird because I love Bowser in the first three Paper Mario games and I don't like him in BIS (or any of the M&L games, although the fourth game's twist was pretty neat). Never really understood why.

The games themselves kind of sucking after Superstar Saga doesn't help either

I will agree that I liked the first three Paper Marios in terms of writing over pretty much any of the M&L games, despite still loving the latter. The original Paper Marios were a league of their own.

I'm just being kind of hard on the M&L games, they're not my thing but I can see why people like them. Also it's really early in the morning and I haven't had coffee yet, I don't think PIT or BIS actually suck, they're just a'ight to me

For me I think the writing quality of BiS is about the same as the first game, but since I played BiS first I found it was more enjoyable than SS when I eventually got around to it. Just depends on what you end up playing first before the writing style becomes stale, imo.

IDW would like to know your location. There was also TSR this year, and this game's apparently better than that was.

I think they had plans to flesh Tails out more in season 3 iirc.

IIRC the plan was for Tails to become a key character in Season 3.

But yeah compared to AOSTH, Tails role in SATAM first series is religated to an occasional cameo.

It might have been to temporarily differentiate from AOSTH, especially after the pilot was similar to it right down to the Sonic and Tails interactions.

It's a shame because SATAM has one my favourite versions of Tails, and I would love to have seen more of him.

@Celestia it even used some of the same music

Yeah. There was a broader plan to develop Tails into a capable Freedom Fighter (this begins to happen in the latter half of Season 2) but they never got to move forward with it in Season 3 due to the show being canned. 

There was an episode where he came up with a plan that ended up saving the day, and where he actually got to do some more techie stuff (he was taught by Sally, but the big deal was that he learned very quickly) so I'm curious to know where they would've taken it had Season 3 been greenlit.

Truthfully, after Season One, it feels like they didn't have many ideas for any of the Freedom Fighters aside from Sonic and Sally really. They only really keep Antoine around because he's so useless and can absorb all the bungling comic relief roles.

The ironically named 'Sonic and Sally' was the nearest Bunnie ever got to a proper limelight plot. For whatever reason, despite her concept, they barely clicked anything for her.

My headcanon was that Knuckles had to move the Emerald because Hidden Palace was buried under debris from Sky Sanctuary.

Fumigated of what? Did Knuckles accidentally eat Nightshade berries and Fart inducing beans or something?

The whole palace was full of Buggernauts.

I like to think he moved the ME outside so he could continue being in close proximity to it while having a better vantage point to scan the horizon for the Tornado, in the event Sonic and Tails paid a visit.

My personal headcanon was that Hidden Palace was part of Sky Sanctuary's interior, and what we see in Sonic Adventure/Sonic Advance 3 is all that's left after most of it fell apart.

EDIT: Having said this such a headcanon only applies to the Sonic 3&K -> Sonic 4 - > Modern timeline because in the S3&K -> Sonic Mania timeline we see Hidden Palace is intact so yeah... god I hate Sonic

That idea wouldn't work in S3&K either though because most of Sky Sanctuary was already destroyed in Sonic's story and we can still see Hidden Palace in one piece during Knuckles' story.

It also appears to have made a return appearance in Sonic Pocket Adventure, although it might be an unrelated if similar looking area.

Eh you only see a tiny portion of Hidden Palace though, there's nothing to say the Master Emerald's Chamber isn't destroyed at that point.

(As said though it's just a headcanon and I'm not attached to it, but that part does still make sense for me - or at least did until Mania lol).

Hidden Palace showing up after having been destroyed would't be the weirdest thing to happen in Mania (I'm looking at you, Lava Reef/Metallic Madness transition). Besides, with the Phantom Ruby in play who knows how much of what we see Mania actually happens.

Like anyone even remembers Christmas Island these days.

My go-to answer is the presence of human statues in Marble Garden and similar locations throughout the series, always in places we know were also inhabited by ancient Echidnas.

some echidnas migrated to the human world at some point

It's funny that a featureless second planet was introduced to the series just to give anthropomorphic animals a place to live, when all examples of their history and culture both ancient and modern (Echidnas, Babylonians, Big's house, Tails' house, Amy's house, Rouge's house, Cream's house) are located on Earth.

I feel like the Boost games should've been a spin-off genre.

@Indigo Rush

I consider the boost games to be an ideal concept for an On-Foot type racing spinoff. Too bad multiplayer and non-car driving Sonic is a taboo combination in this day'n'age

It's a neat concept and then they did 3 in a row.

Then they did a game that showed a major flaw in the concept from doing just 4 games.

Replace boost with SLW spin dash imo

I'd argue it doesn't make business sense making them because they literally swallow resources because you have to make loads and loads of level to make a level that lasts like a minute.

I'd vastly prefer going back to when acceleration was focused around the Spin Dash and Light Dash.  It's a lot more distinctive to Sonic then just having a button that makes you go faster.