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00:00Sonic the Story.
00:02It starts with a prologue page wasting my time with Sonic greeting the audience and bragging,
00:07which usually only happens right after Sonic beat a boss fight in the games.
00:12But maybe he just did.
00:15He also expects me to believe that usually he talks too fast for people to understand,
00:19which I get why the writer would assume that, but it's never been the case,
00:23and probably won't be in this very story.
00:27Too bad he wasn't told about that.
00:30Tails continues the wasting of my time, and Sonic's relatable here by telling him to get on with the story.
00:36So I'm glad he apologizes, but he still wastes my time.
00:41He eventually explains that Sonic grew up in Green Hill Zone.
00:45There's nothing wrong with that in a vacuum.
00:47It intuitively makes sense because it's where he was first seen,
00:51and it's not the fault of the people who wrote other continuities that nobody cared enough to tell them he was born on Christmas Island.
00:58We don't know what that place was supposed to be like, so we picture it as functionally just like Green Hill anyway.
01:04No one has any reason to care about it because it wasn't adapted or shown in the games.
01:11Again, it took creativity and effort to come up with Mobius, so the name deserves some respect when the alternative was Earth.
01:19Sonic had lots of friends, which sort of makes sense because his speed is cool and he's a good guy.
01:26But regardless, when he first showed up, there was no hint that he had any friends, and everyone assumed Tails was his first one.
01:34So it ignores that he used to be a loner.
01:37This isn't the end of the world to me because it's more believable.
01:40It's entertainment, so it's better to go with the idea that more people will like, and more people would like this because it's more relatable.
01:49It's realistic that he would have had a school photo full of his friends because most kids did.
01:55Kids go to school because it's the law, and they wouldn't get to have a job they love otherwise.
02:01So why wouldn't Sonic do that off screen?
02:03And while starting from Sonic 2, the games may look like he does a lot of traveling, it didn't concretely establish that he spends all day every day doing nothing but traveling a world he logically would have fully explored very early in his life anyways.
02:21He could have done that during non-school hours.
02:24So nothing about this is explicitly non-canon.
02:28The ones in charge of the games never cared enough to show his backstory.
02:33Even the fact that it's called Planet Mobius isn't explicitly non-canon.
02:37Because Sega of America called to that in the manuals and promotional material.
02:42And Yuji Naka, who speaks English, obviously would have spoken English in the interviews when he said,
02:50The Mobian Zones.
02:53The story states the obvious for a while boringly.
02:56It proves me right that Sonic liked to explore.
02:59One day, Sonic was playing hide and seek.
03:02And he decided to tunnel to a hillside to surprise everyone on the other side of it.
03:07But this caused them to accidentally find the underground lab of Eggman before he turned evil.
03:13And that's why this is the best adaptation of Eggman's backstory.
03:17At least, the beginning is the best.
03:20It's the most believable way that he ever met Kentobor.
03:24It tells me stuff we already know about the Sega of America origin story for him.
03:29That he wanted to rid the world of evil.
03:31It says Kentobor planned to transfer it into six emeralds he called Chaos Emeralds.
03:36And he thought he had to name them because he's an alien and doesn't know any better.
03:41This creates the impression that the book saying there's only six, which it contradicts later.
03:47It's not like there's anything wrong with there being only six emeralds in a vacuum anyways.
03:52Having there be seven emeralds only feels better because people love the number seven.
03:56It's got a lot of things it's associated with, like the seven seas.
04:00But that also makes it cliche compared to six emeralds.
04:04So introducing a seventh was ignoring the original attention of the writer
04:08and getting rid of one of the things you would compliment about the series if you're trying to compliment it on everything.
04:14But it's a minor good thing anyways that you'd probably only notice if you actually tried to say everything good about Sonic 1.
04:21And again, it's more popular to have there be seven.
04:24It's relatable of Sonic to be impatient with the exposition.
04:28I was pretty bored with the beginning too.
04:30Because I've already seen practically all of it and say Sonic.
04:35There's more exposition I saw in other stories.
04:38It establishes that there's a seventh emerald after all.
04:42So the book told the story wrong by not explaining that Eggman had only some of the seven emeralds right away.
04:49And I thought it was going to do something different from the other adaptations.
04:53The great emeralds needed to stabilize the other emeralds when they're in the machine.
04:58Which wasn't proven to be a thing in the games, but makes as much sense as Tails being able to fly.
05:03Or Sonic having a plane that he didn't end Sonic 1 in the second game.
05:08So whatever.
05:09And there's more exposition I already saw on this kind of plot.
05:13Like unnecessary good explanations for Sonic being blue and not causing fire from the friction when he runs.
05:19Which could have been just a required secondary power.
05:22Sonic handed an egg to Eggman as he was busy entering calculations into the machine.
05:27Which is stupid of him.
05:29And it's also stupid of Eggman to have taken the egg while he was entering calculations.
05:34Because he should have known that he'd be distracted.
05:37Without just pressing a number button to immediately have a result.
05:41Why would he have to press enter or save the file to make that effect happen?
05:46I don't like this because it makes Sonic partially responsible for Eggman being turned evil.
05:52But one.
05:54It's not like Spider-Man being responsible for a lot of his own enemies being his own enemies ruins the franchise for Spider-Man fans.
06:03So I guess it's a minor thing.
06:05And two.
06:06Eggman being turned evil because he was impossibly stupid is part for the course.
06:10It goes without saying that it's better to know why he's evil enough to pollute places for fun.
06:15So it's sad the sake of Japan's higher ups were too arrogant to put this in the games just because it wasn't their idea.
06:22I just wish I could read one adaptation of this origin that wasn't forced by an idiot ball.
06:28The emeralds were already unstable.
06:31So I wouldn't have questioned if the evil exploded out of them without it being anyone's fault.
06:35I would just assume it happened because enough time had passed.
06:39To be fair Eggman is arrogant.
06:43And not everyone arrogant is evil.
06:46So Kintobor could have always been arrogant.
06:49And being arrogant causes you to be careless.
06:52And Eggman's also always been optimistic.
06:55So there's no reason Kintobor wouldn't have been.
06:58So Kintobor turns into Eggman for some reason.
07:01It takes way too many worthless words to describe stuff that's already explained fine with the pictures.
07:07So this is boring.
07:09The ground explodes below Sonic and he jumps away from it just as it falls into the water.
07:15I think that was new.
07:17Then there's some more uncreative boredom.
07:20He warns everyone Green Hill what Eggman started doing and what happened to Kintobor.
07:25But at this point in his life they've got no reason to respect him enough to believe his wild story.
07:31But the narration acts like this wasn't a waste of time.
07:34At least this is new too.
07:37Eggman tries to cut down a tree with a normal axe to hit Sonic and fails.
07:42At first I was excited because it never happened before.
07:45And I thought I was just going to spend the rest of the book being just like Sonic 1.
07:49But it doesn't make any sense that Eggman thought the tree would hit Sonic when he's that fast.
07:55I like that the narration says Sonic's smarter than the average hedgehog because it's respectful to him.
08:00And he's supposed to be admirable.
08:02Sonic breaks badniks and after padding it accurately says that Eggman wasn't the type to give up easily.
08:09It just describes the plot of Sonic 1 and wastes a huge amount of space on giant pictures of its badniks.
08:16So that's boring.
08:17The rest of it is just describing Sonic 1 and all of these words are boring and worthless because there's no dialogue anyways.
08:24So it's not adding anything to a story that's being told just fine with mere visuals.
08:30It says that from then on one of his hobbies was collecting rings and restoring his energy level.
08:36Whatever that means.
08:38It's magic rings so they can do whatever they want.
08:42It says he likes burgers and fries for once.
08:45This is the only UK adaptation that had him like chili too.
08:49Which makes sense because a daredevil would like the challenge of spicy food.
08:54Why isn't this the case a lot more often?
08:57It keeps being creatively bankrupt by being a perfect adaptation of Sonic 1 which has to include him not saying anything.
09:04Which would have padded the story out even more so that's good.
09:07It has him swimming through Labyrinth Zone.
09:10The writer probably didn't get told that he can't swim so it's not his fault if that's the case.
09:16It's not even new because Sonic swam in adaptations before this.
09:20Which makes sense because hedgehogs can swim.
09:23But once again it's smart of Sonic to have not been too terrified to learn how to swim.
09:28So this is actually a good change by being more respectful of and consistent to Sonic's character than the source material.
09:35Which contrasts his personality by never having him learn to swim after the first game.
09:40The writer's also probably not a gamer so how's he supposed to think that he could have lingered on the title screen of Sonic 1 to find out that Sonic can't swim.
09:50And how's he supposed to think that if he looked at the manual maybe he'd find out he can't swim.
09:55When he'd assume otherwise because Mario can and Sonic's cool.
09:59And so is swimming.
10:01There's more boredom although it is created by having crabmeats in Green Hill Zone when we associate them with Metropolis.
10:08This makes me wonder what else he got wrong.
10:11But again if you're in good faith enough to think about it this is a good change by being respectful of Eggman.
10:17He should be smart enough to put the hardest badniks in the first zone.
10:21And also you would expect crab badniks to be in a place with water.
10:26And the writer probably didn't know which zones had specific badniks and didn't think anyone would care enough to put those details in a manual because you'd learn that as you go.
10:35Although since he got most of the badniks right maybe it really was a creative change on purpose.
10:42There's pages of boring padding because it's one to one with the game with nothing new and good along with the accuracy.
10:50Somehow Sonic sits on top of the literal panel so that it could land on Eggman's head.
10:56That's stupid.
10:58How did that happen in universe?
11:00I guess an invisible floor was there from magical spawning out of how much magic was there.
11:06The same reason there's loops.
11:08You know just because there was one fourth wall breaking joke in the classic games doesn't mean it was good.
11:14It was still disrespectful.
11:16After a bunch of boring words.
11:19It turns out that this time Sonic could keep running after Eggman went after him with a fireball dropping egg-o-matic.
11:25Which is actually good writing instead of him inexplicably being restrained to one screen by an invisible wall.
11:31How did Sonic jump high enough to land on his head?
11:34Eggman would have interrupted him in his tree climbing efforts unless he literally ran up it long before Lost World established that he can do that.
11:41So if that's it, then that was ahead of its time, respectful to him.
11:47I just hate that it isn't really explained.
11:49Because Sonic isn't supposed to be able to jump this time.
11:53He's not Mario.
11:55I can't blame the writer for assuming he's like him a little bit since they're both platformer mascots and Sonic has magical powers of other kinds for no reason.
12:03So why would he have a more realistic jump height?
12:07I like that he has to jump in the Eggmobile eight times.
12:10It may not be creative, but it's respectful.
12:13By the time Sonic did that, Eggman had already returned with a wrecking ball again.
12:17At least that's new, but he never had a chance to leave.
12:21He would have had to somehow leave for just a second without Sonic stopping him from it.
12:26The whole machine ignites, I guess that makes sense because it's in the game.
12:31And Sonic takes a photo with a camera he didn't have before.
12:35At least it's easy to assume he ran away at Sonic speed and instantly came back with a camera.
12:40Since it couldn't fit in his shoe.
12:42That was a little entertaining to see.
12:45But yeah, why was it made of Explodium?
12:48In this adaptation, the Eggmobile is so badly designed that it crashes to the ground
12:54and Eggman has to be inexplicably allowed to run away from Sonic who lets him get away as he stands still.
13:01And again, aside from him being on foot, this is canon to the game.
13:06Because he doesn't have anything happen if he jumped into the Eggmobile as he's fleeing.
13:10Both times I have to assume he lets him get away so he can have fun with him later
13:14and because he isn't bored of him from having enough exposure in a short time frame yet.
13:19I just say this because I'm willing to bet that if the game purist saw this he'd be freaking out
13:24but somehow not remember that he'd let him get away in the game too.
13:28Or be dishonest enough to not mention it if he did.
13:31It looks like he's back in Green Hill and this is the first Animal Cops we've seen.
13:36So either we went back around to this place for no reason after going through Marble Zone and fighting the Marble Zone boss,
13:43or we were shown a flash forward for no reason, which is confusing.
13:48There's boredom where it takes multiple pages to depict the animals being freed and saying so.
13:53Which I always thought was weird because the games always made me assume they couldn't talk because they're so small
13:57they look like they're supposed to be regular animals.
14:00But in a vacuum this is fine, unlike Eggman's sobbing just at seeing this,
14:04when his design makes it obvious how out of character this is.
14:07Sonic has a victory circle around his friends, which is meant to show just how happy he actually is,
14:12and makes him more heroic than in the game, where he just emotionlessly walked ahead after freeing people.
14:18I bet game purists would say from an idealized image of Sonic that he's not supposed to show off.
14:24As if him bragging that he could beat Eggman easily and heroes meant nothing.
14:28Well if Sonic never showed off like he did with Jet when he met him, he'd be just like Mario,
14:34and that'd be omitting the strongest appeal of the series, the reason it did well in America when it flopped in Japan.
14:40I'm always just mad about him being like this, but it's a necessary evil,
14:44because if he never showed off or bragged or enjoyed being praised or was vain,
14:49all the things a cocky person would inevitably do, he'd be no different from his rival.
14:54So anyone who hates when he contrasts Mario should just say Sonic wasn't meant for me and go.
15:00It's nice of Sonic to say Tails told that tale in an awesome way,
15:04even though he told it in an extremely boring way that took forever,
15:08and it's sweet events that pet him.
15:10Tails is how he's supposed to be by being honored to tell a story about Sonic,
15:14and it's a little cathartic that he says,
15:16sorry if you thought I was telling it too slowly.
15:18You were, and I hate that the writers still wrote it that way anyways,
15:23and the story ends there with Sonic bragging like he did for all the Sonic Forces.
15:28But shh, you're not supposed to acknowledge that.
15:32I can't find out who wrote the UK picture books.
15:35This is one of the most believable ways Eggman messed up and got turned evil.
15:40It wasn't an adaptation of Sonic 1 since it didn't show all the zones and mostly was in the first one.
15:46This story went from yet another retelling of how Eggman turned evil by absorbing all of the worlds evil he tried to get rid of,
15:53because I guess it makes sense that his confidence makes him careless,
15:56to an adventure that imitates a classic Sonic adventure ripping off the same areas in Sonic 1,
16:01for no reason considering that it doesn't do unique worldbuilding and wasn't the same plot as the game,
16:05so it could've just had new areas and only been more charming.
16:09It ranges from boringly faithful to interesting to annoying.
16:13I hate how many worthless words it has.
16:16Most of the time you get nothing out of them.
16:18The plot's told just fine with mere visuals, so it feels like it drags on forever.
16:22Eggman trying to aim a tree cut down at Sonic was new,
16:25but he'd never be so stupid as to think it would work because Sonic would promptly outrun it or jump over it.
16:31At least I was respectful of Sonic to interpret that he could swim or jump way too high
16:35or would use his speed enough to get a camera to taunt Eggman.
16:38It was smart of Eggman that he could instantly bring back the wrecking ball after a fireball-eskewing boss fight.
16:44It was also confusing that he circled back to Green Hill with no explanation at the end of the story,
16:48and I hate that it wasn't even explained why he let Eggman run away,
16:52making it all the more obvious how irresponsible and selfish or stupid he is for that.
16:57For the most part, this was a better experience than the story of Sonic 1, on paper.
17:01It was still boring because of all the words,
17:03but watching a long play of Sonic 1 would be a lot more boring with its lack of dialogue and repetition,
17:10and wouldn't be a new experience, and would take even longer.
17:14So any adaptation of a game would be better than it in theory.
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