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You ever think about what if they were real?
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Alright Sonic, it's your turn, step on up...
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Pokémon fans....it's time
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The trend of race bending anime characters (almost always black) comes up now and then on Twitter and it never not bugs me. As a black person I understand the need for representation but like....race changing characters that already represent an entirely different culture people or Japan (because let's be real it almost always always is anime characters) makes me uncomfortable I guess? Characters from MHA, KNY, Mob Psycho, etc who have Japanese names and live in Japan having their race changed mmm...idk man it just rubs me the wrong way. Like I'm not sure what it accomplishes as it doesn't actually create more representation because the characters are always gonna be the race they are, but people love to pat themselves on the back because they turned Josuke's skin dark 🤷♀️
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Honestly, I don't mind race-bending as long as the artist isn't a pompous douche. Some artists just want to see what characters look like if they were their own skin color, and there's nothing wrong with a little personal interpretation. Though I do think that creating your own character with a different skin color is a lot cooler than simply race-bending.
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That sounds fair. If the artist in question is patting themselves on the back, that does sound like what a pompous douche would do.
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Eh, not surprised it's a thing when Western culture collides with a medium (which is part of a larger collective sphere of media culture) that isn't too great with its racial representation. It can be argued that's to do with how different the ratio of racial groups is in Japan as a whole, but that's a whole different kettle of fish I'm not too versed on.
Now, the people who accuse others of race-bending LEGO characters (as in LEGO-owned characters, not the licenced IPs)? Those people deserve the ire they get.
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Sonic Forces should've just been repackaged as a Warriors game to be honest I would play the hell out of a Sonic musou
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play as all of sonics shitty friends to take on massive armies of all those eggmans robots
my god this is a goat tier idea
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Hell, we should think of weapons all the characters could use, just for shits and giggles.
I'll come up with some myself.
Sonic: Shoes/Caliburn/Werehog
Tails: Arm Cannon (from Battle) and various gadgets
Amy: Piko Piko Hammer (obviously)
Knuckles: Fists/Dual Swords
Shadow: Chaos Attacks/Sword
Blaze: Pyrokinesis/Rapier
Cream: Cheese
Any other ideas?
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Keep the OC character with all the Wispons too since they're the main character abd they usually have the largest moveset
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Bro, a Sonic Musou would be the dopest shit ever.
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Hell, the various concept designs for Infinite could make for some underling soldiers of Infinite.
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I've been hankering to play Sojic but the only games I have conveniently close are Forces, Mania and TSR so I fire up Forces, start a new file since I haven't played in like three years and yep this still sucks lol
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BOTW existing probably will help Skyward Sword because instead of people being terrified of it being the new series direction it can just be judged as a wholly unique quirky game that is just all Dungeon-like in design with the appropriate QOL changes