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00:00Shadow Generations.
00:02The start of it just recaps Shadow's backstory for almost two minutes in a way that does nothing to get you emotionally invested.
00:10It's just narration as it shows pictures with uninteresting camera movement, and that's boring no matter what.
00:17Even if you don't know his backstory, it's still boring because it's not depicting how Shadow remembered his last experience with Maria in SE2,
00:25where the music switched between frantic and sad, and it really got me emotionally invested in how tragic her sacrifice was.
00:33Then it shows when Shadow's life began.
00:36It's at least interesting to see Maria in good graphics looking at how you actually imagine her to for the first time.
00:44That was nice.
00:46But the novelty wore off in just seconds and it went back to being really boring because I already know his backstory.
00:53And it's clearly not going to show me something new.
00:56It's impressive that they gave Maria a good voice for the first time.
01:01Then it shows Shadow in the present telling Rouge over an earbud, that's weirdly invisible, that he's in the arc.
01:09And he reminds her Gun wanted him here because there was an unusual life form there.
01:14It's nice that he's working for Gun instead of being someone who just dances around or antagonizes Sonic.
01:21But it'd be way better to confirm that he's still working for Gun instead of insisting Gun's not around in some extra canon material and ignoring what the fans want out of arrogance.
01:33Shadow finds a fake Chaos Emerald, and he's also got a real version of it.
01:38At the same time that the Time Eater captures Sonic's friends, Shadow gets sent to the White Void even though he was nowhere near the Time Eater.
01:48So, did Eggman know Shadow was on the arc?
01:51Why did Shadow think he saw Maria in a place that's got fog for no reason when she's from a huge enough distance that he doubts he actually saw her?
02:01But he's not the type to hallucinate. Or that would have come up before.
02:05So why did he assume he only hallucinated her when he already got magically sent to a magical new dimension?
02:11It was gutsy to have Maria and Gerald temporarily brought back here for this game.
02:16But it's such a blatant ratings stunt.
02:19It's just using the memory of some dead characters that meant a lot to Shadow as a cheap way to get attention.
02:24It doesn't look justified by the story yet that they're here.
02:28So I'd have just been confused and uninvested if I saw this blind.
02:32This is the first time I've seen the cutscenes line by line.
02:36But I already had the vague idea the story's spoiled.
02:40A part of what's in the story is that Shadow's getting new abilities and just seems so arbitrary that I can't take it seriously.
02:47And we see a one-eyed creature.
02:49So anyone would assume it's Black Doom since Maria came back too.
02:54I guess we're supposed to assume that the bio signature on the arc was Black Doom,
02:59but it doesn't make any sense because Black Doom's only here because of the white void Time Eater shenanigans.
03:07Because he was sent back to when Black Doom was alive.
03:11So why would Black Doom be in the present before the Time Eater captured any of Sonic's friends?
03:18Shadow finishes off the Bio Lizard, which was also brought back.
03:22And then Black Doom praises him on making progress and calls him excellent.
03:27Why doesn't he ask why he wants him to make progress?
03:31Shadow says he destroyed him once.
03:34Why doesn't Black Doom wonder why he said that?
03:37He wouldn't remember that happening to him.
03:39If the things that give him more abilities come from Black Doom,
03:43why didn't Black Doom just send him all those things immediately?
03:47The fact that he has to fight boss fights to get new abilities only causes the risk of him dying to those bosses,
03:57so Black Doom would never be able to succeed.
04:00Black Doom says this temporal anomaly accelerated his plan to take over the world,
04:06instead of saying it's the reason he's alive at all.
04:09Even if he had warped to the arc, why wouldn't he have warped back to the world to try to fight Shadow?
04:18It's satisfying that Shadow tries to kick him.
04:21Black Doom tells him he's not ready yet and leaves.
04:25He sees Maria run from aliens and his eyes start glowing red for the first time like he's actually a cyborg.
04:32What's that about?
04:34Is that because he's got some new abilities now?
04:37Why does Maria cower instead of at least trying to punch the alien in front of her or run past it from beside it?
04:45Maria hugs him and ends up wondering if he's alright because he looks grim.
04:50I would've found it interesting to see Shadow see Maria and Gerald again, but Archie already did that.
04:56This is just the first time he reunited with the real ones face to face.
05:00Why is she surprised he looks grim after he just had to save her from aliens who want to eat her?
05:06He finishes off Metal Sonic, who called him an imposter, which is confusing because Shadow never got created to frame Sonic.
05:16And didn't actually mean to.
05:18And you'd think Metal Sonic would've had all the right information about him.
05:22Shadow gets shown concern again.
05:24Oh, I guess it's because he's holding his hands upward so it looks like they're cramped up.
05:30Gerald gives some exposition we already know.
05:32He ends up explaining that he could better manage Maria's condition on the Ark.
05:36All that means is that since he's a genius scientist, of course he could better manage her condition at the place where all of his technology is.
05:45I'm glad this is the fullest extent to which the actual canon cutscenes elaborate on this.
05:51It'd be pretty stupid if she had to be in the Ark, regardless of whether there's technology in it.
05:56This would've been remotely interesting to me, but I already saw this exact same thing in Shadow the Hedgehog and Archie Sonic.
06:06He warns him that Black Doom wants to take over him as a slave, which is a waste of time since the story ends up telling us that later anyways.
06:14This story is just mediocre to experience.
06:21Sonic's the type of person who likes to joke around, so it makes sense that he'd say to him when he said an essay too, even though it's not the right time.
06:27But the rest of the scene is just cringe-worthy.
06:30Wild Shadow would play along with him by also saying what he had said around him earlier.
06:35Shadow's not the type to just joke around.
06:38He wouldn't say it'll be a date to die for, because he already said that in an earlier game, and so he's not going to be taken seriously.
06:47And this time he's not planning to kill him, so it really doesn't make sense.
06:52Shadow's got no common sense if he thinks Sonic would let him keep an emerald he needs when he's not going to tell him why he would need it.
07:00He didn't tell him what his business was.
07:03I understand if it's because he doesn't want him to get involved, because for the sake of his ego, he'd rather handle it alone.
07:11Rouge doesn't approve of Sonic having an emerald, even though she doesn't know what Shadow's doing with it.
07:19And from her perspective, Sonic needs the emerald to save the world.
07:24She didn't even know what Shadow was up to.
07:27And out of nowhere, Shadow says Sonic got the fake emerald, and he tells Rouge to swap the fake for the real thing after he's done with it.
07:36Wait, then why did Shadow even do a race with Sonic at all?
07:40Why didn't he just give him the fake emerald immediately?
07:43Why did he complain about seeing him here as if he was scared of what might happen if he could just give him a fake emerald?
07:50Sonic wouldn't have questioned it, because he showed no common sense by refusing to give someone who was trying to save the world something he could turn super with.
07:59Surprisingly, watching all of the cutscenes doesn't show me a proper cutscene where Mephiles reintroduced himself to Shadow, like in the manga.
08:09He literally just sees him again when he starts a boss fight with him, and then when he beats him he's naturally upset about it.
08:16I thought it would make a bigger deal out of it, because he's a really popular character who's really memorable.
08:23Maria tells Black Doom angrily that Shadow's nothing like him and would never serve him.
08:30That's the first time she was ever angry and canon.
08:34Nothing about her past behavior implied she'd ever have enough of a backbone to be impolite to someone.
08:40In the Shadow of the Hedgehog level she told him off for fighting some soldiers, because it's not their fault.
08:47But at least she's not yelling at him in a passionate rant like in the manga.
08:52Shadow gets mad and says he'll kill all of the Black Arms.
08:56This is just ripping off the Shadow of the Hedgehog game even more.
09:00The story wouldn't be so nothing to me if it had even an ounce of creativity that I didn't expect it to have.
09:07Like anything that wasn't already spoiled in the marketing.
09:11Maria feels off-put and grabs his hand telling him that she doesn't want him to be full of hate.
09:17And tells him why she named him Shadow and encourages him to be more like her.
09:21Shadow grows wings and eventually Gerald tells him he's proud of him and surprisingly calls him son.
09:28I hate that I don't know if he means that in a father way or not.
09:32And Shadow doesn't react like it means anything to him.
09:35Shadow reassures them and says he'll continue to fight.
09:39It always sounds wooden when a character says I will instead of I'll.
09:44Who talks like that?
09:46Again they hold hands with each other.
09:49It's something they appreciate and I get that they're doing it because they're like family to each other.
09:54But I'm just neutral towards this because I know there's people who want these two dating each other.
09:59The lines he says right after this are also stilted.
10:03He references the fact that she wants the world to be a happier place.
10:07I don't like that he says the word wish here.
10:10It just seems wooden.
10:12Couldn't there have been a more natural way to do this?
10:15Why should I get emotionally invested and attached to her?
10:19Maybe if I knew she was going to survive the story I'd actually give a shit.
10:23Shadow tells Black Doom it's time to sever the bond between them forever.
10:28So I haven't seen a weird one-eyed character follow Shadow along the whole adventure
10:33Tell him what he's got to do to progress it.
10:35It's ironic that he was exclusive to the manga.
10:38A character with a role like him.
10:40You'd only expect him to be created to be an exposition fairy in a video game.
10:45So Shadow and him fight with Shadow flying.
10:48Who cares?
10:49None of this is anything new to the series and we know Shadow's not going to get hurt.
10:54I think their fight was more interesting to look at in the manga.
10:57Their buildings being destroyed.
10:59Black Doom says they're one and the same.
11:03Why does he even bother saying something you should know is either delusional or a lie?
11:08If they were one and the same Shadow wouldn't be fighting him.
11:12Black Doom says he crafted everything until now and Shadow's still going to destroy him.
11:18He didn't literally create the entire universe Shadow was born in.
11:22Why would you expect the fact that he's bragged about creating this place to impress him enough so that you won't kill him?
11:29Rouge asks Shadow if he's going to go to Sonic because he might need him and Shadow says he's going to settle something first.
11:37And Rouge just says whatever and flies away.
11:40Showing no hint that she cares about what he chooses to do afterwards.
11:44Maria sits down in exhaustion and she and Gerald start fading away because they're returning to their own time.
11:51Because Shadow's panicking, he says that he could freeze time with Chaos Control.
11:56Maria tells him they don't want to be frozen in one place in time.
12:00If they were literally frozen, then it'd be pointless to use Chaos Control here because they'd still be unable to interact with him.
12:09It'd be pointless to just keep them preserved as statues.
12:13So from what I've gathered, the reason Shadow killed him anyways is that he didn't know what it'd lead to.
12:21I guess what happened is Black Doom cast a spell so that Maria and Gerald would go back to their own time if Shadow killed him before he did.
12:29It's not like Black Doom ever said at any point, if you don't defeat me, I'm going to escape the white void and try to take over the world in the present.
12:38So why did he think there was any point in fighting him? I assume he thought he could escape the white void.
12:45Shadow tells Maria she doesn't know what's going to happen, which makes it blatantly obvious he's telling her she's going to die pretty soon.
12:52And she just smiles and acts like she doesn't mind, which is really mature of her, and tells them a comforting lie.
12:59Him not warning them about what's going to happen to them in the future from their point of view is pretty forced.
13:07He was never told that anything bad would happen if Gerald knew that Maria wouldn't be safe on the Ark.
13:14I know he could better manage her condition on the Ark, but that would only be because of technology.
13:22Why wouldn't he just bring the technology to a place other than the Ark?
13:27That's what annoyed me so much about the scene. He would have at least tried.
13:33It's so obvious this only happened because of the meta logic that he didn't want Maria's iconic scene to take place on an earlier timeline and now it's retconned.
13:45He tells them to wait even though he should know there's no way he could ever stop them from disappearing or go with them.
13:52He decides to run away on his own.
13:55I don't know where I thought I heard that Rouge was the one who convinced him not to save Maria and that he could have saved her in this version of the story.
14:04I'm really relieved that the story wasn't like that.
14:08Because there's no way in hell that he would have humored Rouge and let Maria die.
14:13If he had a way to save Maria, he would have done it.
14:18And Shadow's an anti-hero. He acted selfishly the entire time he had a game to himself.
14:24The story ends there. There's no dialogue. We already figured Shadow was sad.
14:30He cried when he said goodbye to Maria and Archie too, so I'm only slightly affected by this.
14:36I've already seen the concept of a hedgehog running away and a tear coming from his eye when Sonic was running while holding Chris in Sonic X when saying goodbye to him.
14:48And it's literally nothing but credits after that.
14:51And it's literally nothing but credits after that.
14:53I guess the reason Black Doom didn't make it clear that Maria would disappear to keep him from killing him is because he was dumb enough to assume that saying he crafted everything in this world would make that clear to him.
15:04Or he knew that Maria would be able to guilt him to defeating him anyways.
15:08The story was just barely okay. It had a lot of instances where things were happening in it, so it was actually tolerable to watch.
15:17I hate that it didn't explain why Black Doom was suddenly able to craft everything in this part of the white void, complete with bringing Maria and Gerald back, and not any of the other people in the arc.
15:29When if he was able to do that before, why did it never come up that he could do that in Shadow the Hedgehog?
15:34And it never explained why Shadow was getting new abilities, either.
15:38So the whole story just felt arbitrary and half-assed.
15:42And it was also disappointing how uncreative it was with almost nothing new to actually contribute to the series.
15:48Just the fact that they brought back dead characters just for one game, which was just a pointless rating stunt to beg for our attention.
15:56But it does deserve a little praise for a few things.
15:59The things that everyone already praised anyways.
16:02Because they're so obvious.
16:04They perfectly remastered the scene where Maria said goodbye to Shadow.
16:09It actually had the same music as the original.
16:12It did the same thing with the music the original did by skipping from playing Shadow's scene to playing the sad music iconic to this.
16:19And Maria's interaction with him was nice.
16:22But also so predictably bland that I didn't need to experience the story for it because I could have predicted every interaction from the start.
16:31At least the manga tried to tell us new things about their past.
16:35Gerald really contributed nothing to the story.
16:38Doing nothing but give exposition, except there's one time where he speaks to them affectionately.
16:44The script of the story is written by Ian Flynn from the start.
16:48But the stories of the games are always by Sega anyway.
16:53Asphodel really went through and after he collapsed after he grabbed his abilities.
16:54And he said again, I think we saw him do something like different.
16:55We had probably not set up together.
16:57But I think it is possible as a moment of the story with the Catussions that were considered about.
16:59The book is written by Brian Lee Wentworth.
17:00He put her with the punk sexual
17:18With an outerized interpretation of the Devil that played Hanover hahormani.
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