#archie is nearly fucking forgettable

[p0ochy]

idk ofmd's budget was slashed for s2. this just isn't a surprise

#ofmd #the way the women were written i think i'm good on the show being done. #she is tough! she is bossy! that's all we know how to do! #like come on. #archie is nearly fucking forgettable #and i like her! #and they did zheng yi sao so FUCKING dirty lmao

[crusherthedoctor]

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It's a good thing I've already done half of these. XP

💖 Favourite Character?

Wow, that was eas-*BANG*

Seriously though, I cannot stress enough that the haha funny round moustache get a load of this the more the merrier man is my favourite character of all time. In anything. There are characters I like, there are characters I love, but Eggman will always have a special place in my heart.

I can enjoy different types of villains so long as they're fun or interesting. But we all have our preferences, and Eggman ticks every box on my personal list, and does so with effectiveness, hilarity, deadliness, and memorability. His themes are top class, his aesthetics are grade-A, his genius and creativity is legit, and ahhhhh he's so good. <3

Is it any wonder why I take issue to him being portrayed as a helpless fool? Or a defanged softie? Or a launch pad for other villains to piggyback off of? Or a Bowser-flavored father figure for characters who aren't even interesting on their own?

📺 Favourite TV show?

I assume the OVA doesn't count since it was a "movie", due to being tragically short-lived.

So by process of elimination, I choose AoStH. It's about as much of a non-Sonic cartoon as the rest, but for a Looney Tunes Lite, it is amusing most of the time, and it has Long John Botnik, so I gotta give it a pass. And while AoStH Sonic is… well, very Urkel, he was at least reasonably smart, which is more than can be said for his SatAM counterpart.

AoStH doesn't annoy me nearly as much as SatAM for its overwhelming influence that continues to this day with Archie and IDW, Boom for how everyone at the time overrated what was essentially a standard animated sitcom with Sonic characters shoehorned into the expected templates, and Prime for having an insufferably empty-headed Sonic, and everyone else being either unlikable or bland.

Underground is so forgettable to me that it loops back around to being a positive for it, since that means it doesn't actively piss me off enough like the aforementioned three, lol. As for Sonic X… I'm willing to give the first season a pass despite its heavy quantity of Chris, since I have some nostalgia for it, it has the unironically great and heartwarming Helen episode, and the questionable portrayals of certain characters (Eggman, Amy, Knuckles, arguably Sonic himself to a lesser extent) weren't as bad as they'd later become. Seasons 2 and 3 can fuck off though.

🎸 Favourite Stage Theme?

That's a certified Too Fucking Hard for me in a franchise that's full of bangers, so I'm gonna pick two zones/stages per game to make it only 90% difficult for me to choose instead of 100%.

Sonic 1: Star Light and Scrap Brain

Sonic 2: Hill Top and Wing Fortress

CD JP/EU: Quartz Quadrant Past and Stardust Speedway Past

CD US: Stardust Speedway Good Future and Metallic Madness Present

Sonic 3: Marble Garden and Launch Base

Sonic & Knuckles: Sandopolis and Death Egg

Fighters: Black Bed (Aurora Icefield) and Fire Stone (Giant Wing)

3D Blast Genesis: Rusty Ruin and Volcano Valley

3D Blast Saturn: Rusty Ruin and... the Special Stage

Sonic R: Can You Feel The Sunshine and Living In The City

SA1: Windy Hill and Tricky Maze (THIS ONE WAS EXTREMELY HARD TO NARROW DOWN TO JUST TWO)

SA2: Deeper (Death Chamber) and Space Trip Steps (Meteor Herd)

Advance 1: Ice Mountain and Egg Rocket

Advance 2: Music Plant and Techno Base

Heroes: Ocean Palace and Final Fortress

Battle: Holy Summit (arena) and Death Egg (arena)

Advance 3: Cyber Track and Chaos Angel

ShtH: Circus Park and Final Haunt

Rush: Ethno Circus (Mirage Road) and What U Need (Dead Line)

Riders: Metal City and Digital Dimension

'06: Aquatic Base and End of the World

Secret Rings: Let the Speed Mend It (Sand Oasis) and High and Broken (Levitated Ruin)

Rush Adventure: Haunted Ship and Sky Babylon

Zero Gravity: Aquatic Capital and Gigan Rocks

Unleashed: Rooftop Run Night and Skyscraper Scamper Day

Black Knight: Deep Woods and... actually, that's the only level theme I really like in this game, the rest are pretty forgettable

Colours: Planet Wisp and Aquarium Park

Generations: Speed Highway and Crisis City

Lost World: Sea Bottom Segue and Hidden World

Mania: Press Garden and Titanic Monarch (THIS ONE WAS ALSO HARD)

Forces: Moonlight Battlefield and Mortar Canyon

TSR: Roulette Road and Sand Road

🎤 Favourite Vocal Track?

I'll be unconventional and go with Live Life. Ironically, I don't care for the other vocal tracks in Black Knight, as I find them generic and unmemorable, but Live Life is a really uplifting one that I think deserves more appreciation.

I've always had a particular fondness for What I'm Made Of as well. And despite preferring the JP soundtrack for CD on the whole, Sonic Boom is still really catchy and infectious.

🎧 Favourite overall soundtrack?

How am I meant to narrow it down to one?

The answer: I can't, so instead I'll just list the ones I consider to be S-tier. Note that I am indeed taking the question to heart and judging them by how strong I consider them overall, rather than singling out one or a couple of tracks specifically. Otherwise I'd be listing the entire non-Chronicles catalogue. (The Last Scene in SA2, Aquarium Park in Colours, some tracks in ShtH…)

Sonic CD (JP/EU)

Sonic 3 & Knuckles

Sonic 3D Blast (Genesis)

Sonic Adventure 1

The Advance trilogy

Sonic Mega Collection (yes, I'm serious)

Sonic Heroes

Sonic '06

Sonic Rush Adventure

Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity

Sonic Unleashed

Sonic Mania

Team Sonic Racing

💡 Spinoff you’d like to see?

Dr. Crusher's Negating Mandating Machine™.

Serious answer, I'd like another Tails game of some sort, in the hopes that it would let the fox regain some of his fandom respect in a legitimate, non-Wildly Inconsistent-speech way.

I'd also be open to a Blaze spinoff, since there's a lot you could do with her world, and maybe it'd allow us to finally see Marine again under a pen that's hopefully not Flynn's. And since Blaze herself is still one of the most popular and less controversial Modern characters, I can't see a lack of audience being an issue.

🍡 Classic, Adventure, or Boost Gameplay?

Classic overall, but a little of Adventure as well in the form of SA1 and the Advance trilogy (even if the latter is semi-Boost if anything).

✨ Dream Sonic Game?

I've always preferred the S3&K/Mania/Advance approach to alternate characters, because I feel they strike the delicate balance of being different enough to offer something unique for each character, but still consistent enough to not detract from the overall style of gameplay. They also handle the matter of story completion the best IMO: if you want to stick with one character for the adventure, you can actually do so, rather than be forced to juggle different styles in one story (SA2), or for the game to suddenly hand over the controls to someone else halfway through the stage ('06).

That's honestly about it, aside from the obvious stuff (good soundtrack, pleasing aesthetics, etc). I don't think I'm impossible to please in that regard. The only other bullet point I can think of is that I'm not inherently opposed to different goals for different characters, but it's important that they don't come at the expense of the core gameplay. For example, I'm alright with Knuckles' treasure hunting conceptually, since you're still platforming and going fast like you would in any other installment. It's when you throw in the dipshit SA2 radar that it becomes a problem.

🦔 Favourite version of Sonic? (the character)

Game Sonic. The original, and the best.

I still have issues with him, but after seeing writers miss the point with him again and again in adaptations, with his portrayal ending up being obnoxious for one reason or another in the process, it's made me grow to appreciate the good qualities and low-key nuance of the original template.

🫡 Coldest Sonic Take?

My opinions seem to always be in opposition to that of the overall fandom's, so to think of one that's actually popular… hmm.

S3&K is still liked, right?

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